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The Irish guitar pop ironists A House formed in Dublin in 1985 from the remnants of the group Last Chance Comprised of the core trio of vocalist Dave Couse, guitarist Fergal Bunbury and bassist Martin Healy and regularly aided by satellite members Dave Dawson (drums), David Morrissey (keyboards) and Susan Kavanagh (backing vocals), the group debuted in 1987 with the single “Kick Me Again, Jesus,” issued on their own Hip label
Manchester’s A II Z (named after street-finder atlases, not, as charged by a few ignorant troublemakers in the press, a Nazi publication) was the beneficiary of very fortuitous timing, being formed by brothers Dave (vocals) and Gary Owens (guitar), Cam Campbell (bass), and Karl Reti (drums) just in time (late 1979) to be swept up by the initial, deafening hubbub surrounding the New Wave of British Heavy Metal
Guitarist Mark Delahanty was born in Boston, MA, but grew up in Montreal, Canada Karen Holley lived all her life in Sault St Marie, Canada, until she met Delahanty one fateful night in 1992
The Florida-based soft rock band A Kite Is a Victim — sometimes called AKIAV by fans — spent years playing at local clubs, coffeehouses, and any other place they could land a gig
Formed in 1990, the A la Carte Brass & Percussion Band combines traditional New Orleans sounds with Latin salsa, hip-hop, and rock All of these styles are used in their arrangements of popular songs
Spanish alternative pop/rock band A Las Penas Puñalás got involved in the local rock scene in the mid-’90s, performing a fusion of rock, flamenco, reggae, blues, and hip-hop
Originally formed in 1999, Philadelphia’s A Life Once Lost joined a rapidly growing fraternity of metalcore bands (Converge, God Forbid, Killswitch Engage, to name but a few) spread across the U
Prize-winning songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Big Al leads A Little Space, a smooth jazz group from SoCal fronted by vocalist Terrell Moran Though very much grounded in the smooth jazz style, A Little Space offers elements of many styles such as funk and salsa within its music
Hailing from the town of West Covina, CA, A Love Ends Suicide combines elements of screamo and metalcore with the flashy guitar technique more typical of straight-up heavy metal
From acid-jazz collective to mellow Ibizan house masterminds, A Man Called Adam have pursued much the same fusion of gentle jazz/house rhythms with classic pop songwriting despite the progression of stylistic identifiers used to describe their sound