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Ace of Spades (song)
Ace of Spades is Motörhead's 1980 speed-metal anthem, written by Lemmy, Eddie Clarke, and Phil Taylor, produced by Vic Maile, a UK top-20 single and the band's signature song, distinct from Link Wray's 1963 instrumental of the same name.
Ace Von Johnson
Ace Von Johnson, Los Angeles guitarist, lead guitar for Faster Pussycat 2010–2019 and L.A. Guns guitarist since 2018, also of Neon Coven, punk bands Madcap and Cheap Sex, voice actor and dog rescue advocate.
Achtung Baby
Achtung Baby is U2's seventh studio album, released November 18, 1991 on Island Records. Recorded from October 1990 at Berlin's Hansa Studios and in Dublin with Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno, it reinvented the band's sound with electronic beats and sold about 18 million copies.
Achy Breaky Heart
"Achy Breaky Heart" (also "Don't Tell My Heart") is Don Von Tress's 1990 country song, first recorded by the Marcy Brothers in 1991 and made famous by Billy Ray Cyrus's 1992 debut single: five weeks at No. 1 country, No. 4 Hot 100, and a line-dancing craze.
Acid Bath
Acid Bath is an American sludge metal band formed in Houma, Louisiana, in 1991. They released two albums, When the Kite String Pops and Paegan Terrorism Tactics.
Acid house
Acid house, a house music subgenre from mid-1980s Chicago, is defined by the squelching, filter-swept Roland TB-303 bassline over four-on-the-floor drums. Named by Phuture's "Acid Tracks" (1987), it fueled Britain's 1988 Second Summer of Love and spawned acid techno and acid trance.
Acid jazz
Acid jazz (club jazz) is 1980s-90s London-originated dance music fusing jazz, funk, soul, and hip-hop, named by DJs Gilles Peterson and Chris Bangs and popularized by the Acid Jazz Records label.
Acid Rap
Acid Rap is Chance the Rapper's second mixtape, self-released free on April 30, 2013; 14 Chicago-made tracks blending soul, gospel, and juke, Metascore 86, his breakthrough and a defining blog-era release.
Acid rock
Acid rock, also called acid psychedelic rock, is the heaviest, loudest branch of 1960s psychedelic rock, built on distorted guitars, trippy lyrics, and long jams. Centered on San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury scene with Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, Blue Cheer, and Jimi Hendrix, it faded within psychedelia's lifespan and fed directly into heavy metal.
Acker Bilk
Acker Bilk (Bernard Stanley Bilk) was an English jazz clarinettist and bandleader central to the traditional jazz boom, best known for the 1962 hit 'Stranger on the Shore.'
Acoustic Alchemy
Acoustic Alchemy is an English smooth jazz band formed in London in 1981 by Nick Webb and Simon James, later led by Greg Carmichael and Miles Gilderdale, with three Grammy nominations and albums including Red Dust & Spanish Lace and AArt.
Acoustic guitar
Acoustic guitar: a hollow-body plucked string instrument whose soundboard radiates string vibration acoustically. Covers steel-string and nylon-string classical types, tensions, Martin X-bracing history, sizes, woods, and pickups.
Acoustic music
Acoustic music is music made mainly with instruments that produce sound through natural physical vibration and resonance, without electronic sound generation or amplification; it contrasts with electric and electronic music and spans the mechanical acoustical recording era of 1890s to 1925.
Acrisure Arena
Acrisure Arena is a 300,000 sq ft indoor arena in Palm Desert, California, opened December 14, 2022. Home of the AHL Coachella Valley Firebirds and, from 2026-27, the NBA G League CV Lakers, with about 11,000 concert capacity.
Across the Universe
Across the Universe is a 1968 Beatles song by John Lennon, first released December 1969 on the WWF charity album No One's Gonna Change Our World and later reworked by Phil Spector for Let It Be; NASA beamed it into deep space in 2008.
Act III (Kasabian album)
Act III (ACT III) is Kasabian's ninth studio album, released 4 September 2026 on Columbia/Sony UK, produced by Serge Pizzorno and Mark Ralph; 13 tracks in 32:52, eighth UK No. 1 album, closing the trilogy with The Alchemist's Euphoria and Happenings.
Act III: This City Made Us
Act III: This City Made Us is The Protomen's 2026 rock opera album on Sound Machine Records, concluding their Mega Man-inspired trilogy 17 years after Act II, released track by track on Bandcamp from October 2025.
Act of Rage
Act of Rage is the stage name of Jacques Journée, a Dutch hardstyle and rawstyle DJ and producer from Denekamp, active since 2014 on Minus Is More.
Action Bronson
Action Bronson (Ariyan Arslani, born 1983) is a rapper, chef, and TV personality from Flushing, Queens, known for culinary rhymes, the Top Ten album Mr. Wonderful (2015), Fuck That's Delicious, and early Ghostface Killah comparisons.
Actually
Actually is the 1987 studio album by the Pet Shop Boys. It loosely critiques Thatcherism and became their defining release, peaking at number 2 on the UK charts.
Actually Romantic
"Actually Romantic" is a 2025 Taylor Swift song, track 7 on The Life of a Showgirl, co-written and produced with Max Martin and Shellback; a sarcastic response widely read as aimed at Charli XCX, reaching No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Ad Infinitum
Ad Infinitum is a Swiss symphonic metal band formed in Montreux in 2018 by vocalist Melissa Bonny, signed to Napalm Records and known for its Chapter concept-album trilogy.
Ad libitum
Ad libitum (ad lib.), Latin 'at one's pleasure', a music direction giving performers freedom in tempo, ornamentation, omission, or improvisation; opposite of obbligato; also means unrestricted feeding in biology and medicine.
Ad-Rock
Ad-Rock (Adam Keefe Horovitz, born 1966) is an American rapper and guitarist, member of the Beastie Boys from the early 1980s punk era through their 2012 disbanding, later an actor with unreleased solo music.
Adagio for Strings
Adagio for Strings, Op. 11a: Samuel Barber's 1938 string-orchestra arrangement of the slow movement of his String Quartet Op. 11; premiered by Toscanini, and famous as American mourning music.
Adagio in G minor
Adagio in G minor, known as Albinoni's Adagio, is a neo-Baroque piece for strings and organ actually composed by Remo Giazotto, published 1958, based on his disputed claim of a Dresden manuscript fragment by Albinoni.
Adalberto Álvarez
Adalberto Álvarez (1948–2021) was a Cuban pianist, composer, and bandleader known as "El Caballero del Son", who founded Son 14 in 1978 and Adalberto Álvarez y su Son in 1984.
Adalberto Álvarez y su Son
Adalberto Álvarez y su Son is a Cuban son and salsa orchestra founded in 1984 by composer Adalberto Álvarez, known for "¿Y qué tú quieres que te den?".
Adam (album)
ADAM (2026) is Adam Lambert's sixth studio album, his first independent release on his own More Is More label via The Orchard. Twelve tracks of electropop and industrial 90s-influenced pop about self-acceptance.
Adam and the Ants
Adam and the Ants were a London new wave/post-punk band formed by Adam Ant (Stuart Goddard) in 1977, famous for the Burundi-beat albums Kings of the Wild Frontier and Prince Charming, two 1981 number-one singles, and the McLaren poaching that created Bow Wow Wow.