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| Matt Cameron Drinking From The Well "I can definitely claim this as my band," says Pearl Jam drummer Matt Cameron of his psychedelic revivalist project, Wellwater Conspiracy. More.... |
| Teddy Campbell Backstreet Beat After working as drummer and musical director for 98', Teddy Campbell was asked to join The Backstreet Boys band by Ricky Miner, who put both bands together. More.... |
| Teddy Campbell Delivering the Message on TV Out of all the reality TV shows on the air, American Idol has risen above and beyond to become a cultural phenomenon. The live house band, directed by leader Rickey Minor and featuring drummer extraordinaire Teddy Campbell, plays a pivotal role in making the show one of the most entertaining and watched programs in TV history. More.... |
| Brendan Canty As Twisted As Possible "We approach each project without referring to the previous one," says Fugazi drummer Brendan Canty. Indeed, Fugazi's sixth full-length album, The Argument (Dischord), once again shows the veteran Washington, DC punk band moving into fresh territory. More.... |
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Danny Carey Re-Joins The Circus Those of you familiar with the cerebral drumming of Danny Carey in the heavy prog-rock group Tool are about to experience a darker side of his musical personality - as a member of Pigmy Love Circus. More.... |
| Keith Carlock More Than Time For Sting So how did Keith get the gig with Sting? More.... |
| Keith Carlock Mississippi Man, Steely Dan Fan Quick: Who's the only drummer to play on an entire Steely Dan album? Purdie? Porcaro? Nope, that would be this month's cover artist, the impossibly talented Keith Carlock. A star is born. More.... |
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Keith Carlock Locking The Groove After touring with Sting and Steely Dan, and recording Donald Fagen’s Morph The Cat, Keith Carlock faces the musician’s cruelest fate: a night off in Cleveland. More.... |
| Bun E. Carlos Back In Box Cheap Trick recently celebrated twenty-five years together with the release of the appropriately titled Silver, a two-disc collection of hits and best-loved tunes recorded live in the band's hometown of Rockford, Illinois. More.... |
| Michael Cartellone Damn Yankees, Fogerty, And Lynyrd Skynyrd It's been a little over a year since former Damn Yankees drummer Michael Cartellone joined Lynyrd Skynyrd. He came into the picture shortly after the band released Edge Of Forever, which Kenny Aronoff had recorded. Ironically, just the previous year, Michael had taken over the John Fogerty gig from Aronoff. More.... |
| Torry Castellano The Donnas Wanna Drum Each member of The Donnas has all just barely passed the mile marker of twenty-one years old. (Their latest Lookout Records release is titled Turn 21.) But drummer Donna C (real name: Torry Castellano, real age: twenty-two) has more accomplishments under her belt than many female drummers twice her age. More.... |
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Torry Castellano The Grip Of Death Although Donnas drummer Torry Castellano still encourages the idea of being a self-taught musician, she’s quick to admit that she had to learn the hard way that improper technique can cause serious problems. More.... |
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Deen Castronovo The Journey Of A Decade, The Career Of A Lifetime During the heyday of metal music in the ’80s, an underground subgenre known as “shred metal” emerged. More.... |
| Jimmy Chamberlin Zwan Song When Smashing Pumpkins disbanded in late 2000, vocalist Billy Corgan and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin decided to take a year off before working together on another project. Those plans quickly changed. More.... |
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Jimmy Chamberlin The Evolution Of Jimmy Chamberlin Still Smashing As a self confessed “elder statesman of music,” and one of the most influential drummers of the past fifteen years, Jimmy Chamberlin has a thing or two to say about the state of the instrument. More.... |
| Dennis Chambers Santana Now: A Force Of Nature A rhythmic force of nature since its inception in San Francisco's Mission District in 1966, the Santana band has always set the bar high. And now, with superstar drummer Dennis Chambers joining percussionists Raul Rekow and Karl Perazzo, the bar (and the expectation) is even higher. More.... |
| Terry Chambers Senses Working Over Time Twenty years ago, when he walked away from the band that he helped create, drummer Terry Chambers didn't see much future for Brit-pop innovators XTC. More.... |
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Chad Chapin Band Of Brothers "It's definitely hotter when you have blood running in the rhythm section," says Tait drummer Chad Chapin. More.... |
