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Autoamerican
Autoamerican is Blondie's fifth studio album, released November 1980 on Chrysalis and produced by Mike Chapman. Recorded partly in Los Angeles, it yielded the number-one singles "The Tide Is High" and "Rapture", the first Billboard chart-topper incorporating rap.
Autobahn (album)
Autobahn is Kraftwerk's fourth studio album, released 1 November 1974 on Philips/Vertigo, with a 23-minute title track, US college-radio hit single, UK No. 4 and US No. 5 album chart positions, and a 2025 Dolby Atmos 50th-anniversary reissue.
Autobiography (Ashlee Simpson album)
Autobiography is Ashlee Simpson's debut studio album, released July 20, 2004 on Geffen. Produced by John Shanks, it debuted at number one, spawned "Pieces of Me" and "La La," and tied to her MTV show.
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.
Autoharp
Autoharp: a chord zither with spring-loaded felted chord bars that mute all strings except the chosen chord, typically 36-37 strings. Invented by Karl August Gütter, Germany; name patented by Charles Zimmermann, Philadelphia, 1882; associated with the Carter Family and American folk music.
Automatic for the People
Automatic for the People is R.E.M.'s eighth studio album, released October 5, 1992 on Warner Bros. A quiet, mortality-themed record with John Paul Jones string arrangements, it sold 18 million copies and is regarded as the band's finest album.
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.
Autumn Leaves (1945 song)
Autumn Leaves, originally Les Feuilles mortes, is a 1945 song by Joseph Kosma with lyrics by Jacques Prévert and English lyrics by Johnny Mercer; a jazz standard famous through Yves Montand, Roger Williams, and the 1958 Adderley-Davis recording.
Ava Max
Ava Max, born Amanda Ava Koci, is an American pop singer of Albanian descent whose 2018 single "Sweet but Psycho" topped charts worldwide, and who has released three studio albums.
Avalon (Roxy Music album)
Avalon is Roxy Music's eighth and final studio album, released May 1982. A UK No. 1 for three weeks and the band's biggest US success, it spawned More Than This, Take a Chance With Me, and the title track.
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 (singer)
Avant (born Myron Lavell Avant, 1978, in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American R&B singer and songwriter known for the early-2000s hits "Separated," "My First Love," and "Read Your Mind."
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.
Avant Nova
AVANT NOVA is a six-track, 16-minute EP by Philadelphia rapper-producer slayr, released July 10, 2026 via Columbia Records as the prelude to his album Fabula Nova; it blends rage, digicore and hyperpop and samples underscores' "The Peace."
Avant-garde and free jazz ensembles
Avant-garde and free jazz ensembles are jazz groups that depart from tonal harmony, fixed meter, and standard roles, replacing them with collective improvisation in performance.
Avant-garde metal
Avant-garde metal, also called experimental metal, is a heavy metal style using unconventional instruments, song structures, and outside genres like jazz and classical; bands include Arcturus, Mr. Bungle, and Imperial Triumphant.
Avant-garde music
Avant-garde music: music that deliberately defies or extends accepted musical conventions, spanning Schoenberg's twelve-tone works, Cage's chance operations, Stockhausen's electronic textures, IRCAM, and influences on jazz, rock, and pop.
Avant-pop
Avant-pop, also known as avant-garde pop, is music that balances avant-garde traits with practices drawn from popular music, a term also used for radical American fiction.
Avantasia
Avantasia is a German symphonic power metal project founded in 1999 by Edguy singer Tobias Sammet; known for concept 'metal opera' albums with guest vocalists like Michael Kiske and Geoff Tate, ten albums including Moonglow (2019) and Here Be Dragons (2025).
Avanzada regia
Avanzada regia is the rock and urban music scene that emerged in Monterrey, Mexico, in the mid-1990s, covering bands such as Control Machete, Plastilina Mosh, Jumbo, and El Gran Silencio.
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 Maria (Schubert)
Ave Maria (Schubert) is Ellens Gesang III, D 839, Op. 52/6, an 1825 strophic Lied by Franz Schubert setting Walter Scott's Lady of the Lake in Adam Storck's German translation, later sung to the Latin prayer text; distinct from Bach/Gounod.
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.
Avedis Zildjian Company
Avedis Zildjian Company (Zildjian): American cymbal, drumstick, and mallet maker founded 1623 in Constantinople by Armenian alchemist Avedis I; now based in Norwell, Massachusetts; brands include Vic Firth and Balter; sibling firm Sabian founded 1981.
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 (album)
Avenged Sevenfold (2007) is the American metal band's self-titled fourth album, also called the White Album: self-produced, last with drummer The Rev, debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200, known for A Little Piece of Heaven and Dear God.
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.