Avant Garde has been played on NTS shows including Pender Street Steppers, with Everybody’s Lover (Mudd’s Dub) first played on 2 December 2019.

There are multiple artists that have used the name Avant Garde

An American progressive metal band active in the late 1980s A Swedish synthpop duo active in the late 1990s A Mexican new wave band active in the 1980s A Japanese duo active in the 2010s An incorrect tag for The Avant Garde

Avant Garde shares it's name with at least three bands… Avant Garde (1987-1989) (later Zoom) was a progressive metal band consisting of Kevin Ridel (later of Ridel High, Peel & AM Radio) on vocals, Peter Kitts, (who would later gain worldwide fame as frontman of Weezer under his birth name of Rivers Cuomo) on vocals /guitar, Justin Fisher (later of Shufflepuck and Psoma) on bass, Bryn Mutch on percussion, and Eric Ridel/Michael Stanton (Zoom) on lead/rhythm guitar. They were based in Storrs, Connecticut until moving to Los Angeles, California in 1989.

Avant Garde is also the name of a Swedish synthpop duo: L. Walldén & P.O. Leandersson. Founded in 1990, they began releasing music under the new name AvantgardeSweden starting in 2020.

Another Avant Garde is the duo of Hiroshi Kim and Ai Uchida. They can be found at http://ag.mu.

Yet another Avant-Garde (notice the hyphen!) is an Italian dark wave band from Rome. The current line up is Alessio Schiavi (vocals, guitars, programming), Alessandro Conte (bass), Antonio M (guitars). Avant-Garde has two full length releases "Iron in Flesh" (2008) and "Cyanure" (2004). More information can be found at http://www.avant-garde.org.uk.

Avant Garde was also the name of a Mexico new wave band active in the 1980s. Their song "Pesadillas" appears on the compilation "Back Up: Mexican Tecno Pop 1980​-​1989"

Also, let's not forget the duo Avant-Garde from 1968-69 which consisted of future game show host CHUCK WOOLERY and Elkin "Bubba" Fowler. They had a minor hit which hit #40 on the Billboard chart entitled Naturally Stoned in 1968 and followed it up with Fly With Me, which peaked at #130 on the U.S. Billboard chart in December 1968. Both moved on after their chart days were over.