avant-garde music

‘Live Wires’ Offers Inconsistent but Interesting Electronic Music History

‘Live Wires’ Offers Inconsistent but Interesting Electronic Music History

This work serves as a preliminary resource, but it's certainly not the definitive history of electronic music.

The Weirdos Are the Heroes in This Brief History of Electronic Music

The Weirdos Are the Heroes in This Brief History of Electronic Music

Live Wires rips open the definition of 'electronic' to tell the story of the how those tapes and wires and transistors came to transform music into what we take for granted today.

Various Artists: Invenciones: La Otra Vanguardia Música en Latinoamérica 1976–1988

Various Artists: Invenciones: La Otra Vanguardia Música en Latinoamérica 1976–1988

Spanish label Munster unearths a wealth of unjustly neglected avant-garde and experimental music from Latin America.
The Best Avant-Garde and Experimental Albums of 2014

The Best Avant-Garde and Experimental Albums of 2014

With new albums from icons like Swans, the continued proliferation of vaporwave, and a bevy of exciting new acts, 2014 has been a wonderful year for experimental and avant-garde music.

It’s Me, I’m Alive: A Conversation with Yoko Ono