Clocking up almost 50 years with the same band is no mean feat. When said band is one as turbulent as Aerosmith, the achievement becomes all the more incredible. But, that is the milestone that is coming into view for Joey Kramer. As the band limbers up for the first dates of their Aero-Vederci Baby...
When she was six, Grace Tedeschi stopped talking to her parents for a year. The only person she would speak to – in a whisper – was her younger sister. Now aged 11 and diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome, she still only talks to a few adults – but she has a talent that allows her to...
“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...
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...
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...
Less than three years after his departure from the British rock act The Darkness, original drummer and founding member Ed Graham is back with a new alternative rock band, Puppets To The Supreme Commander, and the release of their debut single, “Ball & Chain”. The single, from the...
Ariana Grande‘s drummer Aaron Spears is recalling the horrifying moment a bomb went off at Grande’s May 22 show in Manchester, England a blast that ultimately killed more than 20 and injured close to 60. Many children and young people are among the victims. Aaron Spears, who was heading back...
