Bourgeois capitalistic experimentalism got the music of Prokofiev, Schnittke and Part, among many others, banned or censured.

ECONOMIST: Banned music

She praised the event's "great tradition of experimentalism mixed with classicism that has made the festival such an enduring part of the British arts landscape".

BBC: Yoko Ono

But while Detroit's duo can, at times, err on the side of experimentalism, the Shys have taken the crunchy guitars and heavy, fuzz-filled solos, and added more traditionally poppy group choruses and catchy melodies to come out with gritty rock that is immediately accessible.

NPR: The Shys: 'The Hangman'

On the new Rather Ripped, Sonic Youth has crafted arguably its tightest and most refined set of songs: Reining in the jammy tendencies of its recent predecessors, the album is more song-oriented, with comparatively little in the way of the noisy experimentalism that characterized the band's early work.

NPR: Sonic Youth: The First Quarter-Century