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Wes Borland
Wes Borland, American guitarist of nu metal band Limp Bizkit, also of Black Light Burns, Big Dumb Face, and solo album Crystal Machete; known for tremolo-arm riffs, low tunings, stage costumes, and 2026 Jackson King V signature guitar.
Wes Montgomery
Wes Montgomery (John Leslie Montgomery, 1923-1968), Indianapolis jazz guitarist who played with his thumb instead of a pick, pioneered signature octave solos, and moved from Riverside's The Incredible Jazz Guitar (1960) to Grammy-winning pop-jazz on Verve and A&M.
Wes Scantlin
Wes Scantlin (Wesley Reid Scantlin) is the American singer, guitarist, and songwriter who founded and remains the frontman of post-grunge band Puddle of Mudd, known for Come Clean (2001) and hits Control, Blurry, and She Hates Me.
Wesley La Violette
Wesley LaViolette (1894–1978) was an American composer and teacher who wrote three symphonies and two operas and taught jazz musicians including Shorty Rogers and Jimmy Giuffre.
Wesley Schultz
Wesley Schultz (Wesley Keith Schultz, born 1982, Ramsey, NJ) is the American lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter of folk rock band the Lumineers, co-founded with Jeremiah Fraites; known for "Ho Hey," the albums Cleopatra, III, Brightside, Automatic, and his 2020 solo covers album Vignettes.
Wesley Willis
Wesley Lawrence Willis (1963–2003), Chicago outsider musician and visual artist; keyboard-driven three-chord songs, over 50 albums, ballpoint Chicago cityscapes, schizophrenia, Wesley Willis Fiasco, died of leukemia at 40.
Wessel van Diepen
Wessel van Diepen, also known as DJ Delmundo, is a Dutch radio DJ, voice-over, and dance producer born in 1966 in Delft who co-founded Radio 538 in 1992 and created the Vengaboys.
West (band)
WEST. (ウエスト), formerly Johnny's WEST, was a seven-member Japanese male idol group from Kansai Johnny's Jr. under STARTO ENTERTAINMENT. Debuted 2014 with "ええじゃないか", renamed October 2023 after the Kitagawa scandal, and ended group activities 30 September 2026.
West Coast (Lana Del Rey song)
"West Coast" (Lana Del Rey song): 2014 single, first from Ultraviolence, written with Rick Nowels, produced by Dan Auerbach; premiered at Coachella, debuted at number 17 on the Hot 100, certified Silver in the UK.
West Coast hip hop
West Coast hip hop is a regional hip hop scene centered on Los Angeles, dating to the early 1980s and known for gangsta rap and G-funk.
West End Girl
West End Girl is Lily Allen's fifth studio album, released 24 October 2025 on BMG. A 14-track concept album about her marriage breakdown with David Harbour, written in 10 days, it peaked at number 2 in the UK and earned a Metacritic score of 83.
West End Girls
West End Girls: Pet Shop Boys synth-pop song by Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe; Bobby Orlando 1984 version flopped, Stephen Hague 1985 re-recording hit number 1 in the UK and US, sold 1.5 million, won the 1987 BRIT for Best Single.
West Meets East
West Meets East is a 1967 Angel Records album pairing sitarist Ravi Shankar and violinist Yehudi Menuhin, recorded at Abbey Road Studio Three in July 1966 after their Bath Festival debut. It won the 1968 Grammy for Best Chamber Music Performance and topped classical charts for six months.
Westbam
Westbam, born Maximilian Lenz in 1965, is a German techno DJ who founded Low Spirit Recordings and played every Love Parade from 1989 to 2008.
Western concert flute
Western concert flute, also C flute, silver flute, or Boehm flute: the standard transverse, side-blown C woodwind of orchestras and bands. Cylindrical metal Boehm-system design by Theobald Boehm, 1847; about 67 cm; non-transposing, range C4 to C7 or F7.
Western music (North America)
Western music (North America) is the cowboy- and frontier-themed popular music tradition of the American West, distinct from but fused with country as "country and western"; its core forms include cowboy ballads, singing-cowboy songs, and western swing.
Western Stars
Western Stars, Bruce Springsteen's 19th studio album (Columbia, June 14, 2019), a character-driven, orchestral country-tinged folk-pop record co-produced with Ron Aniello; US No. 2, UK and Germany No. 1, with a 2019 Thom Zimny co-directed concert film.
Westerwaldlied
Westerwaldlied, also "O du schöner Westerwald" or "Westerwaldmarsch": German folk and soldier song about the Westerwald, text 1932 by Willi Münker's FAD camp, march by Joseph Neuhäuser 1935, popular Wehrmacht song, contested in the Bundeswehr songbook.
Westlife
Westlife: Irish pop vocal group formed in Sligo, 3 July 1998, managed by Louis Walsh; 14 UK Number 1 singles (behind only the Beatles and Elvis), 8 Number 1 albums, 55 million records; split 2012, reunited 2018.
Westminster Choir College
Westminster Choir College, founded 1926 by John Finley Williamson in Dayton, Ohio, is a choral-focused music college of Rider University, moved from its Princeton campus to Lawrenceville in 2020, famed for the Westminster Symphonic Choir.
Westside Connection
Westside Connection, the Los Angeles gangsta rap supergroup of Ice Cube, Mack 10, and WC, released Bow Down (1996, platinum) and Terrorist Threats (2003, gold) before disbanding in 2005 after a feud between Mack 10 and Ice Cube's brother-in-law.
Westside Cowboy
Westside Cowboy: Manchester indie rock four-piece formed 2023 (Bradbury, Haycocks, O'Connell, Murphy), winners of Glastonbury's 2025 Emerging Talent Competition; creators of the "Britainicana" sound; debut album It Goes On released August 2026 on Island Records.
Westside Gunn
Westside Gunn (Alvin Lamar Worthy, b. 1982), also the Flygod, is a Buffalo rapper and Griselda Records co-founder known for the Hitler Wears Hermes mixtape series, Flygod (2016), Pray for Paris (2020), and reviving 1990s New York hardcore rap.
Wet Leg
Wet Leg: English indie rock band formed 2019 on the Isle of Wight by Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers; viral 2021 single "Chaise Longue," 2022 UK No. 1 debut, Grammy and BRIT winner, five-piece since moisturizer (2025).
Wet Wet Wet
Wet Wet Wet, Scottish pop-soul band formed in Glasgow in 1982 (Graeme Clark, Tommy Cunningham, Neil Mitchell, Marti Pellow, Graeme Duffin), best known for the 15-week UK No. 1 cover "Love Is All Around" from Four Weddings and a Funeral.
Weval
Weval are an Amsterdam electronic music duo formed by Harm Coolen and Merijn Scholte Albers in 2010, known for albums on Kompakt and Ninja Tune's Technicolour.
Weverse
Weverse (위버스) is a global fan platform launched in 2019 by beNX, a subsidiary of South Korean entertainment firm HYBE, combining artist posts, paid messaging, shopping, and ticketing.
Weyes Blood
Weyes Blood is the musical project of American singer-songwriter Natalie Mering, known for orchestral folk-pop and the acclaimed albums Titanic Rising (2019) and And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow (2022).
WGFT (song)
WGFT ("We Gettin' Fucked Tonight", censored as "She Goin' Up Tonight") is a 2025 hip-hop single by Gunna featuring Burna Boy, the third single from The Last Wun, peaking at No. 16 on the Hot 100.
Wh0
Wh0 is a British house music act formed in 2018 by Robert Chetcuti and Tom Cross, known for a masked image and releases on Toolroom Records.