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A Quiet Revolution was the solo recording alias of Irishman Damian O’Neill, known to most as a guitarist and tunesmith of the Undertones and That Petrol Emotion In early 2001, he released a self-titled record on Alan McGee’s Poptones label that stood at odds with the hyper punk and pop of his previous bands
Kentucky natives Brandon Tussey (guitar/vocals), Chris Griffith (drums), and Wayne Griffith (bass) had been members of the Connie Dungs throughout the ’90s before their time in A Radio With Guts
Claiming to have 90 percent of each production conceptualized before recording, thus leaving 10 percent open for on-the-fly ideas, Stefan Schwander’s productions as A Rocket in Dub feature deliberate tempos, dubby rhythms and textures, and a number of layers that entwine while keeping to the man’s minimal mindset
Hailing from Minneapolis, MN, A Second from the Surface produces raging, frantic grindcore with clean vocals (or screams, rather) on their debut CD for This Dark Reign, The Streets Have Eyes
The third in an ongoing line of similarly themed but not musically identical projects from the core duo of Ryan Policky and Gabriel Ratliff, A Shoreline Dream combines the epic sonic attack of post-rock outfits like Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Sigur Rós with the more pop-oriented and danceable feel of the classic shoegazer bands of the turn of the 1990s
A Silver Mt Zion is a mostly instrumental Montreal chamber rock group of musicians from Godspeed You Black Emperor!, including GYBE! guitarist Efrim (who focuses more on piano in this band), violinist Sophie, bassist Thierry, and guests
After the Belgian synth pop group Extraballe disbanded, Mark Ickx joined up with Chrismar Chayell to form A Split Second, which debuted in 1986 with the dance single “Flesh
Post-hardcore/alternative rock outfit A Static Lullaby came together after a casual high school jam session led its members to quit their existing bands and come together as one
Fronted by identical twin sisters Lauren and Robin Daniels and masterminded by their brother Ben, A Sunny Day in Glasgow emerged in the early 2000’s with synth-laden experimental noise-pop that echoed 1980’s shoegaze acts like the Jesus and Mary Chain
A Taste of Honey had two huge hits that were very dissimilar from each other — “Boogie Oogie Oogie” and a cover of Kyu Sakamoto’s 1963 gold hit “Sukiyaki