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Double Vision (Foreigner album)
Double Vision (1978) is the second studio album by British-American rock band Foreigner, released on Atlantic. Produced by Keith Olsen with Mick Jones and Ian McDonald, it reached number 3 on the Billboard 200 behind the singles Hot Blooded, Double Vision, and Blue Morning, Blue Day, and was the last album by the original six-member lineup.
Downtempo
Downtempo: slow-beat electronic music genre (roughly 70-115 BPM, measured median 105) built on relaxed grooves and atmosphere. Related names: chillout, downbeat. Distinguished from darker, vocal-driven trip hop; spread via KLF, Cafe del Mar, and Kruder & Dorfmeister compilations.
Dr. Feelgood (album)
Dr. Feelgood (album): Mötley Crüe's fifth studio album, 1989, Elektra, produced by Bob Rock in Vancouver; their first US Billboard number one, with 'Kickstart My Heart'; distinct from the 1970s English pub rock band Dr. Feelgood.
Draw the Line (Aerosmith album)
Draw the Line is Aerosmith's fifth studio album, released December 9, 1977 on Columbia. Recorded chaotically at the Cenacle in Armonk, New York, it peaked at No. 11 in the US and was the last album of the original lineup before Joe Perry's 1979 exit.
Dream pop
Dream pop: atmospheric alternative rock subgenre from mid-1980s Britain, defined by reverb-heavy texture, breathy vocals, and melody; related to but distinct from distortion-centered shoegaze; key acts Cocteau Twins, A.R. Kane, Galaxie 500, Beach House.
Dressed to Kill (album)
Dressed to Kill is the third studio album by American rock band KISS, released March 19, 1975 on Casablanca. Produced by Neil Bogart and the band at Electric Lady Studios, it was KISS's first US Top 40 album and introduced Rock and Roll All Nite.
Drum machine
Drum machine: electronic instrument generating and sequencing percussion sounds, also called rhythm box or boîte à rythmes. Spans the 1930s Rhythmicon, Linn LM-1, Roland TR-808/909, and modern analog, sample, FM, and physical-modeling machines.
Dub music
Dub music is a Jamaican genre, pioneered from the late 1960s by King Tubby, Lee "Scratch" Perry and Errol Thompson, that strips reggae recordings to drums and bass and rebuilds them live at the mixing desk with echo, reverb and delay, making the mix itself the performance.
Dynasty (Kiss album)
Dynasty is Kiss's seventh studio album, released May 23, 1979 on Casablanca, produced by Vini Poncia with a disco-pop lean; Anton Fig drummed all but one track, and "I Was Made For Lovin' You" hit US #11.
Easy listening
Easy listening, also called beautiful music or middle of the road, is a 1940s American popular music genre and radio format of gentle orchestral arrangements of standards and pop hits; it peaked before the late 1960s, spawned adult contemporary radio, and inspired lounge revivals and streaming functional playlists.
Eat 'Em and Smile
Eat 'Em and Smile is the debut solo album by American singer David Lee Roth, released by Warner Bros. Records in 1986 after his departure from Van Halen.
Ed Roland
Ed Roland (Edgar Eugene Roland III, born 1963) is the American singer-songwriter and lead vocalist of Georgia rock band Collective Soul, famed for "Shine" (1993) and "December", and leader of the side project Ed Roland & the Sweet Tea Project.
Edwin Starr
Edwin Starr (Charles Edwin Hatcher, 1942-2003), American soul singer of "Agent Double-O Soul," "25 Miles," and the 1970 #1 anti-Vietnam War anthem "War"; later disco hits and UK northern soul career.
Egg punk
Egg punk (Devo-core) is a punk microgenre blending lo-fi hardcore and garage punk with cheap synths and absurdist humor. Named by a viral 2017 Instagram meme opposing it to chain punk, it arose in the Midwestern US and grew worldwide in the 2020s.
