experimental rock
experimental rock: what it is, how it sounds and 18 musicians associated with it.
Experimental rock (originally known as avant-garde rock or avant-rock) is a subgenre of rock music that emerged in the 1960s. The genre emphasizes innovation over commercial appeal, incorporating influences and ideas lifted from avant-garde music through traditional rock music instrumentation. It is primarily characterized by its use of unconventional song structures, musical techniques, rhythms and lyricism, usually deemed challenging, difficult, inaccessible or underground.
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experimental rock musicians
Frank Zappa
1940–1993 · American musician (1940–1993)
Thurston Moore
b. 1958 · American guitarist (born 1958)
Buckethead
b. 1969 · American guitarist
Aquarium
1972– · Soviet Russian musical group; rock band
George Duke
1946–2013 · American musician (1946–2013)
Mike Patton
b. 1968 · American singer
Ringo Sheena
b. 1978 · Japanese singer-songwriter (1978-)
The Mothers of Invention
1964– · American rock band
John Surman
b. 1944 · British saxophonist and clarinetist
Sergey Kuryokhin
1954–1996 · Russian musician (1954–1996)
Piknik
1978– · Russian musical group
Henry Cow
1968– · English avant-rock group
Auktyon
1978– · band
Eivind Aarset
b. 1961 · Norwegian guitarist
California Guitar Trio
1991– · U.S.-based guitar trio formed in 1991
Zvuki Mu
1981– · Russian rock band
Bruce Fowler
b. 1947 · American musician
Sergey Letov
b. 1956 · Russian musician