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Lady Starlight

Lady Starlight (Colleen Martin, born 1975) is an American DJ and performance artist, Lady Gaga's longtime tour DJ, and a Berlin-based hardware techno producer with Surgeon; releases on Stroboscopic Artefacts, Figure, Tresor.

Lake Malice

Lake Malice are a Brighton, England alternative metal duo formed around 2022 by vocalist Alice Guala and guitarist Blake Cornwall, fusing metal with hyperpop and electronic music.

Lakeyah

Lakeyah, also known as Lakeyah Danaee, is an American rapper and singer from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who signed with Quality Control Music in 2020 and made XXL's 2021 Freshman Class.

Lamb of God (band)

Lamb of God, formerly Burn the Priest, is an American groove metal band formed in 1994 in Richmond, Virginia, led by vocalist Randy Blythe with guitarists Mark Morton and Willie Adler; known for New American Gospel, Ashes of the Wake, Sacrament, and 2026's Into Oblivion.

Lancey Foux

Lancey Foux, born Lance O. Omal in 1995, is a British rapper from East London known for genre-blending UK rap, trap, and electronic club music.

Landon Barker

Landon Asher Barker (born 2003, Santa Monica) is an American singer-songwriter, son of Travis Barker and Shanna Moakler, known for "Die in California" with mgk and singles "Friends With Your EX", "Over You", and "If I Ever Talk To God".

Lange (musician)

Lange, real name Stuart Langelaan, is a British trance producer and DJ from Shrewsbury, England, active since 1997 and known for the hit 'Drifting Away'.

Lange Frans & Baas B

Lange Frans & Baas B were a Dutch rap duo from Diemen-Zuid whose hits 'Zinloos' and 'Het land van...' reached number 1 before their 2009 split.

Lanna

Lanna is a Serbian DJ and producer from Novi Sad working in progressive house, indie dance, and melodic techno, who debuted at EXIT Festival in 2019 at age 13.

Laroc

Laroc, also known as Club Laroc, is an open-air electronic-music nightclub in Valinhos, São Paulo, Brazil. Opened in 2015, it holds 5,000 people and calls itself Brazil's first "sunset club".

Larry June

Larry June (Leonard Eugene Hendricks III, born 1991, San Francisco) is a Bay Area rapper behind The Freeminded label, the albums Orange Print, Spaceships on the Blade, The Great Escape, and Who Coppin, and an independent G-funk style about health and wealth.

LaRussell

LaRussell (LaRussell Thomas, born 1994), Vallejo rapper and Good Compenny founder, formerly Tota; known for backyard Pergola concerts, offer-based pricing, about 40 albums since 2018, the 2026 Roc Nation deal and Super Bowl LX tailgate set.

Laszewo

Łaszewo is an American electronic music trio from Santa Barbara, California, formed in 2018, with two producers and singer Keeva Bouley, known for the 2025 viral single "messy."

Late Nite Tuff Guy

Late Nite Tuff Guy (LNTG) is the disco re-edit alias of Carmelo "Cam" Bianchetti, an Australian DJ and producer previously known as the 1990s techno artist DJ HMC.

Latto

Latto (Alyssa Michelle Stephens, born 1998), formerly Miss Mulatto and Mulatto, is an Atlanta rapper who won The Rap Game season 1, signed to RCA, and is known for Big Energy, Seven, and the 2026 album Big Mama.

Laurel Halo

Laurel Halo is an American composer, producer, and DJ born in Detroit and based in Los Angeles, best known for her acclaimed 2012 avant-pop album Quarantine on Hyperdub.

Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill (born 1975, South Orange, New Jersey), American singer and rapper, Fugees member; her 1998 solo debut The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill was the first hip-hop Album of the Year Grammy winner and her only solo studio album.

Lausse the Cat

Lausse the Cat: anonymous British jazz rap artist in a cat mask, rapping in French and English; EP The Girl, the Cat and the Tree (2018), 2019–2025 hiatus, comeback album The Mocking Stars (2025).

Lavina (Лавина) (band)

Lavina (Лавина) is a six-piece progressive/alternative metal band from Niš, Serbia, formed mid-2020, debut album Odyssey (2022). Won Pesma za Evroviziju '26 with "Kraj mene" and finished 17th at Eurovision 2026 in Vienna. Distinct from the Bulgarian heavy metal band Лавина (1989).

Lawnmower Deth

Lawnmower Deth are an English comedy-thrash and crossover metal band formed in 1987 in North Nottinghamshire, best known for their 1990 debut album and a cover of "Kids in America".

Lawrence (musician)

Lawrence is the main alias of Peter M. Kersten, a German electronic music producer from Hamburg who makes melancholic house and techno and co-founded Dial Records in 2000 and the Smallville store and label in 2005.

Lay Bankz

Lay Bankz (Layia Watkins, born 2004) is a Philadelphia rapper and singer of Eritrean descent on Artist Partner Group whose TikTok-viral "Ick" and 2024 single "Tell Ur Girlfriend" (Hot 100 No. 58) made her a 2024 XXL Freshman.

Layzie Bone

Layzie Bone, born Steven Howse and also known as L-Burna, is an American rapper from Cleveland, Ohio, best known as a member of the Grammy-winning rap group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony.

Lazer Dim 700

Lazer Dim 700 (Devokeyous Hamilton), also formerly Luh4thagod, is a Cordele, Georgia rapper of the dark plugg scene, known for BandLab-recorded off-beat stream-of-consciousness rap, the viral "Asian Rock," albums Injoy and Keepin It Cloudy, and 2025 XXL Freshman selection.

Le Castle Vania

Le Castle Vania is the electronic music project of Dylan Eiland, an Atlanta-based DJ and producer known for electro house and composing for the John Wick films.

LED Day Club

LED Day Club is the daytime pool-party event brand of San Diego EDM promoter LED Presents, staging 21+ afternoon shows in San Diego and Palm Springs.

Ledbyher

Ledbyher (Rachel Aisyah Diack, born 2003) is an English rapper and producer of the UK underground (UK Ug) scene, known as 'bedroom drill'/'cinematic jerk'; her debut mixtape The Elephant (Island Records, 2026) follows the 2023 EP CUNCH.

Lee Burridge

Lee Burridge, born in 1968 in Dorset, England, is an English DJ and producer known for Tyrant and for founding All Day I Dream in 2011.

Leeroy Thornhill

Leeroy Thornhill (Lee Roy Paul Thornhill), English DJ and producer born 1968, founding dancer of The Prodigy 1990-2000, later Flightcrank, Hyper, and Smash HiFi, author of the 2024 memoir Wildfire.

Leftfield

Leftfield: British electronic act formed 1988 by Paul Daley and Neil Barnes, pioneers of progressive house; albums Leftism (1995) and Rhythm and Stealth (1999); "Open Up" with John Lydon; continued by Barnes after 2010.