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 ...

Spanning four LPs (or four CDs, if that’s your thing), The Making of Five Leaves Left contains 30 previously unheard tracks, including demos and studio outtakes. “I knew Nick was making this album (we ...

British singer-songwriter Nick Drake died at the age of 26 in 1974. His music went viral years after his death. Now the same thing is happening to his late mother, Molly Drake, a songwriter herself, ...

In her column “Made a Mixtape, Hope You Like It,” Amanda Altarejos ’26 curates a “mixtape” of modern music for older artists. Listen here for a playlist “for nick drake.” In most of his third and ...

Nick Drake’s Estate has authorized the July 25 release of The Making of Five Leaves Left, coming from Island/UME. The impending deliverable is rooted in 30+ demos, unheard studio outtakes, and ...

A new box set focusing on the creation of late influential British singer/songwriter Nick Drake’s 1969 debut album, Five Leaves Left, is due out this summer. The box set comes with a 60-page book ...

Fans of folk music should know Nick Drake as well as they know icons like Tim Buckley and Jackson C. Frank. Drake was taken from us far too young, but we at least have been blessed with a somewhat ...

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 ...

A plain slip of paper, tucked discreetly near the end of a pack of Rizla cigarette rolling papers — a practical reminder, so easily overlooked. But in the hands of Nick Drake, this banal note unfurls ...