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Ben Folds Five
Ben Folds Five (Ben Folds 5) was an American alternative rock trio from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, known for guitar-free piano rock and the 1997 hit "Brick".
Ben Quad
Ben Quad is an Oklahoma City emo band formed in 2018, also called Ben Quadinaros after a Star Wars character, blending Midwest emo, screamo, and math rock; albums I'm Scared That's All There Is (2022) and Wisher (2025, Pure Noise).
Ben&Ben
Ben&Ben is a nine-piece Filipino folk-pop band from Manila, formed in 2015 as The Benjamins by twin brothers Paolo and Miguel Guico, known for Limasawa Street, Pebble House, and over a billion Spotify streams.
Bennetts Lane Big Band
The Bennetts Lane Big Band was an 11-piece contemporary jazz ensemble founded in 2001 by Nick Haywood, Eugene Ball, and Andrea Keller as resident band at Melbourne's Bennetts Lane Jazz Club.
Berlin (band)
Berlin (band): American synth-pop group from Los Angeles founded by Terri Nunn, John Crawford, and David Diamond; hits 'Sex (I'm A...)' and the Oscar-winning 'Take My Breath Away' (Top Gun, 1986). Not to be confused with Berlin School electronic music, Lou Reed's album Berlin, or other acts named Berlin.
Berlin Philharmonic
The Berlin Philharmonic (Berliner Philharmoniker), founded 1882, is a self-governing German orchestra based at Hans Scharoun's Philharmonie since 1963, led by chief conductor Kirill Petrenko since 2019-20, famed for its Digital Concert Hall and Karajan-era recordings.
Best Coast
Best Coast is an American indie rock duo formed in Los Angeles in 2009 by Bethany Cosentino and Bobb Bruno, known for lo-fi pop drawing on 1960s surf rock and girl groups.
Better Than Ezra
Better Than Ezra: American alternative rock band formed in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 1987-1988, led by Kevin Griffin and Tom Drummond; known for the 1995 platinum album Deluxe and the No. 1 Modern Rock hit "Good", still touring and recording (Super Magick, 2024).
Biffy Clyro
Biffy Clyro, also known as Team Biffy, are a Scottish rock trio formed in Kilmarnock in 1995: Simon Neil with twins James and Ben Johnston. Known for Puzzle (2007), four UK number-one albums including Futique (2025), and the Matt Cardle Christmas Number 1 cover of Many Of Horror.
Big & Rich
Big & Rich: American country duo of Big Kenny (William Kenneth Alphin) and John Rich, formed in Nashville in 2003, known for "Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)", the MuzikMafia, and the triple-platinum debut Horse of a Different Color.
Big Audio Dynamite
Big Audio Dynamite (B.A.D.), London rock band formed in 1984 by ex-Clash guitarist Mick Jones with Don Letts, Greg Roberts, Dan Donovan, and Leo Williams; early rock samplers behind 'E=MC2', from This Is Big Audio Dynamite (1985) to F-Punk (1995), reunited 2011.
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy is a swing revival band formed in Ventura, California, in 1989 by Scotty Morris, named after an Albert Collins autograph; it broke out via the 1996 film Swingers, went gold in 1998, and played Super Bowl XXXIII.
Big band
Big band: a large jazz ensemble of ten to twenty-plus players in saxophone, trumpet, trombone, and rhythm sections playing written arrangements; dominant in the 1935–1945 swing era under Ellington, Basie, and Goodman, declining in the late 1940s and continuing as a concert format.
Big band bandleaders
Big band bandleaders are the leaders of large jazz orchestras, from 1920s dance bands through the 1935–1945 swing era to today. Key figures include Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, and modern leaders like Maria Schneider.
Big Black
Big Black: American noise rock band founded by Steve Albini in Evanston, Illinois (1981 or 1982 per sources), active to 1987; Roland TR-606 drum machine, albums Atomizer (1986) and Songs About Fucking (1987), key influence on industrial and noise rock.
