UNUSUAL SOUNDS: Xpress explores WNC's avant-garde music scene, spotlighting some of the acts that are contributing to the area’s eclectic mix. Featured, starting left, Min Xiao-Fen, Tashi Dorji ...

Clarence is the closest person to a father that I ever had.” Avant ran his own companies, Interior Music Group and Avant Garde Music, until they were sold in 2018 to Universal Music Group.

Avant founded Avant Garde Broadcasting, under which he acquired the first African-American-owned FM radio station in L.A., KTYM-FM, in 1973, for $321,000, renaming it KAGB-FM.

Unlike some modern saxophonists, Patrick Shiroishi doesn’t emphasize the physicality of the instrument, but he does like to push its range.

Why the public shuns the avant-garde and what to do about it. John Cage, an icon of the contemporary avant-garde, occupies an odd status in the music world. A seminal figure in the history of ...

And ever since, he's been a stalwart of avant-garde music. But as he put this new album together, he realized he needed more than just different instrumentation to make it work.

Avant-garde pianist and Zorn collaborator Anthony Coleman mentioned the label ECM Records, which produces a similar range of eclectic music and finally put its catalog on streaming services in 2017.

As Might Be Expected in a Film About an Avant-Garde Musician, ‘Eno’ Comes With a Twist To help convince Brian Eno to participate, director Gary Hustwit and a colleague, Brendan Dawes, invented a ...

“New Orleans music isn’t just what a lot of people think it is,” she explained. “If you have people whose influence were a lot of French music, then you're talking about classical music.

The “Avant Garde a Clue” music festival held its first night of performances at 75 Stutson Street on Monday night. More than 25 acts are performing 15-minute sets every day, showcasing a wide ...

In the interview with Rolling Stone, Page was asked how he became interested in avant-garde and Indian music in the early 1960s. The publication made a note that at this time, “The Beatles were ...