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...
JASON MACKENROTH TAPPED FOR BLUE MAN GROUP’S SEPTEMBER 6 & 7 SHOWS AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL WITH THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL ORCHESTRA
Ex-Rollins Band Drummer Celebrates Six Years With Blue Man Group’s Las Vegas Production, Now Based At The Monte Carlo Resort And Casino Jason Mackenroth will perform...
U.S. rock band Cheap Trick has been around longer than many of the biggest U.S. corporations and now a lawsuit is making them sound more like bickering board members than one-time hit makers behind songs like “Surrender” and “I Want You to Want Me.”
Richard Nielsen,...
SABIAN RETURNS WITH Cymbal Vote IN 2014!
For the third consecutive year, SABIAN is asking drummers around the world to help decide which new models the iconic cymbal-maker will release in 2014 – and once again, drummers around the world get a chance to play them before voting.
Multiple...
Korn’s singer Jonathan Davis says there’s no chance the band’ll get back together with former drummer David Silveria.
Davis says Korn is perfect the way it is.
Silveria has expressed interest in regrouping with Korn, so he could bring back the funk.
But “I don’t wanna...
Introducing Rich Redmond’s 1st Annual
“CRASH Course for Success” (™) – Drummer Weekend
The 3-day event includes:
– 3-days and 4-nights of choice hotel accommodations on campus of the CRASH event. (Night of Thursday Oct 31-Night of...
