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Power pop
Power pop is a guitar-driven pop rock genre with strong melodies, vocal harmonies, and three-minute songs, coined by Pete Townshend in 1967 and founded by the Raspberries, Big Star, and Badfinger in the early 1970s.
Power Up (ϟUP) (album)
Power Up (PWR/UP) is AC/DC's 17th studio album, released 13 November 2020 on Columbia Records; produced by Brendan O'Brien and credited entirely to Angus and Malcolm Young as a tribute to Malcolm, it peaked at number 1 on the UK Official Albums Chart.
Progressive music
Progressive music: ambitious rock music, chiefly progressive rock (prog) and art rock, from late-1960s Britain, marked by long multi-part forms, classical and jazz influence, virtuosic playing, and concept albums.
Progressive pop
Progressive pop, also known as prog pop, is pop music that breaks with the standard pop formula, pioneered by the Beach Boys and the Beatles in the mid-1960s.
Progressive rock
Progressive rock, often shortened to prog rock, is a rock style that arose in Britain in the late 1960s, blending rock with classical, jazz, and folk influences.
Protest song
Protest song: a song written or adopted to voice opposition to social or political injustice; term coined in the 1960s USA, spanning civil rights "We Shall Overcome", Latin American revolutionary song, censorship cases, and modern anthems like "Baraye".
Proto-punk
Proto-punk is a retrospective label for rock styles from the 1960s and early 1970s. It covers raw, stripped-down music from Detroit and New York, like the MC5.
Psychedelia
Psychedelia is music, art, fashion, and culture based on psychedelic drug experiences, peaking 1966-1969 with the Summer of Love; also called psychedelic culture, spanning 13th Floor Elevators, San Francisco poster art, and neo-psychedelia.
Psychedelic music
Psychedelic music, or psychedelia, is a popular-music genre from the mid-1960s tied to LSD-era counterculture, marked by fuzz, phasing, modal melodies, surreal lyrics, and long solos; first printed as a rock label on the 13th Floor Elevators' 1966 debut.
Psychedelic pop
Psychedelic pop, also called psych pop, is a pop genre from the mid-1960s psychedelic rock scene that keeps catchy pop song forms while adding sitars, synthesizers, reversed tape, and distortion; exemplified by the Beatles' Strawberry Fields Forever and the Beach Boys' Good Vibrations.
Psychedelic rock
Psychedelic rock, also called acid rock, is 1960s rock music attempting to reproduce LSD-like altered states in sound. It began in 1965 in San Francisco and London, peaked 1966-1969, and spawned progressive rock and neo-psychedelia.
Psychedelic soul
Psychedelic soul, also called black rock, is a late-1960s genre fusing soul with psychedelic rock production: wah-wah guitars, synthesizers, studio effects, and extended mixes. Key acts: Sly & the Family Stone, the Temptations under Norman Whitfield, the Chambers Brothers; precursor to funk and disco.
Pump (album)
Pump is Aerosmith's tenth studio album, released September 12, 1989 on Geffen Records, produced by Bruce Fairbairn at Little Mountain Sound. Certified 7x Platinum in the US, it peaked at No. 5 Billboard and No. 3 UK, with hits Love in an Elevator and Janie's Got a Gun.
Punk ideologies
Punk ideologies: the political outlooks of punk subculture, chiefly anarchism, anti-authoritarianism, and DIY ethics, from 1970s shock-tactic anarchy through 1980s anarcho-punk, Crass, Class War, CrimethInc., and far-right strands.
Punk rock
Punk rock, also known as punk music, is a rapid rock style that emerged in the mid-1970s in the UK and US. It is defined by DIY culture.
Punk subculture
Punk subculture: a DIY youth culture built around punk rock, zines, small labels, and fashion, emerging in 1970s New York and London and spanning hardcore, post-punk, riot grrrl, and emo offshoots.
Purity Ring (band)
Purity Ring: Canadian electronic pop duo from Edmonton (formed 2010) of vocalist Megan James and producer Corin Roddick; albums Shrines, Another Eternity, Womb, and self-titled Purity Ring (2025) on The Fellowship; known for pitched vocals, hip-hop-derived production, and witch house affiliations.
Purple (Stone Temple Pilots album)
Purple (STP Purple), Stone Temple Pilots' 1994 second album produced by Brendan O'Brien in Atlanta: No. 1 Billboard debut, six million copies, singles "Interstate Love Song", "Vasoline", "Big Empty".
Pyromania (album)
Pyromania is Def Leppard's third studio album, released January 20, 1983, produced by Mutt Lange. It reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200, sold over 10 million US copies, and launched the hits Photograph, Rock of Ages, and Foolin'.
Quadrophenia
Quadrophenia is The Who's sixth studio album, a 1973 double rock opera written by Pete Townshend about mod Jimmy, whose split personality mirrors the four band members; it reached No. 2 in the UK and US and inspired the 1979 film.
Queen II
Queen II is Queen's second studio album, released 8 March 1974, recorded at Trident Studios with Roy Thomas Baker. Divided into Side White and Side Black, it peaked at UK No. 5, spawned the hit Seven Seas of Rhye, and is regarded as the band's heaviest album.
Quiet storm
Quiet storm: a late-night R&B radio format and smooth romantic style named for Smokey Robinson's 1975 album A Quiet Storm, founded by Melvin Lindsey at Howard University's WHUR-FM in 1976.
Randy Meisner
Randy Meisner (1946–2023), also Randy Herman Meisner, American bassist and vocalist from Scottsbluff, Nebraska; founding member of Poco and the Eagles, lead singer of "Take It to the Limit," later a solo artist with "Hearts on Fire."
Rap metal
Rap metal, also called rap-metal, fuses hardcore rap vocals with heavy metal guitars; born from Run-DMC/Aerosmith and Anthrax/Public Enemy, peaking with Limp Bizkit and Rage Against the Machine, distinct from nu metal.
Rap rock
Rap rock, also called rap-rock, is a fusion genre combining hip-hop rapped vocals with rock instrumentation, song structures, and aesthetics. It emerged in 1984 with Run-DMC's "Rock Box", broke through via the 1986 Run-D.M.C./Aerosmith "Walk This Way", and peaked commercially in the 1990s nu-metal era.
Rap-singing
Rap-singing, also called sing-rapping or melodic rap, is a hip-hop vocal technique combining rapping with sung or pitch-altered vocals, from early harmonized crews to Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, Auto-Tune-era artists, and today's chart-topping singing rappers.
Rapping
Rapping, or rap (MCing), is rhythmic rhymed speech performed over a beat; one of hip-hop's four elements, born in the 1970s Bronx with DJ Kool Herc, popularized by Sugarhill Gang's 1979 "Rapper's Delight", now the leading US streaming genre.
Rated R (Queens of the Stone Age album)
Rated R, Queens of the Stone Age's second album (Interscope, 6 June 2000), recorded at Sound City with Homme, Oliveri, guests Lanegan and Halford; UK peak 54, reissued 2003, 2010, 2019.
Rattle and Hum
Rattle and Hum is U2's sixth album and companion documentary, released October 10, 1988, produced by Jimmy Iovine, mixing Joshua Tree tour live tracks with Sun Studios recordings; Desire became their first UK number one.
Raw Power
Raw Power is the 1973 third album by Iggy and the Stooges, produced by Iggy Pop, mixed by David Bowie, released on Columbia February 7, 1973, and later celebrated as a blueprint for punk rock.