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Procol Harum
Procol Harum: English progressive/art-rock band formed 1967 from the Paramounts, known for 'A Whiter Shade of Pale' (six weeks UK No. 1), led by Gary Brooker until its 2022 dissolution.
Progressive big band
Progressive big band is a large jazz ensemble devoted to extended, through-composed writing. It is known for its dense, modernistic arrangements and its focus on listening music.
Progressive metal
Progressive metal, often shortened to prog metal, is a genre of heavy metal fusing progressive rock's complexity with metal's intensity, established in the late 1980s by bands like Queensrÿche and Dream Theater.
Project 86
Project 86 is an American rock/post-hardcore band formed in 1996 in Orange County, California, by vocalist Andrew Schwab, known for rapcore-to-metalcore albums like Drawing Black Lines (2000) and the Omni series.
Propaganda (band)
Propaganda, German synth-pop band formed 1982 in Düsseldorf (not the Macedonian band Bernays Propaganda or other namesakes), signed to ZTT; known for A Secret Wish (1985), Dr. Mabuse, Duel, P:Machinery; later split into xPropaganda and a 2024 Propaganda reforming.
Propagandhi
Propagandhi, Canadian punk rock and metal band formed in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba in 1986 by Chris Hannah and Jord Samolesky, now based in Winnipeg; eight albums since 1993, from Fat Wreck Chords to Epitaph, known for left-wing political lyrics.
Prophets of Rage
Prophets of Rage: American rap-rock supergroup (2016–2019) uniting Rage Against the Machine's Morello, Commerford, and Wilk with Public Enemy's Chuck D and DJ Lord and Cypress Hill's B-Real; one 2017 album.
Prostitute (band)
Prostitute is a Dearborn, Michigan noise rock band formed in 2020 by Moe Kazra and Andrew Kaster; debut album Attempted Martyr (2024, reissued by Mute) blends Middle Eastern influences with hardcore.
Protomartyr (band)
Protomartyr: Detroit post-punk band formed 2010, led by Joe Casey with Greg Ahee, Alex Leonard, and Scott Davidson; seven albums from No Passion All Technique (2012) to Hotel Usona (2026) on Hardly Art and Domino.
Pseudo Echo
Pseudo Echo: Melbourne new wave/synth-pop band formed 1982 by Brian Canham and Pierre Gigliotti; Funky Town cover hit No. 1 in Australia 12 weeks; albums Autumnal Park, Love an Adventure, Race; reunited 1998.
Psychobilly
Psychobilly: underground genre and subculture fusing 1950s rockabilly with punk energy and horror imagery; term from Johnny Cash's 1976 song, first band the Meteors (London, 1980), scene hub the Klub Foot.
Public Enemy
Public Enemy is an American hip hop group formed in 1985 in Hempstead, New York. Led by Chuck D and Flavor Flav, they are known for politically charged lyrics.
Public Image Ltd
Public Image Ltd (PiL), English post-punk band formed in 1978 by John Lydon after the Sex Pistols, with Keith Levene and Jah Wobble. Known for Metal Box (1979), dub-influenced experimental rock, and reformation in 2009.
Public image of Taylor Swift
Public image of Taylor Swift: her managed persona across country-to-pop eras, narrative control, 2018 political coming-out, 2024 Harris endorsement, polarized reception, and commercial resilience.
Public Service Broadcasting (band)
Public Service Broadcasting: London band formed 2010 by J. Willgoose, Esq., making post-rock and electronica concept albums with archival speech samples; albums include The Race for Space, Bright Magic, The Last Flight.
Puffy AmiYumi (パフィー)
Puffy AmiYumi (パフィー), known in Japan as PUFFY, is a Japanese pop-rock vocal duo of Ami Onuki and Yumi Yoshimura, formed 1995, debuting 1996 with Tamio Okuda-produced "Asia no Junshin"; renamed Puffy AmiYumi in the US after a Sean Combs cease-and-desist.
Pulp (band)
Pulp: English rock band formed in Sheffield in 1978 by Jarvis Cocker, originally Arabicus Pulp. Breakthrough came with His 'n' Hers (1994) and the Mercury Prize-winning, UK number-one Different Class (1995); the band reunited in 2023 and topped the UK chart again with More (2025).
Puma Blue
Puma Blue is the stage name of English singer, producer and poet Jacob Allen (b. 1995, Sussex), a lo-fi, atmospheric alternative R&B artist behind In Praise of Shadows (2021), Holy Waters (2023), and Croak Dream (2026).
Punk rock in California
Punk rock in California: the state's punk tradition from 1977, spanning the Hollywood scene (X, Germs), Orange County hardcore (Black Flag, Social Distortion), Bay Area punk (Dead Kennedys, SST, Lookout), and the 1990s Green Day-led mainstream boom.
Purandara Dasa (ಪುರಂದರ ದಾಸ)
Purandara Dasa (ಪುರಂದರ ದಾಸ), 1484–1564, born Srinivasa Nayaka, was a Karnataka Haridasa saint-composer and disciple of Vyasaraya, called the Pitamaha of Carnatic music for devising its beginner lessons and signing songs Purandara Vittala.
Pure Prairie League
Pure Prairie League: American country-rock band formed 1970 in Columbus, Ohio, named after a temperance group in the film Dodge City; known for 'Amie' (1975), gold album Bustin' Out, and Vince Gill's tenure before his solo country career.
Puscifer
Puscifer, also styled as Maynard James Keenan's third band after Tool and A Perfect Circle, is an American electro-rock collective with Mat Mitchell and Carina Round; debut V Is for Vagina (2007) hit No. 25 on the Billboard 200, and fifth album Normal Isn't arrived in 2026.
Push Baby
Push Baby, formerly Rixton, is a British pop duo from Manchester, England, made up of vocalist Jake Roche and multi-instrumentalist Charley Bagnall; they rebranded from the band Rixton in 2019.
Pussy Galore (band)
Pussy Galore was an American noise rock band formed in Washington, D.C. in 1985 by Jon Spencer and Julia Cafritz, known for blending noise rock with raw blues until 1990.
Pussy Riot (Пусси Райот)
Pussy Riot (Пусси Райот) is a Russian feminist protest and performance-art collective formed in Moscow in 2011, famous for the 2012 'punk prayer' at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, two-year prison sentences, anti-war actions, and a 2025 extremist designation banning it in Russia.
Pussycat (band)
Pussycat was a Dutch country-pop band from Brunssum, South Limburg, fronted by sisters Toni, Betty, and Marianne; their 1975 hit "Mississippi" was the first Dutch number 1 in the UK.
Putri Ariani
Putri Ariani (Ariani Nisma Putri, born 2005, Bangkinang, Riau) is a blind Indonesian pop singer-songwriter and pianist who won Indonesia's Got Talent 2014, earned Simon Cowell's Golden Buzzer and fourth place on America's Got Talent 2023, and released the album Evolve.
Pvris
Pvris (pronounced Paris), American rock project formed 2012 in Lowell, Massachusetts, led by Lynn Gunnulfsen; albums White Noise, All We Know of Heaven, Use Me, Evergreen; formerly a band, now Gunn's solo project.
Pwr Bttm
PWR BTTM was an American queer punk duo of Ben Hopkins and Liv Bruce, formed 2013 at Bard College; albums Ugly Cherries (2015) and Pageant (2017); disbanded after May 2017 assault allegations.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Пётр Ильич Чайковский), 1840–1893, Russian composer of Swan Lake, Eugene Onegin, and the Pathétique Symphony; conservatory-trained, Moscow professor, von Meck patronage, not one of the Mighty Handful.