“People like Gar Samuelson, Nick Menza and all the other drummers that played in the band, like Jimmy DeGrasso, Shawn Drover, Chris Adler from Lamb of God who recommended me to the band those are all top notch people, so it’s… Yeah, I’m doing my best! The goal for me and...
When we speak to the hard-hitting rocker not only has he recently foiled a fraudster, but he has also just laid down a track for his band Martone and is in the midst of the sessions for a brand new Nickelback record, Feed The Machine, due for release this June. With a deadline for the latter looming,...
Father’s Day is just around the corner, and if you haven’t found the perfect gift for your dad just yet, look no further. Tickets to the London Drum Show are a thoughtful gift that will score major points with dad, you can buy them without moving from your seat AND you don’t need...
Ten years in and UK chart-toppers You Me At Six are going from strength to strength. Dan Flint, the band’s self-loathing, rim-playing drum hero explains how they’ve done it. “We had the ten-year anniversary of our band so we wanted to take a step back,” You Me At Six’s Dan Flint told us...
Iconic London recording studio Abbey Road has joined forces with UK newspaper Metro to launch a Battle of the Bands. The online competition pools together their musical know-how in a quest to find the UK’s best unsigned artists, allowing the winner to record in Abbey Road’s brand new recording...
The latest retail sales monitor report from BRC and KPMG has revealed that consumer spending slowed in May both online and on the high street. Last month, UK retail sales decreased by 0.4% on a like-for-like basis from May 2016, when they had increased 0.5% from the preceding year. On a total basis,...
Michael Bland is the type of guy who could literally talk for hours and never cease to be surprising, enlightening, and downright hilarious. Having been discovered by Prince at an early age and enlisted as one of the founding members of his long-running New Power Generation, and later becoming a revered...
The Musicians’ Union (MU) has revealed that it is asking UK MPs from all parties to sign up to a pledge to protect musicians working in the EU. The MU has been very vocal about the importance of protecting performers working across Europe. The union was in strong favour of staying in the EU and...
In 1967, the U.S. was convulsing as old modes of thinking gave way to innovations that would resonate for decades to come. The Vietnam War raged on, civil rights riots erupted from Detroit to Newark, the Space Race was promising that we’d conquer the moon, and New York’s Vanilla Fudge scored its...
James sadly and suddenly passed away on 14th October 2016, a very much loved son of Gary & Rose and brother to Paul & Amy and partners Francesca and Joe, also a loving partner to Chloe. We all miss him terribly as he was a big part of all of our lives. Unknown to us all James had an undetected...
Enjoying a long run at New York’s Public Theater, the rock opera Joan of Arc: Into the Fire features a striking young actress/vocalist adorned in chain mail, sixteen male dancer/singers, and a rock band that pumps out David Byrne’s original score like it’s the last performance on planet earth....
We are excited to reveal that Rascal Flatts drummer and bandleader and all-round awesome clinician Jim Riley will hold a Masterclass and an Education Stage session at the 2017 show. He will join Jimmy Chamberlin, Andy Gangadeen, Kaz Rodriguez, Steve White and Ian Palmer, plus more to be announced,...
A self-taught drummer, Chambers accepted his first paid gig before he even owned a drum kit. “I never thought drumming was anything that you needed a lot of skill for,” he says. “I suppose I could do it instinctively, hear something and reproduce it. Basically within a week of Are You Experienced?,...
A drummer who survived the terror attack on the Bataclan theatre in Paris in 2015 has written a letter to the music fans caught up in the Ariana Grande concert bombing. Julian Dorio sat in on drums with the Eagles of Death Metal when terrorists stormed the Bataclan and killed 89 people in a sick...
In celebration of its nearly 50-year relationship with Grammy Award-winning Latin rock icon Carlos Santana, Latin Percussion (LP) has added a new series of eye-catching bongos, congas and a timbale bell to its Aspire line of percussion instruments. The new instruments feature the memorable “Santana...
