Arts and culture

Awdl

An awdl (plural awdlau) is a long Welsh poem written in cynghanedd and strict bardic meters, the form required to win the chair at the National Eisteddfod of Wales.

Awe! (Telugu: అ!), 2018 Telugu psychological drama, Prasanth Varma's directorial debut produced by Nani; converging storylines on mental health, sexuality, and time travel; won two 66th National Film Awards.

Awesome City Club

Awesome City Club is a Japanese band formed in 2013 in Shibuya, Tokyo, known for funk and city-pop sounds with male-female twin vocals; its 2021 song "勿忘" won a Japan Record Award.

Awich

Awich (エーウィッチ) is the stage name of Akiko Urasaki, a Japanese rapper from Naha, Okinawa, born in 1986, who made her major debut in 2020 and headlined Nippon Budokan.

Awilo Longomba

Awilo Longomba is a Congolese singer and former drummer born in 1962 in Kinshasa, whose 1998 hit album Coupé Bibamba made him a pan-African star.

Awit

Awit, a Tagalog word meaning "song," also names a Philippine narrative romance in 12-syllable quatrains from the Spanish colonial period, best known through Balagtas's Florante at Laura.

Awit Awards

The Awit Awards are the Philippine music industry's awards honoring Filipino recording artists and producers, presented by PARI since 1969 and often called the local Grammys.

Awit ni Labaw Donggon

Awit ni Labaw Donggon ("The Song of Labaw Donggon") is a Philippine epic cycle of the Sulod people's Hinilawod chant tradition, published by F. Landa Jocano in 1965.

Awkwafina

Awkwafina is the stage name of Nora Lum, an American actress, comedian, and rapper from New York who starred in Ocean's 8, Crazy Rich Asians, and The Farewell.

Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens

Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens: Comedy Central single-camera sitcom (2020-2023, 3 seasons, 27 episodes) created by Awkwafina and Teresa Hsiao, starring Awkwafina as Nora Lin with BD Wong, Lori Tan Chinn, and Bowen Yang, loosely based on her Queens upbringing.

Awkward (TV series)

Awkward. is an MTV high school comedy (2011–2016) created by Lauren Iungerich, starring Ashley Rickards as Jenna Hamilton, narrated via her snarky blog voice-over; Metascore 75, now on Paramount+ and Pluto TV.

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Awkward Black Girl

The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl (ABG) is Issa Rae's two-season YouTube comedy web series, premiered February 3, 2011, starring J, an awkward Black office worker; it won the 2012 Shorty Award and led to HBO's Insecure.

Awolnation

AWOLNATION is an American rock band formed in 2010 in Los Angeles by Aaron Bruno, known for the triple-platinum 2011 single "Sail" and six albums including Megalithic Symphony, Run, and The Phantom Five.

Ax and the Hatchetmen

Ax and the Hatchetmen, a Chicago indie rock sextet formed in 2018 by Axel Ellis and Sal Defilippis, blends jazz-trained musicianship, trumpet and saxophone, and Strokes-influenced rock; debut album So Much to Tell You (2025), Arista Records.

AX-Korea

AX-Korea (악스코리아) was the name of a dedicated popular-music concert hall in Gwangjin-gu, Seoul, South Korea, from 2009 to 2016, hosting K-pop and touring acts before becoming YES24 Live Hall.

Axé (music genre)

Axé music, also known as axé, is a carnival pop genre that emerged in Salvador, Bahia, in the 1980s, built for the trio elétrico sound trucks of Bahian Carnival.

Axel

Axel, also known as Axel Fernando, is an Argentine singer-songwriter of romantic pop and ballads whose 2003 album Amo made him a name across Latin America.

Axel Bakunts

Axel Bakunts (Ակսել Բակունց), born Alexander Tevosyan, was an Armenian short-story writer and agronomist known for stories of Zangezur village life, executed in Stalin's Great Purge in 1937.

Axel Braun

Axel Braun, real name Alessandro Re, born 1966 in Milan, is an Italian-American adult film director, son of pioneer Lasse Braun, famous for porn parodies like Batman XXX and Star Wars XXX, with over 300 AVN awards; distinct from the Essen artist Axel Braun and filmmaker Axel Brauns.

Axel F

Axel F is Harold Faltermeyer's 1984 instrumental synth theme for Beverly Hills Cop, named for Axel Foley; a 1985 number-one hit played on Roland JUPITER-8 and JX-3P, later remixed by Crazy Frog.

Axel F (Crazy Frog recording)

Axel F by Crazy Frog: 2005 techno remake of Harold Faltermeyer's Beverly Hills Cop theme, produced by Bass Bumpers, released 17 May 2005 on Mach 1, UK #1 for four weeks, first ringtone to top the UK chart, #1 in 23 countries, US #50.

Axel Gauvin

Axel Gauvin, born in 1944 on Réunion, is a writer and linguist who writes in French and Réunion Creole and campaigns for recognition of the island's Creole language.

Axel Salto

Axel Salto (1889–1961) was a Danish painter and ceramicist best known for organic stoneware in three styles he called fluted, budding, and sprouting, made with Royal Copenhagen.

Axel's Castle

Axel's Castle, Edmund Wilson's first book of literary criticism, published in 1931, traces French Symbolism's influence on six writers including Yeats, Proust, Joyce, Eliot, Valéry, and Stein.

Axis Mundi (Imminence album)

Axis Mundi is the sixth studio album by Swedish metalcore band Imminence, released October 2, 2026 on Sumerian Records: 11 tracks, 46 minutes, produced by Eddie Berg, Harald Barrett, and Henrik Udd, with a companion short film.

Axis: Bold as Love

Axis: Bold as Love, second studio album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, released December 1, 1967 (UK). Features "Little Wing" and "If 6 Was 9"; first official stereo phasing on record; UK number 5, US number 3.

Axl Rose

Axl Rose (W. Axl Rose, born William Bruce Rose Jr., 1962, Lafayette, Indiana) is the American singer-songwriter, sole constant member and name-owner of Guns N' Roses, frontman of the 30-million-selling Appetite for Destruction and the 17-year, $13-million Chinese Democracy saga, and AC/DC's 2016 touring vocalist.