The Beatles changed a lot over the course of their career. One song sparked their transformation into the avant-garde scene.

War and revolution often spur in artists visions of radical change. That's what happened in early 20th-century Europe when the Great War and Russian Revolution uprooted life for millions. From the ...

EVERETT — Jeremy DeBardi struts in striped pants and a long, paint-stained fur coat. He’s been hanging out in this alley behind Tony V’s Garage since he was a teen, smoking cigarettes and waiting to ...

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

Hardy Fox, a driving force behind the Residents, an avant-garde band that playfully subverted the conventions of rock music for decades while insisting on anonymity, which the group maintained by ...

Some albums are bizarre outliers in their bands' discographies. From The Beatles to Neil Young, these oddities show bands daring to experiment ...

It’s always impressive to see a group who’ve been together for decades continue to evolve. Case in point: Chicago avant-garde psych-metal band Yakuza, who’ve been going strong since 1999. Their 2000 ...

Willemijn Stokvis, the preeminent art historian on CoBrA, considers it “the last avant-garde movement of the 20th century.” This radical group, active from 1948 to 1951, named itself for the home ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...