art-rock

noun

ˈärt-ˌräk 

: rock music that incorporates elements of traditional or classical music

art-rocker

ˈärt-ˌrä-kər 

noun

Examples of art-rock in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Emerging from New York City’s early-2000s art-rock scene, TV On The Radio is known for albums including Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes, Return to Cookie Mountain, Dear Science and Nine Types of Light. — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 17 June 2026

In retrospect, this traumatic event gave us a luminous, decades-long solo career that moved seamlessly from oblique art-rock to sumptuous electronica, pastoral instrumentals, and soundtrack music. — Spin Staff, SPIN, 1 June 2026

Radiohead isn’t playing Coachella this year — but the English art-rock band is still here. — Andrea Domanick, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2026

Ditto at the rain-free Humphreys debuts of gospel-music legends The Blind Boys of Alabama, Brazilian music superstar Milton Nasciemento, solo guitarist Stanley Jordan, blues vocal dynamo Shemekia Copland, Portuguese fado singing star Mariza and, in 2017, the pioneering art-rock band King Crimson. — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Mar. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1968, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for art-rock

• alcock
• beanstalk
• bedrock
• boardwalk
• catwalk
• cornstalk
• crosswalk
• deadlock
• feedstock
• fetlock
• flintlock
• goshawk