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.
Randy Cooke
By Billy Amendola Photos by Rob Shanahan Randy Cooke was born in Toronto, Canada, and has been playing drums since he was a kid. Influenced by his dad, a snare drummer for The Toronto Scottish Pipe & Drum Band, Randy…
Doane Perry
A View From The Cymbals So many notes. Big notes, small ones, LOUD ones, and very quiet little guys. Fast flurries, slow ones, legato passages, and staccato accents, all living side by side in relative, undisturbed harmony and alternating discord.…
Vincent Fiorello of Less Than Jake
I read through all of these blogs by great drummers and superb musicians, and though it might seem like an odd forum to do this, rather than hawk my wares here I'd like to ask if any readers know about…
Ray Blanco of The Bangkok Five
I'm alone. I'm still relaxing in my bed watching my LA Kings hockey game from last night. Yeah, they're in last place, with only a few games left in the season, but what can you do? We had rehearsal last…
Jimmy Carl Black
Jimmy Carl Black, of Mothers Of Invention and Captain Beefheart fame, just turned seventy–and says last year was one of his busiest ever. First, there’s the band The Jack And Jim Show, which recently released The Jack And Jim Show…
Ben Gillies of Silverchair
In a wildly successful twelve-year career spanning five award-winning albums, Australian rock trio Silverchair have ridden an astounding creative musical trajectory. Few could have imagined that the “grunge version of Hanson” responsible for 1995’s breakthrough debut, Frogstomp, would metamorphose into…
Chachi Darin of the A.K.A.s
Hello, fellow drummers and MD online readers! My name's Chachi Darin, and I play drums for the Philadelphia-based band The A.K.A.s. I just got home from a six-week US tour preceding the March 18 release of our new record, Everybody…
Jim Bonfanti of The Raspberries
Hello, MD readers. I've been trying to write this blog for quite some time now, and here it is. My name is Jim Bonfanti, and I'm the drummer and one of the founding members of the power-pop group The Raspberries.…
Eric Valentine
Hello, MD readers. Facility vs. humility. (Being a professional Modern Drummer.) And the winner is? It took me quite some time before I recognized that drumming would be a such a dominant part of my life–and even more importantly, that…
Stan Lynch
by Patrick Berkery When Tom Petty was asked to describe original Heartbreakers drummer Stan Lynch in the 2005 book Conversations With Tom Petty, the bandleader responded with, “Stan. Now there’s a book in itself.” Any book about the fifty-two-year-old Lynch…
Han Bennink
Known to solo with anything that will instantly augment his kit, from clogs to a fire alarm, Han Bennink is Holland’s most radical drumming export. By turns profoundly traditional and wildly revolutionary, Bennink has worked with everyone from Cecil Taylor…
Homer Steinweiss
It’s been quite a year for the members of much-heralded New York City funk outfit The Dap-Kings. Powered by longtime drummer Homer Steinweiss, the band recently released their third full-length album with Sharon Jones, 100 Days, 100 Nights. They also…
David Uosikkinen
One of the many things I always admired about drummers like Ringo, Charlie Watts, Steve Gadd, Liberty DeVitto, Russ Kunkel, Jim Keltner, Steve Jordan, and Mickey Curry is the way they got their heads into the song they were playing.…
Steve Mehlman
Hi. Steve Mehlman reporting from Cleveland. I've been playing drums for—a long time. I've played a million shows with a ton of different bands, like Pere Ubu, Rocket From the Tombs, and yes, even some cover bands–they pay. I'm on…
