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Hootenanny

Hootenanny: an informal folk-music gathering popularized by Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie; earlier a gadget word (1927), first used musically in 1940 Seattle, later an ABC TV series (1963-64).

Hootie & the Blowfish

Hootie & the Blowfish, American rock band from the University of South Carolina (Darius Rucker, Mark Bryan, Dean Felber, Jim Sonefeld); 1994 debut Cracked Rear View sold over 16 million US copies and won two Grammys.

Hootie Frutti

Hootie Frutti is a 2026 song by KATSEYE, title track of the WILD EP (HYBE/Geffen), built on Brazilian funk-phonk production and repeated 'hootie frutti' chants; it debuted at No. 31 on the Hot 100.

Hooverphonic

Hooverphonic is a Belgian pop band formed in 1995 (originally Hoover), led by Alex Callier and Raymond Geerts; known for trip-hop-to-orchestral evolution, "Mad About You", and Belgium's 2021 Eurovision entry "The Wrong Place".

Hop (합) (mixtape)

Hop (합, 合 (HOP)) is Stray Kids' first SKZHOP HIPTAPE mixtape, released December 13, 2024 by JYP Entertainment: 12 tracks, 34 minutes, lead single "Walkin on Water," Tablo feature on "U," and eight member solos.

Hope and Fury

Hope and Fury is the 24th studio album by English singer-songwriter Joe Jackson, released 10 April 2026 on earMUSIC. Nine songs, 34:39, recorded in Berlin and New York with Patrick Dillett, described by Jackson as "Bicoastal LatinJazzFunkRock"; not to be confused with the 2023 Darren Mason album or the 2018 MLK documentary.

Hope on the Stage Tour

Hope on the Stage Tour (j-hope Tour 'HOPE ON THE STAGE') was BTS member j-hope's first solo world tour, announced January 10, 2025, opening February 28 at KSPO Dome Seoul and closing June 14, 2025, with 33 shows in 16 cities and over half a million fans.

Hope Sandoval

Hope Sandoval (born 1966, Los Angeles) is an American singer-songwriter, frontwoman of dream pop duo Mazzy Star ('Fade Into You') and of Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions with Colm O'Ciosoig, known for her hushed vocals and guest spots with the Jesus and Mary Chain, Chemical Brothers, and Massive Attack.

Hopeless Fountain Kingdom

Hopeless Fountain Kingdom is Halsey's second studio album (Astralwerks, June 2, 2017), a Romeo and Juliet-inspired concept album about doomed love that debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, was certified Platinum, and scored 66 on Metacritic.

Hopeless Records

Hopeless Records is an American independent record label founded in Van Nuys, California, in 1993 by Louis Posen, home to All Time Low, Avenged Sevenfold, and Thrice.

Hopesfall

Hopesfall is an American post-hardcore band formed in March 1998 in Charlotte, North Carolina, best known for the melodic metalcore album The Satellite Years (2002).

Hopi katsina songs

Hopi katsina songs are the ritual songs of the katsinam, spirit beings who dance in Hopi villages in northeastern Arizona, carrying the people's prayers and bringing rain in return.

Hopiumforthemasses

Hopiumforthemasses (HOPIUMFORTHEMASSES) is Ministry's sixteenth studio album, released March 1, 2024 on Nuclear Blast, produced by Al Jourgensen, nine tracks with guests Jello Biafra and Eugene Hutz.

Hopsin

Hopsin (Marcus Jamal Hopson, born 1985, Panorama City, CA) is an American rapper, producer, and actor. Signed to Ruthless 2007, broke out with "Sag My Pants" 2010, co-founded Funk Volume, released five albums including No Shame (2017).

Horace Silver

Horace Silver (Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silver, 1928-2014), American jazz pianist and composer, co-founder with Art Blakey of the Jazz Messengers and pioneer of hard bop on Blue Note; composer of Song for My Father, Señor Blues, The Preacher; NEA Jazz Master 1995.

Hordern Pavilion

Hordern Pavilion, "The Hordern", heritage 1924 exhibition hall at Moore Park, Sydney, built for the Royal Easter Show and remodelled in 1972 into a roughly 5,500-capacity rock concert venue.

Hormoaning

Hormoaning is a 1991/1992 six-track Nirvana EP on Geffen, released only in Australia and Japan to promote the band's Pacific Rim tour, with four covers (Devo, Wipers, Vaselines) and limited pressings.

Horn (instrument)

Horn (French horn): brass instrument descended from hunting horns, played with left-hand valves and right hand in the bell; natural horn, hand-stopping, Stölzel's 1814 valves, Kruspe-Gumbert 1897 double horn, F/B-flat tubes 360/270 cm.

Hornbill Festival

The Hornbill Festival is a ten-day annual cultural festival held December 1 to 10 at Kisama near Kohima, Nagaland, where major Naga tribes present dances, music, and crafts.

Hornbostel–Sachs

Hornbostel–Sachs (Systematik der Musikinstrumente, 1914) is the classification of musical instruments by sound production by Erich Moritz von Hornbostel and Curt Sachs: idiophones, membranophones, chordophones, aerophones, later electrophones, with decimal codes.

Horon

Horon is the characteristic linked circle dance of Türkiye's eastern Black Sea coast, especially Trabzon and Rize, danced hand in hand to the rapid kemençe or tulum bagpipe.

Horoya Band National

Horoya Band National, also billed as Horoya Band, is a Guinean national orchestra formed in Kankan in 1965, made a national orchestra in 1971 alongside Bembeya Jazz.

Horrorcore

Horrorcore, also called horror rap or death rap, is a hip hop subgenre defined by horror-themed lyrics about death, violence, and the occult. Key acts include Geto Boys, Esham, Gravediggaz, and Insane Clown Posse; the term first appeared on KMC's 1991 album.

HorsegiirL

HorsegiirL, aka Stella Stallion, is a Berlin-based German DJ, producer, and singer who performs masked as a half-human, half-horse pop star; known for the viral 2023 hit "My Barn My Rules," the 2025 EP v.i.p. - very important pony, and the 2026 RCA debut album Nature Is Healing.

Horses (album)

Horses is Patti Smith's 1975 debut album on Arista, produced by John Cale at Electric Lady Studios with a Mapplethorpe cover; a poetry-punk landmark in the National Recording Registry and Grammy Hall of Fame.

Horslips

Horslips were a Dublin-formed Irish band (1970–1980), pioneers of Celtic rock, blending Irish traditional jigs and mythology with hard and progressive rock. Twelve albums on their own Oats label, including The Táin and The Book of Invasions (UK No. 39); reunions in 2004–2006 and 2009–2019.

Horst-Wessel-Lied

Horst-Wessel-Lied, or "Die Fahne hoch", was the NSDAP party anthem from 1930 and Nazi Germany's co-national anthem from 1933, written by SA leader Horst Wessel in 1929 and banned in Germany and Austria after 1945.

Hoshi X Woozi

Hoshi X Woozi (HxW, 호시X우지) is a SEVENTEEN subunit of performance leader Hoshi and vocal leader-producer Woozi, both born 1996; debuted March 2025 with the single BEAM and title track Same Age.

Hoshino Gen

Hoshino Gen (星野源), also known as Gen Hoshino, is a Japanese musician, actor, and writer from Saitama whose 2016 single "Koi" topped the Billboard Japan Hot 100 year-end chart.

Hospitality on the Beach

Hospitality on the Beach is a drum and bass holiday festival at The Garden Resort in Tisno, Croatia, run by Hospital Records' Hospitality brand and first held in 2018.