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BerkleeMusic.com Debuts New "Rock History" Course
First of its Kind Online Course from Berklee Launches April 2nd, 2012 From Renowned Author and Journalist Steve Morse Berkleemusic.com , the online school of Boston’s Berklee College of Music, is launching Rock History, an online course that chronicles the…
Provenance Drums Recycled Cast-Aluminum Snares
Provenance Drums is making cast-aluminum snares using recycled high-performance historical artifacts such as the engine of a Jaguar sports car, a WWII Spitfire, or part of a NASA rocket. provenancedrums.com
Precision Drum Company Founder George Folchi Passes
George Folchi Sr., founder of the Precision Drum Company, passed away on March 5 at the age of eighty-five. Folchi started Precision Drum Company in 1961. As a young drummer, Folchi desired to recover his own drums. After some research,…
Ginger Baker Documentary Premieres at SXSW
Check out the trailer for Jay Bulger’s documentary on Ginger Baker, the drummer/leader who’s famed for his work with Cream, Blind Faith, the Baker Gurvitz Army, the Graham Bond Organisation, Bill Laswell, Fela Kuti, and Public Imagine Ltd., among others.…
Berkleemusic.com Launches Rock History Online Course
Berkleemusic.com, the online arm of the Berklee School of Music, has announced the launch of Rock History, taught by rock critic and writer Steve Morse. According to Berklee, the course is the most comprehensive of its kind, featuring never-before-seen interviews…
Ahead Armor Drum Mat and World Percussion Cases
The Armor Drum Mat features a durable, high-quality carpet with a unique nonskid gel backing. It incorporates reinforced edges and an exclusive fabric-hinged center that allows the carpet to fold and roll into a compact 32x8x8 bundle. The list price…
Ian Paice to Take Part in U.K. Learn to Play Day
The Music for All organization has announced that this March 31, Deep Purple drummer Ian Paice will be involved with National Learn to Play Day, which will offer free musical instrument lessons to the public. More than sixty music shops…
LP Launches March Clinic Tour
LP (Latin Percussion) has annouced dates and artists for it's March Clinic Tour. Each month, with the cooperation of retailers and schools, LP schedules educational clinics with many of its endorsing artists. Many of these events offer free or inexpensive admission…
Russ Miller to be Drummer for "American Idol" Season 11 "Mentor" Sessions
Now that the finalists have been chosen for the American Idol Season 11 Hollywood, Ca. eliminations, the "Mentoring" sessions will begin. Starting on 3.2.12 the finalists will be "Mentored" by a music superstar, in preparation for their next weeks performances.…
Mountain’s Corky Laing Announces A New Project
Corky Laing, longtime drummer with the legendary classic rock band Mountain, has a new band called the Memory Thieves. Laing, who via Mountain’s 1970 hit “Mississippi Queen” has done as much as anyone in Western culture to turn the cowbell…
Terri Lyne Carrington's The Mosaic Project Reveives 2012 Grammy Award for "Best Jazz Vocal Album"
The 54th annual Grammy awards brought Hebert-Carrington Media co-founder Terri Lyne Carrington her first Grammy award as a leader for her ambitious cross-genre production The Mosaic Project. Her debut album on Concord Jazz, and her fifth overall, won the “Best…
Alex Acuna at University of Central Florida's Contemporary Drums and Percussion Camp
Alex Acuna will be part of the 2012 edition of the University of Central Florida's Contemporary Drums and Percussion Camp, along with his nephew Hector "Pocho" Neciosup, Jose Rosa, John Riley, Tony Cintron, Ekendra Das and Larry Washington. When: July…
Amedia Vigor Rock Cymbals
The Vigor Rock series consists of raw, heavily hammered cymbals featuring unlathed bells and tightly lathed, brilliant-finish bows. The rides are said to be strong with great bounce and clear-sounding bells. The crashes pack a punch, and the hi-hats are…
Line-Up for the 2012 Meinl Drum Festival Updated
The 2012 Meinl Drum Festival will be a two-day event (Saturday June 23rd and Sunday June 24th) on Meinl’s premises in Gutenstetten, Germany. “After the huge success of our first two-day festival back in 2008 and the sensational festival in…
