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Aftershock Festival

The Aftershock Festival is a rock, punk, and metal festival held each year at Discovery Park in Sacramento, California, since 2012, billed as the West Coast's largest.

Afusic

Afusic (Affan Khan), Pakistani singer and rapper from Hyderabad, Sindh; with producer Ali Soomro made the 2025 viral hit "Pal Pal" (250M+ YouTube streams), Spotify Pakistan's most discovered artist of 2025, signed to UMG Pakistan.

Agalloch

Agalloch: Portland, Oregon metal band formed 1995 by John Haughm, blending black metal, doom, and neofolk; five albums including The Mantle; disbanded 2016, reunited 2023 with drummer Hunter Ginn.

Age of Love (Charlotte de Witte remix)

The Age of Love (Charlotte de Witte remix) is a 2021 techno rework of the 1990 single, produced by Belgian DJ Charlotte de Witte and Italian producer Enrico Sangiuliano.

Agoraphobic Nosebleed

Agoraphobic Nosebleed (ANb), American grindcore/cybergrind band formed 1994 in Springfield, Massachusetts, led by Scott Hull of Pig Destroyer; known for drum-machine grind, the 100-song Altered States of America, and the 2016 sludge EP Arc.

Agriculture (band)

Agriculture is a Los Angeles black metal band formed in 2021, self-styled "ecstatic black metal". Members Daniel Meyer-O'Keeffe, Leah B. Levinson, Richard Chowenhill, and Kern Haug released The Spiritual Sound (2025) on The Flenser to acclaim.

Ahmed Fakroun

Ahmed Fakroun, born 1953 in Benghazi, is a Libyan singer and multi-instrumentalist who fuses Arabic songwriting with electronica, known as a pioneer of modern Arabic music.

AIMMIA

AIMMIA is an American DJ, producer, and vocalist from Atlanta, based in Los Angeles, whose tech house and melodic techno tracks feature vocals she writes and sings herself.

Ain TheMachine

Ain TheMachine, the alias of Brazilian artist Diego Ain, is a Berlin-based electronic musician who makes dance music from body, voice, and everyday objects, with no instruments.

Airforce Festival

The Airforce Festival is a hardstyle and hardcore music festival held at the former Military Air Base Twenthe in Enschede, Netherlands, which ran four editions from 2016 to 2019.

Airrica

Airrica is the stage name of Erica Bell, an American house and techno DJ and producer from New Hampshire who has played Coachella and Tomorrowland.

Aitch (rapper)

Aitch (Harrison James Armstrong, born 1999) is an English rapper from New Moston, Manchester, known for "Straight Rhymez", "Taste (Make It Shake)", the album Close to Home, and a 2023 BRIT Award.

AJ Tracey

AJ Tracey (Ché Wolton Grant, born 1994) is a West London grime MC turned genre-hopping UK rapper; hits include Thiago Silva, Butterflies, and Ladbroke Grove, with albums AJ Tracey (2019), Flu Game (2021), and Don't Die Before You're Dead (2025).

AKA (rapper)

AKA (Kiernan Jarryd Forbes, 1988–2023), also Supa Mega, South African rapper from Cape Town; Entity founder, Altar Ego through Mass Country, SAMA and Metro FM winner, shot dead in Durban in February 2023.

Akala (rapper)

Akala is the stage name of Kingslee James McLean Daley (born 1983), a British rapper, poet, and author who founded the Hip-hop Shakespeare Company and wrote the bestselling Natives.

Akira (musician)

Akira is the stage name of Kin Wing Lam, born 1971 in Hong Kong, a Netherlands-based hardcore, speedcore, and breakcore DJ who owns the label Hong Kong Violence.

Akriila

Akriila (Fernanda Patricia Sepúlveda Tapia, born 2003, Maipú, Chile) is a Chilean rapper and alt-pop artist; debut album Epistolares (2024), Atlantic Records signing, and 2026 album lucy miró al mundo y notó que está girando.

Akvárium Klub

Akvárium Klub, also known as Akvárium Városközpont, is a multi-hall club and concert venue beneath Erzsébet tér in central Budapest, opened in its current form in 2014.

Alan Braxe

Alan Braxe (Alain Quême) is a French house producer and DJ, a member of Stardust and creator of the 2000 single 'Intro' with Fred Falke.

Alan Walker

Alan Walker (born 1997) is a British-born Norwegian EDM producer and DJ from Bergen, known for the masked hoodie persona and the 2015 hit Faded, over 100 billion streams, the album Different World, and the World of Walker transmedia universe.

Alberta Balsam

Alberta Balsam is the alias of Aniek de Rooij, a Rotterdam-based electronic producer and DJ working across techno, IDM, and electro, who debuted on Dekmantel in 2021.

Alcest

Alcest is a French blackgaze band founded by Neige (Stéphane Paut), with drummer Winterhalter, formed around 2000 in Bagnols-sur-Cèze. Pioneers of fusing black metal with shoegaze from the 2005 Le Secret EP, with seven albums through Les Chants de l'Aurore (2024).

ALDA

ALDA, also known as ALDA Events, is a Dutch producer and promoter of electronic music events based in Amsterdam, founded in 2007 by Allan Hardenberg and David Lewis.

Alesana

Alesana is an American post-hardcore band formed in Raleigh, North Carolina in October 2004, fronted by Shawn Milke and Dennis Lee, known for literary concept albums The Emptiness (2010) and A Place Where the Sun Is Silent (2011) and a devoted Filipino fanbase.

Alessandro Adriani

Alessandro Adriani is an Italian DJ, producer, and founder of Mannequin Records, a Berlin-based label for cold wave and industrial music, who also held a Berghain residency from 2016 to 2020.

Alessandro Cortini

Alessandro Cortini is an Italian electronic musician and synthesizer designer, best known as a Nine Inch Nails touring member and for ambient solo work on Mute.

Alesso

Alesso (Alessandro Renato Rodolfo Lindblad, born 1991, Stockholm) is a Swedish progressive-house DJ and producer mentored by Sebastian Ingrosso, known for "Heroes (We Could Be)", "Under Control", the 2015 debut album Forever, a 2014 Grammy nomination, and his label Body Hi.

Alestorm

Alestorm is a Scottish pirate metal band from Perth, formed as Battleheart in 2004, led by Christopher Bowes, known for albums Captain Morgan's Revenge (2008) through The Thunderfist Chronicles (2025).

Alex Albrecht

Alex Albrecht is an Australian electronic music producer, live act, and DJ based in Melbourne, known for blending house, jazz, and ambient with field recordings.

Alex Kennon

Alex Kennon is an Italian tech house DJ and producer from Barletta, based in Ibiza, known for 'Apache' with Pete Tong and a 2018 DJ Award.