Electric Ladyland
Electric Ladyland is the third and final studio album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, a double album released in October 1968 that reached number 1 in the US.
Electric Warrior
Electric Warrior, T. Rex's second studio album under that name, released September 24, 1971 on Rhino/Reprise, produced by Tony Visconti; it topped the UK chart for six weeks and launched glam rock with "Bang A Gong (Get It On)" and "Jeepster."
Electronic body music
Electronic body music (EBM) is an early-1980s Belgian and West German electronic dance genre blending industrial and synth-punk; Front 242 adopted the name for No Comment (1984), with DAF, Die Krupps, and Nitzer Ebb as first-generation figures.
Electronic music
Electronic music (电子音乐): music generated or processed with electronic instruments and technology such as synthesizers, drum machines, and computers; a medium rather than a genre, tracing from the Telharmonium and theremin to tape studios, MIDI, dance subgenres, and a $15.1 billion 2025 industry.
Electronic rock
Electronic rock (electro rock) is a music genre fusing rock and electronic music via guitars, synthesizers, and drum machines. Originating in the late 1960s after the Moog synthesizer's release, it spans industrial rock, synth-rock, indietronica, and dance-punk.
Electronica
Electronica is a catch-all term for electronic music built on synthesizers, samplers, and drum machines, spanning club dance styles and headphone listening. Coined around the 1993 New Electronica compilations, broadened by the US industry, later partly replaced by EDM.
Electropop
Electropop: a pop music genre built on synthesizers and drum machines, emerging in the UK in the early 1980s (Human League), influenced by Kraftwerk and Yellow Magic Orchestra, revived in the 2000s by Lady Gaga's The Fame.
Eminence Front
"Eminence Front" is a 1982 song by The Who, written and sung by Pete Townshend, from the album It's Hard; a US single peaking at #68 on the Billboard Hot 100, about drug-fueled grandiosity, later the Dallas Mavericks intro music.
Emo
Emo (emotional hardcore, emocore) is a rock genre and youth subculture that emerged from 1980s Washington, D.C. hardcore punk via Rites of Spring and Embrace, went mainstream in the 2000s with My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, and Panic! at the Disco, and has revived since 2008 in underground waves.
Emo revival
Emo revival, or fourth wave emo, was an underground emo movement of the late 2000s to mid-late 2010s in which bands like Algernon Cadwallader, Snowing, Modern Baseball, and the Hotelier revived 1990s Midwest emo, distinct from third-wave mainstream emo-pop.
Emo subculture
Emo subculture: youth culture born from 1980s Washington, D.C. emotional hardcore (Rites of Spring, Embrace), mainstream in the 2000s via My Chemical Romance; defined by dark fashion, eyeliner, and internet communities on MySpace, LiveJournal, and Netlog.
Emotional Rescue
Emotional Rescue is a studio album by the Rolling Stones, released June 20, 1980, which continued the dance-rock direction of Some Girls and topped the album charts in both the United States and the United Kingdom.
Era Vulgaris (album)
Era Vulgaris, the fifth Queens of the Stone Age studio album (Interscope, June 12, 2007), produced by Josh Homme and Chris Goss; singles "Sick, Sick, Sick", "Make It Wit Chu", "3's & 7's"; Metascore 75.
Evil Empire (album)
Evil Empire, the 1996 second album by Rage Against the Machine on Epic Records; debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, went triple Platinum, and won a Grammy for "Tire Me."
Experimental rock
Experimental rock: a rock branch using unusual timbres, nonstandard tunings, chance procedures, and through-composed forms instead of verse-chorus song structures; rooted in the Velvet Underground, Zappa, Beefheart, and Rock In Opposition, and confined largely to underground audiences.
Extreme metal
Extreme metal: umbrella term for the harshest heavy metal subgenres, chiefly death metal, black metal, grindcore and thrash, defined by blast-beat tempos, growled and screamed vocals, down-tuned guitars, and transgressive themes; codified by Keith Kahn-Harris's 2006 study.