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Showroom: Toontrack Reggae EZX for EZdrummer 2
Music software producer Toontrack recently released the first library expansion for its compact, affordable drum sample plug-in, EZdrummer 2, called Reggae EZX. “A reggae sound library has been at the top of our users’ wish list for years,” said Mattias…
Drummer Blog: New Found Glory’s Cyrus Bolooki on Preparing to Tour
Photo by @THERainbowBeard Greetings, MD readers! This is Cyrus Bolooki, the drummer of New Found Glory and I am honored to contribute to Modern Drummer blogs. We are just about ready to tour to promote NFG’s new record, Resurrection, and…
Win A Half Hour Drum Lesson With Beau From Smallpools!
Smallpool's drummer, Beau, is giving drum lessons to one lucky winner in each market via an Instragram contest. To enter all you need to do is post a picture to Instagram and a short description in 20 words or less…
EVENT: Philly Drum Project “Beats, Brews, & Banter??? with Anwar Marshall!
Philly Drum Project's next monthly “Beats, Brews, & Banter” drum will take place this Tuesday, October 7 from 7 to 9 PM at the Boot & Saddle on 1131 S. Broad Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This meeting will feature jazz…
Showroom: Grover Pro Musician’s Accessory Tray
This retrofitting tray converts a standard music stand into a table. It’s a solution for drummers, percussionists, and other musicians who need an inexpensive, versatile, and easily transportable padded table. Made from industrial-grade closed-cell foam, the tray is 22.5"x14" with…
Peter Criss Attends Hard Rock Cafe’s Pinktober for Breast Cancer Awareness
Recent Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and male breast cancer survivor, Peter Criss, was in attendance for Hard Rock Cafe’s fifteenth annual Pinktober campaign for breast cancer as a Hard Rock’s Pinktober artist ambassador. Having survived male breast…
Drummer Blog: Mark Zonder on New While Heaven Wept Album, Composing, and his Studio
I became associated with Tom Phillips from While Heaven Wept a few years ago, when Warlord was gearing up for our first tour in twelve years. He was a big Warlord, Fates Warning, and Mark Zonder fan and wanted to…
Brad Wilk Dashes Expectations With the Last Internationale
Recording with Black Sabbath was the first surprise. Now the ex-Rage/Audioslave drummer dashes expectations again with the Last Internationale. Interview by David Jarnstrom Photos by Paul La Raia Place yourself inside Brad Wilk’s Converse All-Stars for a moment.…
First Ever Rhythm! Live Event At Rhythm! Discovery Center October 11th
Learn the history of jazz drumming and cymbals from leading educator Bob Breithaupt PAS and Rhythm! Discovery Center present Rhythm! LIVE featuring clinician, educator, artist, and past PAS president Bob Briethaupt. Bob's session is entitled Cymbalism: A History of Jazz…
Mat Marucci Jazz Organ Trio Live At Shine Cafe
The Mat Marucci Jazz Organ Trio will be performing and recording live at the Shine Cafe in Sacramento, California on October 26th from 5 to 8 p.m. The Mat Marucci Jazz Organ Trio is Mat Marucci on drums, Chet Chwalik…
Drummer Blog: District 97’s Jonathan Schang on Mini-Rock Opera, Tours, and Upcoming Album
Hello, MD readers! This is Jonathan Schang, the drummer and primary composer of the Chicago-based progressive rock band District 97 featuring 2007 American Idol female finalist, Leslie Hunt. You may remember me from the 2012 Modern Drummer Readers Poll, when…
Larry Goldings/Peter Bernstein/Bill Stewart Ramshackle Serenade
More often than not, it’s talent, vision, and plain old time spent playing together that yields the finest results in the jazz world, and the three musicians gathered here are certainly no strangers to making music collectively. Ramshackle Serenade may…
Enter to Win Glen Sobel’s Mapex Alice Cooper Touring Kit Plus More Great Prizes From Sabian, Gibraltar, Evans, and Regal Tip
This is the kit Glen used on the 2012-13 Alice Cooper tour! The Mapex MyDentity set features 7-ply maple shells with 30-degree bearing edges and includes two 18x22 bass drums; 8x10, 9x12, and 10x13 mounted toms; two 16x16 floor…
VIDEO! Jazz Drummers Workshop: Syncopation Revisited: Part 6: Assorted Applications (from the November 2014 issue)
November 2014 Jazz Drummer’s Workshop Syncopation Revisited Part 6: Assorted Applications by Steve Fidyk Welcome to the final installment of our series on ways to interpret the classic Ted Reed book Progressive Steps to Syncopation for the Modern Drummer. The…
