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Player (band)
Player is a Los Angeles soft rock band formed in the mid-1970s by Peter Beckett, J.C. Crowley, Ronn Moss, and John Friesen, whose "Baby Come Back" topped the Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks in 1978.
Playlunch (band)
Playlunch: Melbourne (Naarm) seven-piece "Bogan Funk" band founded by Liam Bell during COVID lockdown; albums Who's Ready for a Good Time? (2023) and Sex Ed (2025); "Keith" reached number 4 in the triple j Hottest 100 of 2025; signed to ABC Music in late 2024.
Plush (band)
Plush is an all-female American hard rock band formed in Albany, New York, in 2020, led by Moriah Formica (The Voice). Known for "Hate" (No. 24 Billboard Rock), albums Plush (2021) and Mass Hysteria (2026), and tours with Disturbed, KISS, and Evanescence; distinct from Liam Hayes's Plush and Pllush.
Pnau
Pnau (PNAU), Sydney electronic group of Nick Littlemore and Peter Mayes (Sam Littlemore joined 2016), known for Sambanova, the Elton John album Good Morning to the Night, and the Cold Heart remix with Dua Lipa; also linked to Empire of the Sun.
Poets of the Fall
Poets of the Fall, a Finnish alternative rock band from Helsinki formed in 2003 by Marko Saaresto, Olli Tukiainen, and Markus "Captain" Kaarlonen, known for "Carnival of Rust" and as Old Gods of Asgard in Remedy games.
Poison Idea
Poison Idea was an American hardcore punk band formed in Portland, Oregon, in 1980 by vocalist Jerry A., blending hardcore with metal before its final shows in December 2019.
Polyphia
Polyphia: American instrumental rock band from Plano, Texas, formed 2010 by Tim Henson and Scott LePage; blends progressive metal guitar with trap, hip-hop, and EDM; albums Muse through Be Not Afraid (2026).
Pomplamoose
Pomplamoose (pamplemousse, French for grapefruit) is an American indie pop duo of Jack Conte and Nataly Dawn, formed 2008 at Stanford, known for videosong YouTube covers like Single Ladies and Patreon-funded releases.
Pond (Australian band)
Pond is an Australian psychedelic rock band from Perth, formed by Nick Allbrook and Jay Watson of Tame Impala's touring band, with eleven albums including Beard, Wives, Denim, Stung! (2024), and Terrestrials (2026).
Pop Evil
Pop Evil is an American hard rock band formed in 2001 in North Muskegon, Michigan, by vocalist Leigh Kakaty. Known for post-grunge radio hits "Trenches" and "Waking Lions," both Mainstream Rock chart-toppers, with albums through 2025's What Remains.
Pop Will Eat Itself
Pop Will Eat Itself (PWEI), English alternative rock band formed 1986 in Stourbridge; grebo scene act turned sample-driven industrial rock, known for This Is the Day...This Is the Hour..., the 1993 top-ten hit "Get the Girl! Kill the Baddies!" and the 2025 album Delete Everything.
Porcupine Tree
Porcupine Tree is an English progressive rock band formed by Steven Wilson in 1987, first as a joke fictitious 1970s space-rock act. Known for In Absentia (2002) and Fear of a Blank Planet (2007), it reunited in 2022 for Closure/Continuation.
Porno for Pyros
Porno for Pyros: American alternative rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1992 by Perry Farrell and Stephen Perkins after Jane's Addiction broke up; two albums (1993, 1996), 2024 farewell tour.
Porno Graffitti (ポルノグラフィティ)
Porno Graffitti (ポルノグラフィティ, Poruno Gurafiti) is a Japanese two-man rock band from Innoshima, Hiroshima, with vocalist Akihito Okano and guitarist Haruichi Shindo; debuted 1999 with "Apollo," known for "Saudade" and anime themes like "Melissa" for Fullmetal Alchemist.
Pornogrind
Pornogrind, also known as pornogore, is an extreme metal genre combining grindcore speed, death metal heaviness, and porn soundtrack samples, emerging in Germany and the United States in the early 1990s.
Portishead (band)
Portishead are a Bristol, England trip-hop-associated band of Beth Gibbons, Geoff Barrow, and Adrian Utley; Dummy (1994) won the 1995 Mercury Prize, and all three studio albums reached UK number two.
Portugal. The Man
Portugal. The Man is an American indie rock band formed in Wasilla, Alaska, in 2004 and based in Portland, Oregon, best known for the Grammy-winning single "Feel It Still".
Post-metal
Post-metal, also called atmospheric sludge, is a heavy, atmospheric metal subgenre blending sludge and doom weight with post-rock's dynamics, developed in the United States in the mid-to-late 1990s.
Post-punk revival
Post-punk revival, also called garage rock revival, is an indie rock genre inspired by post-punk, new wave, and garage rock that broke mainstream in 2001.
Postmodern Jukebox
Postmodern Jukebox, also known as Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox, is an American rotating musical collective founded by pianist Scott Bradlee in 2010 that covers pop hits in vintage styles.
Powderfinger
Powderfinger: Brisbane rock band formed 1989, named for a Neil Young song. Seven studio albums, 18 ARIA Awards, five ARIA #1 albums; split 2010, reunion tour announced October 2026 for 2027.
Power metal
Power metal: heavy metal subgenre fusing speed metal technique, neoclassical guitar, keyboards, and operatic clean vocals; named from Metallica's 1982 demo, defined by Helloween's 1987 Keeper of the Seven Keys, split into US and European branches, revived by HammerFall in 1997.
Powerviolence
Powerviolence is an extreme hardcore punk subgenre from late-1980s California, defined by sub-minute songs, blast beats, and abrupt shifts from over 200 BPM to sludge. Key bands: Infest, No Comment, Spazz, Man Is the Bastard; term coined by Neanderthal in 1989.
Pram (band)
Pram: Birmingham experimental band (formed 1988), Rosie Cuckston-fronted post-rock/exotica group on Too Pure and Domino; albums Helium, Sargasso Sea, Dark Island, The Moving Frontier, Across the Meridian.
Prefab Sprout
Prefab Sprout, English sophisti-pop band led by Paddy McAloon (also McAloon Brothers, formed late 1970s in County Durham), known for Steve McQueen (1985, US title Two Wheels Good) and Jordan: The Comeback (1990); sole UK Top 10 single "The King of Rock 'n' Roll".
Preoccupations
Preoccupations, formerly Viet Cong, is a Canadian post-punk band from Calgary formed in 2012 by ex-Women members Matt Flegel, Scott Munro, Daniel Christiansen, and Mike Wallace; albums include Viet Cong (2015) through Ill at Ease (2025).
Pretty Girls Make Graves
Pretty Girls Make Graves was an indie punk and post-hardcore band formed in Seattle in 2001, fronted by Andrea Zollo, best known for the albums Good Health (2002) and The New Romance (2003).
Pretty Things
The Pretty Things: English rock band formed 1963 in Sidcup, Kent, also known as Electric Banana; founded by ex-Rolling Stone Dick Taylor and Phil May; released S.F. Sorrow (1968), credited as the first rock opera.
PrettyMuch
PrettyMuch (PRETTYMUCH, PM) was an American-Canadian boy band formed in Los Angeles in 2016 by Simon Cowell; members Arreaga, Honoret, Porter, Mara, and Kuwonu debuted in 2017 with "Would You Mind" and announced an indefinite hiatus in October 2023.
Primal Scream
Primal Scream, Glasgow rock band fronted by Bobby Gillespie; Screamadelica (1991) won the inaugural Mercury Music Prize, followed by genre-shifting albums from XTRMNTR to Come Ahead (2024).