This singer, guitarist and composer is best known as a Beatles-loving, cello-hugging art rocker who virtually invented studio-conjured orchestral pop.

The trio crafted billowy layers of samples from new-age philosophers, California folkies and British art rockers, laced with a dose of jazzy organ.

"Faust Arp": The title is a reference to German art rockers and a synthesizer.

His diverse resume pegs Mr. Coyne as an art rocker, yet his songs never sacrificed emotion for wit.

Its connection to other recent spiritual strivers in rock, especially U2, was clear, as was its debt to cape-wearing art rockers like Yes.

The album saw the band described as "art rockers who not only want to groove but know how to groove".

Brazilian Returns The Brazilian art rocker Tom Ze's music has been called brilliant and skewed, intelligent and weird.

He was a hook-happy art rocker whose experimentalism never caused him to abandon great sing-along riffs.

In the 1980s Glenn Branca, Sonic Youth and other experimental art rockers also utilized prepared guitars.

Kate Bush and Laurie Anderson were described as art rockers as well as described and marketed as other genres in the United States during this period.