Drums, Drum Set, & Drummers News
July 13th, 2007

Music Gear Review (press release)

Mapex Introduces New Special Edition VX Series Black on Black Kit Music Gear Review (press release), PA - Jul 11, 2007 Mapex has introduced an exciting new special edition VX Series drum set that is sure to attract the attention of selected genres of players. ...

Festival of Drum Corps set for July 23 Enid News & Eagle, OK - 11 hours ago The sixth annual Bob Costello Festival of Drum Corps is 7 pm July 23 at D. Bruce Selby Stadium, 725 W. Iowa. • Phantom Regiment of Rockford, Ill., ...

THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN Guitarist Discusses Drummer Change ... Blabbermouth.net, NY - 22 minutes ago Chris Harris of MTV.com reports: Last month, when THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN revealed that founding drummer Chris Pennie had left the highly technical ...

LENG TCH'E Announces New Drummer - July 12, 2007 Blabbermouth.net, NY - 23 hours ago "It is with much pleasure and joy that we announce the replacement for our recently departed drummer: Tony Van den Eynde from Belgian death metal band THE ...

The Ratchets enlist Scott "Gobots" Golley of Lifetime for drumming ... Punknews.org - Jul 11, 2007 Mr. Scott "Gobots" Golley of Lifetime fame is our new drummer and we couldn't be happier. Thank you so much to all the drummers out there who offered to try ...

Kotaku.com

Hands-On, Rock Band Drumset Kotaku.com, NY - Jul 11, 2007 Yes, these now-blessed hands that typed this story got to rock out on the Rock Band drumset earlier today. Here's what I thought: The drums were designed ...

Drums & Drummer News
July 12th, 2007

PopMatters

Reunion is fun, but Copeland says there's more to life now PopMatters, IL - 1 hour ago After not playing drums for 10 years, Copeland says he was urged out of that retirement by his buddies—not Sting and Summers but Les Claypool and Trey ... Police tour revives the increasingly rare stadium show PopMatters all 4 news articles

AEROSMITH Drummer Checks In From Russia - July 11, 2007 Blabbermouth.net, NY - 15 hours ago AEROSMITH drummer Joey Kramer has checked in with a video message from the road in Russia. View the clip at this location. AEROSMITH returned to the UK for ...

Drummer comes home to visit family, play for fans Contra Costa Times, CA - 3 hours ago SAN JOSE JAZZ drummer Sylvia Cuenca has become a top-shelf New York player who travels the world, leading her own bands and accompanying jazz legends. ...

The dead, a soul drummer, and the ghosts of smut in the July 13 ... Isthmus Daily Page, WI - 1 hour ago Susan Kepecs writes about another kind of spirit, the heavy tapping of the legendary soul drummer Clyde Stubblefield. He reflects on his days with James ...

Former SEPULTURA Drummer Schedules DJing Appearance At STRIFE ... Blabbermouth.net, NY - 13 hours ago The afterparty will take place at On The Rox and will feature a DJ set by MIXHELL — the DJ/hip hop/electro project featuring former SEPULTURA drummer Igor ...

Poison Drummer Finds Love At Honky-Tonk WKRN, TN - 22 hours ago AP Regional Exactly one year ago Tuesday, Rikki wandered into The Stage and saw singer-songwriter Melanie Martel singing . Another guy on the stage invited ...

Drums & Drummer News
July 11th, 2007

Andrew WK Drums With the Boredoms Spinner, NY - 19 hours ago The much-hyped and instantly legendary 77 drummer performance by the Boredoms featured Andrew WK, but not in the way you're used to seeing the deranged ...

Doer's Profile: Elizabeth Orleski Press & Sun-Bulletin, NY - 19 hours ago Community involvement: I teach African drum lessons, workshops and intensives in and around Binghamton, and I travel with my drums as well. ...

