* Alien ( band ), a 1980s Swedish rock group

* The Aliens ( Scottish band ), a 2005-present rock group

* The Aliens ( Australian band ), a 1970s new wave group

* Aberdeen ( band ), an American rock band

* Aberdeen City ( band ), Boston based indie / alternative rock band.

* Animal ( Muppet ), a drummer character in The Muppet Show band, Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem

* Atlas ( album ), an album by Mexican electro-pop band Kinky

* Atlas ( band ), a rock band from Christchurch, New Zealand

The band has been mentioned or featured in various newspapers and magazines: the Vancouver Sun, Northshore News ( Vancouver, Canada newspaper ), New Times ( Los Angeles weekly entertainment newspaper ), BLU Magazine ( underground hip hop magazine ), BAM Magazine ( Southern California ), La Banda Elastica Magazine, and the Los Angeles Times Calendar section.

* Atomic ( band ), a Norwegian jazz quintet

* Abducted ( album ), an album by death metal band Hypocrisy

The one occasion where the band was introduced as " The Alan Parsons Project " in a live performance was at Night of the Proms 1990 ( at the time of the group's break-up ), featuring all Project regulars except Woolfson who was present but behind the scenes, while Parsons stayed at the mixer except during the last song, where he played acoustic guitar.

* Adrian Sieber ( born 1972 ), Swiss singer and the lead singer in the Swiss Britpop band Lovebugs

* Adrian Smith ( born 1957 ), English musician and one of three guitarists / songwriters in the English band Iron Maiden

* Adrian Utley ( born 1957 ), English musician best known as a member of the band Portishead

* Adrian Young ( born 1969 ), American drummer for the rock band No Doubt

* Ajax ( band ), an electronic band from New York City

* A-Jax ( band ), a South Korean boy band

It is also the hometown of guitarist Mark Parry of Vancouver rock band The Manvils.

Earlier in the year the band had performed at one of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics victory concerts at Whistler Medals Plaza and donated a collection of objects to the Ohio Historical Society including an energy dome, jumpsuit, stickers, and t-shirts.

Shortly after his departure, Richrath assembled former members of the midwestern band Vancouver to form a namesake band, Richrath.

* Vancouver ( EP ), 2006 EP by post-hardcore band La Dispute

The Vancouver, BC, new wave band the Payola $ chose their moniker during the punk explosion of the late 1970s.

After McCrea recovered, the band continued touring, playing at the Big Stink festival in Vancouver, Washington, and the Jayhawk Music Festival in Lawrence, Kansas.

While on that tour in Vancouver, the band found out that drummer Chuck Biscuits was leaving D. O. A.

The show also featured a performance by the Sarah McLachlan Musical Outreach Choir & Percussion Ensemble, a children's choir and percussion band from the aforementioned Vancouver outreach program.

Back & Forth drew the attention of Vancouver startup label Nettwerk, who signed the band later that year.

On 23 October 1995, the band entered the Guinness Book of World Records by performing three concerts in three continents in one day ( Tangiers, Morocco ; London, England ; and Vancouver, Canada ).

The Vancouver based indie band " Said The Whale " released a song called " Goodnight Moon " that contains direct references to the plot of the story book.

He quit the job after a year and started auditioning as a guitarist while rehearsing his own band in his mother's rented basement in North Vancouver.

Vallance was the former drummer and principal songwriter for Vancouver based rock band Prism and had recently quit that band to focus on a career as a studio musician and songwriter.

The band acknowledged that they were returning home to Vancouver earlier than planned after playing roughly half of their scheduled tour in the United States ( dates in New York and Canada were canceled ).

The band is based in Vancouver.

The Cadborosaurus is called " hiyitl ' iik " by the Manhousat people who live on Sydney Inlet, " T ' chain-ko " in Sechelt mythology, and " Numkse lee Kwala " by the Comox band of Vancouver Island.

* Cub ( band ), an indie rock band from Vancouver, British Columbia, which formed in 1992 and disbanded in 1997

* Gob ( band ), a punk band from Vancouver, BC, Canada

* Authority Zero, an Arizona punk rock band

* Blitz ( band ), a British punk rock band

The punk band The F. U's performed a cover of the song, featured on the album This Is Boston, Not L. A.

Mill a h-Uile Rud ( a Scottish Gaelic punk band from Seattle ) recorded in the language in 2004.

In 1997, the band released a compilation album, My Body, The Hand Grenade, which featured material from the band's earliest recordings in 1989 up until 1995, and, in September 1998, released their third studio album, Celebrity Skin, which featured a stark power pop sound as opposed to the group's earlier punk rock influences.

" Over the course of Hole's career, the band experimented with several different styles, from punk to noise rock as well as more mellow alternative rock, power pop, and folk techniques.

and the Mysterians, which was composed primarily of Mexican American musicians, was the first band to be described as punk rock.

* A defunct punk band from Brighton, England

Dead Kennedys are an American hardcore punk band formed in San Francisco, California in 1978.

The band became part of the American hardcore punk movement of the early 1980s.

We're not a punk rock band, we're a new wave band.

In earlier years the band had criticized neo-Nazi skinheads for trying to ruin the punk scene, but just as big a problem was the increasing popularity of thrash metal and stereotypical macho " post-1982 hardcore " which brought the group ( and their genre ) an audience that had little to do with the ideas / ideals they stood for.

The band continued to work on songs, with Biafra penning songs such as " Chickenshit Conformist " and " Anarchy for Sale ", which articulated their feelings about the " dumbing down " of punk rock.

is an American punk rock / new wave band formed in 1972 consisting of members from Kent and Akron, Ohio.

* Discharge ( band ), British hardcore punk band

The city has produced or been home to musicians that have been extremely successful in modern times, particularly Ian Anderson, frontman of the band Jethro Tull ; Wattie Buchan, lead singer and founding member of punk band The Exploited ; Shirley Manson, lead singer for the band Garbage ; The Proclaimers ; the Bay City Rollers ; Boards of Canada and Idlewild.

* The Enemy ( New Zealand band ), a 1970s punk band from Dunedin, New Zealand

* The Enemy ( UK punk band ), a 1980s punk band from Derby, England