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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.

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Tommy Benedetti On Tour with John Brown’s Body

by Willie Rose Tommy Benedetti, longtime drummer with the Boston-based roots/reggae vets John Brown’s Body, is currently on the road with the group supporting its newest release, Fireflies. Benedetti fills each song on the album to the brim with pure…

Modern Drummer
Oct 31, 2016

The Damned's Pinch

When you follow a drummer like Rat Scabies into a band, as Andrew “Pinch” Pinching of British punk institution the Damned did, it’s easy to figure that to some extent, you’re always going to be viewed as “the new guy.”…

Modern Drummer
Jul 1, 2016

Stephen Perkins on Jane’s Addiction’s Twenty-Fifth-Anniversary Ritual De Lo Habitual Shows

  Modern Drummer Online caught up with Stephen Perkins while he was prepping for a clinic tour and some dates with Jane’s Addiction, commemorating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the group’s watershed album Ritual De Lo Habitual. Just like when you…

Modern Drummer
Jul 1, 2016

Iconic Singer, Songwriter, and Multi-Instrumentalist Prince Dies at Age Fifty-Seven

Prince from the January 2005 issue of Modern Drummer; photo by Afshin Shahidi As music fans are still reeling from the recent passing of music legends David Bowie, Maurice White, Merle Haggard, Glen Frey, Paul Kantner, George Martin, and Keith…

Modern Drummer
Apr 21, 2016

Web Exclusive! JP Gaster of Clutch Talks Gear and More

Clutch, one of the most respected and influential hard rock bands of the past twenty-five years, released its eleventh studio album, Psychic Warfare, this past October. The album debuted at #11 in the Billboard Top-200 chart and landed at #1…

Modern Drummer
Apr 15, 2016
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Tim Wyskida of Blind Idiot God on Before Ever After

From left: Tim Wyskida, Andy Hawkins, Will Dahl; Photo by Peter Gannushkin;   by Will Romano   This April New York experimental dub-metal band Blind Idiot God is embarking on the Raise the Titanic tour of Europe in support of…

Modern Drummer
Mar 31, 2016

Drive Like Jehu’s Mark Trombino

Mark Trombino By Chris Valle   by Stephen Bidwell   Pioneering San Diego post-hardcore band Drive Like Jehu made an indelible musical mark during its original active period between 1990 and 1995, influencing many hardcore and indie bands in the…

Modern Drummer
Mar 27, 2016

Josh Eppard on Coheed and Cambria’s The Color Before the Sun

Josh Eppard By Manuel Casanova   by Stephen Bidwell   Josh Eppard has been out with Coheed and Cambria since this past autumn. The group toured Europe in January, and March will find the band headlining the U.S. with Glassjaw…

Modern Drummer
Feb 26, 2016

A Different View: Gary Clark Jr.

Gary Clark Jr. By Frank Maddocks by Will Romano   The last time I talked with Gary Clark Jr., it was over a decade ago and he was fitting a harp into a harmonica rack at Antone’s blues club, in…

Modern Drummer
Feb 19, 2016

Brit Turner on Blackberry Smoke’s Holding All the Roses

by Robin Tolleson   Blackberry Smoke provided one of the year’s crossover album hits, topping country and rock charts with the Brendan O’Brien–produced Holding All the Roses. And once again, the Turner brothers, bassist Richard and drummer Brit, locked it…

Modern Drummer
Jan 29, 2016

The Future’s Perfect: Deantoni Parks on His Solo Album, Technoself

Deantoni Parks By Shaun Cruz by Ilya Stemkovsky   If you simply hear Deantoni Parks’ newest record, Technoself, you’ll be impressed with the selection of beats and samples that exist somewhere between a club and a sentient computer. But it’s…

Modern Drummer
Jan 29, 2016

Jeff Hamilton: Swinging Support

Jeff Hamilton By John Clayton by Jeff Potter   It’s purely coincidental that drum master Jeff Hamilton and tenor sax star Scott Hamilton share the same last name. But the eventual teaming of their swinging sympatico seemed destined. As early…

Modern Drummer
Jan 29, 2016
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Fay Milton on Savages’ Adore Life

Fay Milton By Fabio Montecchio   by Adam Budofsky   “I’m relatively new to playing the drumkit,” says Savages’ Fay Milton, who came to percussion by way of modern classical music rather than the more common path of playing rock…

Modern Drummer
Jan 29, 2016

Daughter’s Remi Aguilella

Remi Aguilella’s distinctive, stripped-down, and tasty phrases pepper the dark, moody dream pop of Daughter’s sophomore effort, Not to Disappear. “When we started, the music was a lot more acoustic, and the two other musicians in the band were both…

Modern Drummer
Jan 29, 2016
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