: rock music that incorporates elements of traditional or classical music
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So how Mitski takes the show further into art-rock territory with her visual presentation bears a bit more consideration.
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Chris Willman, Variety, 3 Apr. 2024
The English bassist, born Christopher Allen, was a founding member of Tiger Lily, the group that became Ultravox in the late 1970s, and took its cues from the electronics-curious post-punk and art-rock of the era.
—August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2024
Concert review:Tool unleashes dystopian art-rock spectacle in Glendale on 'Fear Inoculum' tour
Reach the reporter at ed.masley@arizonarepublic.com or 602-444-4495.
—Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 5 Feb. 2024
The eight-track new set features more blends of knotty art-rock melodies, psychedelic instrumental flourishes, Krautrock grooves and alt-funk jams, and has already attracted some of the early year’s strongest critical notices, including a Best New Music designation in Pitchfork.
—Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 26 Jan. 2024
Everyone’s Crushed, Water From Your Eyes Nate Amos and Rachel Brown’s wry and disillusioned art-rock feels as indebted to meme accounts as to their historical forebears in Sonic Youth or Pavement.
—David Renshaw, WIRED, 26 Dec. 2023
But she’s grown into a richly ambitious writer and arranger who can buttress longing with strange and lovely art-rock.
—August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2023
Bear Ghost These locals occupied the more eccentric fringe of the new-millennial art-rock spectrum.
—Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 4 Aug. 2023
The Ladies Of… have a show June 1 at Huntsville’s Rocket Republic Brewing, address 617 Meridian St. N. Opening acts including Atlanta goth combo Darling Machine and local singer/guitarist Kam Jones of local art-rock band Hunnivega.
—Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 31 May 2023
Chris Willman, Variety, 3 Apr. 2024
The English bassist, born Christopher Allen, was a founding member of Tiger Lily, the group that became Ultravox in the late 1970s, and took its cues from the electronics-curious post-punk and art-rock of the era.
—August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2024
Concert review:Tool unleashes dystopian art-rock spectacle in Glendale on 'Fear Inoculum' tour
Reach the reporter at ed.masley@arizonarepublic.com or 602-444-4495.
—Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 5 Feb. 2024
The eight-track new set features more blends of knotty art-rock melodies, psychedelic instrumental flourishes, Krautrock grooves and alt-funk jams, and has already attracted some of the early year’s strongest critical notices, including a Best New Music designation in Pitchfork.
—Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 26 Jan. 2024
Everyone’s Crushed, Water From Your Eyes Nate Amos and Rachel Brown’s wry and disillusioned art-rock feels as indebted to meme accounts as to their historical forebears in Sonic Youth or Pavement.
—David Renshaw, WIRED, 26 Dec. 2023
But she’s grown into a richly ambitious writer and arranger who can buttress longing with strange and lovely art-rock.
—August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2023
Bear Ghost These locals occupied the more eccentric fringe of the new-millennial art-rock spectrum.
—Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 4 Aug. 2023
The Ladies Of… have a show June 1 at Huntsville’s Rocket Republic Brewing, address 617 Meridian St. N. Opening acts including Atlanta goth combo Darling Machine and local singer/guitarist Kam Jones of local art-rock band Hunnivega.
—Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 31 May 2023
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“Art-rock.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/art-rock. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.
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