Drop and give me 50! (Drumrolls)

Looks like the Australian military is getting some heat for axing their pipe/drum sections. It sounds as if the decision was very grueling for the general in charge. And who can blame him: military drums are steeped in tradition and keep the morale high in a regiment…
…well they did 100 years ago.
Seriously, I [...]

Child Drummers!

Yeah, I know kids are amazing and all, but a group of tykes singing Journey is everything my nightmares are made of:

Legless Drummer Inspires

Stories of perseverence are almost as important to rock and roll music as the music. Musicians who have lived through the worst but still find ways to rock out are our sentimental bread and butter (Daniel Johnston, Brian Wilson, and the drummer from Def Leppard all come to mind).
John Patty, a Peorian-based drummer, was electrocuted [...]

Drummer Spotlight: Travis Barker

It might be cheesy to make a sentimental entry about a man who just recently escaped death by a thread, but there’s no denying Barker’s talent as a drummer. Here’s a brief primer to what many dismiss as “that blink 182 drummer” and the star of his own reality show.
A drummer known for his loudness, [...]

Drum Sponge!!

I recently came upon this older piece of news. Apparently, some dude named Mekarer used a guitar pickup and a wire to turn the everyday cleaning product into a snare drum. The result is surprisingly effective, take a look:

Translation: “I use Reaktor to translate the signal with its amplitube to snare [...]

Hippies prevail, get their drum circle in Santa Cruz.

I went to UCSC my freshman year of college and whenever I read about Santa Cruz in any, I always feel a sweet tinge of embarrassment and pride. Not that it’s a bad place; that one year shaped me more than any of the consecutive years (leading to my current apathetic complacency in front of [...]