Features
Modern Drummer is the world’s most widely read drum magazine, is dedicated entirely to the art of drumming and caters to the needs of amateur, semi-pro, and professional drummers.
James Stroud
While playing for many of Nashville's major acts and producing some of them as well, James grew to understand and appreciate the importance of the song.
Judas Priest's Dave Holland the scars of success
One British band that has best sustained the true spirit and tradition of the heavy rock sound, while also expanding the scope of that sound, is Judas Priest.
Preservation Hall's Frank Parker
Preservation Hall is dedicated to preserving original New Orleans jazz in its purest form.
The Neville Brothers' Willie Green
Willie Green is of the hottest young drummers to come out of New Orleans in some time, he is just now beginning to get noticed for what he does behind a drumset.
Nick Vincent: The Donnie And Marie Show
There's nothing like the thrill of playing for a live audience, because you can't do it over.
Crack The Sky's Joey D'AmicoFebruary 2019
His musical road hasn’t always been smoothly paved—or paved at all.
Karriem Riggins
Drummer/producer Karriem Riggins is a speeding comet blazing across the hip-hop cosmos.
Bobby Z of the Revolution
No one could ever replace a musician as iconic as Prince. What we still can do, however, is celebrate his life and work with the musicians who helped make him who he was in the first place.
Interpol's Sam Fogarino
Like few units before or since, New York’s Interpol truly truly embodies the city's sound and spirit.
10 Reasons to Love Pete Thomas
Whittling down the list of worthy tracks to just the ten covered here was a difficult task.
Lee "Scratch" Perry's Larry McDonald
Larry McDonald’s conga playing is a thread that runs through more than half a century of Jamaican music.
Marillion's Ian Mosley
When was the last time you went to a concert where the audience clapped and sang along to every song?
Gene Chrisman
From 1966, for a period of five years, working at that studio under Moman's supervision, a small group of musicians knocked out hit after hit.