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Nick Zamora On Tour With the Suffers
by Willie Rose Drummer Nick Zamora’s driving feel, blazing yet apt chops, and Motown-inspired grooves are supporting the Houston, Texas, soul collective the Suffers on their current March tour. Since forming in 2011, the ten-member group has enjoyed a…
Jason Trammell on Sinkane’s Life & Livin’ It
by Willie Rose This past February 10, multifaceted producer and pop, funk, and jazz blender Ahmed Gallab released his sixth album, Life & Livin’ It, with his solo project Sinkane. Drummer and longtime Gallab collaborator Jason Trammell lays down…
Daniel Tracy On Tour With Deafheaven
by Willie Rose photo by Liam Christopher Metal and shoegaze genre slashers Deafheaven are currently ripping across the country on a tour that lasts through late March. The band, powered by blast-beat maniac Daniel Tracy, first saw breakout success with…
On Tour with Griffin Goldsmith of Dawes
by Willie Rose This past September, Los Angeles–based indie folk-rock group Dawes released their fifth studio album, We’re All Going to Die, a record teeming with drummer and vocalist Griffin Goldsmith’s deep pocket and solid grooves. The band, which…
Adam Carson on AFI’s The Blood Album
by Willie Rose This past January 20, the anthemic emo-punk band AFI released its self-titled album, aka The Blood Album, the group’s tenth record over the course of its twenty-five-year history. Along with searing hooks from vocalist Davey Havok, brilliant…
Friday Nuggets: Joe Butler’s Cannons
Check out the drum production on this number-one hit by the Lovin’ Spoonful, from August, 1966. You didn’t often hear drums quite so prominently on a pop hit in the mid-’60s. But there’s a drama to “Summer in the City,”…
On Tour with Hayley Cramer of Pop Evil
by Ben Meyer British drumming phenomenon Hayley Cramer recently took over the drum chair in the established rock powerhouse group Pop Evil, quickly finding herself playing for tens of thousands of fans while the band opened for the likes of…
Craig Macintyre of the Goo Goo Dolls: Reflects on 2016 and Talks Tours
Hello, MD readers, a lot has happened in 2016. I’ve been playing for the platinum pop rockers the Goo Goo Dolls and earlier in the year I recorded drums and percussion on their newest release Boxes. I also co-wrote the…
Track-by-Track: Frank Zummo Discusses Sum 41’s 13 Voices
Track-by-Track: Frank Zummo Discusses Sum 41’s 13 Voices by Billy Amendola Frank Zummo was born on Long Island, New York, and began drumming at age three, when he discovered his dad’s drumkit. By the time he was seven he was…
Monte Yoho on the Outlaws’ Legacy Live
The Outlaws are one of the premier bands associated with the Southern-rock movement of the ’70s, and drummer Monte Yoho was with the group—dubbed Florida’s Guitar Army—at the very beginning. Early hits like the Yoho co-write “There Goes Another Love…
John Sherman on Tour With Red Fang
by Willie Rose photos by James Rexroad Red Fang, the hard-rock/metal powerhouse from Portland, Oregon, released their fourth studio album, Only Ghosts, this past October. Drummer John Sherman is currently throwing down his blazing fills and powerful, no-frills grooves…
Martin Brandlmayr on Radian’s On Dark Silent Off
by Willie Rose photo by Rania Moslam Drummer and sonic explorer Martin Brandlmayr continues to smear the increasingly blurred line between acoustic and electronic music on Radian’s newest release, On Dark Silent Off. The record, which the Vienna-based electro-acoustic pioneers…
Friday Nuggets: Paul Thompson’s Trip From Roxy Music to Lindisfarne
Roxy Music, featuring Paul Thompson (far right) It’s funny how we define our favorite players. While drummers who came of age in the ’70s heyday of FM radio would associate Paul Thompson with the early era of the groundbreaking British…
On the Beat with Daniel Moilanen of Katatonia: Talks Metal Genres and the Essence of Drumming
Greetings drummers! (Modern or not.) Greetings readers! (Drummers or not.) My name is Daniel Moilanen and I’m a metal drummer. Throughout the entirety of my drumming career I’ve played different styles of metal within different genres of metal and the…
