Musical collective is a phrase used in reference to a leaderless entity that is predisposed to performing music that may be considered experimental. The sound becomes the focus, as opposed to having the outfit become a stepping stone for potential cynosures. Such entities have transitioned from the traditional hierarchical configuration that features either a frontman (e.g. The Cure's Robert Smith, or Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails), or a plurality of band members in tension for dominance (e.g. Louise Post & Nina Gordon of Veruca Salt, or The Beatles' John Lennon & Paul McCartney.) Collectives are seen as an alternative to more ego-driven, combative paradigms of group music-making. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... For other persons named Robert Smith, see Robert Smith (disambiguation). ... Michael Trent Reznor (born May 17, 1965) is an American musician, singer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. ... NIN redirects here. ... Louise Post Louise Post (born Louise Lightner Post on December 7, 1966 in St. ... Nina Gordon (full name Nina Rachel Shapiro Gordon) was born November 14, 1967 and is an American rock singer. ... Veruca Salt is an alternative rock group of the 1990s and 2000s. ... The Beatles were an English rock band from Liverpool whose members were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. ... John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980), (born John Winston Lennon, known as John Ono Lennon) was an iconic English 20th century rock and roll songwriter and singer, best known as the founding member of The Beatles. ... Sir James Paul McCartney MBE (born June 18, 1942) is a Grammy Award-winning English singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who first gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles. ...

Musical collectives allow for flexibility in their rosters. As such, most of the members are free to rotate in and out of the line-up.

List of Notable collectives

• Acappella
• Ambiances Magnétiques
• Animal Collective
• Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution
• Bomb The Music Industry
• Broken Social Scene
• Bugz in the Attic
• Chicago Afrobeat Project (CAbP)
• Diggin' in the Crates Crew
• Dufay Collective
• Early Day Miners
• Fence Collective
• F-IRE Collective
• The Elephant Six Collective
• Godspeed You! Black Emperor
• Hieroglyphics
• In Support of Living
• Lansing-Dreiden
• Living Legends
• Ozomatli
• Piano Magic
• Silk Road Project
• Soulquarians
• Spitkicker
• Streetlight Manifesto
• The Desert Sessions
• The Mountain Goats
• The New Pornographers
• Reindeer Section
• Tanakh
• Arcade Fire
• The Cake Sale
• Trummerflora
• Willard Grant Conspiracy
• Wu-Tang Clan

Acappella is an all-male Contemporary Christian vocal group that was founded in 1982 by Keith Lancaster, who has variously played the role of singer, songwriter, and producer throughout the groups history. ... Ambiances Magnétiques is a non-profit, Canadian musical collective, which was formed in 1983 by a group of Montreal independent musicians and producers. ... Animal Collective are a New York City-based group of experimental musicians from Baltimore, Maryland. ... The Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution, or BOTAR, is a musical collective of a varying and undefinable genre which includes influences from ska, punk, classical and eastern-European style music. ... The subject of this article seems to fail one of the following consensually-accepted Wikipedia inclusion guidelines: If you are familiar with the subject matter, please expand the article to establish its notability, citing reliable sources, so as to avoid it being considered for deletion. ... Broken Social Scene is a Canadian indie rock supergroup formed in 1999 in Toronto, Ontario. ... Bugz in the Attic is an all-star broken beat crew of DJs and producers based in West London. ... Chicago Afrobeat Project (CAbP) is a dynamic musical collective rooted in 70s funk and jazz-infused afrobeat. ... The Diggin in the Crates Crew, also known as the DITC, is a New York-based hip-hop collective, deriving its name from a popular DJ sampling practice. ... The Dufay Collective is a early-music ensemble from the United Kingdom, specializing in Medieval and Renaissance music. ... Early Day Miners, (L-R): Jonathan Richardson, Joe Brumley, Matt Griffin and Dan Burton Early Day Miners (EDM) is an ambient, post-rock unit from Bloomington, Indiana. ... Fence Collective (we could use the term loose here, but you know that already - see every article written about Fence) collective of musicians based in Anstruther in the East Neuk of Fife affiliated to the Fence record label. ... F-IRE Collective is a jazz music community in the United Kingdom. ... The Elephant Six Collective were a group of American musicians who spawned some of the most notable independent bands of the 1990s, including the Olivia Tremor Control, Neutral Milk Hotel, the Apples in Stereo and of Montreal. ... Godspeed You! Black Emperor (formerly punctuated Godspeed You Black Emperor!) is a Canadian post-rock band based in Montreal, Quebec. ... The Hieroglyphics (also known as the Hieroglyphics Imperium) is a hip hop collective based in Oakland, California. ... Lansing-Dreiden is a company from Miami by way of New York on the Kemado Records label. ... // Background The Living Legends crew is a family of independent hip-hop creators. ... Ozomatli is a Latin funk/worldbeat/rock en Español group, formed in 1996 in Los Angeles, known as much for their extremely vocal activist viewpoints as their wide array of musical styles. ... Piano Magic is an indie group formed in 1996 by Glen Johnson, Dominic Chennell, and Dick Rance. ... Silk Road Project, Inc. ... Soulquarians (common mispelling: Soul Aquarians) is a neo soul-inflected musical collective from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with most of its members sharing the astrology sign of Aquarius. ... Streetlight Manifesto is a third wave ska band from East Brunswick Township, New Jersey, USA. They released their first album, Everything Goes Numb, on August 26, 2003, which was distributed by Victory Records. ... “At Desert Sessions, you play for the sake of music. ... The Mountain Goats is the name of prolific American singer-songwriter John Darnielles long-running musical project. ... The New Pornographers are a predominantly Canadian indie rock group formed in 1997 in Vancouver, British Columbia. ... The Reindeer Section class photograph released for the second album in 2002 The Reindeer Section is a Scottish indie rock supergroup formed in 2001 by Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol, which released albums and gigged in 2001 and 2002. ... Tanakh is the name for music written and improvised by a musical collective from Richmond, Virginia. ... The Arcade Fire is an indie rock band formed in Montreal, Quebec, Canada comprising band members Win Butler, Régine Chassagne, Richard Reed Parry, William Butler, Tim Kingsbury, Sarah Neufeld and Jeremy Gara. ... The Cake Sale are a collective of mostly Irish musical artists formed by Brian Crosby of Bell X1. ... Trummerflora Collective is the name of a musical collective based in San Diego, California. ... Robert Fisher of Willard Grant Conspiracy Willard Grant Conspiracy are an alt country band currently based near Palmdale, California. ... Wu-Tang redirects here. ...

See also

• Collective
• Leaderless resistance — Collectives often share the anarchic streak associated with such entities — without their malevolent tendencies.

Collective can also refer to the collective pitch flight control in helicopters A collective is a group of people who share or are motivated by at least one common issue or interest, or work together on a specific project(s) to achieve a common objective. ... Leaderless resistance (or phantom cell structure) is a political resistance strategy in which small, independent groups (covert cells) challenge an established adversary such as a government. ... Anarchism is a generic term describing various political philosophies and social movements that advocate the elimination of hierarchy and imposed authority. ...

External links

• All Inclusive CBC.ca examination of the proliferation of musical collectives
• Collective Souls This Magazine article on musical collectives