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Blue Velvet (film)
Blue Velvet is David Lynch's 1986 American neo-noir mystery drama starring Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, and Laura Dern, in which a severed ear found in a field leads a student into a small town's violent underworld; made for $7 million by De Laurentiis with Lynch's final cut.
Blue White Red
Blue White Red is a 1998 debut novel by Congolese-French writer Alain Mabanckou about a young Congolese man's disillusioning experience of illegal immigration in Paris.
Blue-and-green landscape
Blue-and-green landscape, or qinglü shanshui, is a Chinese landscape painting genre using mineral azurite and malachite pigments, one of the two main modes of Chinese landscape painting.
Blue-eyed soul
Blue-eyed soul, or white soul, is rhythm and blues and soul music performed by white artists. Coined in the 1960s for The Righteous Brothers, it sparked radio airplay and authenticity debates.
Blue's Clues
Blue's Clues: American Nick Jr. preschool series (1996–2006, 143 episodes) by Kessler, Santomero, and Johnson; animated dog Blue leaves three paw-print clues for hosts Steve Burns, then Joe, in a research-based interactive format.
Blue's Clues & You!
Blue's Clues & You! is Nickelodeon's 2019 interactive preschool reboot of Blue's Clues, hosted by Joshua Dela Cruz as Josh, Blue's cousin-figure, with CG-animated Blue, a smartphone Handy Dandy Notebook, returning characters, and guest spots by Steve Burns and Donovan Patton.
Bluebeard (1963 film)
Bluebeard, original French title Landru, is Claude Chabrol's 1963 French-Italian crime drama written with Françoise Sagan, starring Charles Denner as serial killer Henri Désiré Landru, who murdered wealthy women in World War I France; released 25 January 1963, 115 minutes, color, 1.66:1.
Bluebeard's Castle
Bluebeard's Castle (A kékszakállú herceg vára) is Béla Bartók's only opera, a 1911 one-act psychodrama with a Béla Balázs libretto, premiered Budapest 1918, in which Judith opens seven doors of Bluebeard's castle.
Blueface
Blueface (Johnathan Jamall Porter, born 1997) is a Los Angeles rapper known for his offbeat flow, the RIAA-Platinum Billboard top-10 hit "Thotiana," the 2018 mixtape Famous Cryp, Cash Money West signing, and 2020 debut album Find the Beat.
Bluegrass music
Bluegrass music, an American string band genre named for Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys, emerged fully in 1945-48 with Scruggs-style banjo, high lonesome vocals, and turn-taking solos distinct from old-time music.
Blues
Blues, or blues music, is a secular music that emerged among African Americans in the rural southern United States in the late nineteenth century, built on twelve-bar forms and blue notes.
Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton
Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton, "The Beano Album" (Decca, 22 July 1966), by John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers with John McVie and Hughie Flint; the record on which Clapton's 1960 Les Paul through a cranked Marshall JTM45 combo set the blues-rock guitar template, peaking at No. 6 in the UK.
Blues Brothers 2000
Blues Brothers 2000 (1998) is John Landis and Dan Aykroyd's sequel to The Blues Brothers, with Elwood Blues re-forming the band after Jake's death; it earned $14M domestic and mixed reviews.
Blues festivals in Europe
Blues festivals in Europe are annual music events devoted substantially to blues, ranging from small volunteer-run club festivals to free open-air city events and ticketed destination festivals.
Blues festivals in North America
Blues festivals in North America are annual events celebrating blues music, from the Chicago Blues Festival, the world's largest free one, to Mississippi's roughly fifty festivals.
Blues festivals outside Europe and North America
Blues festivals outside Europe and North America are recurring blues music events, including Rio das Ostras in Brazil, the Mahindra Blues Festival in Mumbai, and Bluesfest in Byron Bay, Australia.
Blues for Allah
Blues for Allah: Grateful Dead's eighth studio album, September 1975, Grateful Dead Records/United Artists; recorded at Bob Weir's Ace's studio during the 1975 touring hiatus; peaked at #12 Billboard; jazz-fusion suite Help on the Way/Slipknot!/Franklin's Tower; 2025 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition.
Blues Hall of Fame
Blues Hall of Fame: honor roll and Memphis museum of the Blues Foundation (est. 1980 by Joe Savarin), with five induction categories, over 400 inductees, and a museum opened May 8, 2015 at 421 S. Main Street. Distinct from the St. Louis Blues hockey hall of fame (est. 2023).
Blues rock
Blues rock: hybrid genre fusing electric blues forms (12-bar, dominant 7ths, minor pentatonic) with rock volume and improvisation; emerged late 1960s via Cream, Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Butterfield Band; parent of heavy metal and Southern rock.
Blues Saraceno
Blues Saraceno (born 1971) is an American guitarist from Connecticut, ex-Poison (1993–1996), who toured with Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker and now composes TV and film production music.
Blues scale
Blues scale: six-note scale = minor pentatonic plus flatted fifth (1, b3, 4, b5, 5, b7). C blues: C, Eb, F, Gb, G, Bb. The added blue note is a passing tritone; a major blues variant exists.
Blues Traveler
Blues Traveler is an American blues-rock jam band formed in Princeton, NJ, led by John Popper. Known for the six-times-platinum album Four (1994), the Grammy-winning hit "Run-Around," and the H.O.R.D.E. festival.
Blues Unlimited
Blues Unlimited was a British magazine devoted entirely to blues music, published from 1963 to 1987 and credited as the world's first magazine dedicated to the subject.
Bluey (2018 TV series)
Bluey (2018 TV series): Australian animated preschool show created by Joe Brumm, produced by Ludo Studio for ABC and BBC Studios, about Blue Heeler puppy Bluey, sister Bingo, and parents Bandit and Chilli; Emmy, Peabody and Logie winner, Disney+ hit, with The Bluey Movie due August 2027.
Bluff City Law
Bluff City Law is an American legal drama television series that aired on NBC in 2019, following a Memphis civil rights firm led by Elijah Strait (Jimmy Smits) and his estranged daughter Sydney (Caitlin McGee).
Bluffmaster!
Bluffmaster! (ब्लफ़ मास्टर) is a 2005 Hindi con-comedy directed by Rohan Sippy, starring Abhishek Bachchan, Priyanka Chopra, Riteish Deshmukh, and Nana Patekar; released 16 December 2005, it earned ₹31.59 crore worldwide. Distinct from the unrelated 2012 Marathi and 2018 Telugu films of the same name.
Blumhouse Productions
Blumhouse Productions, Jason Blum's Los Angeles horror studio (merged with James Wan's Atomic Monster, 2024), defined by a micro-budget model behind Paranormal Activity, The Purge, Get Out, and Five Nights at Freddy's.
Blunt Talk
Blunt Talk is a Starz half-hour comedy (2015-2016, two seasons) created by Jonathan Ames with Seth MacFarlane, starring Patrick Stewart in his first comedy lead as British cable-news host Walter Blunt in Los Angeles; Metacritic season 1 score 56.
Blur (band)
Blur are an English rock band formed in London in 1989 by Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James, and Dave Rowntree, central to the 1990s Britpop movement.
Blur (Blur album)
Blur (1997) is the English rock band Blur's fifth studio album, released by Food Records on 10 February 1997. Recorded in London and Reykjavik with producer Stephen Street, it abandoned Britpop for American lo-fi alt-rock, with the UK number-one single Beetlebum and the US hit Song 2.