For another, and this makes them different from the legions of young artists who are in arty bands, they are mature people, stepping into mainstream pop.
Arty bands have long been essential to the musical fabric of New York, from the Velvet Underground to Sonic Youth to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
(Sisario) FROG EYES (Wednesday) A side project of the Canadian indie-arty band Wolf Parade, Frog Eyes sets Carey Mercer's frantic, David Bowie-like vocals against even more frantic keyboards and guitars, a soundtrack to life in fast-forward.
Soon he drifted toward wrier, artier bands like Pavement and Sonic Youth and eventually toward singer-songwriter titans like Bob Dylan, Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen.
Let no one forget that Animal Collective is an arty, experimental band.
7 Rhys Webb Known as the "nice one" in arty indie band the Horrors.
She also made three records with the Sugarcubes and two records with the arty punk band Kukl; the Sugarcubes may have had the alternative-rock hits, but Kukl's "Holidays in Europe" sounds better over time.
The triumvirate of headliners at this annual outdoor festival makes for odd bedfellows: the pop-rockers the Fray; the dark, arty metal band Tool; and the jam-circuit heroes Widespread Panic.
There's a well-made 2007 documentary by Grant Gee about the arty Manchester band Joy Division, which also figures prominently in Michael Winterbottom's hilarious, exhilarating punk-to-rave historical fiction "24 Hour Party People" (2002); many of the three dozen acts that perform in Derek Burbidge's evocatively titled "Urgh!
She wrote her own letter of recommendation: "I told him that I wasn't going to let him fuck up my résumé." After 9/11, Shapiro moved to L.A., planning to devote herself to an arty rock band with her college friend Brendan Fowler, a visual artist, but she abandoned the idea.
