Drums & Drummer News
October 24, 2008

THE WORLD'S 1ST DIGITAL DRUMMING COMPETITION FOR EXTREME METAL ... Imperiumi.net, Finland - 21 hours ago The Blast Off Drum Competition has gone digital and will be a regular feature in Sick Drummer Magazine. Brought to you by Sick Drummer Magazine, ...

Drums: the realest Rock Band instrument Los Angeles Times, CA - 13 hours ago Lee Olson playing Rock Band drums. (Courtesy L. Olson) That’s why it’s so strange and compelling to pull up a YouTube video of Lee Olson playing virtual ...

Mmegi Online

Drummers Anonymous to coach local enthusiasts Mmegi Online, Botswana - 20 hours ago Botswana Defence Force (BDF) band drummer, Phil Mhlanga, has formed an association to teach young people how to play drums. Mhlanga's non-profit making ...

Japanese Drums Sonic State, UK - 4 hours ago Nine Volt Audio has released TAIKO which they describe as a Multi Sample High Impact Drum Library for Kontakt 2 & 3. Here's all the details from their press ...

Camas students learn beat of a different drum The Columbian, WA - 5 hours ago With focus, exertion and smiles all around, 14 fifth-graders pounded on 14 waist-high drums, taking their verbal cue from Michelle Fujii, performer and ...

Kid drummer to be envoy in US Independent Online, South Africa - 8 hours ago By Jessica Bell Drumming prodigy Daniel Petersen is taking his drumsticks to the United States after becoming Cape Town's youngest tourism ambassador. ...

Drums & Drummer News
October 23, 2008

Stone Temple Pilots Drummer To Sit Out Last Week Of Tour Ultimate-Guitar.Com - 50 minutes ago According to a posting on the band's web site, "Due to the unfortunate passing of his father, drummer Eric Kretz will be taking a brief leave of absence ...

Old drums need new homes Danville News, PA - 2 hours ago Drums made 40 or 50 or more years ago by firms perhaps no longer in existence, or drums played by a famous member of a band are known as vintage drums, ...

Quick thinking, CPR saves drummer Gretna Breeze, NE - 5 hours ago But recently, a drummer playing at a local establishment lost his rhythm, and his heartbeat. But the quick actions of two audience members saved his life. ...

Boardman native plays drums for indie-rockers Dean and Britta Youngstown Vindicator, OH - 10 hours ago By Guy D’Astolfo For the past two years, Boardman native Anthony LaMarca has been the drummer for Dean and Britta, the folky indie-rock act with a ...

New Zealand Herald

Everything You Need to Know about Guitar Hero World Tour PC World - 55 minutes ago It packs in a sleek new wireless six-piece drum set with fan-like cymbals, a slap-strum pad on its 25 percent larger sunburst guitar, a stunning 86 master ... New Guitar Hero adds new drum kit, microphone Winston-Salem Journal We Try Playing ‘Rock Revolution’ With The ‘Rock Band’ Drums MTV.com Unleash your star power Straits Times WorthPlaying.com - USA Today all 55 news articles

Rookie receives surprise drum set My Tennessean.com, TN - 7 hours ago By Jim Wyatt • THE TENNESSEAN • October 23, 2008 Titans running back Chris Johnson got a special delivery Wednesday: a set of conga drums. ...

Collins' drum teacher wows the crowds This is Wiltshire.co.uk, UK - 3 hours ago Lloyd Ryan has played the drums for more than 40 years, and has performed in 650 shows across the UK and Europe. His shows have appealed to both drummers ...

Cover story: Drum roll, please ... Lou Mars wins national drumming ... Enterprise-Record, CA - 7 hours ago By JEANNE PLATT - The Buzz Drummer Lou Mars drums inside Herreid Music on Oct. 15 in Chico. Mars recently won a national drumming competition and was ...

Drummer snared after alleged church break-in The Associated Press - 17 hours ago BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) — Bridgeport police said they snared a 47-year-old man who broke into a local church to play the drums. Police said Michael Smith, ...

Drums & Drummer News
October 22, 2008

Drummer/Vocalist Grady Tate Interviewed at AAJ All About Jazz, PA - 2 hours ago Although the trap drums were his claim to fame and the basis for a highly successful career as a sideman accompanist to a plethora of the best vocalists and ...

Seattle Post Intelligencer

Drummer's Drum-up with "Woodstick Big Beat 2008" to Beat the ... Seattle Post Intelligencer - 1 hour ago Together with Donn Bennett Drum Studio, Tacoma Rotary #8 and Rotary International, the event has raised over $70000 for charities to date. ...

Group drums up talent after winning championship Grimsby Telegraph, UK - 4 hours ago The East Coast Elite Brass Percussion Corps became Second Division Overall Champions at the British Youth Band Championships. The event, held in Coventry, ...

Sisterhood of the drum includes real 'sisters' The Salinas Californian, CA - 1 hour ago Now, it looks like I will have the opportunity to meet a couple of nuns who are fired up about learning to hand drum. I had a voice-mail message from a ...

Army defends decision to drop pipe and drum band Melbourne Herald Sun, Australia - 7 hours ago He said the decision to axe the Royal Australian pipe and drum band followed a series of reviews and was based on advice to former army chief Lieutenant ...

The Canadian Press

Video game review: 'Wii Music' falls flat as random noise session The Canadian Press - 19 hours ago Nintendo's "Wii Music" invites players to pick up their wireless remotes and strum, toot, bang and drum their way through improvisational jam sessions using ... Strike up the band with Wii Music Digital Home Wii Music aims to take music gaming to the masses Gizmag Nintendo Announces 'Significant Increase' in Q4 Wii Supplies over 2007 GameZone Globe and Mail - Game Daily all 86 news articles

4-Year Old Julian Pavone, 'The World's Youngest Drummer!' Makes ... SYS-CON Media, NJ - 21 hours ago BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. , Oct. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Julian Pavone , "The World's Youngest Drummer!"(R) will make history on October 27th, 2008 when he steps ...

