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The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society, the Kinks' sixth studio album, released 22 November 1968 on Pye, produced by Ray Davies; a nostalgic concept album about English village life that failed commercially but is now ranked among the greatest British albums.

The Kinks discography

The Kinks discography: catalog of the English rock band the Kinks (also the Kink Kontroversy era), spanning Pye, RCA, Arista, London, and Columbia releases from Kinks (1964) to Phobia (1993), with 50 million records sold.

The KLF

The KLF (Kopyright Liberation Front, also The JAMs, The Timelords) were Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty's British acid house and ambient house duo, 1987–1992, on KLF Communications, famous for the ABBA sample affair, Chill Out, the 1992 Brits protest, and burning £1m.

The Knack

The Knack: American power pop band formed in Los Angeles, May 1978 (Fieger, Averre, Niles, Gary); 'My Sharona' and Get the Knack topped 1979 charts, followed by backlash, breakups, reunions, and Fieger's 2010 death.

The Knife

The Knife: Swedish electronic duo of siblings Karin Dreijer Andersson and Olof Dreijer, formed 1999; albums The Knife, Deep Cuts, Silent Shout, Shaking the Habitual; disbanded 2014.

The Knocks

The Knocks are an electronic music duo from New York City made up of Ben Ruttner and James Patterson, known for disco- and house-inflected dance music.

The Köln Concert

The Köln Concert is Keith Jarrett's 1975 ECM double album of a fully improvised solo piano recital at the Cologne Opera House, played on a faulty rehearsal piano; the best-selling solo jazz and piano album ever.

The Kolors (group)

The Kolors are an Italian pop trio formed in Milan in 2009, whose single "ITALODISCO" spent 11 weeks at number one in Italy in 2023.

The Konnakol Tour

The Konnakol Tour is Zayn Malik's 2026 31-date Live Nation arena tour supporting his fifth album Konnakol, announced February 5, 2026, but largely cancelled after a May 2026 health scare.

The Kooks

The Kooks are an English indie rock band formed in Brighton in 2003, led by Luke Pritchard with Hugh Harris. Their 2006 debut Inside In/Inside Out went 5x platinum; Konk hit UK No. 1; Naive nears a billion streams.

The Kovenant

The Kovenant, formerly Covenant, is a Norwegian metal band formed in 1993 by Nagash and Blackheart, known for symphonic black metal album Nexus Polaris (1998, Spellemannsprisen winner) and later industrial albums Animatronic and SETI, reunited since 2024.

The La's

The La's are a Liverpool guitar-pop band formed in 1983 by Mike Badger, led by Lee Mavers, known only for the 1990 album The La's and the hit single There She Goes, which Mavers disowned.

The Lady in My Life

The Lady in My Life is the closing track of Michael Jackson's 1982 album Thriller, a Rod Temperton quiet storm ballad produced by Quincy Jones, never a single or performed live, later sampled by LL Cool J's Hey Lover and covered by Maxwell at the 2022 Billboard Music Awards.

The Lady in Red (Chris de Burgh song)

"The Lady in Red" is a 1986 Chris de Burgh ballad from Into the Light, his first UK number one (3 weeks), a US number 3, inspired by his wife Diane in a red dress.

The Lady of Rage

The Lady of Rage (Robin Yvette Allen, born 1966), Virginia-born rapper and actress on Death Row Records, known for "Afro Puffs" (1994), the 1997 album Necessary Roughness, and roles in The Steve Harvey Show and Next Friday.

The Lamb as Effigy

The Lamb as Effigy (or Three Hundred and Fifty XOXOXOS for a Spark Union with My Darling Divine) is the 2023 second and final album by experimental rock band Sprain, released by The Flenser, 8 tracks and 96:38 long, followed by the band's disbanding.

The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway: 1974 double concept album by Genesis, sixth and last studio album with Peter Gabriel, telling the surreal New York story of Rael; UK No. 10, US No. 41, 50th-anniversary edition 2025.

The Last Dinner Party

The Last Dinner Party: London five-piece indie/baroque pop band (Morris, Mayland, Roberts, Davies, Nishevci), formed 2021, debut single Nothing Matters 2023, UK number-one debut Prelude to Ecstasy 2024, second album From the Pyre 2025.

The Last in Line

The Last in Line is Dio's 1984 second album, recorded at Caribou Ranch with keyboardist Claude Schnell; it peaked at UK No. 4 and US Billboard No. 23, went RIAA Platinum in 1987, and later named the band Last In Line.

The Last Rockstars

The Last Rockstars (ザ・ラスト・ロックスターズ) are a Japanese rock supergroup formed in 2022 by YOSHIKI, HYDE, SUGIZO, and MIYAVI, who toured Japan and the United States in 2023.

The Last Shadow Puppets

The Last Shadow Puppets are an English orchestral pop duo formed in 2007 by Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner and the Rascals' Miles Kane, releasing The Age of the Understatement (2008, UK No. 1) and Everything You've Come to Expect (2016) on Domino.

The Last Will and Testament

The Last Will and Testament is Opeth's fourteenth studio album, a concept album released on November 22, 2024, marking the return of Mikael Åkerfeldt's death metal growled vocals.

The Last Wun

The Last Wun is Gunna's sixth studio album, released August 8, 2025 via Young Stoner Life/300 Entertainment; 25 tracks, Turbo executive production, Afrobeats features, No. 3 Billboard 200 debut.

The Latin Brothers

The Latin Brothers (Los Latin Brothers) are a Colombian salsa orchestra formed in 1974 in Medellín by Fruko on the Discos Fuentes label, known for a trombone-heavy sound.

The Left Banke

The Left Banke: American baroque pop band formed in New York City in 1965, best known for "Walk Away Renée" (#5, 1966) and "Pretty Ballerina" (#15, 1967), built around teenage keyboardist Michael Brown, with harpsichord and string arrangements.

The Legend of the Purple Hairpin

The Legend of the Purple Hairpin (紫钗记) is a 1957 Cantonese opera by Tong Dik-sang, adapted from Tang Xianzu's Ming drama about the lovers Li Yi and Huo Xiaoyu.

The Lemon Twigs

The Lemon Twigs are Brian and Michael D'Addario, brothers from Long Island, New York, whose six albums of Beatles, Beach Boys, and Todd Rundgren-inspired power pop span 4AD and Captured Tracks, from Do Hollywood (2016) to Look For Your Mind! (2026).

The Lemonheads

The Lemonheads: Boston alternative rock band founded 1986 by Evan Dando, Ben Deily, and Jesse Peretz; Taang! hardcore origins, Atlantic-era hits "Mrs. Robinson" and "Into Your Arms," 2025 album Love Chant on Fire Records.

The Lennon Sisters

The Lennon Sisters are an American vocal group formed in 1955 in Venice, California, famous from The Lawrence Welk Show; original members Dianne, Peggy, Kathy, and Janet Lennon, now Kathy, Janet, and Mimi.

The Less I Know the Better

The Less I Know the Better: 2015 disco-funk Tame Impala song by Kevin Parker from Currents; bassline is a guitar synth, nearly given to Mark Ronson, 2.65 billion Spotify streams, won triple j's Hottest 100 of the Decade.