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 | Patrick Keeler
Steady As He Goes
“That’s the hardest thing about being in this band; everybody’s a damn drummer!”
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 | Todd Sucherman
Methods And Mechanics To Drumming Brilliance
“Anyone who has to honestly play Styx music will realize that there’s more here than meets the eye. I get to play a lot of drums in this band.”
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 | Billy Bob Thornton
Thinking Inside The Box (October 2008 Issue)
While many only know Billy Bob Thornton as an Academy Award–winning actor, he’s in fact been a musician far longer, ever since growing up in Arkansas.
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 | Patrick Carney
Attacking The Drums (October 2008 Issue)
While The Black Keys’ latest offering, Attack & Release, retains much of the DIY ethos the Akron, Ohio duo has honed since its early days, it’s clear that drummer Patrick Carney and singer/guitarist Dan Auerbach wanted to mix it up for this release.
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 | Spencer Smith
A Pretty Odd Drum Approach (October 2008 Issue)
Panic At The Disco might be “all the rage” right now, but drummer Spencer Smith divulges that the band routinely gets inspiration from rock’s distant past.
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 | Carl Palmer
Asia, Alpha & Astra = Phoenix (September 2008 Issue)
As if channeling the cosmic power encompassed in the prophetic “Alpha and Omega” from the book of Revelation, tuneful progressive rockers Asia envisioned themselves as near deities when their albums topped the charts and sold millions in the 1980s.
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 | Thomas Pridgen
Turning Bedlam Into Beats (September 2008 Issue)
Twenty-four year old Thomas Pridgen unleashes the most rabid drumming in recent memory on The Mars Volta’s The Bedlam In Goliath. Of course, the band’s fans have come to expect madness and mastery from the innovative Long Beach, California group.
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 | Eric Kretz
Reunited And It Feels So Good (September 2008 Issue)
Since Stone Temple Pilots disbanded five years ago, Scott Weiland (Velvet Revolver), and the DeLeo brothers Robert and Dean (Army Of Anyone, among other projects) have made plenty of noise on their own.
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 | Zac Farro
Getting An Early Start (September 2008 Issue)
After several months of constant road work, eighteen-year-old Paramore drummer Zac Farro is finally back at home relaxing.
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 | Glen Graham
Back With Friends (September 2008 Issue)
It’s a hard thing to lose a loved one, especially when not only is it a close friend, but also the front man and voice of your top-selling band.
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 | Mike Bennett
With A Nod To Percussion (September 2008 Issue)
We weren’t kidding when we featured Mike Bennett in our On The Move section a couple of years ago. Back then, Bennett was occupied with a host of gigs in the LA music scene.
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 | Dafnis Prieto
Latin-Jazz Genius (August 2008 Issue)
Unlike most musicians, thirty-three-year-old Dafnis Prieto practices the axiom “early to bed, early to rise, makes a [musician] healthy, wealthy, and wise.”
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 | Deen Castronovo
The Journey Of A Decade, The Career Of A Lifetime (August 2008 Issue)
During the heyday of metal music in the ’80s, an underground subgenre known as “shred metal” emerged.
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 | Gene Hoglan
Winding His Atomic Clock (August 2008 Issue)
Drummer Gene Hoglan didn’t have much downtime after guitarist Devin Townsend put Strapping Young Lad on hiatus in early 2007.
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 | Hugh Grundy
The “Odessey” Continues For The Zombies’ Hugh Grundy (August 2008 Issue)
The Zombies marked the thirtieth anniversary of their gilded pop masterpiece Odessey & Oracle in 1998 with a CD reissue that struck a chord with a whole new generation of melody merchants.
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 | Julian Dorio
Firing Up The Whigs (August 2008 Issue)
“Unlike a guitarist or singer, I don’t get the opportunity to play in the van. We get a soundcheck and that’s it, so lots of times I have to wait until I hit the stage to really start playing.”
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 | Rodney Howard
Not Too Complicated (August 2008 Issue)
Touring extensively with Gavin DeGraw, Regina Spektor, and most recently Avril Lavigne, drummer Rodney Howard plays a lot of TV gigs.
