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Violator (album)
Violator is Depeche Mode's seventh studio album, released 19 March 1990 on Mute, produced with Flood, written by Martin Gore, featuring Personal Jesus and Enjoy the Silence, and selling over 7 million records.
Violence Insane in a Beautiful World
Violence Insane in a Beautiful World is the seventh solo studio album by Queen's Roger Taylor, released on 18 September 2026 through Columbia Records, his first since 2021's Outsider.
Violent Femmes
Violent Femmes are an American folk-punk band formed in Milwaukee in 1981 by Gordon Gano, Brian Ritchie, and Victor DeLorenzo, known for "Blister in the Sun."
Violent Femmes (album)
Violent Femmes (1983) is the Milwaukee folk-punk band's self-titled Slash Records debut, produced by Mark Van Hecke, recorded in a week in 1982, platinum in 1991, peak Billboard 200 No. 171, with 'Blister in the Sun' and 'Kiss Off'.
Violent J
Violent J (Joseph Frank Bruce, b. 1972, Berkley, Michigan) is the Detroit rapper who co-founded Insane Clown Posse, created the Dark Carnival mythology, and runs Psychopathic Records and Juggalo Championship Wrestling.
Violent Nature
Violent Nature is I Prevail's fourth studio album, released September 19, 2025 on Fearless Records; the metalcore band's first album without Brian Burkheiser, with Eric Vanlerberghe on both clean and harsh vocals.
Violent Vira
Violent Vira is the Mexican-American hard rock and metalcore project of singer Amy Gonzalez with Anthony Brown and Matt Bolling; viral 2021 single "I Don't Care" led to the 2023 EP Till' Death Was Never Enough and the 2025 Mom+Pop debut album Lover of a Ghost.
Violet Grohl
Violet Grohl, eldest daughter of Dave Grohl, is an American alt-rock singer-songwriter. Her 11-track debut album Be Sweet to Me (May 2026, Auroura/Republic/Island), produced by Justin Raisen, followed years as a Foo Fighters backing vocalist.
Violet Hensley
Violet Hensley (1916-2026), the "Whittlin' Fiddler" and "Stradivarius of the Ozarks," was an Arkansas fiddle maker and old-time fiddler who hand-carved 73 fiddles, performed over 50 years at Silver Dollar City, and debuted at the Grand Ole Opry at 99.
Violin
The Violin is a bowed string instrument that emerged in northern Italy in the early sixteenth century. Andrea Amati of Cremona was one of the first prominent makers.
Violin Concerto (Beethoven)
Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 (Violinkonzert D-Dur), Beethoven's only violin concerto, written November 1806 for Franz Clement, premiered 23 December 1806 at the Theater an der Wien, revised 1807, revived by 12-year-old Joachim under Mendelssohn in London in 1844.
Violin Concerto (Mendelssohn)
Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 (MWV O 14), written for Ferdinand David, begun 1838, completed 1844, premiered March 13, 1845 in Leipzig, with immediate solo entry and written-out mid-movement cadenza.
Violin family
Violin family: bowed string instruments of one design family, violin, viola, cello, and hybrid double bass, standardized in Cremona and Brescia around 1550 by Amati and successors.
VIP Records
VIP Records is a UK-based independent Bhangra and British Asian record label founded in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 2005 by DJ Vipen Kumar, known as DJ VIPs.
Viper (rapper)
Viper (rapper), stage name of Lee Carter (born 1971), is a Houston, Texas underground rapper from El Dorado, Arkansas, known for the viral album You'll Cowards Don't Even Smoke Crack, thousands of self-released songs, and RhymeTyme Records.
Virgin (Lorde album)
Virgin (2025) is the fourth studio album by New Zealand singer Lorde, released June 27, 2025 via Universal Music New Zealand. Produced mainly with Jim-E Stack, it returns to electronic pop after Solar Power, with an X-ray pelvis cover and themes of gender, body, and heartbreak.
Virgin Killer
Virgin Killer is the fourth studio album by German hard rock band Scorpions, released October 9, 1976 on RCA. Known for its banned nude-child cover art, Dieter Dierks production, Uli Jon Roth songwriting, and being the band's first Gold album in Japan.
Virgin Records
Virgin Records, British record label founded in 1972 by Richard Branson, Simon Draper, Nik Powell, and Tom Newman; first release Tubular Bells (1973), signed the Sex Pistols, sold to Thorn EMI in 1992, now under Universal Music Group.
Virgo Four (group)
Virgo Four, also released as Virgo, is an American house duo from Chicago formed by Merwyn Sanders and Eric Lewis, whose 1989 album Virgo became a deep house landmark.
Virgoun
Virgoun, full name Virgoun Putra Tambunan, is an Indonesian singer-songwriter, vocalist and co-founder of the pop-punk band Last Child, best known for his 2016 solo hit 'Surat Cinta Untuk Starla'.
Virtual band
Virtual band: a music group whose members are fictional animated or digital characters, with real musicians recording behind the scenes. Key names: Gorillaz (Damon Albarn, Jamie Hewlett), Hatsune Miku, PLAVE. Distinguished from hologram revivals of real artists by invented characters.
Virtual Insanity
Virtual Insanity is a 1996 Jamiroquai song by Jay Kay and Toby Smith from Travelling Without Moving. UK chart peak 3; its Jonathan Glazer moving-room video won four 1997 MTV VMAs and a 1998 Grammy.
Virtual Riot
Virtual Riot, real name Valentin Brunn, is a German dubstep producer and DJ active since 2011, known for genre-defining sound design and as Beatport's best-selling dubstep artist.
Virtual Riot b2b Barely Alive
Virtual Riot b2b Barely Alive is a back-to-back DJ pairing of German dubstep producer Virtual Riot (Valentin Brunn) and American act Barely Alive, longtime artists on Disciple Recordings.
Virtual Studio Technology
Virtual Studio Technology (VST), Steinberg's 1996 audio plug-in interface, integrates software synths and effects into DAWs; current VST 3 (2008) is MIT-licensed, cross-platform, and competes with AU, AAX, and CLAP.
Virtual XI
Virtual XI, Iron Maiden's eleventh studio album (EMI, March 23, 1998), the second and last with vocalist Blaze Bayley, produced by Steve Harris, peaking at No. 16 UK and ending the Blaze era.
Virtuoso
Virtuoso: a person of exceptional skill, especially in music; from Italian via Late Latin virtuosus. Originally a scholar or connoisseur (1610s); musical sense by 1743; defined by Paganini and Liszt.
Virusi Mbaya
Virusi Mbaya is the stage name of Peter Waweru, a Kenyan hip-hop artist from Kibera, Nairobi, whose 2025 and 2026 releases, including "Have Mercy" with Scar Mkadinali, brought wider visibility.
Visa for Music
Visa for Music is an annual four-day music showcase festival and professional market held each November in Rabat, Morocco, founded in 2014 by Brahim El Mazned.
Visage (band)
Visage were a British New Romantic synth-pop band formed in 1978 by Steve Strange and Rusty Egan of London's Blitz Club; their 1980 single "Fade to Grey" topped charts in 17 countries, and the band recorded albums including The Anvil (1982) and posthumous Demons to Diamonds.