The historical scope of Benjamin Piekut's study of avowedly experimentalist music in Experimentalism Otherwise is confined to what Peikut tantalizingly describes as "four disastrous confrontations ...

Democratic experimentalism, the procedural component of the "new governance" movement, has won widespread acceptance in calling for decentralization, deliberation, deregulation, and experimentation.

Joe Wright’s fragmented, hyper-stylized adaptation of Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina” presented plenty of challenges to all who worked on it. But for Dario Marianelli, who has scored all but one of Wright’s ...

The expansive work of L’Rain—aka multi-instrumentalist Taja Cheek—has always had the energy of a live wire, relentlessly jolting through disparate genres and inspirations. On her third full-length, ...

It was exactly a decade ago that Seattle exploded on the political scene for lefty experimentalism. The outgoing mayor in 2013 had dubbed himself “the most progressive mayor in America.” The incoming ...

After a quarter-century of showing so-called punks what it really means to be radical, Dutch cult favorites the Ex still have a lot to say. Combining full-throttle aggression with well-crafted ...

Michael Kentoff sees a line – an unmistakable one, mind you – between being a perfectionist and a control freak. The music he makes with his band, the Caribbean, is not perfect. For all its shiny ...

Two actors sit together under pale purple lighting as onlookers sit across from them on the floor. When it comes to the experimentalism imbued through Out of the Blue’s approach to contemporary ...

Viewing now through Aug. 13 at Judy’s on Cherry restaurant, 332 Cherry St., are the abstractions of Berks County artist Donna Unger. Using a variety of materials and approaches, she has installed more ...