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.
Joe Halberstadt of Foxy Shazam
My father was a drummer, so I've been playing since I was old enough to grip sticks. I got my first drumkit when I was seven, and started taking lessons the same year. I've always had an extreme passion for…
Antonio Chiappetta of King Farook
Hey, MD readers. This is my first blog, and my first opportunity to say hello and introduce myself. King Farook is my band, and we're based in Sydney and tour Australia extensively. I've been playing and working on music for…
Pete Wilhoit of FYI
In 2004, after playing with the band Fiction Plane for a year, Pete Wilhoit was offered a position to be the only American member of the all-British band. FYI, Fiction Plane’s lead singer, Joe Sumner, is Sting’s son. Originally from…
Jason Bonham
By Billy Amendola The rumors started spreading months before the official press release went out: “Led Zeppelin is getting back together and they’re going on tour.” MD, like everyone else, was getting excited at the possibility. Was it true? We…
Antonio Sanchez
Best known for his multi-timbral, multi-textural, orchestral jazz drumming with The Pat Metheny Group, Antonio Sanchez spreads his solo sticks wide for his debut as a leader, Migration. A whirling dervish of a record with guest spots (and material) from…
Kelly Keagy: Alive...And Well
Kelly Keagy is a busy man these days. Known for his powerful drumming with Night Ranger (“Sister Christian” was named one of the “Top Drum Tracks of the 1980s” in a recent Modern Drummer article), Keagy has a new solo…
Allison Miller: Freedom Jazz-Folk-Pop-Rock Dance
by Adam Budofsky Since moving to New York in 1996, Allison Miller has thrived by refusing to acknowledge musical borders. Alli, as she likes to be called, has allowed her sincere love of pop and rock music to ground her…
Brian Kelley
Hello, my name is Brian Kelley, and this is my first blog for Modern Drummer. It's an honor to be asked to contribute. I live in the Boston area and make my living as a musician teaching drums, playing gigs…
Liberty DeVitto Checking In
Life is different when you're playing with a famous act: You're sheltered from the fans. One of my favorite things about doing drum clinics is that I get to meet, talk, and share time with some of the people who…
Dee Pop of The Bush Tetras
As with most people around my age (born in '56), my heroes were Buddy Rich and Gene Krupa (who both seemed to turn up regularly on variety television shows), Ringo Starr, Charlie Watts, Mitch Mitchell (who got me into Elvin!),…
Nathan Wetherington
Nathan Wetherington was a working actor in Hollywood when he accidentally became a professional drummer. Having played drums from ages ten to seventeen, Nathan left drumming for acting after he scored a two-year gig with The Blue Man Group. But…
Ches Smith of Xiu Xiu
Although I had recorded with Xiu Xiu sporadically over the years, I didn't join the band full-time until the summer of 2006. Drum machines and sequencers had been staples of the band's sound. I was sort of surprised when friend…
Mark Dodge of The Leslie Pintchik Trio
Hi there, this is my first blog for Modern Drummer, and I'm excited to talk to everyone about The Leslie Pintchik Trio and our most recent album, Quartets, which is due out October 9th. Leslie Pintchik is a jazz pianist…
Update: Roger Taylor
by Billy Amendola It shouldn’t be much of a surprise that Justin Timberlake, Timbaland, and Nate “Danja” Hills signed on to co-produce Duran Duran’s latest CD, Red Carpet Massacre. After all, the band—keyboardist Nick Rhodes, singer Simon Le Bon, bassist…
