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Pitch Black (group)

Pitch Black is a New Zealand electronic music duo formed in 1996 by Paddy Free and Michael Hodgson, known for a style called ambient dub or "digi-dub".

Pitch Music & Arts

Pitch Music & Arts, also known as Pitch Festival, is an annual electronic music, arts, and camping festival held each March at Moyston in Victoria, Australia, since 2017.

Plan B (musician)

Plan B is the stage name of Ben Drew (born 1983), an English rapper, soul singer, actor, and film director from Forest Gate, London, known for Who Needs Actions When You Got Words and The Defamation of Strickland Banks.

Planet Mu

Planet Mu is an English electronic music record label founded in 1995 and run by µ-Ziq producer Mike Paradinas, moving through IDM, dubstep, and footwork.

Planet Perfecto

Planet Perfecto is a British trance group formed in 1997 by DJ Paul Oakenfold, Ian Masterson, and Jake Williams, best known for the 1999 hit "Bullet in the Gun".

Plasmatics

Plasmatics: New York punk-metal band formed 1977 by Wendy O. Williams and Rod Swenson, debuted at CBGB 1978, albums New Hope for the Wretched through Maggots, banned in London, 1981 Milwaukee obscenity trial.

Plastician

Plastician, formerly Plasticman, is the alias of Chris Reed, a DJ and producer from Croydon, London, known for crossing grime and dubstep since the early 2000s.

PLAY HOUSE

Playhouse is a German house record label founded in 1993 in Frankfurt am Main by Heiko Schäfer (M/S/O) and Ata, central to minimal house through releases by Isolée and Villalobos.

Playboi Carti

Playboi Carti (Jordan Terrell Carter, born 1996, Atlanta) is an American rapper behind the 2017 mixtape, Die Lit, Whole Lotta Red, the 2025 album Music, and the Opium label.

Plett Rage 2026

Plett Rage 2026 is the 2026 edition of Plett Rage, a week-long matric school-leaver festival held since 2000 in Plettenberg Bay on South Africa's Garden Route.

Plies (rapper)

Plies (Algernod Lanier Washington, born 1976) is an American rapper from Fort Myers, Florida, signed to Slip-N-Slide in 2004. Known for "Shawty" (No. 9 Hot 100), four 2007–2010 albums including Definition of Real (No. 2 Billboard 200), and a 2011 Grammy nomination for "Lose My Mind".

Plini

Plini, born Plini Roessler-Holgate in Sydney, Australia in 1992, is an Australian guitarist and producer of instrumental progressive metal who has self-released three studio albums without a label or manager.

PnB Rock

PnB Rock (Rakim Hasheem Allen, 1991-2022), Philadelphia rapper-singer named for Pastorius and Baynton streets; known for "Selfish," albums Catch These Vibes and TrapStar Turnt PopStar, killed in a 2022 Los Angeles robbery.

Poison (band)

Poison: American glam metal band formed 1983 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (briefly Paris), moved to Los Angeles 1984. Classic lineup Michaels, DeVille, Dall, Rockett; hits Talk Dirty to Me and Every Rose Has Its Thorn; seven studio albums.

Poison Ruïn

Poison Ruïn (also styled Poison Ruin) is a Philadelphia punk band formed in 2020 by Mac Kennedy, blending anarcho punk, dungeon synth, and black metal with medieval imagery; albums Härvest (2023) and Hymns From the Hills (2026) on Relapse Records.

Polar Inertia

Polar Inertia is a French techno project formed in Paris in 2010, known for embedding a serial science-fiction story of the Polar Children inside deep, industrial techno.

Political views and activism of Rage Against the Machine

Political views and activism of Rage Against the Machine: the American rap-metal band's left-wing, anti-establishment politics, Zapatista solidarity, PMRC and SNL protests, prisoner advocacy, and Tom Morello's continued activism.

Polo & Pan

Polo & Pan are a French electronic duo formed in Paris in 2012 by Paul Armand-Delille and Alexandre Grynszpan, known for nostalgic electro-pop with tropical flair.

Polo G

Polo G (Taurus Tremani Bartlett, born 1999) is a Chicago rapper of melodic drill; albums Die a Legend, The Goat, Hall of Fame (No. 1, with RAPSTAR), Hood Poet; also known as Capalot.

Pooh Shiesty

Pooh Shiesty (Lontrell Dennell Williams Jr., born 1999) is a Memphis rapper signed to Gucci Mane's 1017 Records, known for Shiesty Season (2021) and "Back in Blood"; later convicted of a Florida firearms offense and charged in a 2026 Dallas kidnapping case.

Poolside (group)

Poolside is an electronic music act from Los Angeles, started in 2011 by Jeffrey Paradise and Filip Nikolic, known for its relaxed, sunny style of dance music called daytime disco.

Pop Smoke

Pop Smoke (Bashar Barakah Jackson, 1999–2020) was a Brooklyn rapper, face of New York drill, with hits 'Welcome to the Party' and 'Dior'; killed at 20 in a Hollywood Hills robbery, with two posthumous albums topping Billboard.

Popcorn (Romanian music style)

Romanian Popcorn, also called Romanian House or Romanian Dance, is a late-2000s Romanian dance-pop style with staccato off-beat synth leads, 120-130 BPM, known for Inna's Hot, Stereo Love, and Mr. Saxobeat.

Porn and Chicken

Porn and Chicken is a long-running Chicago bass-music party and DJ trio, launched in 2010, known for free chicken and crowds that peaked at 5,000 weekly.

Porter Robinson

Porter Robinson, also known as Virtual Self and formerly Ekowraith, is an American electronic producer born 1992 in Atlanta. Known for complextro, the 2012 hit "Language," the 2014 album Worlds, Nurture (2021), and SMILE! :D (2024); he shaped but did not invent future bass.

Portola

Portola, also billed as the Portola Music Festival, is an annual two-day electronic dance music festival held at Pier 80 in San Francisco since 2022, produced by Goldenvoice.

Possessed (band)

Possessed: San Francisco death/thrash metal band formed 1983; regarded as the first death metal band. Seven Churches (1985) and its song "Death Metal" named and defined the genre; Jeff Becerra leads the 2007-reformed band.

Post Malone

Post Malone, stage name of Austin Richard Post (born 1995, Syracuse, New York), is an American genre-blending singer-rapper behind "White Iverson," "Rockstar," "Sunflower," and the 2024 country album F-1 Trillion, with 18 Grammy nominations and no win.

Post-disco

Post-disco is the dance-music style that followed disco's 1979 US collapse, centered on New York 1979-1983, also called Leftfield Disco or Proto-House. Traits: 100-118 BPM, drum machines, Prophet-5, stripped-down grooves; artists ESG, D-Train, Arthur Russell.

Powder (musician)

Powder is a Japanese DJ and producer based in Tokyo who emerged in 2015 and became one of the most in-demand selectors on the international house circuit.