Musical collective is a phrase used to describe a group of musicians in which membership is flexible and creative control is shared. The concept is distinct from that of a traditional band in that musical collectives allow for flexibility in their rosters, and members are free to rotate in and out of the line-up. Collectives may exist in almost any genre of music, although they have been especially prominent in indie rock and hip hop. A musical collective is distinct from a musicians collective, such as the London Musicians Collective, which is an organization with more general aims and larger membership. Notable collectives Acappella Alaclair Ensemble Ambiances Magnetiques AMM Amon Düül I Amungus Animal Collective Anticon Arcade Fire Archive Architecture in Helsinki Army of the Pharaohs Arrogant Sons of Bitches ASAP Mob The Band Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution Bankroll Mafia Black Hippy Black Mountain Blocks Recording Club Bomb the Music Industry! Bran Van 3000 Brockhampton Broken Social Scene Bugz in the Attic The Cake Sale Cardboard City Coast Contra Cocaine 80s The Choir Practice Computer Music Center (Columbia) Consolidated Crack Cloud Crass The Damnwells Dance Macabre The Desert Sessions Diggin' in the Crates Crew Doomtree Dufay Collective Dungeon Family Early Day Miners The Elephant 6 Collective Fence Collective F-IRE Collective Godspeed You! Black Emperor Grateful Dead Griselda Gungor The Hidden Cameras Hello! Project Henri Faberge and the Adorables Hieroglyphics Hillsong United I'm from Barcelona The Jewelled Antler Collective Jungle KMFDM La Coka Nostra Lansing-Dreiden Les Légions Noires Living Legends Mo Thugs The Mountain Goats Native Tongues The Mekons The New Pornographers No-Neck Blues Band The Ocean Odd Future Ozomatli Parliament-Funkadelic PC Music Piano Magic The Polyphonic Spree Pro Era The Reindeer Section San Francisco Tape Music Center Rhythm&Truth Sault Screwed Up Click Self Defense Family Silk Road Project SMTOWN SOB X RBE Soul Assassins Soul II Soul Soulquarians So Solid Crew Spider Gang Sunburned Hand of the Man Swans Sweatshop Union Tanakh Trummerflora Un Drame Musical Instantane Underground Resistance Undertow Music Vulfpeck Willard Grant Conspiracy Willkommen Collective The World/Inferno Friendship Society Wu-Tang Clan Wu-Tang Killa Beez Yamantaka // Sonic Titan Zodiak Free Arts Lab (Berlin) TeamSESH See also Collective Artist collective Leaderless resistance – Collectives often share the anarchic streak associated with such entities. References