List of art rock musicians
Appearance
This is a list of musicians whose general body of work is described as art rock.
- Al Berkowitz[1]
- Animal Collective[2][3][4]
- The Beatles[5]
- Black Country, New Road[6][7]
- Blank Manuskript[8]
- The Blue Nile[9]
- Deadsy[10]
- Deaf School[11]
- Engine Alley[12]
- FFS[13]
- Franz Ferdinand (Band)[14]
- Forenzics[15]
- Gazpacho[16]
- Henry Cow[17]
- The Gunga Din[18][19]
- King Missile[20]
- Little Tragedies[21]
- London Grammar[22][23][24]
- Methyl Ethel[25]
- MGMT[26]
- Neøv[27]
- Pere Ubu[17]
- Red Krayola[17]
- Roxy Music[5]
- Television[17]
- The Sea and Cake[28]
- The Smile[29]
- The Stranglers[30]
- Split Enz[31]
- U2[32][33]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Al Berkowitz". Al Berkowitz. Retrieved March 24, 2025.
- ↑ Dombal, Ryan (February 17, 2010). "Animal Collective to Take Over Guggenheim Museum". Pitchfork. Retrieved November 23, 2017.
- ↑ Dombal, Ryan (February 17, 2010). "Animal Collective to Take Over Guggenheim Museum". Pitchfork.
- ↑ Foster, Nathan (February 28, 2020). "Top 10 Stranglers Albums". ClassicRockHistory.com. Retrieved September 22, 2026.
- 1 2 "How Roxy Music helped define generations of pop". The Economist. March 19, 2019. Retrieved October 20, 2025.
- ↑ "Black Country, New Road: 'The music is never bigger than the friendship'". BBC News. May 15, 2023. Retrieved April 8, 2026.
- ↑ Hakimian, Rob. "Black Country, New Road are going their own way". Crack Magazine. Retrieved April 8, 2026.
- ↑ "BLANK MANUSKRIPT". Progarchives.com. Retrieved March 24, 2025.
- ↑ "The changing face of Shirley Manson" - "Instead, two years ago she was reportedly on her way to meet Paul Buchanan, the man behind the Glasgow art rockers the Blue Nile". The Herald. April 27, 2008. Retrieved April 28, 2016.
- ↑ "DEADSY Drummer On Scoring 'The Good Night' Film: 'I Have Never Worked Harder In My Whole Life'". Blabbermouth.net. September 26, 2007. Retrieved February 11, 2026.
- ↑ Colin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 658. ISBN 0-85112-939-0.
- ↑ "Engine Alley". app.chartmetric.com. Retrieved March 24, 2025.
- ↑ Empire, Kitty (June 7, 2015). "FFS: FFS review – art rockers unite". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved March 24, 2025.
- ↑ "The Top 50 Greatest Landfill Indie Songs of All Time". vice.com. Retrieved July 30, 2026.
- ↑ "Forenzics - Shades and Echoes". Norman Records. Retrieved March 24, 2025.
- ↑ "Gazpacho". Kscope. Retrieved March 24, 2025.
- 1 2 3 4 "The Art of Rock". Bandcamp Daily. April 9, 2026. Retrieved April 10, 2026.
- ↑ Jacks, Kelso (January 31, 2000). "The Gunga Din - Glitterati". CMJ. 61 (651): 22.
- ↑ Powers, Ann (March 26, 1999). "Pop and Jazz Guide". The New York Times. Retrieved October 15, 2016.
- ↑ Huey, Steve. "King Missile". Allmusic. Retrieved November 11, 2014.
- ↑ "LITTLE TRAGEDIES". Progarchives.com. Retrieved March 24, 2025.
- ↑ "The Georgia Straight presents London Grammar at Fortune Sound Club | Georgia Straight Vancouver's News & Entertainment Weekly". The Georgia Straight. August 5, 2013. Retrieved May 10, 2020.
- ↑ Calvert, John (July 15, 2014). "The House That Disclosure Built". Vice. Retrieved May 10, 2020.
- ↑ "London Grammar: If You Wait". PopMatters. September 12, 2013. Retrieved May 10, 2020.
- ↑ hlhawke (February 28, 2020). "Methyl Ethel - DECORATED YOUTH". Retrieved March 24, 2025.
- ↑ Cohen, Ian. "MGMT: MGMT". Pitchfork. Retrieved April 8, 2026.
- ↑ Prefix Magazine "Album Review: NEØV – Orange Morning", February 8, 2013, Retrieved January 8, 2016.
- ↑ David Sheppard. Mojo. July 2011. Issue 212. p. 103.
- ↑ Monger, James Christopher. "The Smile - Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved November 16, 2023.
- ↑ Foster, Nathan (February 28, 2020). "Top 10 Stranglers Albums". ClassicRockHistory.com. Retrieved September 22, 2026.
- ↑ Trimaximalist (April 1, 2022). "Split Enz". Retrieved March 24, 2025.
- ↑ Jobling (2014), p. 300.
- ↑ "The Edge's 20 greatest guitar moments, ranked". Guitar.com | All Things Guitar. Retrieved March 24, 2025.