Most genres of music can be adequately summarized by a handful of genre-defining albums that have helped shape their respective sounds. Albums like Metallica's Master Of Puppets, without which metal ...

Music tends to take on a new meaning after the artist who created it dies, and the death of English singer-songwriter Nick Drake on November 25, 1974, and the subsequent effects his passing had on his ...

Barack Obama’s inclusion of Nick Drake’s wistful and timeless “One of These Things First” on his annual summer playlist last year was one of the former president’s genuinely unexpected jams. But it ...