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Matt Halpern on Periphery IV: Hail Stan
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PASIC18
The Percussive Arts Society held its annual international convention this past November 14–17 at the Indiana Convention Center in downtown Indianapolis.
Vintage Potpourri
David Levit, a drummer, educator, and sound engineer based in Mount Prospect, Illinois, pieced together this month’s featured kit from various vintage drums he collected throughout his career.
Navene Koperweis on Whitechapel’s The Valley
Koperweis’s distinctly huge and open drum tone sings throughout The Valley, a rarity in a genre where you’re more apt to hear controlled kit sounds or samples.
What’s Your Favorite 2000s Metal Drumming Album?
Heavy metal underwent significant change between 2000 and 2010, as the genre continually split into new styles.
Bentley’s Drum Shop, Fresno, California
Take a short four-hour drive north out of Los Angeles up I-99, and you’ll find yourself in the little big town of Fresno, California.
Enduring Effort
The first time I saw MD at a shopping mall bookstore in the early 2000s, I remember thinking, Wait, someone makes a magazine for US?
New Releases by Kyle Crane, The BBB, Flav Martin, MewithoutYou, The Neal Morse Band, and more
New releases featuring Jerry Marotta, Bernie Dresel, Mike Portnoy and more
Jharis Yokley with My Brightest Diamond
Innovative indie-pop act, My Brightest Diamond, embarked on a North American tour opening for the Canadian alternative group Stars.
Kyle Crane with Neko Case
Crane says that during rehearsals he homed in on tempos and focused on the way Case’s tracks were supposed to feel.
Sean Lennon on the Claypool Lennon Delirium’s South of Reality
On February 22 the Claypool Lennon Delirium—an alternative psychedelic group that consists of Primus frontman Les Claypool and multi-instrumentalist/drummer Sean Ono Lennon—released their new album, South of Reality.
What's Your Favorite Charlie Watts Performance?
When we first took to social media to ask which performances you’d recommend from the seminal Rolling Stones drummer, Charlie Watts.
New Releases by Phil Stewart, Henry Conerway, Jeff Berlin, Rudy Royston and more.
Groove and pocket are something drummers discuss often. It’s something where you know it when you hear it.
The Transformer
This creative yet compact setup comes to us from Westminster, California’s Jimmy Tran, and it marks the second time that one of the drummer’s kits has appeared in MD’s featured spotlight.
