Features
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Catching Up With... Bill Kreutzmann
Catching Up With… Bill Kreutzmann Fifty years after the birth of the Grateful Dead, the band’s founding drummer reflects on a long career. Then, after one last big fling with his old group, it’s back to business as usual: “playing…
Catching Up With... Mike Bordin
Catching Up With… Mike Bordin Faith No More has always followed its own rules. So if the band wants to wait until it’s half a decade into its “comeback” to finally release a new recording, you can bet there’s a…
A Different View - John Tropea
A Different View John Tropea The New York–born, Berklee-trained guitarist is part of a small circle of musicians who basically owned the Manhattan studio scene in the ’70s, and whose influence is still being felt today. Drum gods? Yeah, he’s…
Up & Coming - Ben Thatcher
Up & Coming Ben Thatcher Royal Blood’s percussive half avoids excess at all costs—and the payoff has been handsome indeed. Who said the blues is dead? British power-rock duo Royal Blood has earned success on both sides of the Atlantic…
Blake Richardson
Features Blake Richardson Don’t let his calm drumming demeanor with Between the Buried and Me fool you—the ideas flying off his sticks can jolt you like a defibrillator. Long live technical rock ’n’ roll. Story by David Ciauro Photos by…
Oscar Seaton
Features Oscar Seaton Playing with unbridled freedom and being a faithful servant to the groove might seem like two opposing goals. But for this long-revered multi-genre monster, it’s all about the same thing—putting in the time, and acquiring the tools.…
Hamilton’s Andrés Forero
Andrés Forero is booked. And it’s not just any old steady gig that’s keeping him working. It happens to be the hottest ticket in town, the critically acclaimed Broadway hit musical Hamilton. And by “booked” we mean for the foreseeable…
CATCHING UP WITH - Jack DeJohnette
Jazz supergroups don’t come along often, but when they do—and especially when they include this legendary drummer—kaboom! TO READ THE FULL STORY: SUBSCRIBE TO ACCESS LOG IN
CATCHING UP WITH - Aric Improta
The Night Verses drummer has masterminded a multi-player video whose variety of styles, setups, and sounds make it one of the most compelling percussive productions in recent memory. TO READ THE FULL STORY: SUBSCRIBE TO ACCESS LOG IN
The Charlie Daniels Band’s Pat McDonald
The devil may have gone down to Georgia, but he hasn’t gotten in Pat McDonald’s way. The drummer’s journey began in the small town of St. Simons Island, Georgia, but for the past seventeen years McDonald has been the backbone…
Catching Up With... Mark Guiliana
Since Mark Guiliana’s cover feature in MD’s November 2014 issue, the groundbreaking drummer’s momentum has remained in high gear. The Mark Guiliana Jazz Quartet makes its debut on Family First, released on Guiliana’s Beat Music Productions label. TO READ THE…
Catching Up With... Chris Adler
No one came out of Lamb of God’s 2013 legal tribulations unscathed. But the band and its drummer seem hell-bent on proving their survival skills. TO READ THE FULL STORY: SUBSCRIBE TO ACCESS LOG IN
Catching Up With... Slim Jim Phantom
The drummer’s bold playing and even bolder stage presence with the ’80s rockabilly icons the Stray Cats helped prompt a resurgence of interest in rock’s roots. Though that wasn’t necessarily the plan from the start. TO READ THE FULL STORY:…
Scarlett Stevens
She adds a number of vital elements to San Cisco’s deceptively sunny sound, including lead vocals and drum parts that can catch you by surprise with off-the-cuff wildness and well-thought-out weirdness. TO READ THE FULL STORY: SUBSCRIBE TO ACCESS LOG…
