Feature Stories
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John Andrews on Quilt’s Plaza
Quilt’s charms are subtle but significant. The Boston-based group doesn’t beat you up with angry vocals or tax your brain with impenetrable polyrhythms. Rather, like the open-air public space that its latest album’s title references, the group’s sound-world is positive…
Track by Track: Mark Guiliana on David Bowie’s Blackstar
Mark Guiliana By Deneka Peniston By Ken Micallef For his final adventurous recording, David Bowie enlisted five of New York City’s most adventurous musicians. Drummer Mark Guiliana is well known to Modern Drummer readers; joining him on Blackstar…
Josh Eppard on Coheed and Cambria’s The Color Before the Sun
Josh Eppard By Manuel Casanova by Stephen Bidwell Josh Eppard has been out with Coheed and Cambria since this past autumn. The group toured Europe in January, and March will find the band headlining the U.S. with Glassjaw…
Narada Michael Walden: Drummer, Singer, Songwriter, Educator, and Producer to the Stars
Narada Photoby Jim Belmont By Billy Amendola Since busting out of Kalamazoo, Michigan, when he was still a teenager to become hot drumming property with Mahavishnu Orchestra and Jeff Beck, among others, Narada Michael Walden has…
A Different View: Gary Clark Jr.
Gary Clark Jr. By Frank Maddocks by Will Romano The last time I talked with Gary Clark Jr., it was over a decade ago and he was fitting a harp into a harmonica rack at Antone’s blues club, in…
Listen to the Drumming: Great Tracks From MD’s March 2016 Issue
Our latest Playlist includes tracks from cover artist Barry Kerch and Shinedown, Jellyfish, Spock's Beard, Dixie Dregs, Aquarium Rescue Unit, Vinnie Colaiuta, Savages, Daughter, and more incredible artists featured throughout the pages of the March 2016 issue of Modern Drummer…
Brit Turner on Blackberry Smoke’s Holding All the Roses
by Robin Tolleson Blackberry Smoke provided one of the year’s crossover album hits, topping country and rock charts with the Brendan O’Brien–produced Holding All the Roses. And once again, the Turner brothers, bassist Richard and drummer Brit, locked it…
The Future’s Perfect: Deantoni Parks on His Solo Album, Technoself
Deantoni Parks By Shaun Cruz by Ilya Stemkovsky If you simply hear Deantoni Parks’ newest record, Technoself, you’ll be impressed with the selection of beats and samples that exist somewhere between a club and a sentient computer. But it’s…
Jeff Hamilton: Swinging Support
Jeff Hamilton By John Clayton by Jeff Potter It’s purely coincidental that drum master Jeff Hamilton and tenor sax star Scott Hamilton share the same last name. But the eventual teaming of their swinging sympatico seemed destined. As early…
Fay Milton on Savages’ Adore Life
Fay Milton By Fabio Montecchio by Adam Budofsky “I’m relatively new to playing the drumkit,” says Savages’ Fay Milton, who came to percussion by way of modern classical music rather than the more common path of playing rock…
Daughter’s Remi Aguilella
Remi Aguilella’s distinctive, stripped-down, and tasty phrases pepper the dark, moody dream pop of Daughter’s sophomore effort, Not to Disappear. “When we started, the music was a lot more acoustic, and the two other musicians in the band were both…
Pete Lockett: The “Long-Term Student??? Clears Pathways to a Credible East-West Percussive Combination
Pete Lockett By Claudia Hansen by Mike Haid From Britain to Bombay, Pete Lockett is recognized as an international ambassador of world percussion. Lockett’s mastery of North and South Indian styles has earned him accolades and respect from…
David Bowie: A Different View
by Adam Budofsky The music world is quite a bit less bold today with the passing of David Bowie, the iconic artist who was as famous for his appetite for new musical ideas as he was for…
Bobby Rondinelli
by Robert Girouard With a résumé that includes Blue Öyster Cult, Rainbow, Quiet Riot, Black Sabbath, and more recently, Mountain guitarist Leslie West and the Axel Rudi Pell Band, Bobby Rondinelli remains a mega-force in heavy-rock drumming. Bobby just…
