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Power Trip (band)

Power Trip is a Dallas, Texas crossover thrash band formed in 2008, known for Manifest Decimation (2013) and Nightmare Logic (2017) on Southern Lord, a Grammy-nominated Executioner's Tax, vocalist Riley Gale's 2020 death, and a 2023 return with Seth Gilmore.

Powerman 5000

Powerman 5000 (PM5K), Boston electro-metal and nu metal band fronted by Spider One (Michael Cummings), Rob Zombie's younger brother; platinum 1999 album Tonight the Stars Revolt!, hits When Worlds Collide and Bombshell.

Powerwolf

Powerwolf is a German heavy metal band formed around 2004, fronted by Romanian classically trained vocalist Attila Dorn, known for werewolf and religious-history lyrics, church organ, corpse paint, German chart-topping albums, and 2026 Wembley Arena and Wacken headlining shows.

Ppcocaine

Ppcocaine (Lilliane Catherine Diomi, born 2001), formerly trapbunniebubbles, is an American TikTok-viral rapper behind "DDLG" and "3 Musketeers", signed to Columbia Records in 2020.

Praga Khan

Praga Khan, the stage name of Belgian musician Maurice Engelen, is a founder of the new beat scene and of the group Lords of Acid, known for "Injected with a Poison."

Prana (group)

Prana is a Goa trance project founded by Japanese DJ Tsuyoshi Suzuki, active in London's 1990s Goa scene and known for the albums Cyclone and Geomantik.

Pras

Pras (Prakazrel Samuel Michel, born 1972) is an American rapper, Fugees founding member with Lauryn Hill and Wyclef Jean, solo hitmaker of "Ghetto Supastar" (1998), and in 2026 a federal inmate serving a 14-year sentence for campaign finance and lobbying crimes.

Preakness InfieldFest

Preakness InfieldFest, commonly InfieldFest, is a one-day music festival held in the infield of the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, launched in 2009.

President (band)

President is an anonymous English metalcore band known for its masked members and political visual language. The group achieved rapid growth after its 2025 debut.

Prettifun

Prettifun (Michael-Raymond Javier "Mikey" Taylor, born 2005, Charlotte, North Carolina) is an American underground rapper and producer of rage, trap, and digicore, known for Pretti, FunHouse, FunHouse Deluxe, and Pretti Loves U 2.

Pretty Lights

Pretty Lights is the electronic music project of Derek Vincent Smith, a Denver, Colorado producer who built a festival following with free albums and live soul sampling.

PRIME Music Festival

PRIME Music Festival was a two-day pop, hip-hop, and EDM festival held each September from 2017 to 2019 at Adado Riverfront Park in downtown Lansing, Michigan, drawing largely Michigan State University students.

Primordial

Primordial is an Irish extreme metal band from Skerries, County Dublin, formed in 1987, blending black metal, doom, and traditional Celtic melody across eleven albums.

Prince Markie Dee

Prince Markie Dee (Mark Anthony Morales, 1968–2021) was a Brooklyn-born rapper, a founding member of the Fat Boys (originally the Disco 3), whose solo hit "Typical Reasons (Swing My Way)" topped Billboard's rap chart.

Prince Paul (producer)

Prince Paul (Paul Edward Huston, born 1967) is an American hip-hop producer from Amityville, New York: Stetsasonic DJ, De La Soul producer of 3 Feet High and Rising, Gravediggaz and Handsome Boy Modeling School co-founder, and creator of the 1999 hip-hopera A Prince Among Thieves.

Princess Nokia

Princess Nokia, stage name of New York rapper Destiny Frasqueri, an Afro-Nuyorican artist known for 1992 Deluxe, A Girl Cried Red, the 2020 twin albums, and 2025's Girls, feminist Smart Girl Club, and brujería-inflected rap.

Prins Thomas

Prins Thomas, born Thomas Moen Hermansen in 1975, is a Norwegian DJ and record producer from Oslo associated with space disco, who has run the Full Pupp label since 2005.

Printworks London

Printworks London was an electronic music and cultural venue in Surrey Quays, south-east London, housed in a former newspaper printing hall and run by Broadwick Live from 2017 to 2023.

Pro Era

Pro Era (Progressive Era) is a Brooklyn hip-hop collective founded in 2011 by Joey Bada$$, Capital STEEZ, and Powers Pleasant, known for 1990s boom-bap revivalism, the 2012 mixtape PEEP: The aPROcalypse, and the Beast Coast supergroup.

Probot

Probot was Dave Grohl's one-off metal side project: he wrote and recorded instrumentals, and vocalists like Lemmy, Cronos, Max Cavalera, and King Diamond added lyrics. Self-titled album released February 10, 2004 on Southern Lord.

Prodigy (rapper)

Prodigy (Albert Johnson, died June 20, 2017, age 42) was the American rapper of Mobb Deep with Havoc, star of The Infamous (1995), and solo artist behind the H.N.I.C. series; distinct from the British band The Prodigy.

Prof (rapper)

Prof is the stage name of Jacob Lukas Anderson, an American rapper, singer, and record producer based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with his own label, Stophouse Music Group.

Professor Green

Professor Green, real name Stephen Paul Manderson (born 1983, Hackney, London), is an English rapper and presenter behind the 2011 UK No.1 "Read All About It" and documentaries on male suicide; distinct from academic authors named Green.

Professor Griff

Professor Griff (Richard Griffin, born 1960) was Public Enemy's Minister of Information and S1W leader, fired in June 1989 after antisemitic Washington Times remarks, then pursued a solo rap and lecturing career.

Profound Lore Records

Profound Lore Records is a Canadian independent record label specializing in extreme metal, founded by Chris Bruni in May 2004 and based in the Kitchener, Ontario area.

ProgPower USA

ProgPower USA is an annual progressive metal and power metal festival in Atlanta, Georgia, held since 2001 and known for hosting European bands' first US appearances.

Progressive house

Progressive house: house music subgenre from early-1990s UK club culture, named by Dom Phillips in Mixmag 1992; long 122–128 BPM tracks built on gradual layering, defined by Sasha, Digweed, Renaissance, later split with festival EDM.

Progressive trance

Progressive trance is a slower, deeper strand of electronic dance music blending progressive house and trance, shaped in the 1990s by DJs Sasha and John Digweed.

Project GLOW DC 2026

Project GLOW DC 2026 is the fifth edition of Project GLOW, a two-day electronic dance music festival at the RFK Festival Grounds in Washington, DC, held May 30–31, 2026.

Project GLOW DC 2027

Project GLOW DC 2027 is the sixth edition of a two-day EDM festival at the RFK Festival Grounds in Washington, D.C., on June 5 and 6, 2027.