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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.

Online Education

Online music instruction existed long before the coronavirus... TO READ THE FULL STORY: LOG IN Digital Access $4.99 /month or $49.99 /year SAVE 15% Digital Monthly Magazine 47 Years of Archives (500+ Issues) 40+ Drum Channel Subscribe Now All Access…

Aug 1, 2020

Thomas Lang

While “normal” drummers are figuring out how to keep good... TO READ THE FULL STORY: LOG IN Digital Access $4.99 /month or $49.99 /year SAVE 15% Digital Monthly Magazine 47 Years of Archives (500+ Issues) 40+ Drum Channel Subscribe Now…

Jul 8, 2020

Aaron Spears

After bursting onto the scene with pop/R&B superstar Usher... TO READ THE FULL STORY: LOG IN Digital Access $4.99 /month or $49.99 /year SAVE 15% Digital Monthly Magazine 47 Years of Archives (500+ Issues) 40+ Drum Channel Subscribe Now All…

by Stephen Styles
Jun 1, 2020

Bill Ward: Metal Drumming Godfather

“Oh no, I could never have imagined it,” says Bill Ward with a long... TO READ THE FULL STORY: LOG IN Digital Access $4.99 /month or $49.99 /year SAVE 15% Digital Monthly Magazine 47 Years of Archives (500+ Issues) 40+…

by Jeff Potter
May 1, 2020

Maxwell's Chris “Daddy” Dave

Unworldly technician, deep soul stirrer, sonic explorer, studio heavy…Chris "Daddy" Dave is all these things—and so much more. TO READ THE FULL STORY: LOG IN Digital Access $4.99 /month or $49.99 /year SAVE 15% Digital Monthly Magazine 47 Years of…

by Stephen Styles | Photos by David Ahntholz
Mar 27, 2020

Wilco’s Glenn Kotche

There's no other band in the world that sounds quite like Wilco. And there's no other drummer in the world that sounds quite like Glenn Kotche. TO READ THE FULL STORY: LOG IN Digital Access $4.99 /month or $49.99 /year…

Story by Adam Budofsky | Photos by Jessica Alexander
Feb 28, 2020

Maná's Alex "El Animal" González

They're rock en Español's ultimate crossover act, filling arenas with pop hooks and big beats that traverse multiple styles. TO READ THE FULL STORY: LOG IN Digital Access $4.99 /month or $49.99 /year SAVE 15% Digital Monthly Magazine 47 Years…

Story by Ilya Stemkovsky | Photos by Yeison Santiago
Jan 31, 2020

Eric Harland — Jazz Swinger, Drum Prophet

The Texas native has played on hundreds of albums, recorded multiple soundtracks, performed with jazz royalty, and led his own incendiary projects. TO READ THE FULL STORY: LOG IN Digital Access $4.99 /month or $49.99 /year SAVE 15% Digital Monthly…

Story by Ken Micallef | Photos by Gene Ambo
Dec 27, 2019

Eric Singer of Kiss

With Kiss, his primary function is, and has always been, to support the band and to put on the best show possible. TO READ THE FULL STORY: LOG IN Digital Access $4.99 /month or $49.99 /year SAVE 15% Digital Monthly…

Story by Ilya Stemkovsky | Photos by Nicola Ciccarone
Nov 25, 2019

Tool's Danny Carey

On the highly anticipated new album, his thunderous tribal tom grooves and mind-bending odd-meter patterns have never sounded so right. TO READ THE FULL STORY: LOG IN Digital Access $4.99 /month or $49.99 /year SAVE 15% Digital Monthly Magazine 47…

Story by Ilya Stemkovsky | Photos by Travis Shinn
Oct 29, 2019

The Raconteurs' Patrick Keeler

It's been eleven years since we've heard Patrick Keeler driving the Raconteurs on a brand-new set of noisy, infectious, and hard-grooving songs. And that's just too long. TO READ THE FULL STORY: LOG IN Digital Access $4.99 /month or $49.99…

by Patrick Berkery
Sep 30, 2019

Nir Z

Few things about his career have been predictable—so few, in fact, that during the most intense times of his life, it’s made him truly struggle with deciding on the way forward. TO READ THE FULL STORY: LOG IN Digital Access…

Story by Michael Dawson | Photos by Chad Crawford
Jul 31, 2019

Anderson .Paak

...you've got to really take it over, so that when they think of 'drummer/singer' you're the first person they see." TO READ THE FULL STORY: LOG IN Digital Access $4.99 /month or $49.99 /year SAVE 15% Digital Monthly Magazine 47…

Story by Robin Tolleson | Photos by Alex Solca
Jun 28, 2019

Iron Maiden’s Nicko McBrain

No one looks like he’s having greater fun playing music or living life than Nicko McBrain. TO READ THE FULL STORY: LOG IN Digital Access $4.99 /month or $49.99 /year SAVE 15% Digital Monthly Magazine 47 Years of Archives (500+…

Story by Ilya Stemkovsky | Photos by John McMurtrie
May 29, 2019

John Robinson

It is November 1985. Steve Winwood's new album, Back In The High Life, is almost finished. Inside Unique recording studios in Manhattan, producer Russ Titelman is sitting behind the board, and John "J.R." Robinson is behind his drumset in the…

May 14, 2019