Mr. Allen, who has banged out percussion behind the English rock band for decades, started doodling as a boy, but then put such endeavors on the shelf in favor of rock ‘n’ roll. “I wasn’t sure what people were going to say. Maybe I was afraid of people being judgmental the musician trying...
Portnoy, who co-founded Dream Theater more than thirty years ago, abruptly quit the band in September 2010 while on tour with Avenged Sevenfold. He has since been replaced by Mike Mangini (Annihilator, Extreme, James Labrie, Steve Vai. Portnoy later revealed that he tried to rejoin Dream Theater,...
Netherlands – Pierre van der Linden, the drummer in legendary Dutch band Focus, has released his first solo album entitled “Drum Poetry” for fans and students of his varied drumming styles and techniques. Pierre’s drumming can be heard in numerous rock, jazz and improvisational bands,...
As 2016 made way for 2017, Karl Brazil continued to stake his claim as the busiest drummer on the planet as he wrapped up work on new albums from Feeder and Robbie Williams.
How easy was it to slip back into the Feeder gig?
“It was like we had never...
Jack and Foals’ frontman Yannis Philippakis first met in their hometown of Oxford, and bonded over a love of leftfield, complex music – a collaboration that saw them form first math-rock outfit The Edmund Fitzgerald, and then Foals. Foals’ debut album Antidotes hit in 2008, and spawned such...
Slaves smashed through with their stunning 2015 debut album, before following it up with the superbly-received Take Controll at the back-end of last year. Isaac Holman talks about all things Slaves. Take Control is produced by Mike D of the Beastie Boys, how did that link-up come about?
“He...
Paramore fans have been waiting to hear new music from the band’s highly anticipated fifth studio album. They now get a jolt of good news from a much less expected source: original drummer, Zac Farro. We already knew he was drumming on the new album, but he hadn’t been a full-fledged member since...
In a day and age in which bands can record remotely and paste an album together without ever stepping into the same room, it is refreshing to hear that for their 13th studio album, This House Is Not For Sale, Bon Jovi preferred to jam it out in the live room. “It’s grabbing the embryo...
Pink Floyd’s journey to prog-rock masterpiece Dark Side of the Moon was long and varied, and it’s one of the most fascinating stories in rock, with stops in blues jamming, otherworldly psychedelia and trippy folk music. It’s documented exhaustively in the recently released box set,...
It’s hard to imagine a more dramatic public unveiling than what Phil Collins’ son Nicholas experienced at the opening of the globally live streamed U.S. Open last August. The 15-year-old hadn’t even started his junior year of high school. But there he was, sitting silently behind...
We have been asked by a top Norfolk band to find a drummer for them. Here are the drum details they gave to us – We’re an original band, got a few more songs to record for our album, already written, been nominated twice in the golden kayak awards in America for best new song of the year...
Dream Theater drummer Mike Mangini will unveil an art collection crafted from the new medium of “rhythm-on-canvas” on February 2. Mangini has been working with art team and publisher SceneFour on the collection. Join the interest list at www.mikemanginiart.com for more details and to...
Phil Dubois-Coyne hasn’t played live with Revocation since sustaining a broken arm while on tour with the band in 2014, and he more or less officially parted ways with the band a year and a half ago. So what’s he been doing over the past two and a half years? This is a man we once chose as the...
When the news came out that Pearl Jam were entering into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame many fans had a single question: Which drummers are getting in? After all, the group had a Spinal Tap situation in their early days where five drummers sat behind the kit over a mere eight-year period.
Dave...
I’d like to talk about our latest record Full Colour. It’s the first album we released in which the drums were primarily written in the studio, largely built from sampled sounds and custom beats that I would then learn to apply to the drums. This was a very different process from our previous...
