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Bolis Pupul

Bolis Pupul is the stage name of Boris Zeebroek, a Belgian electronic musician of Chinese-Belgian heritage based in Ghent, known for Topical Dancer with Charlotte Adigéry and his 2024 solo debut Letter to Yu.

Bolt Thrower

Bolt Thrower: Coventry, England death metal band (1986-2016), founded as Bolthrower by Gavin Ward and Barry Thomson, war-themed lyrics and Warhammer 40K artwork, eight albums from In Battle There Is No Law to Those Once Loyal.

Bones (rapper)

Bones (BONES), Elmo Kennedy O'Connor, born 1994, is an independent American rapper from Howell, Michigan and founder of TeamSESH; a dark emo/cloud-rap pioneer with over 100 releases and no record label.

Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival

Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, commonly called Bonnaroo, is a four-day June camping festival held since 2002 on a 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tennessee, founded by Ashley Capps and Superfly.

BOO Seattle 2026

BOO Seattle 2026 is Insomniac's annual Halloween-season electronic dance music festival, held October 30–31, 2026 at WAMU Theater in Seattle, Washington, headlined by GRiZ and Subtronics.

Booba

Booba (Élie Yaffa, born 1976, Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French rapper, ex-Lunatic duo member, solo from Temps Mort (2002) through Blanco Nemesis (2026), founder of the 92i label and the 2026 electro label Sublife.

Boogie Down Productions

Boogie Down Productions (BDP), South Bronx hip hop group formed 1985 by KRS-One and DJ Scott La Rock with D-Nice; debut Criminal Minded (1987) founded hardcore rap; disbanded 1992.

Boolymon

Boolymon, aka snakechildpain, born 2004, is an underground American rapper-producer in the dark plugg/terror plugg scene; known for Megalodon (2025), the outstanding EP, and a 2024-2025 DistroKid streaming removal dispute.

Boombox Cartel

Boombox Cartel is a Los Angeles bass music act founded in 2012 by Mexico-born producers Americo Garcia and Jorge Medina, known for the 2015 single "B2U".

Bootleg (music)

A bootleg in music is an unofficial remix, edit, or mashup released without permission, a tolerated gray-area practice in DJ and electronic dance music culture.

Bora Uzer

Bora Uzer is a Turkish-born live electronic artist and multi-instrumentalist who builds each show on stage with guitar, synths, and loopers rather than playing a prepared DJ set.

Boris (ボリス) (band)

Boris (ボリス, Borisu) is a Japanese experimental rock trio formed in Tokyo in 1992: Takeshi, Wata, and Atsuo. Named after a Melvins song, it has released 30-plus albums spanning drone, doom, sludge, shoegaze, and pop, including Pink (2005).

Boris Brejcha

Boris Brejcha (born 1981, Ludwigshafen) is a German DJ and producer who coined the genre High-Tech Minimal, wears a Carnival-inspired joker mask, plays only his own music, runs the Fckng Serious label, and tours the REFLECTIONS show worldwide.

Born of Osiris

Born of Osiris is an American progressive metalcore band formed in 2003 in Palatine, Illinois, signed to Sumerian Records. Known for The Discovery (2011) and Through Shadows (2025), it evolved from deathcore toward progressive metalcore.

BossMan Dlow

BossMan Dlow, born Devante McCreary in 1998, is a Florida rapper from Port Salerno whose 2024 viral hit "Get in with Me" peaked at number 49 on the Billboard Hot 100; albums include Dlow Curry and Chicken Talkin Bastard.

Boston Calling 2017

Boston Calling 2017 was the May 26–28, 2017 edition of the Boston Calling Music Festival, held for the first time at Harvard's athletic fields in Allston, Boston.

Boston Manor

Boston Manor are an English five-piece band from Blackpool, formed in 2013, whose music has moved from pop-punk through post-hardcore and grunge into darker, electronic-tinged alternative rock.

Bounce (music genre)

Bounce is a dance rap style that emerged in New Orleans in the early 1990s, built on call-and-response chants and the Triggerman beat, later popularized nationally by Big Freedia.

Boundaries (band)

Boundaries is an American metalcore band from Hartford, Connecticut, formed around 2013-2015, known for My Body in Bloom, Death Is Little More (2024), and Yearning: The Unbeautiful After (2026) on Sumerian Records.

Boy Harsher

Boy Harsher is an American electronic duo of vocalist Jae Matthews and producer Augustus Muller, making dark, danceable electro-pop with roots in darkwave and EBM.

Boy Kid Cloud

Boy Kid Cloud is the alias of Darryl Reid, a British dubstep and bass music producer from Leicester, active since 2010 and known for releases on Circus and Inspected Records.

Boys Noize

Boys Noize is the moniker of Alexander Ridha, a German electro and techno producer and DJ who founded the Berlin label Boysnoize Records in 2005.

BPM Festival 2017

The BPM Festival 2017 was a ten-day electronic music festival held in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, from 6 to 15 January 2017, marking its tenth anniversary before a fatal shooting.

Brain Drill

Brain Drill was an American technical death metal band from Santa Cruz, California, formed in 2005 by guitarist Dylan Ruskin and known for extreme playing speeds.

Brainpower

Brainpower is the stage name of Gertjan Mulder (born 1975, Antwerp), a Dutch-language rapper and producer based in Amsterdam and one of the Netherlands' best-selling rappers.

Brainstorm (group)

Brainstorm is a German power metal band from Heidenheim, formed in 1989 by guitarists Torsten Ihlenfeld and Milan Loncaric, known for fourteen studio albums and German chart success.

Braxe+Falcon

Braxe+Falcon are a French house duo of cousins Alan Braxe and DJ Falcon, key figures in French touch, who released the Step By Step EP in 2022.

Break (musician)

Break (Charlie Bierman) is an English drum and bass producer and DJ based in Bristol who founded Symmetry Recordings and was Beatport's top-selling drum and bass artist in 2021.

Breakaway Music Festival Carolina

Breakaway Carolina is the Charlotte, North Carolina edition of the Breakaway Music Festival EDM series, first held in 2017 and staged at zMAX Dragway since 2021.

Breakaway Music Festival Ohio

Breakaway Music Festival Ohio, also known as Breakaway Music Festival Columbus, is a multi-genre festival with EDM headliners held in Columbus, Ohio, first held in 2013 and produced by Prime Social Group.