Drummers
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.
Steve Holmes: Angular House Of Drumming
Los Angeles–based drummer Steve Holmes started the Vinnie Colaiuta/Dave Weckl fan site HouseOfDrumming.com several years ago because, as he puts it, "They've shown me what it sounds like to obtain freedom on the instrument." Consequently, Holmes has earned an honorable…
The Ryanist of Antennas Up
At a show in Lawrence, Kansas, Jordan, then drummer of Oliver Future, now drummer of the Relentless 7, gets to telling me about C&C drums. He says that they have finished drumkits for Ringo Starr, and that they’re just generally…
Stephen Nicholson of This Is A Shakedown!
Hello, everybody, my name is Stephen Nicholson. I grew up in the city of Cleveland Heights, a suburb east of Cleveland, Ohio. I guess you can say that I became interested in drumming around the age of nine. It was…
Martin Chambers: New Challenges, New Energy
When the Pretenders' raw and rootsy album Break Up The Concrete appeared last fall, fans were disappointed to find that Martin Chambers–the man Chrissie Hynde introduces in concert as "one of the all-time great rock drummers"–was not behind the kit.…
Mingo Lewis: Keeping It Fresh
Three decades ago, San Francisco Bay Area–based drummer/percussionist James "Mingo" Lewis was light-years ahead of the curve when he applied rudiments to congas in performances with Santana, Al Di Meola, Return To Forever, Billy Joel, and the Tubes. "I've always…
Jeremy Enigk's Victor Garcia
Greetings! The first time I sat in front of drums was the day of my thirteenth birthday, when my brother came home at night and surprised me with a fourth-hand drumkit. It was an old black Pearl Forum Series. On…
Fantastic Four: From The Church To The Shed
From The Church To The Shed by Billy Amendola We continue our conversation with R&B’s Fantastic Four–Gerald Heyward, Aaron Spears, Cora Coleman-Dunham, and Nisan Stewart, who appear together on the cover of July’s Modern Drummer magazine and on DW’s…
Brian Chase: An Appetite For Adventure
As a Web-exclusive addendum to his July MD feature, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs drummer pontificates on listening, sounding how you want to sound, and working with a click. Listening And Language (Or Hearing With Your Tongue) Finding the words to…
Ira Elliot: Nada Surf’s Vinyl Obsessive Gets Personal With MD
My own little record store, containing only albums I still like after twenty-five years–that’s suddenly what all my records look like splayed out across my room. I’ve moved a couple of times over the past two decades, and though my…
Rick Long
After ten-plus years in the drum industry as a freelance writer for Modern Drummer, I decided, “It’s time to play.” I love my writing work, but the local gigs I was taking on the drums weren’t enough to satisfy my…
Petrel's Rebekah Petrel
Hi, MD readers, I’m twenty years old and a singer/songwriter/musician and drummer/keyboard player for Petrel, a rock/pop band my sisters Jessica and Destiny and I started three years ago. Music is my life, and it’s something I know I inherited.…
William Fitzsimmons' Aaron Sterling
Hello! For the last eight years I've found myself working exclusively as a recording musician in Los Angeles. I grew up in Nashville and made my way to L.A. in the hopes of doing just this. Last year I had…
Zach Eichenhorn of Adam's Castle
MD!!! Well, here it is, your official update on the world of Zach Eichenhorn. I’m staying busy in 2009 doing what I love: playing drums! As I write this, I am traveling over the rolling hills of Pennsylvania on tour…
Taking Back Sunday's Mark O’Connell
Hello, MD! It's Day 5 of the Give It A Name tour in Europe, and every minute so far has been a blast. Right now I'm sitting in the dressing room in Vienna, Austria with my wife and my friends…
