* Aberdeen ( band ), an American rock band

* 1877 – American Indian Wars: Battle of the Big Hole – A small band of Nez Percé Indians clash with the United States Army

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

Proper nouns that are plural in form take a plural verb in both AmE and BrE ; for example, The Beatles are a well-known band ; The Saints are the champions, with one major exception: largely for historical reasons, in American English, the United States is is almost universal.

* " The Ark ", a song by American rock band Dr. Dog

* 1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Wilson's Creek – the war enters Missouri when a band of raw Confederate troops defeat Union forces in the southwestern part of the state.

* AUDIO ( group ), an American R & B band of 5 brothers formerly known as TNT Boyz and as B5

* American Idiot, a 2004 album by rock band Green Day

* A. N. S, an American crossover thrash band.

In 1989 Jonathan Hellyer became lead singer, and the band extensively toured the U. S. and Europe with back-up vocalist Annie Conway and had one minor hit with the song " Cha Cha Heels ", a one-off collaboration sung by American actress and singer Eartha Kitt.

Oleg Bernov of the Russian-American rock band the Red Elvises plays a red electrified contrabass balalaika during the band's North American tours.

* Donna the Buffalo an American band from Trumansburg, New York

In 1962 and 1963, with his next band, Harmoniler (" The Harmonies "), he recorded cover versions of some of popular American twist songs and rearrangements of Turkish folk songs in rock and roll form, marking the beginning of the Anatolian rock movement, a synthesis of Turkish folk music and rock.

Bo Diddley was one of the first American male musicians to include women in his band, including " The Duchess " Norma-Jean Wofford, Peggy Jones ( aka " Lady Bo "), Cornelia Redmond ( aka Cookie ), and Debby Hastings, who led his band for the final 25 years of his performing career.

* The Cars, an American rock band

Other Chicano / Mexican American singers include Selena, who sang a variety of Mexican, Tejano, and American popular music, but was killed in 1995 at the age of 23 ; Zack de la Rocha, lead vocalist of Rage Against the Machine and social activist ; and Los Lonely Boys, a Texas style country rock band who have not ignored their Mexican American roots in their music.

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

The Commodores is an American funk / soul band of the 1970s and 1980s.

* Cortical Tectonics, the third studio album by American progressive metal band Canvas Solaris.

The cornet also features in the British-style concert band, unlike the American concert band or wind band, where it is replaced by the trumpet.

* 1967 – Jeff Tweedy, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Wilco, Loose Fur, and Uncle Tupelo )

Some critics have dubbed Wilco the " American Radiohead ", due to their stylistically diverse catalog.

* Sky Blue Sky, an album by American rock band Wilco

Lowe performed as an opening act for Wilco in their North American tour, September 2011.

* Jeff Tweedy, an American singer-songwriter and founding member of Wilco

* In the song " Ashes of American Flags " by Wilco, one phrase from the lyrics is taken from the novel: " A hole without a key.

Jeffrey Scot " Jeff " Tweedy ( born August 25, 1967 ) is an American songwriter, musician and leader of the band Wilco.

This category is for LPs and EPs released by the American alternative country band Wilco.

Easley McCain Recording is an American recording studio, based in Memphis, Tennessee, notable for recording musicians such as Tav Falco's Panther Burns, Grifters, Pavement, Sonic Youth, Come, White Stripes, Townes Van Zandt, Pezz, Jeff Buckley, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Guided by Voices, Lydia Lunch, Box Tops, Rufus Thomas, Wilco, Cat Power, Modest Mouse, and Kim Deal.

Anadenanthera colubrina ( also known as Vilca, Huilco, Wilco, Cebil, or Angico ) is a South American tree closely related to Yopo, or Anadenanthera peregrina.

But a young American has a bath next to his room and I shall ask him if you might use it this once.

As it is, they consider that the North is now reaping the fruits of excess egalitarianism, that in spite of its high standard of living the `` American way '' has been proved inferior to the English and Scandinavian ways, although they disapprove of the socialistic features of the latter.

Labor relations have been transformed, income security has become a standardized feature of political platforms, and all the many facets of the American version of the welfare state have become part of the conventional wisdom.

Even though in most cases the completion of the definitive editions of their writings is still years off, enough documentation has already been assembled to warrant drawing a new composite profile of the leadership which performed the heroic dual feats of winning American independence and founding a new nation.

Obviously there has been no agreement on what American conservatism is, or rather, what it should be.

In fact, over the years, the American farmer's capacity to over-produce has cost the taxpayers a large dollar.

Why has this form of gentility gone out of American life??

The possibility of recall into the Army is part of the price that a modern American has to pay for the enviable heritage of liberty which he enjoys.

Even apart from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal life is being totally disrupted for the second time for no very compelling reason -- I cannot help looking around at the black leather jacket brigades standing idly on the street corners and in the taverns of every American city and asking myself if our society has gone mad.

-- Indonesia Military Supreme Court has confirmed the death sentence passed on Alan Lawrence Pope, an American pilot.

It seems to me the time has come for the American press to start experimenting with ways of reporting the news that will do a better job of communicating and will be less subject to abuse by those who have learned how to manipulate the present stereotype to serve their own ends.

He has become in this half century the grand old man of American history.

But this we know: Here is a great life that in every area of American politics gives the American people occasion for pride and that has invested the democratic process with the most decent qualities of honor, decency, and self-respect.

I pay my personal tribute to Sam Rayburn, stalwart Texan and great American, not only because today he establishes a record of having served as Speaker of the House of Representatives more than twice as long as Henry Clay, but because of the contributions he has made to the welfare of the people of the Nation during his almost half century of service as a Member of Congress.

No greater pleasure has come to me in my own service in this House than to be present today to participate in this tribute to this great Speaker, this great legislator, this great Texan, this great American.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger has been a distinguished publisher of this distinguished newspaper and it is fitting that we take due notice of his major contribution to American journalism on the occasion of his retirement.

The cooperation of our exclusive American licensee, Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Division of United Aircraft Corporation, has been important in this work.

By dealing with common landscape in an uncommon way, Roy Mason has found a particular niche in American landscape art.

The American is very lucky if he has three.

The American Institute of Interior Designers has published a recommended course for designers and a percentage layout of such a course.

One or two of the schools have a five year curriculum, but the usual pattern of American education has limited most of them to the four-year plan which seems to be the minimum in acceptable institutions.

There has been a tendency on the part of many American linguists to assume that a phonemic transcription will automatically be the best possible orthography and that the only real problem will then be the social one of securing acceptance.

He has announced results on Hokan, Penutian, Uto-Aztecan, and almost all other American families and phyla, and has diagrammed their degree of interrelation ; ;