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Dance-pop
Dance-pop is a pop music genre combining danceable, club-oriented rhythms with conventional pop songwriting, which emerged in the early 1980s United States as an outgrowth of disco.
Dance-punk
Dance-punk, also known as disco-punk, is a music genre blending punk energy with disco and funk rhythms, emerging in the late 1970s and revived in the 2000s.
Dancehall
Dancehall, also called ragga or dancehall reggae, is a style of Jamaican popular music where deejays toast over prerecorded riddims, becoming Jamaica's dominant music in the 1980s and 1990s.
Dark ambient
Dark ambient, also called ambient industrial or Black Ambient, is a post-industrial offshoot of ambient music from the mid-1980s built on drones, field recordings, and ominous atmosphere rather than beat or melody.
Dark wave
Dark wave (darkwave) is a post-punk-derived music genre from the late 1970s and early 1980s, blending new wave pop with gothic rock's dark themes; synthesizer-based, spanning 100–130 BPM, from Clan of Xymox to Boy Harsher.
Darkness on the Edge of Town
Darkness on the Edge of Town is Bruce Springsteen's fourth studio album, released by Columbia on 2 June 1978 after a legal dispute with manager Mike Appel; about 70 songs were recorded, 10 made the cut, and it peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard 200.
Dave Bickler
Dave Bickler, American rock singer, original lead vocalist of Survivor on "Eye of the Tiger" (1982, six weeks at US No. 1, Grammy winner) and voice of Bud Light's "Real Men of Genius" ads; left Survivor in 1984 over vocal nodules, returned 1993–2000 and 2013–2016, released solo album Darklight in 2018, and was sued in 2018 over use of the SURVIVOR trademark.
Deadhead
Deadhead: a devoted fan of the Grateful Dead and its touring, taping, and trading subculture; also an older English word for a non-paying passenger or spectator, attested from 1841.
Death growl
Death growl: the low, harsh, distorted extreme-metal vocal technique (also called death grunt or guttural vocals) produced with false vocal folds, credited to Jeff Becerra and codified by Death's Scream Bloody Gore in 1987.
Death metal
Death metal is an extreme metal genre that grew out of thrash metal in the mid-1980s, known for low-tuned guitars, blast beats, and deep growled vocals.
December's Children (And Everybody's)
December's Children (And Everybody's), the Rolling Stones' fifth US studio album (London PS 451, December 4, 1965), a patchwork US-only collection with Get Off of My Cloud and As Tears Go By, produced by Andrew Loog Oldham.
Deep Purple (album)
Deep Purple (1969) is the English band's self-titled third studio album, the last by the Mark I lineup, released on Tetragrammaton (US) and Harvest (UK), featuring the orchestral suite April and a Bosch cover painting.
Deep Purple in Rock
Deep Purple in Rock (1970), Harvest SHVL 777, is Deep Purple's fourth studio album and first Mark II lineup record with Gillan and Glover; UK No. 4 for 68 weeks, featuring Child In Time.
Degüello
Degüello (1979) is ZZ Top's sixth studio album and first for Warner Bros., produced by Bill Ham after a three-year hiatus. Singles "I Thank You" (No. 34) and "Cheap Sunglasses" (No. 89); platinum-selling bridge to El Loco and Eliminator.
Demons and Wizards (Uriah Heep album)
Demons and Wizards, Uriah Heep's fourth studio album, released 19 May 1972 on Bronze Records, recorded at Lansdowne Studios, produced by Gerry Bron, with Roger Dean cover, hit single Easy Livin', UK No.20, US No.23.
Destroyer (Kiss album)
Destroyer (1976) is Kiss's fourth studio album, produced by Bob Ezrin, its first platinum certification, featuring "Detroit Rock City", "God of Thunder", "Shout It Out Loud", and the No. 7 Billboard hit "Beth".
Diamond Dogs
Diamond Dogs is David Bowie's eighth studio album, a 1974 RCA concept album loosely based on Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four after rights were denied, set in Hunger City, reaching UK number one and spawning the Diamond Dogs Tour.
Digable Planets
Digable Planets: Brooklyn jazz rap trio of Butterfly (Ishmael Butler), Doodlebug (Craig Irving), and Ladybug Mecca (Mary Ann Vieira); Grammy-winning "Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)"; albums Reachin' (1993) and Blowout Comb (1994).
Digicore
Digicore is an internet-born microgenre blending trap beats, pitch-shifted auto-tuned vocals, and bit-crushed digital distortion, coined by lonelee in 2019 on SoundCloud and Discord and distinct from, though related to, hyperpop.
Digital audio workstation
A digital audio workstation (DAW) is an electronic device or software application for recording, editing, and producing audio files, used widely in music production, podcasting, and sound design.
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap is AC/DC's third studio album, released in Australia on 20 September 1976, produced by Vanda and Young, withheld from the US until 1981, when it reached No. 3.
Dirty rap
Dirty rap, also called booty rap, porno rap, or sex rap, is a hip hop subgenre focused on sexually explicit lyrics, built on Miami bass and pioneered by 2 Live Crew, with Blowfly as precursor.
Discipline (King Crimson album)
Discipline (1981) is the eighth King Crimson studio album by Robert Fripp, Adrian Belew, Tony Levin, and Bill Bruford, released by E.G. after a seven-year hiatus; a new-wave-inflected prog reinvention that peaked at UK number 41.
Disco
Disco: dance-music genre and nightclub culture from late-1960s/early-1970s New York and Philadelphia Black, Latino, and LGBTQ+ scenes; four-on-the-floor beat, 12-inch singles, Saturday Night Fever peak, 1979 backlash, legacy in house and techno.
DJ Lethal
DJ Lethal (Leor Dimant), Latvian-American turntablist and producer born in Riga, member of House of Pain and Limp Bizkit (joined 1996); known for turntables through guitar amps and a 2012 departure and return.
Djent
Djent ('gent'): heavy metal style and onomatopoeic guitar sound from palm-muted low-string riffing, associated with Meshuggah, Periphery, and TesseracT; formed online, contested as a genre.
Do You Love Me
Do You Love Me is a 1962 Berry Gordy-penned dance hit recorded by the Contours on Motown's Gordy label, reaching No. 1 R&B, re-charting at No. 11 in 1988 via Dirty Dancing; distinct from the 1976 Kiss song of the same title.
Don't Look Back (Boston album)
Don't Look Back is Boston's second studio album, released August 1978 on Epic Records. Recorded in Tom Scholz's basement, it hit No. 1 in the US with the No. 4 title-track single but sold far less than the debut, which Scholz said Epic forced out unfinished.
Done with Mirrors
Done with Mirrors (1985) is Aerosmith's eighth studio album and first for Geffen Records, reuniting Joe Perry and Brad Whitford. It stalled commercially but preceded the Run-DMC "Walk This Way" comeback.
Donnie Iris
Donnie Iris, stage name of Dominic Ierace (born 1943), is a Pittsburgh rock singer, Jaggerz member behind 1970's No. 2 hit "The Rapper," and leader of Donnie Iris and the Cruisers, known for "Ah! Leah!"; he retired from live shows in October 2026.