Jim Macaulay, drummer for new wave legends The Stranglers, is the latest high-profile artist to join the Dream Cymbals artist roster in the UK. Macaulay is formerly of Birmingham rock band Envy & Other Sins and has many session appearances under his belt with the likes of I Blame Coco and Emmy...
I was on my way to London to participate in the Jack Bruce tribute. It was a joy to share the stage and drumkit with Gary Husband, Dennis Chambers, and Ginger Baker. Together with other first division players we celebrated the music of the one and only Bruce. Even our drum tech Ollie Usiskin turned...
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...
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...
Clyde Stubblefield, the longtime bedrock of the Madison music scene perhaps best known as James Brown’s “Funky Drummer,” has died at the age of 73. Stubblefield was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee and began playing drums professionally as a teenager, touring with Eddie Kirkland and Otis Redding...
This past January 20, the anthemic emo-punk band AFI released its self-titled album, aka The Blood Album, the group’s tenth record over the course of its twenty-five-year history. Along with searing hooks from vocalist Davey Havok, brilliant production and riffs from guitarist and keyboardist Jade...
We just finished Sheryl Crow’s new pop/rock record Be Myself, scheduled to be released April 21. Sheryl and her long time writing partner Jeff Trott produced it, and the incredible Tchad Blake did the engineering and mixing. As always, we will be doing TV performances and touring throughout 2017.
I...
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...
Indie folk-rock group Dawes released their fifth studio album this past September, titled We’re All Going to Die, a record teeming with drummer and vocalist Griffin Goldsmith’s deep pocket and solid grooves. The band, which is also composed of Goldsmith’s brother Taylor on guitar and vocals,...
Rap-rock trailblazers Rage Against The Machine exploded from speakers and stages with their incendiary self-titled debut in 1992. The album was a welcome antidote to the lacking social and political commentary in music at the time. Zack de La Rocha was the band’s fearless mouthpiece, spitting...
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...
What good is Phil Rudd’s opinion these days? Well, as the longtime drummer of AC/DC, it certainly mattered for the years he was in the band. However, since November of 2014, when he got arrested, that kinda went out the window. His exit from the band came quickly after that, and he got off kind...
Since joining Iron Maiden, McBrain has become one of the most influential drummers. Recent tours of the British top metal band are breaking all records, including the current “The Book Of Souls” world tour, which features a unique cymbal set crafted for Nicko by Paiste.
Inspired...
