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Cups (song)

"Cups", also called "The Cup Song", is a folk-pop song Anna Kendrick performs in the 2012 film Pitch Perfect, reworking a 1931 Carter Family song.

Curb Records

Curb Records is an independent country music record label owned by Mike Curb and based in Nashville since 1992, known for Tim McGraw, LeAnn Rimes, and Sawyer Brown.

Curiosity Killed the Cat

Curiosity Killed the Cat is a British pop group formed in London in 1984. They released the number one UK album Keep Your Distance in 1987.

Curious Ruminant

Curious Ruminant is Jethro Tull's 24th studio album, released March 7, 2025 on InsideOut Music; nine folk-progressive tracks, third album in four years, with the 16:42 epic Drink From The Same Well.

Currensy

Curren$y (Shante Anthony Franklin, born 1981), New Orleans rapper and Jet Life Recordings founder; former 504 Boyz/No Limit and Young Money artist known for prolific independent mixtapes and albums.

Current 93

Current 93 is an English experimental music project founded in London in 1982 by David Tibet (David Michael Bunting, born 1960), named after Aleister Crowley's 93 Current; it moved from industrial noise to apocalyptic folk, with Black Ships Ate the Sky (2006) its best-known album.

Currents

Currents is an American melodic metalcore band formed in Connecticut in 2011, fronted by Brian Wille and signed to SharpTone Records, which broke through with the 2020 album The Way It Ends.

Curse of the ninth

The curse of the ninth is a superstition that composers die after completing a ninth symphony, with Beethoven, Schubert, Bruckner, and Mahler as its standard examples.

Cursive (band)

Cursive (band): Omaha, Nebraska indie rock/emo band formed in 1995 by Tim Kasher, Matt Maginn, Stephen Pedersen, and Clint Schnase on Saddle Creek, known for Domestica (2000) and The Ugly Organ (2003).

Cursive singing

Cursive singing, or indie girl voice, is a pop vocal style of added diphthongs, softened consonants, and vocal fry, named in a 2009 tweet by @TRACKDROPPA and associated with Amy Winehouse, Lorde, and Halsey.

Cursum Perficio

Cursum Perficio is Anthrax's twelfth studio album, released September 18, 2026 on Nuclear Blast and Megaforce, its first since 2016's For All Kings; the Latin title means 'I complete my journey' and hints it may be the thrash band's last.

Curt Smith

Curt Smith (born 1961, Bath, England) is an English singer, bassist, and producer, co-founder of Tears for Fears with Roland Orzabal; lead vocalist on hits like Mad World and Everybody Wants to Rule the World, with a parallel solo career.

Curtain Call: The Hits

Curtain Call: The Hits is Eminem's first greatest-hits compilation, released December 6, 2005 on Aftermath/Interscope. 17 tracks (24 deluxe) spanning 1999-2005 singles plus FACK, Shake That, and When I'm Gone; it topped the UK and Billboard 200 charts.

Curtis (50 Cent album)

Curtis is 50 Cent's third studio album, released September 11, 2007 on Shady/Aftermath/Interscope. It lost its famous first-week sales battle with Kanye West's Graduation (691,000 vs 957,000 copies), peaked at number 2, and scored 58 on Metacritic.

Curtis Mayfield

Curtis Mayfield (1942-1999), Chicago soul singer-songwriter and guitarist, led the Impressions, wrote civil rights anthems like "People Get Ready," scored Super Fly (1972), and recorded New World Order after a 1990 accident left him quadriplegic.

Curved Air

Curved Air: English progressive rock band formed in London in 1970, named after Terry Riley's A Rainbow in Curved Air. Fronted by Sonja Kristina; debut Air Conditioning was rock's first picture disc; Back Street Luv hit UK No. 4; Stewart Copeland drummed 1974-76.

Cut Copy (group)

Cut Copy is an Australian electronic band formed in Melbourne in 2001 by Dan Whitford, known for the chart-topping In Ghost Colours (2008) and the Grammy-nominated Zonoscope (2011).

Cut the Crap

Cut the Crap is the sixth and final studio album by the English punk band the Clash, released in 1985 and disowned by Joe Strummer.

Cutie Street

CUTIE STREET (キューティー ストリート, Kyūsuto) is an eight-member Japanese idol girl group that debuted August 4, 2024 from ASOBISYSTEM's KAWAII LAB. project; its TikTok-viral debut single "Kawaii Dake ja Dame Desu ka?" won the 67th Japan Record Awards New Artist Award.

Cutouts

Cutouts is the third studio album by The Smile, the English art rock band featuring Radiohead's Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood, released through XL Recordings in 2024.

Cutting Crew

Cutting Crew, English pop rock band formed in London in 1985 by Nick Van Eede and Kevin Scott MacMichael, known for the 1987 US number-one single "(I Just) Died in Your Arms" and albums Broadcast, The Scattering, and Compus Mentus.

Cuz I Love You

Cuz I Love You is Lizzo's third studio album, released in 2019. It blends pop, R&B, and funk, and won Best Urban Contemporary Album at the 2020 Grammys.

CYBERJAPAN DANCERS

CYBERJAPAN DANCERS (サイバージャパン・ダンサーズ) is a Japanese go-go dance and vocal collective of nearly 25 dancers, formed in 2000 by DJ MITOMI TOKOTO and making its major debut in 2017.

Cybotron (American band)

Cybotron: American electro/techno group founded 1980 in Detroit by Juan Atkins and Rik Davis (3070); 'Alleys of Your Mind' (1981), 'Clear', album Enter (1983); split 1985; reunited 2019.

Cyhi the Prynce

Cyhi the Prynce (Cydel Young, born 1984, Stone Mountain, Georgia) is an American rapper and songwriter, G.O.O.D. Music affiliate, Grammy-nominated co-writer for Kanye West and Travis Scott, debut album No Dope on Sundays (2017).

Cymbal

A cymbal is a round metal percussion plate of indefinite pitch, struck with a stick or clashed in pairs. Covers hi-hat, ride, crash, splash, and China types, B20 bronze construction, orchestral use, ancient origins, and nonlinear acoustics.

Cyndi Lauper

Cyndi Lauper (born 1953) is an American New Wave pop singer of She's So Unusual (1983), Girls Just Want to Have Fun, Time After Time, and True Colors; Grammy, Emmy, and Tony winner, Kinky Boots composer, LGBTQ+ advocate, and 2025 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee.

Cyndi Lauper discography

Cyndi Lauper discography: studio albums from Blue Angel (1980) and She's So Unusual (1983, four Top 5 singles, Best New Artist Grammy) through True Colors, Bring Ya to the Brink, Memphis Blues, and Detour, plus Kinky Boots cast albums and the 2026 True Colors 40th Anniversary Edition.

Cynic (band)

Cynic is an American progressive metal band formed in Miami in 1987, led by Paul Masvidal. Known for the landmark 1993 album Focus, which fused technical death metal with jazz fusion, plus Traced in Air, Kindly Bent to Free Us, and Ascension Codes.

Cynthia Lennon

Cynthia Lennon (Cynthia Lillian Powell, 1939-2015), English artist and writer, first wife of Beatle John Lennon and mother of Julian; married 1962, divorced 1968, memoirs A Twist of Lennon and John.