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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.
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…
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…
Andy Horst of This Providence
What’s up, MD readers! I play drums for a band called This Providence. After taking nine months off the road to write and record a new album, I’m finally out touring again for the majority of the year to support…
The Parlor Mob's Sam Bey
Hello, MD readers! My name is Sam Bey, and I play the drums in a rock ’n’ roll band called The Parlor Mob, from Asbury Park, New Jersey. We’re signed to Roadrunner Records, and our debut album is called And…
Troy Yocum: Going For The Guinness
MD Readers, After drumming for three straight days in the heat, I ended up straining my right calf muscle and couldn’t finish my attempt at breaking the Guinness World Record for longest drumming marathon. The heat here played a big…
Pat O'Shea of Millions
What's up, everybody! My name is Pat O'Shea, and I play drums for the Chicago-based band Millions. Our debut full-length, Gather Scatter, is out now, and we've been pretty busy heading out on the road in support of it. We've…
Josh Trager of The Sam Roberts Band
Hey MD'ers! I'm Josh Trager from Montreal, and as it says above I play drums in the Sam Roberts Band. We just came off a pretty solid eight months of touring our new record, Love At The End Of The…
Andrew Frawley of Telling On Trixie
Hello, Modern Drummer readers! My name is Andrew Frawley, and I'm the drummer in the New York rock band Telling On Trixie. We recently finished our second album, Ugly Broke & Sober. I started drum lessons at the age of…
Apples In Stereo's John Dufilho
Hello, modern drummers, my name is John Dufilho, and I play for Apples In Stereo. I also recently recorded a CD with my friend Rhett Miller (Old 97's singer/songwriter) at Pleasantry Lane in Dallas. The studio is owned and run…
The Urgency's Guerin Blask
Hey, everybody! My name's Guerin Blask, and I play drums for a band called the Urgency, based out of New York/Vermont. I can't really remember a time when I didn't bang the skins on a regular basis, whether on pots…
