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Eldorado (Electric Light Orchestra album)
Eldorado (A Symphony by the Electric Light Orchestra) is ELO's fourth studio album, released September 1974 on Jet Records. Produced by Jeff Lynne with a 30-piece orchestra and choir arranged by Louis Clark, it was the band's first concept album and first US gold record.
Eleanor Rigby
Eleanor Rigby, Beatles song written mainly by Paul McCartney, released 5 August 1966 with Yellow Submarine and on Revolver; string-octet-only George Martin arrangement, no Beatle plays an instrument, UK number one for four weeks.
Electra Heart
Electra Heart is Marina and the Diamonds' 2012 concept album, built on a blonde alter ego embodying female American archetypes; a UK number one with mixed reviews that became her cult classic.
Electric Avenue (song)
"Electric Avenue" is a 1982 reggae-funk song by Eddy Grant from Killer on the Rampage, inspired by the 1981 Brixton riots and named for the Brixton market street first lit by electricity; it peaked at No. 2 in both the UK and US in 1983.
Electric blues
Electric blues is a music style defined by amplified instruments, led by the electric guitar. It emerged in American cities in the 1930s, developing most prominently in Chicago.
Electric Callboy
Electric Callboy, formerly Eskimo Callboy until the 2022 rename, is a German electronicore band formed in 2010 in Castrop-Rauxel, fusing metalcore with EDM. Known for Tekkno (2022), Tanzneid (2026), Hypa Hypa, and RATATATA with Babymetal.
Electric Castle Rumania
Electric Castle, also known as the Electric Castle Festival, is an annual music festival held since 2013 at Bánffy Castle in Bonțida, near Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Electric Daisy Carnival
Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC) is an electronic dance music festival organized by Insomniac, first held in Los Angeles in 1997 and best known for its annual EDC Las Vegas.
Electric Daisy Carnival in Asia-Pacific
Electric Daisy Carnival in Asia-Pacific covers editions of the American EDM festival brand in Korea and Thailand, including EDC Thailand's January 2025 debut in Phuket, which drew 150,000 attendees.
Electric Dylan controversy
Electric Dylan controversy: dispute over Bob Dylan's July 25, 1965 electric set at the Newport Folk Festival, the disputed booing, the Pete Seeger axe myth, and its aftermath on the 1966 tour.
Electric Island: Season Finale
Electric Island: Season Finale is the closing edition of Electric Island, a Toronto house-and-techno day-festival series founded in 2013, ending the season on the Labour Day long weekend.
Electric Ladyland
Electric Ladyland is the third and final studio album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, a double album released in October 1968 that reached number 1 in the US.
Electric Light Orchestra
Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1970 by Jeff Lynne, Roy Wood, and Bev Bevan; fuses classical orchestration with Beatlesque pop; split 1986, revived 2014, Rock Hall 2017.
Electric Light Orchestra discography
The Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) discography spans 14 studio albums from 1971's debut to 2019's From Out of Nowhere, plus the Xanadu soundtrack, live albums, and compilations.
Electric Mud
Electric Mud: 1968 Muddy Waters psychedelic blues album on Chess' Cadet Concept (LPS 314), recorded May 1968 at Ter Mar Studios with Rotary Connection players; big seller, Rolling Stone panned it, later reassessed as a classic.
Electric Six
Electric Six, formerly the Wildbunch, is a Detroit rock band formed in 1996, led by Dick Valentine (Tyler Spencer), known for Fire (2003), the UK hits Danger! High Voltage and Gay Bar, and prolific yearly albums on Metropolis Records.
Electric Universe
Electric Universe is a German psytrance project founded in Hamburg in 1991 by Boris Blenn and Micky Dressler, known for melodic, guitar-driven Goa and full-on trance.
Electric Warrior
Electric Warrior, T. Rex's second studio album under that name, released September 24, 1971 on Rhino/Reprise, produced by Tony Visconti; it topped the UK chart for six weeks and launched glam rock with "Bang A Gong (Get It On)" and "Jeepster."
Electric Wizard
Electric Wizard: English doom metal band formed 1993 in Dorset, England, also briefly known as Thy Grief Eternal and Eternal; name from Black Sabbath's "Electric Funeral" and "The Wizard"; landmark albums Come My Fanatics... and Dopethrone.
Electric Zoo
Electric Zoo, often shortened to EZoo, is an electronic dance music festival held over Labor Day weekend on Randall's Island in New York City, launched in 2009.
Electro (music)
Electro (electro-funk or electro-boogie) is an early 1980s electronic dance and hip-hop genre built on the Roland TR-808, broken syncopated beats, and vocoder vocals, founded by Afrika Bambaataa's 1982 "Planet Rock" and ancestor of Miami bass, freestyle, and Detroit techno.
Electro house
Electro house, a house music subgenre from around 2002 fusing tech house and electroclash, runs 125-135 BPM with distorted saw basslines, sidechain pumping, and drops; pioneers Benny Benassi, D. Ramirez, deadmau5; offshoots big room, complextro, dutch house.
Electroclash
Electroclash is an electronic dance music subgenre of the late 1990s and early 2000s, also called new electro or electro punk, blending synthpop, electro, and techno with punk attitude; popularized by Larry Tee's 2001 New York Electroclash Festival, with acts like Fischerspooner and Peaches, and revived in the 2020s.
Electronic (band)
Electronic: Manchester alternative dance duo of Bernard Sumner (New Order) and Johnny Marr (ex-Smiths), formed 1988-1989. Debut single "Getting Away with It" (1989, UK No. 12); three albums 1991-1999; disbanded 2001.
Electronic body music
Electronic body music (EBM) is an early-1980s Belgian and West German electronic dance genre blending industrial and synth-punk; Front 242 adopted the name for No Comment (1984), with DAF, Die Krupps, and Nitzer Ebb as first-generation figures.
Electronic dance music
Electronic dance music (EDM) is electronically produced music made to encourage dancing, spanning house, techno, trance, garage, and dubstep. Rooted in disco and Black, queer Chicago and Detroit club scenes, it grew through UK rave culture into a global festival industry.
Electronic Family
Electronic Family is an all-trance outdoor festival created by the Dutch agency ALDA Events, first held in 2011 in the Amsterdamse Bos and later moved to Den Bosch.
Electronic keyboard
Electronic keyboard: a keyboard instrument producing sound electronically; covers portable and arranger keyboards, distinct from digital pianos, synthesizers, and MIDI controllers. Born early 1980s (Yamaha PortaSound 1980, DX7 1983), MIDI standard, widely used in music education.
Electronic music
Electronic music (电子音乐): music generated or processed with electronic instruments and technology such as synthesizers, drum machines, and computers; a medium rather than a genre, tracing from the Telharmonium and theremin to tape studios, MIDI, dance subgenres, and a $15.1 billion 2025 industry.
Electronic music festivals in the Americas
Electronic music festivals in the Americas are large multi-day EDM events, anchored by EDC Las Vegas and Ultra Miami, with Creamfields Buenos Aires and Tomorrowland Brasil leading South America.