| Jim Chapin Still Rolling It's a steamy tropical night in South Florida. I'm sitting out on Jim Chapin's lanai, watching the eighty-one-year-old drummer rip off amazing licks on his ever-present practice pad while the tree frogs and locusts in the backyard provide a symphonic backdrop. More.... |
| Oliver Charles As Soulful As Possible It wasn't the Gospel songs that Oliver Charles was asked to play during The Blind Boys Of Alabama and Ben Harper sessions last spring that knocked him for a loop. It was the singers themselves. More.... |
| Stephen Chopek Timing is (Almost) Everything Who the heck is Stephen Chopek? Where did this guy come from? Just ask Charlie Hunter. More.... |
| Jon Christensen ECM Great Jon Christensen's got definite views on percussion. Basically, if you want the job done properly, you do it yourself. "Since most percussionists have paid good money for all sort of instruments," he explains, "they feel compelled to use them all the time. More.... |
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Jon Christensen A Beat Is Not Always What You Think It Is The title of this piece is a cryptic warning that appears in the liner notes of Jon Christensen: Selected Recordings, a recent tribute CD on ECM's Rarum series. More.... |
| Jim Christie Open To Anything Jim Christie will play just about anything. "I love playing polkas," he says. "I'll play Norte-o music all day long. I love playing straight-ahead jazz. I love playing country. I like playing anything, as long as it's good." More.... |
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Paul Chuffo Heavy, But Keeping It Light If you’re unfamiliar with the Brooklyn instrumental quartet Gutbucket and you glance at the stage before a performance, you might think you’re about to hear some jazz. An alto sax, an upright bass, a hollow-body guitar, and a three-piece drumkit with a tiny kick drum do create such an impression. More.... |
| Mike Clark Proving It Again And Again Ironically, jazzman Mike Clark will go down in history as the guy who cut one of the slickest funk tracks in history, "Actual Proof." Blame it on jazz, says Clark: "I stack that stuff up on the funk!" More.... |
| Les Claypool Les Claypool sat down with MD Online to discuss an impressive partner in rhythm, his new bandmate in Oysterhead: Stewart Copeland. More.... |
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Tommy Clufetos School's Out For Young Rocker Tommy Clufetos started playing drums at age six, and by his eleventh birthday he was gigging nonstop. More.... |
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Joe Cocuzzo Journeyman Jazzer Singer Keely Smith, the "straight man" (woman) for the late, great Louis Prima ("Just A Gigolo") has been joined in her New York and East Coast concert and nightclub tours by much sought-after jazz drummer Joe Cocuzzo. More.... |
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King Coffey Sparking The Weird Revolution On the Butthole Surfers' latest album, Weird Revolution, precise digital editing replaces the band's famous idiot-savant studio trickery. More.... |
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Cora Coleman-Dunham Rising To The Challenge For the past two and a half years Cora Coleman-Dunham has been fulfilling her drumming dreams as part of Prince’s latest band—which also includes her husband Joshua Dunham on bass. More.... |
| Grant Collins Another Monster From Down Under As the saying goes, it's not what you've got, but what you do with it that counts. Australian drummer Grant Collins is proof. Many drummers have a big kit like his. But not many players can audiences amazed with their drum compositions for two hours straight. And Collins performs at clinics and solo concerts without the benefit of backing tracks. More.... |
| Phil Collins Testifying On And Off The Drums Phil Collins' first studio album in six years, Testify, is another brilliant collection of pop songs, textures, and sounds from the singer/composer/drummer/producer, who still considers himself - first and foremost - a drummer. More.... |
| Gabriel Comacho The Stevenson Factor When LA's Audio Karate chose punk drumming legend Bill Stevenson to produce their new album, Lady Melody, it was "pretty much a dream come true" for drummer Gabriel Camacho. More.... |
| Chuck Comeau Writing From The Drums "I don't want to let anyone down at the magazine, but I'm not a very technical drummer," Chuck Comeau explains, while chatting it up with Modern Drummer in the posh lobby of the Westin New York hotel in Midtown Manhattan. More.... |
| Aaron Comess Spin Doctors, Joan Osborne, And Some Jazz When Spin Doctors parted ways with Epic Records several years ago, many wondered if we'd ever see another album from the guys who seemed to rule the early-'90s airwaves. More.... |
| J.R. Conners Embracing Phil After shedding most of their hardcore persona a few years back, however, Cave In set out to redefine themselves, morphing into more of a prog-rock act, complete with epic compositions. More.... |
