Protection Racket has introduced a brand new hardware bag, designed to comfortably carry a hi-hat stand and three booms. The new hardware bag is 30” long, 11” wide and 7” high and comes with a 19” long, 9”wide, 2” deep pocket on the lid. The zips of the ‘coffin style’ lid open...
Any jazz musician will tell you they don’t make drums like they used to. Except at C&C Drums in Missouri, where traditional techniques and hand-craftmanship produce a sound that spans generations. A C&C Drums craftsman trims the depth of a kick drum to a customer’s specifications...
National Learn To Play Day is back for its fifth successive year on Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th March 2016. It will be bigger and better, with more FREE taster lesson and more music venues, schools, shops, celebrities, musicians and local dignitaries than ever before across the UK. Organised by...
Gregg Field worked with the legendary singer for the last few years of Sinatra’s professional career. In honor of Ol’ Blue Eyes’s 100th birthday, Field reflects back on both the good and the bad. There was no grand announcement, no farewell tour. He had tried that 20 years earlier, and...
Having played with jazz greats such as Chick Corea, George Benson, Mike Stern, Diana Ross as well as greats like Paul Simon, Weckl was duly rewarded with his induction in the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 2000. Born in St. Louis Missouri, Dave came from a family that loved music and started drumming...
The majority of athletes and entertainers are neither enshrined in museums nor resigned to infamy. In most cases, they’re just like the rest of us: going about their jobs to the best of their ability until it’s time to move on. Even though we should identify most closely with these people,...
Despite the availability of educational material like books, DVDs, and online lessons, most drumming information is still passed down the old-fashioned way: from one player to another, while you are trying out your dream kit at the local drum shop. A lot of what we hear, we take at face value,...
Never say never, of course, but it looks like we won’t be seeing Peart in action again. Rush drummer Neil Peart, appears to have confirmed his permanent retirement from music. During the summer, Rush bandmate Alex Lifeson had suggested the R40 tour could be the band’s final full-scale...
Jim Irsay a well-known Beatles fanatic as well as an avid rock memorabilia collector: In the past few months, Irsay has spent millions of dollars adding Lennon-owned guitars and other Beatles-used instruments to his impressive collection including Ringo Starr’s 1963 Ludwig drum kit for over...
Jack Thomas is one heck of a resilient teen. An avid drummer since he was 8, all Jack wanted was to play music, but this summer his music dreams were halted. The 17 year old from Port Coquitlam, BC was in an accident with a conveyor belt at his workplace, that ended up taking his right arm, right...
Los Angeles – Legendary & award winning melodic drummer, Terry Bozzio is releasing worldwide, what he calls a “Life’s Work” project of Art & Music on the Japanese label Ward Records in December 2015. Bozzio is embarking on a world tour to promote it starting in Japan and Europe...
Emily Dolan Davies is a world-renowned female drummer, formerly of The Darkness (including the album ‘Last Of Our Kind’), Bryan Ferry (Olympia) and she has also toured extensively worldwide over the last 10 years with many other artists including Tricky, Cher Lloyd and the Thompson Twins. She...
Mumford & Sons, Lady Gaga and Gregory Porter Drummers Join the Protection Racket Family. Drummers all over the world continue to discover Protection Racket’s award winning soft drum cases and Chris Maas, George ‘Spanky’ McCurdy and Emanuel Harrold are three of the latest to join the family....
The Alesis DM10 X Mesh Kit is a premium six-piece electronic drum set with our exclusive Alesis dual-zone mesh drum heads (patent pending) that deliver an unprecedented degree of realistic drum “feel” and personal expression for modern electronic drummers. These ultra-quiet mesh drum heads come...
Drumming is a skillset that requires patience and a boatload of coordination. While most five-year-olds are concentrating on keeping their Crayons within the lines, this little girl hammers away behind the drums. No, not the drum pad that is the typical introduction to the instrument — we’re talking...
