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Altan (band)
Altan: Irish traditional band from County Donegal, formed 1987 by Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh and Frankie Kennedy; known for Irish-language song and twin fiddling; 14 albums including Donegal (2024).
Alter Bridge
Alter Bridge: American hard rock band formed January 2004 in Orlando, Florida, by ex-Creed members Mark Tremonti, Brian Marshall, and Scott Phillips with vocalist Myles Kennedy. Eight studio albums from One Day Remains (2004) to the self-titled 2026 release on Napalm Records.
Alter Bridge (album)
Alter Bridge is the self-titled eighth studio album by American hard rock band Alter Bridge, released January 9, 2026 on Napalm Records. Recorded at 5150 Studios and produced by Michael "Elvis" Baskette, with singles "Silent Divide" and "What Lies Within".
Alter Ego (Doechii and JT song)
"Alter Ego" is a March 29, 2024 single by Doechii featuring JT, produced by Zach Witness, sampling Robin S's "Show Me Love"; Doechii calls its house-hip-hop blend "editorial rap", later Grammy-nominated via Kaytranada remix.
Alter Ego (Lisa album)
Alter Ego is the 2025 debut solo studio album by Blackpink's Lisa, released via LLOUD Co./RCA Records on February 28, 2025. Fifteen tracks built around five personas; debuted at No. 7 on the Billboard 200.
Altered Images
Altered Images, Scottish new wave band formed in Glasgow in 1979, fronted by Clare Grogan; hits "Happy Birthday" (UK No 2) and "I Could Be Happy"; albums Happy Birthday, Pinky Blue, Bite, and 2022's Mascara Streakz.
Altered scale
The altered scale, also called super Locrian or diminished whole-tone, is the seventh mode of the melodic minor scale, used in jazz over altered dominant seventh chords (G7alt) because it contains every altered tension and resolves smoothly to the following chord.
Altern-8
Altern-8 were an English rave duo formed in Stafford in 1990, known for performing in chemical-warfare suits and for the UK number 3 hit "Activ 8 (Come with Me)".
Alternative (album)
Alternative (album): Pet Shop Boys B-sides compilation, released 7 August 1995 on Parlophone; 30 tracks from "In the night" to "Some speculation"; UK number 2; followed by Format (2012).
Alternative country
Alternative country (alt-country; also insurgent country, y'alternative) is a loosely defined country subgenre blending country with punk and rock aesthetics, crystallized by Uncle Tupelo's 1990 album No Depression and the No Depression magazine, later absorbed into Americana.
Alternative hip hop
Alternative hip hop is a tradition in United States hip hop, running from the late 1980s to the present, of artists whose music stood outside dominant commercial styles.
Alternative metal
Alternative metal (alt-metal): heavy metal fused with alternative rock and outside influences like funk, rap, and industrial. Emerged mid-1980s US with Faith No More, Jane's Addiction, Soundgarden; dominated 1990s metal; spawned nu metal via Korn and Limp Bizkit.
Alternative R&B
Alternative R&B (alt-R&B, indie R&B, PBR&B) is an experimental strand of contemporary R&B that broke out in 2011 via Frank Ocean and The Weeknd, defined by atmospheric, lo-fi production and confessional lyrics.
Alternative rock
Alternative rock, also known as alt-rock, is a broad style of rock from punk and independent underground scenes of the late 1970s and 1980s that reached the mainstream in the early 1990s.
Althea (song)
"Althea" is a Grateful Dead song with lyrics by Robert Hunter and music by Jerry Garcia, first performed live in 1979 and released on Go to Heaven (1980).
Altın Gün
Altın Gün (Altin Gun) is a Grammy-nominated Turkish psychedelic rock and funk band formed in Amsterdam in 2016, rearranging Turkish folk songs in the 1970s Anatolian psych-funk style.
Alto
Alto: the second-highest choral part (SATB) and, as contralto, the lowest principal female classical voice, historically also a high male falsetto voice (countertenor). Ranges differ by national convention (G3–C5 vs G2–E4).
Alto saxophone
Alto saxophone: E♭ transposing member of the saxophone family, sounding a major sixth lower than written, range C♯3–A♭5. Invented by Adolphe Sax, patented 1846; the standard student sax and a principal jazz and classical horn.
Aluna Festival
The Aluna Festival, also called Ardèche Aluna Festival, is a three-day pop, rock, electro, and rap music festival held at Ruoms in Ardèche, France, since 2008.
AlunaGeorge
AlunaGeorge is an English electronic music duo from London, made up of singer Aluna Francis and producer George Reid, known for "White Noise" with Disclosure.
Alune Wade
Alune Wade, born Alioune Wade in 1978 in Dakar, is a Senegalese bassist, vocalist, and composer based near Paris who blends West African music, jazz, and Afrobeat.
Álvaro Díaz
Álvaro Díaz is a Puerto Rican rapper and singer from Hato Rey, San Juan, who began on SoundCloud in 2012 and became a reference figure of alternative Latin urbano.
Álvaro Soler
Álvaro Soler (Álvaro Tauchert Soler, born 1991, Barcelona) is a Spanish-German Latin-pop singer-songwriter known for "El Mismo Sol", "Sofía" and "La Cintura", with four studio albums including El Camino (2025) and over 150 gold and platinum awards.
Álvaro Torres
Álvaro Torres is a Salvadoran singer-songwriter of romantic ballads, nicknamed El Último Romántico, known for "Hazme olvidarla" and inducted into the Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2015.
Alvin and the Chipmunks (soundtrack)
Alvin and the Chipmunks (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the 2007 album for the live-action/CG film, 16 songs of Chipmunk covers and new DeeTown tracks; slow start, over 1 million sold, No. 1 UK soundtrack chart.
Alvin Lee
Alvin Lee (Graham Anthony Barnes, 1944–2013), English blues-rock guitarist and singer who fronted Ten Years After; famed for the fast "I'm Going Home" at Woodstock 1969 and the hit "I'd Love to Change the World."
Alvin Stardust
Alvin Stardust, stage name of Bernard William Jewry (also Shane Fenton), English glam rock singer; "My Coo Ca Choo" (UK No 2, 1973), "Jealous Mind" (UK No 1, 1974), 1980s comeback with "Pretend"; died 2014.
Alvvays
Alvvays (pronounced "always") is a Canadian indie pop band formed 2011 in Charlottetown, PEI, now based in Toronto, led by Molly Rankin of the Rankin Family; albums Alvvays (2014), Antisocialites (2017), Blue Rev (2022).
Always (Bon Jovi song)
"Always" is a 1994 power ballad by Bon Jovi, written by Jon Bon Jovi for the film Romeo Is Bleeding but withheld, released on Cross Road; it hit number 2 in the UK and number 4 in the US.
Always Be My Baby
"Always Be My Baby" is a 1996 Mariah Carey single from Daydream, written with Jermaine Dupri and Manuel Seal; it hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks in May 1996, her eleventh chart-topper, and is RIAA 7x Multi-Platinum.