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The Fall-Off World Tour

The Fall-Off World Tour is J. Cole's 2026 global arena tour supporting his album The Fall Off, spanning 50+ cities in 15+ countries from Charlotte on July 11 to Johannesburg on December 12.

The Fame

The Fame is Lady Gaga's 2008 debut album (Streamline/KonLive/Cherrytree/Interscope), with the No. 1 singles Just Dance and Poker Face, No. 2 on the Billboard 200, and two 2010 Grammy wins.

The Fame Monster

The Fame Monster is Lady Gaga's eight-track 2009 Interscope EP, also bundled with a reissue of The Fame, built around fear-themed songs such as Bad Romance, Alejandro, Telephone, and Speechless, scoring 78 on Metacritic.

The Farmer in the Dell

The Farmer in the Dell (Roud 6306) is a cumulative children's singing game and nursery rhyme, first recorded in Germany in 1826 as "Es fuhr ein Bau'r ins Holz", reaching New York in 1883, with the cheese standing alone at the end.

The Fat Boys

The Fat Boys, originally Disco 3, were a Brooklyn hip-hop trio (Prince Markie Dee, Kool Rock-Ski, Buff Love the Human Beat Box) who pioneered recorded beatboxing, scored with "Wipeout" with the Beach Boys, and starred in Disorderlies.

The Fat of the Land

The Fat of the Land (1997) is The Prodigy's third studio album, released 30 June 1997 on XL Recordings; produced by Liam Howlett, it hit number 1 in over 20 countries and sparked controversy over "Smack My Bitch Up".

The Fate of Ophelia

"The Fate of Ophelia" is a 2025 song by Taylor Swift, opening track and lead single of The Life of a Showgirl, co-written with Max Martin and Shellback; it rewrites Hamlet's Ophelia, topped the Billboard Hot 100 for 10 weeks, and debuted live at the 2026 Academy Museum Gala.

The Fear of Fear

The Fear of Fear is a 2023 six-song, 25-minute metalcore EP by Canada's Spiritbox on Pale Chord/Rise, their first with bassist Josh Gilbert; includes Grammy-nominated "Jaded" and lead single "The Void".

The Fearless Flyers

The Fearless Flyers: American instrumental funk quartet formed 2018 from Vulfpeck's orbit, with Cory Wong, Mark Lettieri, Joe Dart, and Nate Smith; three guitar ranges, minimal drum kit, jumpsuits, and albums through The Fearless Flyers V (2025).

The Feeling

The Feeling: British pop-rock quintet formed in London in 2004 (formerly covers band Super Fly), known for Twelve Stops and Home (2006), Join with Us (2008, UK No. 1), and the Ivor Novello Songwriters of the Year award; distinct from the band the Feelies.

The Femcels

The Femcels are a London electro-twee duo of Rowan Miles and Gabriella Turton, formed February 2024. Their self-released debut album I Have to Get Hotter (January 2026, Getting Hotter Records), produced by Bassvictim's Ike Clateman, earned a Pitchfork 7.6 and led to a 2026 US tour and festival slots.

The Fields of Athenry

The Fields of Athenry, also called Fields of Athenry, is a 1970s ballad by Dublin songwriter Pete St John about a Famine-era man transported to Botany Bay, now an unofficial Irish sporting anthem.

The Fillmore

The Fillmore is a historic general-admission music venue at 1805 Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, built as a dance hall in 1912 and made famous by Bill Graham's psychedelic-era concerts from December 1965; it reopened in 1994 under Live Nation, known for free posters and apples.

The Final Countdown (album)

The Final Countdown (1986, Epic), Europe's third studio album produced by Kevin Elson, whose synth-driven title track, a CBS Records chart record-setter, carried the Swedish band to worldwide fame.

The Final Countdown (song)

The Final Countdown is a 1986 single by Swedish rock band Europe, written by Joey Tempest, from the album of the same name. Its Korg Polysix keyboard fanfare topped charts in 25 countries; guitarist John Norum quit in November 1986.

The Final Cut (album)

The Final Cut (1983) is Pink Floyd's album and last with Roger Waters, subtitled A Requiem for the Post War Dream; a Falklands War and anti-Thatcher concept record made without Rick Wright.

The Final Frontier

The Final Frontier is Iron Maiden's fifteenth studio album, released 16 August 2010 on EMI. Recorded at Compass Point Studios, Bahamas with Kevin Shirley and Steve Harris, it ran 76:35, topped the UK charts, and shares its title with a 1986 Keel album.

The Final Frontier Tour (Journey)

Journey's Final Frontier Tour, the rock band's 2026 farewell tour announced November 2025, ran February 28 at Hershey, PA to November 28 at Chase Center, San Francisco, with 60-plus North American shows, a 27-song setlist, and lineup Schon, Cain, Pineda, Castronovo, Jensen, Derlatka.

The Firm (rock band)

The Firm was a British rock supergroup formed in 1984, uniting Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin with singer Paul Rodgers of Free and Bad Company.

The First Cut Is the Deepest

The First Cut Is the Deepest is a 1967 Cat Stevens song first released by P.P. Arnold (UK No. 18), later a UK No. 1 for Rod Stewart in 1977 and a US No. 14 hit for Sheryl Crow in 2003.

The First Noel

The First Noel (The First Nowell) is a traditional English Christmas carol of likely Cornish origin; text printed by Davies Gilbert in 1823, tune by William Sandys in 1833, harmonized by John Stainer in 1867.

The First Take (music)

The First Take is a Japanese YouTube music channel launched in 2019, filming each artist performing one song in a single unedited take in a white studio.

The First Time (The Kid Laroi album)

THE FIRST TIME is the 2023 debut full-length album by Australian rapper The Kid LAROI (Charlton Howard), released November 10 via Columbia Records; 20 tracks featuring Jung Kook, Central Cee, Future, and others, debuting at number 3 on the ARIA albums chart.

The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face: 1957 love song by Ewan MacColl for Peggy Seeger; Roberta Flack's 1969 recording hit Billboard number one in 1972 and won Record and Song of the Year Grammys.

The Five (composers)

The Five, or Mighty Handful (Moguchaya kuchka), were Balakirev, Cui, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Borodin, Saint Petersburg nationalist composers of the late 1850s to 1870s who built a Russian school on folk song, chant, and history against conservatory Westernism.

The Fixx

The Fixx, British new wave band formed in London in 1979 (originally the Portraits), known for "One Thing Leads to Another," "Saved by Zero," and "Red Skies"; US hits via MTV and Reach the Beach (1983), little UK success, still touring with Every Five Seconds (2022).

The Flaming Lips

The Flaming Lips: Oklahoma City psychedelic alternative rock band formed in 1983, led by Wayne Coyne; known for Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, The Soft Bulletin, three Grammys, and confetti-filled live shows with Coyne's space bubble.

The Floozies

The Floozies are an American electro-funk duo of brothers Matt Hill (guitar, talk box) and Mark Hill (drums) from Lawrence, Kansas, formed in 2008 and known for festival appearances at Bonnaroo, Electric Forest, and Red Rocks.

The Flower Pot Men

The Flower Pot Men: 1967 British studio pop project by John Carter and Ken Lewis (ex-Ivy League) behind "Let's Go to San Francisco" (UK #4); touring band became White Plains; distinct from the 1980s electronic act.

The Flying Burrito Brothers

The Flying Burrito Brothers, country-rock band formed in 1968 in Los Angeles by ex-Byrds Gram Parsons and Chris Hillman, best known for The Gilded Palace of Sin (1969), a commercial flop that became the blueprint for country-rock; later renamed the Burrito Brothers.