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Voodoo Festival
The Voodoo Music + Arts Experience was a Halloween-weekend music and arts festival in New Orleans' City Park. Founded in 1999, it drew up to 180,000 and was last held in 2019.
Voodoo Ray
"Voodoo Ray" is a 1988 acid-house instrumental by Manchester producer A Guy Called Gerald, identified as the first UK acid house single and a defining rave anthem that peaked at number 12 in 1989.
Vreid
Vreid, a Norwegian black metal band formed in 2004 in Sogndal by ex-Windir members after Valfar's death, has released ten studio albums and is signed to Indie Recordings.
Vril (musician)
Vril, the performing name of German techno producer Ulli Hammann, is from Hanover and based in Lisbon, and has recorded deep, loop-driven techno for the Weimar label Giegling since 2010.
VTSS
VTSS is the performing name of Martyna Maja, a Polish-born DJ, producer, and singer of hard, rave-influenced techno who emerged from Warsaw's underground in the late 2010s.
Vulvodynia (band)
Vulvodynia (band): South African deathcore/brutal death metal band from Durban, formed 2014, named for the vulvar pain condition. Albums include Psychosadistic Design, Mob Justice, Praenuntius Infiniti, Entabeni.
Vunzige Deuntjes
Vunzige Deuntjes is an Amsterdam-based Dutch event promoter of hip-hop, R&B, dancehall, and afro events since 2011, best known for its festival in the Amsterdamse Bos drawing 20,000 visitors annually.
W.A.S.P. (band)
W.A.S.P. is an American heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles in 1982, led by sole constant member Blackie Lawless. Known for shock rock, the PMRC Filthy Fifteen single Animal, gold albums W.A.S.P. and The Last Command, and the rock opera The Crimson Idol.
Waajeed
Waajeed, born Robert O'Bryant, is a Detroit producer and DJ who rose with hip-hop group Slum Village, co-founded Platinum Pied Pipers, and founded the Bling47 label.
Wacken Open Air
Wacken Open Air (W:O:A) is a heavy metal festival held each August in the village of Wacken in northern Germany, founded in 1990 and among the world's largest.
Waka Flocka Flame
Waka Flocka Flame (Juaquin James Malphurs, born 1986) is an Atlanta trap rapper; his 2010 debut Flockaveli with Lex Luger production and hits like "Hard in Da Paint" and "No Hands" defined early-2010s trap.
Wale (rapper)
Wale (Olubowale Victor Akintimehin, born 1984) is a Washington, D.C. rapper known for go-go-influenced hip-hop, Seinfeld-themed mixtapes, and Billboard 200 No. 1 albums The Gifted and The Album About Nothing.
Walker & Royce
Walker & Royce are an American tech-house duo of Sam Walker and Gavin Royce, known for groove-heavy house music in New York City since 2011 and their Dirtybird albums.
Walls of Jericho
Walls of Jericho is a metalcore band from Detroit, Michigan, formed in 1998 and fronted by vocalist Candace Kucsulain, blending hardcore, thrash, and metalcore since its 1999 debut.
Walshy Fire
Walshy Fire (Leighton Walsh) is a Jamaican-American DJ, MC, and producer who serves as MC of Major Lazer and came up in Miami's Black Chiney Sound System.
Warkings
Warkings are an Austrian-led power metal band formed in 2018, whose members perform in costume as ancient warriors, releasing five albums on Napalm Records, including Armageddon in 2025.
Warlock (band)
Warlock was a German heavy metal band from Düsseldorf, formed late 1982, fronted by Doro Pesch. Four studio albums through Triumph and Agony (1987), Monsters of Rock 1986, disbanded over name rights; Pesch continued as Doro.
WARP Shinjuku (music)
WARP Shinjuku (ワープ新宿) is a nightclub in Kabukichō, Shinjuku, Tokyo, opened in 2018 in a former cinema, peaking at 31st in DJ Mag's Top 100 Clubs in 2025.
Warren G
Warren G (Warren Griffin III), Long Beach rapper-producer, stepbrother of Dr. Dre, 213 founder with Nate Dogg and Snoop Dogg; 1994's Regulate…G Funk Era went triple platinum.
Warung Beach Club
Warung Beach Club, nicknamed "O Templo", is a beachfront electronic music club at Praia Brava in Itajaí, Brazil, opened in 2002 and ranked in DJ Mag's Top 100 Clubs.
Wasted Penguinz
Wasted Penguinz is a Swedish hardstyle act from Helsingborg, formed in 2008 by Pontuz Bergman and Jon Brandt-Cederhäll, who became leaders of euphoric hardstyle before becoming Bergman's solo project in 2020.
Watain
Watain: Swedish black metal band formed in Uppsala in 1998, named after a Von song. Seven studio albums, 2011 Swedish Grammis, gold-certified Reaping Death single, ritualized live shows with blood.
Waterworks Festival
Waterworks Festival is a one-day electronic music festival held each September in Gunnersbury Park, West London, founded by Team Love and Percolate, with its first edition in 2021.
Wati B
Wati B is a French independent hip-hop label founded in Paris in 1999 by Dawala, best known as the home of Sexion d'Assaut, Maître Gims, and Black M.
Watkin Tudor Jones
Watkin Tudor Jones, known as Ninja or Waddy, is a South African rapper and performance artist, frontman of the rap-rave group Die Antwoord. Earlier projects include Max Normal, The Constructus Corporation, and Original Evergreens.
Way Out West (group)
Way Out West is an English progressive house and trance duo from Bristol formed by Jody Wisternoff and Nick Warren, whose 1996 single "The Gift" reached the UK top 15.
Wayfarer (group)
Wayfarer is an American black metal band from Denver, Colorado, formed in 2012, whose self-described "black metal of the American West" sound earned acclaim for its 2023 album American Gothic.
WC (rapper)
WC (Dub-C), William LaShawn Calhoun Jr., born 1970, is a West Coast rapper from Los Angeles of Low Profile, WC and the Maad Circle, and Westside Connection, and a solo artist since The Shadiest One (1998).
WE ARE FURY
WE ARE FURY is a Canadian electronic duo from Vancouver, formed in 2016 by Joachim Speidel and Stuart Brookes, releasing bass- and melody-driven music on Seeking Blue Records.
We Belong Here
We Belong Here is an American electronic music festival series founded in 2021 by Justin Dauman and Charles Hochfelder, known for small-capacity waterfront events in Miami and New York City.