The new Mini-Cajons from MEINL Percussion are fun to play and easy to carry. At 5.5” (14,5 cm) tall, these miniature cajons are about 1/6 of the size of a standard sized instrument. They are made from birch wood which is known for its excellent musical tone and their extra thin front plate offers...
Dynamic hand percussion for stage and studio
The HandSonic HPD-20 is a unique instrument that’s ideal for a wide range of music creators, from percussionists and drummers to electronic dance music performers, composers, and producers. Equipped with the renowned SuperNATURAL sound engine and...
Matthew Marshall, the drummer from the British glam rock band Sly Roosevelt, suffered a severe head injury last weekend on Eighth Street in Huntington where he was struck by a van. Marshall has been taken to Cabell Huntington Hospital, where according to friends, he is in the I.C.U. placed in an induced...
Reggae band UB40 have been forced to postpone their upcoming UK tour of after drummer Jimmy Brown was diagnosed with a wrist injury.
Brown has been told he was suffering from RSI in his wrists. RSI is repetitive stress or repetitive strain injury, an inflammation of the muscles and/or nerves...
Former Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart has a new piece of equipment accompanying him on his latest tour – a cap fitted with electrodes that capture his brain activity and direct the movements of a light show while he’s jamming on stage.
The sensor-studded headwear is the result...
Rockers Bon Jovi are to remain in Mexico until their drummer recovers from emergency surgery.
The Livin’ On A Prayer hitmakers pulled out of a concert in Mexico City at the last minute on Tuesday (10Sep13) when doctors insisted that Tico Torres undergo an operation to remove his appendix.
Now...
Mott The Hoople keyboardist Verden Allen says the band aim to take drummer Dale ‘Buffin’ Griffin out for a pint because they can’t have him on stage when they tour the UK in November.
It will be the first-ever shows performed by Mott without Griffin, whose Alzheimer’s disease was already...
Mike Portnoy regrets that he can’t talk openly about his former band Dream Theater, because of the emotional response it generates.
He believes he’d outgrown the band he co-founded, named and then sensationally quit in 2010.
But he retains fond memories of his time with the prog...
Aaron Eckhart may be best known for his work as Harvey Dent in the blockbuster titan The Dark Knight, but he’s also one of the best dramatic talents in the business—reserved, nuanced and criminally overlooked. He’s even compelling amidst a fury of CG alien destruction in Battle: Los...
Former Guns N’ Roses drummer Matt Sorum was in a remote Japanese fishing village last week to protest against its annual dolphin hunt.
Sorum, who now leads his own group, is the latest celebrity to join the increasingly global campaign to stop the dolphin kill in Taiji, a quaint fishing village...
Lynyrd Skynyrd was a pioneer of Southern rock with hits “Sweet Home Alabama,” “Free Bird” and “What’s Your Name” until the music was silenced by a plane crash in Mississippi that killed three band members including lead singer Ronnie Van Zant in 1977.
Drummer Artimus Pyle, who...
Just what is it about comedians and drumming? We all know that Al Murray is a dab hand with a pair of sticks, John Thomson is also an accomplished player, and it turns out that heavy metal loving funnyman Steve Hughes is also a keen tub thumper.
So much so, in fact, that he has a pretty impressive...
Approximately a year of renovation — worth $148,000 — has been devoted to retaining a physical part of musical history, as the boyhood home of Crickets drummer Jerry Allison has been restored on the eastern side of the Buddy Holly Center, 1801 Crickets Ave.
The house, which was transported...
Testament, Dark Angel, Death, Dethklok, Strapping Young Lad, Pitch Black Forecast, Fear Factory, Devin Townsend – drummer Gene Hoglan’s resume is almost as impressive as his kick triplets (to say nothing of his uncanny ability to handle multiple tempo changes without so much as batting an...
Doug “Cosmo” Clifford thought he and Stu Cook could bring back the music of Creedence Clearwater Revival quietly.
The two musicians were the original rhythm section for Creedence. The rolling bass in “Have you ever Seen the Rain?” That was Cook. The pounding drumbeat in “Fortunate...
