How to Use art-rock in a Sentence

art-rock

noun
  • Radiohead isn’t playing Coachella this year — but the English art-rock band is still here.
    — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 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
  • There’s even a Radiohead art-rock mantra that seems to come directly from Kelson’s mad-genius mind.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 13 Jan. 2026
  • His band was created 25 years ago and are known for the their ambitious concept albums that blend hardcore punk with art-rock sounds.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Across his numerous albums outside the band, Byrne has continued to expand a lively art-rock palette.
    — Jane Bua, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2025
  • In the five years since, Geese has emerged as a new beacon of post-punk, mutating into an ambitious art-rock experiment across three albums.
    — Jillian Steinhauer, New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2025
  • The English band spent much of the past two years making their third and best album, Secret Love, which brings their uniquely beguiling mix of post-punk and art-rock styles to a new creative peak.
    — Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Incubus also are blessed with an adventurous guitarist in Mike Einziger, whose more ambitious moments ventured into art-rock territory.
    — Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 23 Feb. 2025
  • But on his debut solo album, Heavy Metal, the rising art-rock star reveals his hand as a singer-songwriter extraordinaire, toning things down and slipping into a drowsy falsetto.
    — Jason Lamphier, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • Samuli Torssonen of Energia VFX will oversee visual effects, and Slovenian art-rock band Laibach are in discussions to compose the score.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 15 Feb. 2026
  • The band performed alongside a loose crew of like-minded acts like Black Country, New Road, Shame and Squid who were experimenting with noise, free jazz and textured art-rock, centered around the Brixton venue the Windmill.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • 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

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