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Audiofreq

Audiofreq is the performance name of Sam Gonzalez, an Australian hardstyle DJ and producer signed to Belgium's Dirty Workz who released the album Audioception in 2013.

Audiomack

Audiomack is a free, ad-supported music streaming and discovery platform founded in New York in 2012, now among the most-used streaming services in much of Africa.

Audioriver 2026

Audioriver Festival is a Polish electronic music festival founded in 2006 in Płock and held since 2024 at Łódzkie Błonia in Łódź; its 20th-anniversary 2026 edition was headlined by The Prodigy.

Audiotistic Music Festival

Audiotistic, also billed as the Audiotistic Music Festival, is a Southern California electronic and hip-hop festival founded in 1996 by Meelo Solis and run by Insomniac since 2009.

Auðn

Auðn, also known as Audn, is an Icelandic atmospheric black metal band formed in 2010 in Hveragerði, known for melodic songs in Icelandic and three albums on Season of Mist.

August Burns Red

August Burns Red (ABR) is an American Christian metalcore band formed in March 2003 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Five-piece with Jake Luhrs on vocals; ten studio albums from Thrill Seeker (2005) to Season of Surrender (2026); two Grammy nominations and a 2020 Christian Albums chart topper.

Auri

Auri is a folk and progressive-rock trio formed by Nightwish members Troy Donockley and Tuomas Holopainen with singer Johanna Kurkela, releasing three albums on Nuclear Blast since 2018.

Austeria

Austeria is an American dubstep producer and DJ based in Maryland, active since 2018, known for festival sets at Electric Forest, Elements, and Lost Lands.

Austin City Limits Music Festival

The Austin City Limits Music Festival, or ACL Fest, is an annual two-weekend music festival in Zilker Park, Austin, Texas, first held in 2002 and produced by C3 Presents.

Autechre

Autechre, the English electronic duo of Rob Brown and Sean Booth from Rochdale, formed in 1987 on Warp Records; known for IDM classics Incunabula, Tri Repetae, Confield, MaxMSP-based composition, and concerts in total darkness.

Autoerotique

Autoerotique is a Canadian electronic music duo formed in Toronto in 2009 by producers and DJs Keith Robertson and David Henderson, signed to Dim Mak Records.

Autograph (American band)

Autograph is an American glam metal band formed in 1983 in Los Angeles, known for the 1984 gold album Sign in Please and the hit Turn Up the Radio; it opened for Van Halen's 1984 tour and later re-formed without Steve Plunkett.

Autopsy (band)

Autopsy is an American death metal band formed in 1987 in the San Francisco Bay Area by ex-Death drummer/vocalist Chris Reifert, Eric Cutler, and Danny Coralles; known for Severed Survival (1989), death/doom influence, a 1995 breakup, and a 2010 reunion on Peaceville.

Autostrad

Autostrad (أوتوستراد) is a Jordanian six-piece band formed in Amman in 2007, known for setting Jordanian slang lyrics to reggae and funk fusion with prominent synth lines.

AVALON Hollywood

AVALON Hollywood is a nightclub and live entertainment venue at 1735 Vine Street in Los Angeles, opened in 2003 inside a 1927 theater building and owned by Insomniac since 2025.

Avant Gardner

Avant Gardner is an 80,000-square-foot music venue complex occupying a full city block in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, best known as the home of the open-air Brooklyn Mirage.

Avatar (band)

Avatar is a Swedish metal band from Gothenburg, formed in 2001, that moved from melodic death metal to theatrical alternative metal across ten albums, including Black Waltz, Avatar Country, and Don't Go In The Forest (2025).

Ave Mujica

Ave Mujica (アヴェ ムジカ) is a five-member Japanese gothic-metal girls band in Bushiroad's BanG Dream! franchise, whose voice actresses play live; members use Latin stage names (Oblivionis, Doloris, Mortis, Timoris, Amoris) and headline a January 2025 Sanzigen 3DCG anime.

AVELLO

AVELLO is the stage name of Adam Lawrence, an American electronic music producer and DJ based in Orlando, Florida, who releases on Bassrush, Subsidia, and Ophelia Records.

Avenged Sevenfold

Avenged Sevenfold (A7X) is an American heavy metal band formed in 1999 in Huntington Beach, California, known for City of Evil, the No. 1 albums Nightmare and Hail to the King, and Life Is But a Dream...

Avenged Sevenfold discography

Avenged Sevenfold discography: eight studio albums (2001 Sounding the Seventh Trumpet to 2023 Life Is But a Dream…), plus EPs, the Deathbat soundtrack, and 2025-2026 standalone releases Magic and STATICA.

Avicii

Avicii, stage name of Swedish DJ and producer Tim Bergling (1989–2018), rose to fame with "Levels" and "Wake Me Up" from the 2013 album True, retired from touring in 2016, and died by suicide in Oman; his family's Tim Bergling Foundation continues his mental-health legacy.

Awakenings (festival)

Awakenings is a Dutch techno event series and festival founded in 1997 in Amsterdam, anchored at the Gashouder and drawing over 300,000 visitors a year across its events.

Awakenings Easter Saturday By Night

Awakenings Easter Saturday By Night is the overnight Saturday session of Awakenings' annual Easter weekend of techno events at the Gashouder, a former gas holder in Amsterdam's Westergasfabriek complex, Netherlands.

AWAKENINGS FESTIVAL 2027

Awakenings Festival 2027 is the 2027 edition of the annual Dutch techno festival, scheduled for 9–11 July 2027 at Beekse Bergen in Hilvarenbeek, near Tilburg.

AWAKENINGS NEW YEARS | DECEMBER 29 BY DAY

Awakenings New Years is the year-end run of techno shows staged by Dutch promoter Awakenings in the Amsterdam area around 29–31 December, mixing daytime and overnight parties.

Awakenings Spring Festival Houtrak (Spaarnwoude-park)

Awakenings Spring Festival is a two-day open-air techno festival held each spring at the Houtrak terrain in Spaarnwoude park near Amsterdam, renamed Awakenings Upclose in 2024.

AXMO

AXMO is a German DJ and producer duo from Hamburg, formed by André Appel and Morten Juhl in 2018 and signed to W&W's label Rave Culture.

Axtone

Axtone is a Swedish-founded house and EDM record label started by DJ Axwell in 2005, which released music by Sebastian Ingrosso, Steve Angello, and CamelPhat before its 2025 sale to Pophouse Entertainment.

Axwell

Axwell (Axel Christofer Hedfors, born 1977, Lund) is a Swedish DJ and producer, five-time Grammy nominee, founder of Axtone Records, and member of Swedish House Mafia and Axwell /\ Ingrosso.