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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.
Drift Away
Drift Away: Mentor Williams song first recorded in 1972 by Mike Berry and John Henry Kurtz; Dobie Gray's 1973 version hit No. 5, and Uncle Kracker's 2003 cover with Gray topped the AC chart for a record 28 weeks.
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.
Drip (album)
Drip (DRIP) is Babymonster's first full-length album, released November 1, 2024 on YG Entertainment, nine tracks, double title tracks "CLIK CLAK" and "DRIP", the latter composed with G-Dragon; Japanese edition followed November 2, 2024 via Sony Music Japan.
Drive (The Cars song)
"Drive" is The Cars' 1984 synth ballad from Heartbeat City, written by Ric Ocasek, sung by Benjamin Orr, produced with Mutt Lange, their highest-charting US single at No. 3 and the Live Aid Ethiopian famine film soundtrack.
Drive Like Jehu
Drive Like Jehu: San Diego post-hardcore band (1990-1995) with Rick Froberg and John Reis, formerly of Pitchfork. Released Drive Like Jehu (1991) and Yank Crime (1994) on Interscope; disbanded 1995, later influential on At the Drive-In and Hot Snakes.
Drive-By Truckers
Drive-By Truckers, Southern rock and alternative country band from Athens, Georgia, founded 1996 by Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley; known for Southern Rock Opera (2001), American Band (2016), and constant touring.
Drive-Thru Records
Drive-Thru Records is a California independent label founded in 1996 by siblings Richard and Stefanie Reines, defining early-2000s pop-punk and emo with New Found Glory, Finch, the Starting Line, and Hellogoodbye; over 7 million records sold before its 2008 hiatus.
Drivers License (song)
"Drivers license" (stylized lowercase) is Olivia Rodrigo's debut single, released January 8, 2021 on Geffen Records, co-written with Dan Nigro. It debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for eight weeks, broke Spotify streaming records, and won the 2022 Grammy for Best Pop Solo Performance.
Driving Home for Christmas
Driving Home for Christmas is a 1986 Chris Rea song, written in a 1978 traffic jam and re-recorded for New Light Through Old Windows (1988); a UK chart evergreen since 2007, peaking at No. 10, and a top-10 German Christmas staple since 2017.
Driving Rain
Driving Rain is Paul McCartney's 2001 studio album, his first of new songs since Flaming Pie (1997), produced by David Kahne in Los Angeles, featuring the title track, Heather, and the post-September 11 song Freedom; it peaked at UK number 46 and US number 26.
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.
Drone music
Drone music is a minimalist genre built on sustained tones, notes, or tone clusters held for minutes or hours. Rooted in the tanpura drone of Indian classical music, bagpipes, and chant, it was codified by La Monte Young and spans drone ambient and drone metal.
Drones (Muse album)
Drones is Muse's seventh studio album, released 8 June 2015, their first concept album about a person indoctrinated into drone warfare who defects. Produced with Mutt Lange; won the Grammy for Best Rock Album.
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.
Drop D tuning
Drop D tuning (DADGBE) is a guitar tuning lowering only the low E string a whole step to D, enabling one-finger power chords and a deeper low range; used by Nirvana, Soundgarden, the Beatles, and Jimmy Page.
Drop Dead
"Drop Dead" is a 2026 song by American singer Olivia Rodrigo, released as the lead single from her third album You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love.
Drop It Like It's Hot
"Drop It Like It's Hot" is a 2004 Snoop Dogg single featuring Pharrell Williams, produced by the Neptunes. Its minimal tongue-click beat gave both performers their first Billboard Hot 100 number one and earned two 2005 Grammy nominations.
Dropkick Murphys
Dropkick Murphys, Celtic punk band formed in 1996 in the Boston area (Quincy/South Boston) by Ken Casey, Mike McColgan, and Rick Barton; known for "I'm Shipping Up to Boston," Hellcat Records debut Do or Die, the Claddagh Fund, and labor and political activism.
Drops of Jupiter
Drops of Jupiter, Train's second studio album (Columbia, March 27, 2001), produced by Brendan O'Brien in Atlanta. Title track written after Pat Monahan's mother's death hit Hot 100 No. 5, won two Grammys, and the album went double platinum.
Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)
Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me) is Train's 2001 lead single about singer Pat Monahan's late mother, written in 15 minutes after a dream of her in the afterlife. It peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and won two Grammys.
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.
Dru Hill
Dru Hill: American R&B group formed 1992 in Baltimore as 14K Harmony, renamed after Druid Hill Park; members Sisqó, Nokio, Jazz, Woody; hits "Tell Me," "In My Bed," "Enter the Dru" (1998).
Drug Church
Drug Church is an American hardcore punk/alt-rock hybrid band formed in 2011 in Albany, New York, fronted by Patrick Kindlon of Self Defense Family; albums include Paul Walker, Cheer, Hygiene, and Prude (2024) on Pure Noise Records.
Drukqs
Drukqs is Aphex Twin's (Richard D. James) 2001 double album on Warp, 30 tracks of drill'n'bass and programmed prepared-piano pieces; first Aphex Twin album since 1996, Metascore 66, first vinyl reissue 2026.
Drum
Drum: a membranophone percussion instrument sounding via a stretched head over a shell; includes timpani, snare, bass, frame drums, tabla, and electronic drum kits.
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.
Drum Corps International
Drum Corps International (DCI), founded 1971-1972 by 13 corps, is the North American governing body for competitive drum and bugle corps, running a summer tour of nearly 100 events culminating in the World Championships in Indianapolis.
Drum kit
Drum kit (drum set, trap set): an arrangement of drums, cymbals, and percussion letting one seated player perform on several instruments at once. Created in the late nineteenth century; standardized in 1930s swing; central to jazz and rock.
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.