Musicians still rocking to help ailing drummer NewsOK.com, OK - 36 minutes ago One of their number, drummer Jerry Hamilton (ex-Moby Dick & the Whalers, Full House), has a serious liver disease. "A good friend and former band mate is ...

Drums & Drummer News
October 21, 2008

DRUMMERS UNITE TO BEAT HUNGER Orillia Packet & Times, Canada - Oct 20, 2008 The rhythm of hands pounding quickly on drums vibrated through Stephen Leacock Museum's Swanmore Hall during the 100 Drummers Drumming Away Hunger event. ...

New Zealand Herald

We Try Playing ‘Rock Revolution’ With The ‘Rock Band’ Drums MTV.com - 19 hours ago The disc-only version of Konami’s “Rock Revolution” was released last week, but the drum kit-and-game bundle won’t be in stores until next month. ... Battle of the brands: How music games match up USA Today PS3, PSP, Wii, Xbox and PC Game news and reviews New Zealand Herald Have a Rock Band party on the cheap MLive.com PopMatters - WorthPlaying.com all 17 news articles

Drum Circle Files Discrimination Complaint New University Online, CA - Oct 20, 2008 All sources agree that on the base level, a conflict regarding the separation of identity between AISA Drum Circle and the AISA organization itself is what ...

Scissor Sisters split with drummer NME.com, UK - 16 minutes ago The statement read: "We would like our fans and friends to know that we have amicably parted ways with the original Scissor drummer Paddy Boom. ...

'Rahman is genuinely exciting' NDTV.com, India - 8 hours ago I may be playing all these instruments, but I wouldn't like to call myself an Arabic drummer or Indian drummer, or a western drummer really, ...

BLACK SABBATH Drummer Previews Next Month's 'Rock 50' Show - Oct ... Blabbermouth.net, NY - 17 hours ago "This November 15th we'll be playing our Armistice show on 'Rock 50'. Check out the show if you have the time. "Like our 9/11 show, the Armistice show is ...

Drums & Drummer News
October 20, 2008

BBC News

Drummer Barker home from hospital BBC News, UK - 4 hours ago Former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker has been released from the Los Angeles burns centre where he was being treated after surviving a plane crash. ... Barker Heads Home New York Times Plane Crash Drummer Allowed Home Sky News Former Blink-182 drummer released from burn center The Associated Press Sunday Mirror - ITN all 414 news articles

Metallica drew flak for its Napster stand, but the online stealing ... Kansas City Star, MO - 23 hours ago Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich admits that the phenomenally successful band took some public relations hits over its campaign against “music piracy. ...

Chad Smith Talks Red Hot Chili Peppers, Chickenfoot Ultimate-Guitar.Com - 23 minutes ago As drummer for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Chad Smith is in one of the biggest bands in the world that practically everybody has heard. But as drummer for ...

TropicalFete.com

Tanbou Nan Lakou Brooklyn / Haitian Drums in The Brooklyn Yard ... TropicalFete.com, NY - 10 hours ago ... music) genres along with several giants from the NYC jazz world, and the result is an intoxicating blend of Vodou drums, Jazz and World music stylings. ...

Funk, Funk-Rock, R&B, and Soul Drums Sonic State, UK - 4 hours ago Beta Monkey Music has released Drum Werks Volume XIII. Here's all the details in their press release... Beta Monkey Music has released Drum Werks Volume ...

Luciano: Drummer keeps beat after losing his legs Peoria Journal Star, IL - 19 hours ago But his main focus remained music, never so much so than a year ago when he replaced a departed drummer with the Dave Chastain Band. ...

Straits Times

YouTube's Rock Band drum masters Los Angeles Times, CA - Oct 17, 2008 But check out this video of IBite playing the popular music simulation game Rock Band, which has taken Guitar Hero and added the option of playing drums and ... 'Guitar Hero World Tour' (ALL) to Get Oasis Track Pack and Full Album WorthPlaying.com Rock Band 2 GameZone all 16 news articles

KISS, Cooper drummer wows fans at expo Times and Transcript, Canada - 4 hours ago That's pretty typical for Singer, LeBlanc said, explaining the drummer is noted for holding fans close to his heart. Indeed, in an earlier interview ...

GRAVEYARD RODEO Announces New Drummer - Oct. 19, 2008 Blabbermouth.net, NY - 10 hours ago ... current CORROSION OF CONFORMITY guitarist/vocalist Pepper Keenan, have announced the addition of drummer Jerry Paradis (SOURVEIN) to the group's ranks. ...

Gigwise

Time running out for Ringo Starr autograph Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 9 hours ago Fans of Ringo Starr, the Beatles drummer, have less than 24 hours to get his autograph. By Urmee Khan Starr, regarded as the most down-to-earth member of ... Profile: Ringo Starr - Grumble, grumble little Starr Scotland on Sunday Ringo Starr's Autograph Ban Reaches Deadline Day Gigwise Ringo Starr apologises to fans Oneindia WalesOnline - Entertainment and Showbiz! all 15 news articles

TO/DIE/FOR Parts Ways With Drummer, Announces Replacement - Oct ... Blabbermouth.net, NY - 14 hours ago Finnish gothic metal band TO/DIE/FOR has parted ways with its drummer of four years, Santtu Lonka. According to the group, Santtu left TO/DIE/FOR because ...

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