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Blue Rodeo
Blue Rodeo, Canadian country-rock band formed in Toronto in 1984 by Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor; debut album Outskirts (1987), hit Try, biggest seller Five Days in July (1993), 12 JUNO wins, Canadian Music Hall of Fame 2012, over four million albums sold.
Blue Slide Park
Blue Slide Park is Mac Miller's debut studio album, released November 8, 2011 on Rostrum Records. Named for a Pittsburgh playground, it debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 144,000 copies, the first independent debut album to do so since 1995.
Blue Strips
"Blue Strips" (also "Blue Strips (Remix)") is a 2025 trap-country-pop song by Jessie Murph, released April 11, 2025 on Columbia; a revenge-themed hit that peaked at No. 15 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was remixed with Sexyy Red.
Blue Suede Shoes
"Blue Suede Shoes" is a 1955 rock-and-roll song written and first recorded by Carl Perkins at Sun Records, released January 1, 1956; it became Sun's first million-seller and a pop, country, and R&B crossover hit, famously covered by Elvis Presley in 1956.
Blue Swede
Blue Swede (Blåblus) was a Swedish pop/rock band formed 1973 in Stockholm, fronted by Björn Skifs. Its cover of "Hooked on a Feeling" topped the Billboard Hot 100 on 6 April 1974, the first Swedish act to do so, and later featured in Guardians of the Galaxy.
Blue Train (album)
Blue Train is John Coltrane's 1957 hard bop album, his second as leader and only one for Blue Note (BLP 1577), recorded at Van Gelder's Hackensack studio with Lee Morgan, Curtis Fuller, Kenny Drew, Paul Chambers, and Philly Joe Jones.
Blue Valentine (Nmixx album)
Blue Valentine is the first full-length album by South Korean girl group Nmixx (엔믹스), released October 13, 2025 by JYP Entertainment; 12 tracks, 34 minutes, MIXX POP genre-blending, title track of the same name, MIXX Ver. edition October 17.
Blue-eyed soul
Blue-eyed soul, or white soul, is rhythm and blues and soul music performed by white artists. Coined in the 1960s for The Righteous Brothers, it sparked radio airplay and authenticity debates.
Bluebeard's Castle
Bluebeard's Castle (A kékszakállú herceg vára) is Béla Bartók's only opera, a 1911 one-act psychodrama with a Béla Balázs libretto, premiered Budapest 1918, in which Judith opens seven doors of Bluebeard's castle.
Blueface
Blueface (Johnathan Jamall Porter, born 1997) is a Los Angeles rapper known for his offbeat flow, the RIAA-Platinum Billboard top-10 hit "Thotiana," the 2018 mixtape Famous Cryp, Cash Money West signing, and 2020 debut album Find the Beat.
Bluegrass music
Bluegrass music, an American string band genre named for Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys, emerged fully in 1945-48 with Scruggs-style banjo, high lonesome vocals, and turn-taking solos distinct from old-time music.
Blues
Blues, or blues music, is a secular music that emerged among African Americans in the rural southern United States in the late nineteenth century, built on twelve-bar forms and blue notes.
Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton
Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton, "The Beano Album" (Decca, 22 July 1966), by John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers with John McVie and Hughie Flint; the record on which Clapton's 1960 Les Paul through a cranked Marshall JTM45 combo set the blues-rock guitar template, peaking at No. 6 in the UK.
Blues festivals in Europe
Blues festivals in Europe are annual music events devoted substantially to blues, ranging from small volunteer-run club festivals to free open-air city events and ticketed destination festivals.
Blues festivals in North America
Blues festivals in North America are annual events celebrating blues music, from the Chicago Blues Festival, the world's largest free one, to Mississippi's roughly fifty festivals.
Blues festivals outside Europe and North America
Blues festivals outside Europe and North America are recurring blues music events, including Rio das Ostras in Brazil, the Mahindra Blues Festival in Mumbai, and Bluesfest in Byron Bay, Australia.
Blues for Allah
Blues for Allah: Grateful Dead's eighth studio album, September 1975, Grateful Dead Records/United Artists; recorded at Bob Weir's Ace's studio during the 1975 touring hiatus; peaked at #12 Billboard; jazz-fusion suite Help on the Way/Slipknot!/Franklin's Tower; 2025 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition.
Blues Hall of Fame
Blues Hall of Fame: honor roll and Memphis museum of the Blues Foundation (est. 1980 by Joe Savarin), with five induction categories, over 400 inductees, and a museum opened May 8, 2015 at 421 S. Main Street. Distinct from the St. Louis Blues hockey hall of fame (est. 2023).
Blues rock
Blues rock: hybrid genre fusing electric blues forms (12-bar, dominant 7ths, minor pentatonic) with rock volume and improvisation; emerged late 1960s via Cream, Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Butterfield Band; parent of heavy metal and Southern rock.
Blues Saraceno
Blues Saraceno (born 1971) is an American guitarist from Connecticut, ex-Poison (1993–1996), who toured with Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker and now composes TV and film production music.
Blues scale
Blues scale: six-note scale = minor pentatonic plus flatted fifth (1, b3, 4, b5, 5, b7). C blues: C, Eb, F, Gb, G, Bb. The added blue note is a passing tritone; a major blues variant exists.
Blues Traveler
Blues Traveler is an American blues-rock jam band formed in Princeton, NJ, led by John Popper. Known for the six-times-platinum album Four (1994), the Grammy-winning hit "Run-Around," and the H.O.R.D.E. festival.
Blues Unlimited
Blues Unlimited was a British magazine devoted entirely to blues music, published from 1963 to 1987 and credited as the world's first magazine dedicated to the subject.
Blur (band)
Blur are an English rock band formed in London in 1989 by Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James, and Dave Rowntree, central to the 1990s Britpop movement.
Blur (Blur album)
Blur (1997) is the English rock band Blur's fifth studio album, released by Food Records on 10 February 1997. Recorded in London and Reykjavik with producer Stephen Street, it abandoned Britpop for American lo-fi alt-rock, with the UK number-one single Beetlebum and the US hit Song 2.
Blurred Lines
Blurred Lines: 2013 Robin Thicke single featuring T.I. and Pharrell Williams, the world's bestselling song of 2013, later found by a US jury to infringe Marvin Gaye's Got To Give It Up.
Blurryface
Blurryface (stylized BLURRYFΛCE) is Twenty One Pilots' fourth studio album, released May 19, 2015 on Fueled By Ramen; a concept record about Tyler Joseph's insecurity alter ego, it hit number one on the Billboard charts and was the first album with every track certified Gold.
Blush (Kevin Abstract album)
Blush is Kevin Abstract's fifth solo studio album, released June 27, 2025 via Juno, X8 Music, and Virgin Records. Named for his open-ended Houston collective, it features Dominic Fike, Danny Brown, JPEGMAFIA, Quadeca, and Ameer Vann.
Blut Aus Nord
Blut Aus Nord, German for "Blood from North", is a French black metal project founded by the anonymous Vindsval in 1994, known for industrial and atmospheric experimentation.
BMF (song)
"BMF" is a 2024 song by SZA, originally titled "Boy from South Detroit", from SOS Deluxe: LANA. It interpolates "The Girl from Ipanema", refers to the Black Mafia Family TV show, and peaked at number 29 on the Billboard Hot 100.