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Augustana is an alternative rock (or piano rock) band that originally met and formed at Greenville College in Greenville, Illinois, United States. The original band members included Dan Layus, Josiah Rosen, Simeon Lohrmann, and Kyle Baker. The band recorded Midwest Skies and Sleepless Mondays on campus in early 2003. After locally releasing their Mayfield EP, the band parted ways with drummer Kyle Baker and bass player Simeon Lohrmann; and added Josh Calhoun (drums) and Jared Palomar (originally keys, moved to bass guitar) to the lineup. Soon after, the band decided to quit school and head to Los Angeles in search...

Augusta Read Thomas (born April 24, 1964) is an American composer. Augusta Read Thomas was born in Glen Cove, New York. She attended St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, and then studied composition with Jacob Druckman at Yale University and at the Royal Academy of Music with Paul Patterson, as well as with Alan Stout and M. William Karlins at Northwestern University. She taught at the Eastman School of Music and received tenure there at the age of only 33, but left to teach at the Northwestern University School of Music. While she was still at Eastman, she was...

Augusta National Golf Club was a band from Ghent, Belgium, making music that was inspired by Radiohead, PJ Harvey, Wilco, The Cure and other alternative pop & rock bands. Singer, guitarist and songwriter was Steven Heene, other members were Ben Van Camp, guitars; Bram Delvaux, guitars; Klaas Delvaux, bass and Bart Bauters, drums. The track 'People in Pairs' was used for the soundtrack of the film 'Ex-drummer', based on a book by the Flemish writer Herman Brusselmans. Augusta National Golf Club also won the Diesel-U-Music Awards with the song 'Barefoot in Better Times'. The band no longer exists as several...