L.A. Guns singer Phil Lewis and the band’s co-founding guitarist Tracii Guns recently inked a deal with Frontiers Music Srl for the release of a new L.A. Guns album, tentatively due in June 2017. Guns and Lewis began working on new music together again after playing periodic dates together...
Only 4 weeks to wait until the London Drum Show 2016, and this year’s show is shaping up to be the biggest and best yet! Many main stage performances are close to selling out*, so make sure you grab yours along with your show ticket today. Find out more about what’s on below…
DW Drums debuts two new adjustable bass drum beaters that offer drummers easy solutions for changing up the sound of their bass drums on the fly. Created in direct cooperation with two of the world’s top drummers; the Black Sheep Beater designed by Nashville drummer Rich Redmond (Jason Aldean) and...
The UK National Drum Fair will be bringing their very popular workshops from the show to Leicester on the Sunday 23rd October at Quad Studios. We are bringing 50 practice pads to the workshop so they can be as interactive as before. You’ll get to play along side the two clinicians on the day,...
New Order drummer Stephen Morris is to become the latest member of the band to publish his autobiography. Morris has signed a deal with publishers Constable for his memoirs, which will be released in 2018. The book follows New Order singer Bernard Sumner writing his autobiography Chapter And Verse...
Latin Percussion (LP) recently hosted artist “family reunion” events in both New York and Los Angeles. LP artists were joined by staff and executives from LP’s parent company, Drum Workshop Inc. to celebrate the legacy and to toast the future of the more than 50-year-old percussion brand.
“LP...
For over four decades now, drummers have focused on Billy Cobham’s playing in much the way that a cat eyes a mouse – with rapt, laser beam-like intensity. But the fusion legend is the first to say that music is a communal effort, and if the whole band isn’t working together as one, whatever...
The Musicians’ Union (MU) is looking at putting pressure on London boroughs to introduce Musicians’ Loading Zones at venues with parking restrictions around them. We are aware that since the introduction of increased parking controls in London, musicians sometimes have no choice but to...
They may now be 33 years and 13 albums in, but there’s no sign of Tico Torres and Bon Jovi slowing down. New album This House Is Not For Sale is nailed on to be a smash hit worldwide, and Torres has an inkling of just why the New Jersey stalwarts have stood the test of time.
“We all still...
With a sound that falls somewhere between the dark indie melodies of The Smiths and Depeche Mode’s synthpop stylings, it’s little wonder that Blossoms are winning plaudits by the bucketload. First they earned a place on the BBC’s Sound of 2016 and then they were handpicked to open...
Ian Matthews he’d just had a weekend to remember as Kasabian packed out Leicester’s King Power Stadium for two huge shows. The gigs, put on to celebrate the city’s gobsmacking Premier League triumph, sold out in a matter of minutes. Not bad considering the band had no new material to showcase...
When learning to play the drums, some dream of being a rock star, some develop an unquenchable thirst for playing any genre they come across, others discover alternative areas of the music industry as they delve deeper into mastering their instrument, then there are those musicians who are made for...
Yamaha is launching a new free four-day music festival devoted entirely to drumming. From Thursday 6th to Sunday 9th October, Yamaha Music London in Wardour Street, Soho will present YML Drum Fest ’16. It will offer a feast of live drumming and drum workshops, plus an exclusive 360-degree Virtual...
When you go see Gary Clark Jr, the first person you notice is the guitar player himself. But the second musician that catches your attention is drummer Johnny Radelat. He hits hard, he keeps a strict rhythm and he is the tracks on which Clark’s train keeps rolling.
But there is not a lot...
It’s a dream that many music playing fans would love to accomplish, so how did Kurt Friedenberger end up playing drums onstage with Alice in Chains during their recent show in North Charleston, S.C.? He wore a t-shirt asking to do so. Alice in Chains’ resident blogger Baldy relayed the events...
