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Basmati Blues

Basmati Blues is a 2017 American Bollywood-style musical rom-com by Dan Baron starring Brie Larson as a scientist selling sterile GMO rice in Kerala, India; its 2017 trailer drew white-savior backlash and the film flopped critically and commercially.

Basohli painting

Basohli painting is a school of Pahari miniature painting that flourished in the late 17th and 18th centuries in Basohli, a hill state in present-day Jammu and Kashmir.

Basohli Tantric Devi series

The Basohli Tantric Devi series is a set of about seventy miniature paintings of the goddess Devi, made around 1660 to 1670 at Basohli in North India.

Basque cuisine

Basque cuisine (Euskal sukaldaritza, cocina vasca) is the cooking of the Basque Country, Spain/France: pintxos, txokos, cod and four sauces, New Basque Cuisine from 1977 led by Arzak and Subijana, and the Basque Culinary Center in San Sebastián.

Basquiat (film)

Basquiat (1996) is Julian Schnabel's directorial debut biopic of painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, starring Jeffrey Wright and David Bowie as Andy Warhol, released by Miramax and restored in 4K in 2024.

Bass

Bass: the double bass (upright bass, contrabass), the largest, lowest-pitched bowed orchestral string tuned in fourths, and the related electric bass guitar defined by Fender's 1951 Precision Bass.

Bass (voice type)

Bass (voice type): the lowest common male singing voice, typically E2–E4, below baritone and tenor. Subtypes include basso profondo, basso cantante, bass-baritone, and Russian oktavists; known for Sarastro, Osmin, and Wotan roles.

Bass Brewery

Bass Brewery, founded by William Bass in Burton upon Trent in 1777 as Bass, Ratcliff & Gretton, made the famous Bass Pale Ale, registered the UK's first trade mark (the red triangle, 1876), and is now an AB InBev brand brewed under contract at Burton.

Bass Brothers

Bass Brothers: Detroit production duo Jeff and Mark Bass, aka F.B.T. Productions (Funky Bass Team), who discovered and signed Eminem, produced The Slim Shady LP through 8 Mile, won an Oscar and Grammy for "Lose Yourself," and founded Web Entertainment and F.B.T. Studios in Ferndale, Michigan.

Bass Canyon

Bass Canyon is an annual three-day bass music festival at the Gorge Amphitheatre in George, Washington, founded, curated, and headlined by dubstep producer Excision since 2018.

Bass clarinet

Bass clarinet (Bassklarinette, clarinetto basso): single-reed woodwind an octave below the B-flat clarinet, about 132 cm long. First built in bassoon form by Grenser (1793); modern straight form by Adolphe Sax (1838); orchestral debut in Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots.

Bass drum

Bass drum (grosse caisse, gran cassa): a large low-pitched cylindrical drum with one or two heads, used in orchestras, military and marching bands, and drum kits, where the kick drum is played by foot pedal; entered the orchestra via Gluck in 1761 from Janissary music.

Bass guitar

Bass guitar: low-pitched stringed instrument, usually four strings, played horizontally with pickups and amplification. Invented in solidbody form by Paul Tutmarc in the 1930s; commercialized by the Fender Precision Bass of 1951.

Bass house

Bass house is a subgenre of house music fusing four-on-the-floor grooves with distorted bass music low-end, at 124 to 128 BPM, with Jauz, AC Slater, and Tchami among its central figures.

Bass Modulators

Bass Modulators is a Dutch hardstyle act founded in 2007 by Rick Buijtenhek and Roland Evers, known for a euphoric sound and festival sets at Defqon.1 and Qlimax.

Bass-D

Bass-D (Eugenio Dorwart, 1973–2026) was a Dutch hardcore DJ and producer who won the 1992 Dutch DJ Championship, formed the duo Bass-D & King Matthew, and co-founded Masters of Hardcore.

Basscon Wasteland

Basscon Wasteland, known since 2026 as the Wasteland Festival, is an annual hard dance festival presented by Insomniac's Basscon brand at the NOS Events Center in San Bernardino, California.

Basse Yutz Flagons

The Basse Yutz Flagons are a pair of early Celtic bronze wine flagons found in Lorraine, France, in 1927 and held in the British Museum.

Bassekou Kouyaté

Bassekou Kouyaté, born 1966 in the Ségou region of Mali, is a ngoni player and bandleader who leads the amplified ngoni quartet Ngoni Ba.

Basshunter

Basshunter, real name Jonas Erik Altberg, is a Swedish singer, producer, and DJ whose 2008 single "Now You're Gone" spent five weeks at number one on the UK chart.

Bassivity Digital

Bassivity Digital, also known as Bassivity Music, is a Belgrade-based hip-hop and urban music label, described as the largest urban music platform in the Balkans.

Bassline

Bassline, also called bassline house or Niche, is a UK garage sub-genre that emerged in Yorkshire and the Midlands in the early 2000s, known for heavy bass.

Bassnectar

Bassnectar, the stage name of Lorin Ashton, is an American DJ and electronic music producer from Santa Cruz, California, known for a bass-heavy blend of dubstep, breakbeat, and drum 'n' bass.

Basso continuo

Basso continuo, or figured bass and thoroughbass (Generalbass, basse continue), is the Baroque practice of improvising chords above a notated bass line; it originated in early 1600s Italy, declined in the late eighteenth century, and thrives in historically informed performance.

Basso profondo

Basso profondo (Italian for "deep bass"), also called contrabass or oktavist, is the lowest bass voice type, heard in opera and Russian Orthodox choral music.

Bassoon

Bassoon (Fagott, fagotto, basson): lowest standard orchestral woodwind, a non-transposing double-reed instrument in C with range B♭1 upward, Heckel and French systems, four-joint maple body, and a contrabassoon cousin an octave lower.

Bassrush Massive

Bassrush Massive is a recurring bass music event series by Insomniac's Bassrush brand, held since the early 2010s in Las Vegas, San Bernardino, and Phoenix.

Bassrush Massive 2014

Bassrush Massive 2014 was a series of bass-music events under Bassrush, Insomniac Events' bass brand, including an April 5 show at the NOS Events Center in San Bernardino.

Bassrush Massive 2017

Bassrush Massive 2017 was a one-night bass music show at The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas on June 15, 2017, during EDC Week, with Datsik, Flux Pavilion, and Zomboy.

Bassrush Massive 2018

Bassrush Massive 2018 was a two-day bass music festival staged by Insomniac's Bassrush brand at the NOS Events Center in San Bernardino, California, on July 20 and 21, 2018.