Big Brother and the Holding Company
Big Brother and the Holding Company, formed in San Francisco in late 1965, is the psychedelic rock band that launched Janis Joplin; its 1968 album Cheap Thrills topped the Billboard chart for eight weeks.
Big Brovaz
Big Brovaz: South London hip hop/R&B sextet (Cherise, Dion, Nadia, Flawless, J-Rock, Randy) produced by Skillz and Fingaz; "Nu Flow" hit UK No. 3 in 2002 and the group won 2003 MOBO Best Newcomer.
Big Country
Big Country: Scottish rock band formed in Dunfermline in 1981 by ex-Skids guitarist Stuart Adamson and Bruce Watson, famed for bagpipe-like twin guitars and the 1983 platinum album The Crossing with In a Big Country; renamed Big Country Redux in 2026.
Big Five (orchestras)
The Big Five is a traditional grouping of five leading American symphony orchestras: Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, the New York Philharmonic, and Philadelphia, first named in the 1950s.
Big Head Todd and the Monsters
Big Head Todd and the Monsters, also BHTM, is a rock band formed in 1986 in Boulder, Colorado, by Todd Park Mohr, Rob Squires, and Brian Nevin. Known for the platinum 1993 album Sister Sweetly, recorded at Paisley Park, 35 Red Rocks headlining shows, and 2023 Colorado Music Hall of Fame induction.
Big Special
Big Special are an English rock duo from the Black Country, West Midlands, of Joe Hicklin and Callum Moloney, blending post-punk, blues, and spoken word on the albums Postindustrial Hometown Blues (2024) and National Average (2025).
Big Star
Big Star, an American power pop band formed in Memphis in 1971 by Alex Chilton, Chris Bell, Jody Stephens, and Andy Hummel, made #1 Record, Radio City, and Third, cult albums that shaped alternative rock.
Big Thief
Big Thief: Brooklyn indie folk-rock band formed 2015, led by Adrianne Lenker with Buck Meek and James Krivchenia; six albums on Saddle Creek and 4AD, Grammy-nominated, Oleartchik departed 2024.
Big Time Rush
Big Time Rush (BTR) is an American boy band formed in 2009 for a Nickelodeon TV series, with Kendall Schmidt, James Maslow, Carlos PenaVega, and Logan Henderson; three Billboard Top 20 albums, 2014 hiatus, 2021 reunion, and 2023 album Another Life.
Big Time Rush (group)
Big Time Rush (BTR), American boy band formed in Los Angeles in 2009 for the Nickelodeon series of the same name; members Kendall Schmidt, James Maslow, Carlos PenaVega, Logan Henderson; albums BTR, Elevate, 24/Seven, Another Life; 2021 reunion.
Big Tymers
Big Tymers were a New Orleans hip hop duo of Birdman (Brian Williams) and producer Mannie Fresh on Cash Money Records, active 1998-2005, with platinum albums I Got That Work and Hood Rich and the Grammy-nominated single Still Fly.
BIIRD
BIIRD is an Irish traditional music group of eleven members formed in 2024 by Lisa Canny, dubbed the "Spice Girls of trad" for changing the narrative around women in the genre.
Bijelo Dugme
Bijelo Dugme is a Yugoslav rock band formed in Sarajevo in 1974, led by guitarist Goran Bregović, fusing hard rock with folk motifs in what critics called shepherd rock.
Bikini Kill
Bikini Kill, American feminist punk band formed 1990 in Olympia, Washington, active to 1997 and reunited since 2019; Kathleen Hanna, Tobi Vail, Kathi Wilcox, Billy Karren; instigators of the riot grrrl movement and the phrase "girl power."
Bill Haley & His Comets
Bill Haley & His Comets, American rock and roll band (1952–1981) fronted by Bill Haley (1925–1981); their 1954 "(We're Gonna) Rock Around the Clock" became in 1955 the first rock and roll Number One pop hit, selling about 25 million copies.