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Luis Conte The Power Of 3 Percussion great Luis Conte’s new album, Marimbula, is a trio disc featuring bassist Jimmy Johnson and guitarist Barry Coates. Conte describes the music as a unique mixture of ideas. More.... |
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John Convertino Embracing The Art “I was actually trying to channel Charlie Watts on this record,” laughs Calexico drummer John Convertino, explaining his M.O. while recording the critically acclaimed Tucson, Arizona band’s latest album, Garden Ruin. More.... |
| Billy Conway Orchestra Morphine Last summer ('99), after finishing their new record, The Night, the Boston-based group Morphine left for Europe to play several festival dates. More.... |
| Tre Cool Back With Green Day - And A Warning By just looking at Tre Cool you can tell there's a touch of the devil in him. Listening to Warning, the latest collection of tunes he and his Green Day cohorts put out in October, it's obvious Beelzebub rears his horns once Cool gets behind the kit and the adrenaline starts to surge. More.... |
| Ken Coomer Wilco Calls Area Code 615 For the past five years Wilco has been the ideal forum for Ken Coomer's experimentation. Within the band's swirling mix, which touches on The Beatles, Hank Williams, and many points between, Coomer's ability to play just what's required - and always make it unique - is what sets him apart. More.... |
| Stewart Copeland Top Of The Pecking Order A case can be made that Stewart Copeland is the single most influential drummer of the last twenty-plus years. A good case. More.... |
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Stewart Copeland Staring Down The Future In Stewart Copeland’s newly released DVD documentary, Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out, there’s a moment when the drummer’s trademark over-the-top intensity nearly gets the best of his band. More.... |
| Jody Cortez Breathing Life Into Loops Jody Cortez has recently released a CD of loops under the banner King Cortez called Killer Loops (Big Fish Audio). "It encompasses performances in Latin, bebop, jazz, reggae, rock, funk, R&B, hip-hop, and straight-ahead rock," Cortez says. More.... |
| Mike Cosgrove Booty Shaking Alien Ant Farm Mike Cosgrove went into the recording of Alien Ant Farm's debut release, ANThology, having done some solid homework. More.... |
| Mike Cosgrove Truant Time Mike Cosgrove is thinking back on the band's recording sessions for their latest release, truANT, with producers Dean and Robert DeLeo. "My tracks on our last record [ANThology] were a little more gated and controlled," Cosgrove says. "And even though it was heavy and rockin', this time the producers let me do my own thing and stretch a bit. They had their suggestions, but it was cool. They were encouraging. In fact, they would say, "That's it, I think we got it." And I was like, "No, it's not."" More.... |
| Lynn Coulter Native American Heart Lynn Coulter has been very busy for the past three years. After working with Rita Coolidge on the singer's pop music, he got involved with her side project, Walela, which gained some attention from their involvement in Robbie Robertson's album Music For The Native Americans. According to Coulter, each project requires a different approach. More.... |
| Paul Crosby Making Good Choices Two-thousand-two was a wild ride for Memphis rockers Saliva-world tours, Grammy nomination, platinum sales of their 2001 debut Every Six Seconds, and vocalist Josey Scott singing co-lead with Nickelback's Chad Kroeger on "Hero," the massive hit from Spiderman. When it rains, it pours. More.... |
| Matthew Cross Orange 9MM's Stickman Is No Pretender Recording Pretend I'm Human proved to be a radical departure for Orange 9MM drummer Matthew Cross, an old hand at laying out well-rehearsed rhythm tracks while sitting behind the glass. "We demoed like seventy songs in the past year and a half," he says. More.... |
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Lee Crystal Former Blackheart Lee Crystal, drummer for Joan Jett & The Blackhearts from 1981 to 1986, is just a regular guy from Brooklyn—except that he’s so much cooler than the rest of us. More.... |
| Abe Cunningham Back With A Passion Any busy drummer will tell you that sometimes the best tool for kicking your playing up to the next level is simply taking some time off. Judging from his performance on The Deftones' fourth album, this was clearly the case for Abe Cunningham. More.... |
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Abe Cunningham Crucial Tales Of The Carbo Kid The Deftones’ new record, Saturday Night Wrist, is widely considered to be their finest. And it should be. The band say it was their most challenging experience by far. More.... |
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