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Drakeo the Ruler
Drakeo the Ruler (Darrell Wayne Caldwell), Los Angeles rapper of the Stinc Team, creator of the "nervous music" flow, acquitted in a lyrics-based murder trial, killed backstage at the 2021 Once Upon a Time in L.A. festival.
Dream Theater
Dream Theater: American progressive metal band formed 1985 at Berklee as Majesty; 16 studio albums, Images and Words breakthrough, Portnoy return 2023, Parasomnia 2025, Grammy winner.
Dreambeach
Dreambeach Festival is a Spanish electronic dance music festival first held in 2013 in Almería, one of Spain's largest, peaking at 175,000 attendees in 2017.
Dreamstate Europe 2026
Dreamstate Europe 2026 was the planned sixth edition of Insomniac's trance festival, set for 11 April 2026 at PreZero Arena Gliwice in Gliwice, Poland, and canceled in February 2026.
Dreamstate Melbourne
Dreamstate Melbourne is the Melbourne edition of Dreamstate, the all-trance festival brand created by American promoter Insomniac Events, first staged at Hisense Arena, Melbourne, in 2016.
Dreamstate Miami
Dreamstate Miami is a trance music festival in Miami, Florida, organized by Insomniac during Miami Music Week, first held in March 2022 at Ekolog Warehouse.
Dreamstate San Francisco
Dreamstate San Francisco is Insomniac's all-trance music festival in San Francisco, first held at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in January 2016 as a satellite of the Dreamstate brand.
Dreamstate San Francisco 2025
Dreamstate San Francisco 2025 was a two-day trance festival held April 4 and 5, 2025 at the Cow Palace, headlined by Armin van Buuren and Pryda.
Dreamville Festival
Dreamville Festival is an annual spring hip-hop and R&B festival at Dorothea Dix Park in Raleigh, North Carolina, founded and curated by rapper J. Cole and his label Dreamville Records.
Dreezy
Dreezy (Seandrea Sledge, born 1994) is a Chicago rapper and singer known for her 2014 "Chiraq" remix, the platinum single "Body" with Jeremih, and the albums No Hard Feelings, Big Dreez, and HITGIRL.
Drexciya
Drexciya was an American electro and techno duo from Detroit, formed in 1992 by James Stinson and Gerald Donald, known for an Afrofuturist underwater mythology.
Drill (music genre)
Drill is a hip hop subgenre that emerged on Chicago's South Side around 2012, defined by dark trap beats and graphic lyrics about street life and gangs.
Drone metal
Drone metal is a marginal, largely underground heavy metal subgenre first emerging in the early 1990s, built on sustained drones, extreme slowness, repetition, down-tuned distorted guitars, and maximum volume.
Drop (music)
A drop is the climactic moment in an electronic dance music track or DJ set where, after a build-up of tension, the full beat and bass return, prompting dancing.
Drowning Pool
Drowning Pool is a Dallas, Texas nu metal band formed in 1996, famous for the 2001 platinum album Sinner and single Bodies. After vocalist Dave Williams died in 2002, singers Jason Jones, Ryan McCombs, and Jasen Moreno fronted the band.
Drum and bass
Drum and bass (DnB, jungle) is a UK electronic dance genre from the early 1990s rave scene, defined by 160–180 BPM breakbeats, deep basslines, sound system roots, and subgenres like liquid and neurofunk.
Drumsheds
Drumsheds is a 15,000-capacity electronic music venue opened in 2023 inside a former IKEA store at Meridian Water in Enfield, north London, operated by Broadwick Live.
DRUNKEN KONG
DRUNKEN KONG is a Japanese techno duo from Tokyo made up of D. Singh and DJ Kyoko, active since 2010 and known for releases on Tronic and Drumcode.
Dua Saleh
Dua Saleh, Sudanese American non-binary singer, rapper, and actor (Cal Bowman in Sex Education); EPs Nūr, ROSETTA, CROSSOVER; albums I SHOULD CALL THEM (2024) and Of Earth & Wires (2026) on Ghostly International.
Dubfire
Dubfire (Ali Shirazinia), born in Iran in 1971, is an Iranian-American DJ and producer, one half of the Grammy-winning duo Deep Dish and founder of the techno label SCI+TEC.
Dubioza Kolektiv
Dubioza Kolektiv is a Bosnian band formed in 2003, known for fusing ska, punk, reggae, dub, electronic music, and hip-hop with lyrics confronting nationalism, corruption, and media manipulation.
Dubstep
Dubstep, an electronic dance music genre from early 2000s South London, also called 140 or UK dubstep versus American brostep. Built on 140 BPM half-time rhythms, deep sub-bass and dub sound system culture, born from UK garage via Big Apple Records, FWD>> and artists like Skream and Kode9.
Duke Dumont
Duke Dumont is the alias of Adam George Dyment (born 1981), a London house producer and DJ behind UK number ones "Need U (100%)" and "I Got U", the For Club Play Only EPs, and the albums Duality (2020) and Union (2025).
Dumbfoundead
Dumbfoundead, also known as Jonathan (Jonnie) Park, DFD, or Dumb, is a Korean American battle rapper and rapper born 1986 in Buenos Aires, raised in Koreatown, Los Angeles; known for Grind Time battles, albums DFD and Foreigner, and the memoir Spit.
Dungeon Family
Dungeon Family: Atlanta hip-hop collective formed 1991 around Organized Noize (Rico Wade, Ray Murray, Sleepy Brown), OutKast, and Goodie Mob, named for Wade's mother's basement studio; released Even in Darkness (2001) and launched the Dirty South era, Killer Mike, and Future.
Duskee
Duskee, legal name Oliver Clark, is an English drum and bass MC and vocalist from Surrey, based in London, who broke through with his vocal on the 2020 track "Hack It" with K Motionz.
Dusky
Dusky are an English electronic music production duo from London, formed in 2011 by Nick Harriman and Alfie Granger-Howell, known for the 2013 Beatport No. 1 "Careless".
Dust Bolt
Dust Bolt is a German thrash metal band from Landsberg am Lech, Bavaria, formed by schoolmates around 2006, with five studio albums including Sound & Fury (2024).
Dutchavelli
Dutchavelli (Stephan Fabulous Allen) is a British UK drill rapper, brother of Stefflon Don, raised in Rotterdam, who broke through in 2020 with "I Dunno" and the mixtape Dutch From The 5th.
DYEN
DYEN is a Rotterdam-based Dutch hard techno and rave DJ and producer, active since 2017, who founded the RECKLESS label and calls his sound neorave.