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 | Adam Deitch
More Tips And Tales From Sco/Wyclef’s Adam Deitch (August 2008 Issue)
When MD spoke to Adam Deitch about Lettuce’s new LP, Rage!, and other aspects of his funky career, we had so much good stuff left over that we now offer this exclusive addendum to the August feature story.
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 | Brian Blade
Always Be Reacting (July 2008 Issue)
Brian Blade has performed and recorded with some of the greatest musicians of this or any era.
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 | Wuv
P.O.D.'s Stickman Shines On The Band's Latest (July 2008 Issue)
In an industry that is fond of burning out young bands and tossing out their ashes with the trash, P.O.D. has been through the fire and come through purified and forged like a soldier’s blade.
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 | Simon Phillips
It's Festival Time! (July 2008 Issue)
Drumming legend Simon Phillips will simply not slow down, and his star-studded drumming career continues to grow and evolve.
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 | Ryan MacMillan
Mainstream Grooving (July 2008 Issue)
Over the past ten years, Matchbox Twenty sold over 28 million records, including three multi-platinum albums and a string of hit singles.
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 | Chad Szeliga
Drumming From His Soul (July 2008 Issue)
Making grooves “pop” is Chad Szeliga’s purpose. The drummer joined Breaking Benjamin for 2006’s Phobia, and his experimentation with jazz, bebop, and fusion helped him pepper a huge modern rock record with incredibly tasty nuances.
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 | Chris “Gartdrumm” Gartmann
The Prog Power Of 3 (July 2008 Issue)
The resurgence of progressive rock has opened the door for younger drummers to rediscover the more technically challenging aspects of this classic art rock culture.
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 | Brian Reitzell
Making Music Out Of Thin Air (July 2008 Issue)
Though Brian Reitzell is known in some circles as a drummer first, he maintains a “second” career as a film music producer, choosing and in many cases composing and recording soundtrack music to many of the most highly regarded films of the past several years, including Friday Night Lights, Stranger Than Fiction, Thumbsucker, and Sofia Coppola’s Lost In Translation and Marie Antoinette.
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 | Joachim Cooder
On The Ry Side (July 2008 Issue)
For Joachim Cooder, this is a very exciting time in the life of Hello Stranger, a group he started several years ago with bandmate Juliette Commagere.
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 | Cindy Blackman
The Lady Comes To Play (June 2008 Issue)
Last year, drumming dynamo Cindy Blackman left behind her big-ticket rock gig with Lenny Kravitz to unleash the jazz devil inside.
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 | Paul Bostaph
Metal Risk-Taker (June 2008 Issue)
Slayer, Testament, Exodus, Systematic, Forbidden: Over the past couple of decades, drummer Paul Bostaph’s résumé reads like a “wish list” of heavy rock, metal, and thrash acts.
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 | Steve Ferrone
A Memorable Superbowl Performance (June 2008 Issue)
Drumming great Steve Ferrone is always busy. One particularly fun project he recently completed was a live recording called Soul Summit.
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 | Darren King
Freedom To Fail (June 2008 Issue)
You’d never know it by listening to Mute Math’s terrific debut album, but drummer Darren King got his act together not by playing his best, but by playing his worst.
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 | Billy Drummond
Swing, Style, And Substance (June 2008 Issue)
As a leader, Billy Drummond has recorded three albums that exemplify his past-meets-future approach, a style marked by an allegiance to yesterday’s jazz masters, but with a forward-thinking bent.
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 | Gabriel Serbian
Super-Speed Itch (June 2008 Issue)
After over a decade of service as a rapid-fire hardcore punk outfit, The Locust has finally written its ultimate opus—well, relatively speaking.
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 | Wally Ingram
Back…With A Little Help From His Friends (June 2008 Issue)
What a difference a year can make. In January 2007, Wally Ingram was finishing up brutal chemotherapy and radiation treatments, battling for his life against the squamous cell cancer that had invaded his throat and neck.
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 | John Dolmayan
Former System Of A Down Drummer Branches Out (June 2008 Issue)
When System Of A Down went on a self-imposed hiatus two years ago, many knew that it wouldn’t be the last time the world would hear from these metallic talents.
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