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Drum heroes: Wrecking Crew legend Hal Blaine, Neil Peart's "six favourite drummers"
Drum Heroes: "Doing a TV show in the morning, a Beach Boys track or a Phil Spector session in the afternoon, then working with Frank Sinatra or Simon & Garfunkel after that – that was normal to us"
Is Zildjian about to reissue its Z Series? This not-so-covert teaser video certainly suggests so
Punk, rock and metal fans will be familiar with that star-shaped hammer mark…
Keith Le Blanc, drummer for The Sugarhill Gang, Tackhead and many more has died aged 70
Le Blanc also contributed to work by Nine Inch nails, R.E.M., Depeche Mode and more
"I actually became a Nirvana fan when I was no longer in the band": Drummer Chad Channing remembers Kurt Cobain and his 1990 Smart Studios sessions with the band that shaped Nevermind
Channing's drums appear on one song on the final Nevermind album – "It was the one song that I guess Kurt said, ‘No, I definitely do not want to redo this,"
“An accessible road to finding your musical voice”: Mapex ups its entry-level offering with its new Comet series beginner drum sets
Featuring Mapex SONIClear bearing edges, the Comet series comes in Junior, Fusion and Rock configurations
Josh Freese confirms return to A Perfect Circle after 13 years: “APC has always been a very special band for me…”
The news follows a cryptic teaser posted by Freese earlier this week featuring a photo of his A Perfect Circle kit
Alesis Strata Prime: we’ve got our hands on Alesis’ brand-new, BFD-loaded electronic drum set - here are our first impressions
With the BFD sound engine built in, and a massive touchscreen to control it, here's what we love about the Alesis Strata Prime (and a couple of things we don't)
Alesis announces Strata Prime: its new flagship electronic drum set with a BFD 3 sound engine built into the module, and here's El Estepario Siberiano putting it through its paces
The 10-piece, all-mesh setup is built around the Prime module, complete with 40GB of samples, a 10.1-inch touch screen and more
“When he left Death Row, Dr Dre was going to do an all-black heavy metal band, and I auditioned for it”: Trevor Lawrence Jr and Lauten Audio on getting hip-hop drum sounds from an acoustic kit
Watch as Trevor Lawrence Jr turns his DW drums into a rare-groove machine with tuning, muffling and a guitar pedalboard
