Experimental rock
Experimental rock or Avant Rock is a type of rock and roll which experiments with the basic elements of the genre, and/or which pushes the boundaries of common composition and performance technique.
Performers may also attempt to individualize their music with new time signatures, instrumental tunings, compositional styles, lyrical techniques, elements of other musical genres, singing styles, or instrumental effects.
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Some groups or performers in this genre include:
- Banyan
- Boredoms
- Black Dice
- Blind Idiot God
- Glenn Branca
- Can
- The Contortions
- Dillinger Escape Plan
- DNA
- Faith No More
- Fantomas
- Idiot Flesh
- Kayo Dot
- Laddio Bolocko
- Massacre
- Melt-Banana
- Mr. Bungle
- Naked City
- Nervous Gender
- Nuclear rabbit
- Objects in Transit
- Painkiller
- Pere Ubu
- Radiohead
- Rhubarb Smith
- Ruins
- Sawat Dii Khap
- Screamers
- Secret Chiefs 3
- Silver Apples
- Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
- Slint
- Sonic Youth
- Spacemen 3
- Theoretical Girls
- Time of Orchids
- U.S. Maple
- Velvet Underground
- You Fantastic!
- Frank Zappa
- John Zorn
See also
- alternative rock
- alternative metal
- progressive metal
- progressive rock
- no wave
- modern classical
- free jazz
- experimental music
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