Avant-Garde

Avant-garde represents a pushing of the boundaries of what is accepted as the norm or the status quo. Historically speaking, musicologists primarily use the term “avant-garde music” for the radical, post-1945 tendencies of a modernist style in several genres of art music after the death of Anton Webern in 1945. In the 1950s the term avant-garde music was mostly associated with serial music. Read more…|Edit this Artist photo: Alice Coltrane

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Nov 24 Tuesday 24 November 2009
Röyksopp Nite Jewel	Webster Hall New York NY, United States 40.731561 -73.989172	44 people attended 4 shouts
Sonic Youth Talk Normal	Music Hall of… Brooklyn, NY, New York, United States 40.71942 -73.961678	24 people attended 2 shouts
Nov 28 Saturday 28 November 2009
Ideamen Absolutely Perfect	Ballydoyle Irish Pub Aurora(, IL), Chicago, United States 41.759478 -88.314992	Add shout
Sten Ove Toft jon eriksen	Charm City Art Space Baltimore, United States 39.322827 -76.622964	1 person attending Add shout
Little Teeth	Biko Isla Vista, CA, United States 34.423621 -119.705492	Add shout
Nov 30 Monday 30 November 2009
Amy X Neuburg and the Cello ChiXtet: The Secret Language of Subways at Zipper... Amy X Neuburg, Amy X Neuburg & the Cello ChiXtet	Zipper Concert Hall Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles, United States 34.128571 -118.470617	Add shout

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drthatguy wrote:
yesterday morning

surely lady gaga belongs here, she's just so randum XD

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progandother wrote:
Monday afternoon

Surely the truly avant-garde music would be music that never existed at all? Or would that be classified as another Radiohead clone?

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Lokari wrote:
Saturday evening

here comes the guy who blasts you all with piss /thread

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missfelix wrote:
Thursday afternoon

>some girl who personally is neutral on the topic of Björk talking about some guy who doesn't like Björk talking about some guy who listens to Bjork talking about avant-garde

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LordRama wrote:
15 days ago

>some guy who doesn't like Björk talking about some guy who listens to Bjork talking about avant-garde

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magrueder wrote:
19 days ago

>Some guy who listens to Bjork talking about avant-garde

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LordRama wrote:
23 days ago

The whole problem with avant-garde musicians, though, is that half of them are into some gay religion or dumbass political ideology, and the other half are just boring.

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NWG369 wrote:
last month

Try some Scott Walker (Tilt or The Drift) if you want some actual (and incredible) avant-garde.

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SirAlecHendrix wrote:
last month

tagging these artists "avant-garde" only reflects what people who are used to listen to different kinds of popular music believe to be the cutting edge in "music". the same holds for "experimental". perception is a matter of habit.

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LordRama wrote:
last month

Actually I'm pretty sure Terry Riley experimented with wearing various cardboard food containers on his head long before Buckethead came on the scene. He also pioneered the use of TV dinner trays as footwear, true story.

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iriihutoR wrote:
last month

Buckethead revolutionized music. Can anyone come up with any artists before him to have a KFC bucket on his head? Didn't think so, and hence he is avant-garde.

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YoungHate wrote:
last month

why is buckethead up there?

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mountainman78 wrote:
last month

coltrane invented avant garde music in the u.s., learn about music before you talk about it

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Kowaqqatzi wrote:
last month

LOL

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missfelix wrote:
last month

john lennon is dead and his quotes mean nothing to me

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Timppa2000 wrote:
last month

Avant-garde is french and means shit. - John Lennon

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bonzi_buddy wrote:
last month

ahhaha it's hard to take a tag seriously when the suggested top artists are against the description of the tag itself

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Emtay13 wrote:
last month

Ulver isn't so bad.. :s

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Dead_Zeppelin wrote:
September 2009

guyz we all kno mike patton invented avant garde

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Shyft_VahtiDahl wrote:
September 2009

Try Gorgache.

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