Jamaica Gleaner

The drum, the dance, the spirit Jamaica Gleaner, Jamaica - 23 hours ago For, through the the drum and the dance, the spirit of Quao, Maroon hero, lives on in Charles Town. Young Jermaine Spence and Kerry Bryan make sure that the ...

Historic drum corps roaring back to life News-Leader.com, MO - 6 hours ago For the last few years the numbers of girls trying out for the drum corps in all the city high schools dropped, so much so that the school district just ...

House beat for Blur drummer Times Online, UK - 18 hours ago Dave Rowntree, the drummer from Blur, is hoping to become an MP. The musician, we hear, is putting his name forward to be the next Labour candidate in the ...

Ex-GUNS N' ROSES Drummer, PRETTY BOY FLOYD Guitarist To Join BANG ... Blabbermouth.net, NY - 22 hours ago Former GUNS N' ROSES drummer Steven Adler and PRETTY BOY FLOYD guitarist Kristy "Krash" Majors will reportedly join BANG TANGO during their appearance at ...

Virgin Media

Kings of Leon Drummer Finds Queen Spin, NY - 21 hours ago Tennessee rockers Kings of Leon have spent the greater part of 2007 supporting their latest release Because of the Times, an effort often praised, ... Kings Of Leon Brothers Fight Over Marriage After Drummers recent ... Gigwise Kings Of Leon Fear Drummer's Marriage Will Hurt The Band Starpulse.com FOLLOWILL DEFENDS UPCOMING MARRIAGE Contactmusic.com Digital Spy - Irish Independent all 16 news articles

Drums & Drummer News
July 10th, 2007

Music Gear Review (press release)

Ludwig Power Trio: Maple Classic, Supraphonic 400 and Black Beauty ... Music Gear Review (press release), PA - 13 hours ago Played by generations of drummers in every possible musical situation, Ludwig’s premium-quality, performance-proven snare drums have always been the right ...

Village Voice

Live: The Boredoms' Drum-Circle Village Voice, NY - 20 hours ago The other three Boredoms would start out playing a drum figure, and then the different drummers would gradually pick it up. It would spiral out from the ...

Sonoraville High to host drum corps Rome News-Tribune, GA - 1 hour ago The Spirit Drum and Bugle Corps will perform at Sonoraville High School at 8 pm Thursday. They will be practicing at the school throughout the week, ...

Derby Evening Telegraph

FUNERAL OF DRUMMER TOM BRINGS TOWN TO STANDSTILL Derby Evening Telegraph, UK - 4 hours ago In a tribute before the funeral, Drum Major Bryn Knowles said: "Drummer 'Wrighty' Wright showed natural aptitude for the role of a drummer. ...

Loudest drummer Oxford Mail, UK - 17 hours ago ... a drummathon at The Baytree in Grove, must have been very proud to have entered the Guinness Book of Records in 2003 as the world's loudest drummer. ...

DREAM THEATER Drummer Schedules In-Store Appearances - July 9, 2007 Blabbermouth.net, NY - 17 hours ago A 15-minute audio interview with Mike Portnoy, conducted by Norway's Metal Express Radio (web site) in England the day before the band's appearance at the ...

Drums & Drummer News
July 9th, 2007

News & Observer

Playing drums, making drums News & Observer, NC - Jul 6, 2007 Now the joke is on Perz-Edwards, who is not only a musician, but a maker of West African drums and other percussion instruments. ...

Publisher: Electronic Arts/MTV WorthPlaying.com, CA - 2 hours ago It is important to note that all three of the instruments (guitar, bass guitar, and drums) keep with the general aesthetic and play style established in the ...

Drumming up interest; Drum maker plans special item for 200th ... Welland Tribune, Canada - 18 minutes ago He can hear the pounding sound of his giant six-foot-by-six-foot drum. He can feel the booming vibrations resonating up through his feet. ...

BBC Berkshire

Steel Pan Alley BBC Berkshire, UK - 1 hour ago SWIPE (Slough West Indian People's Enterprise) have been granted funding to turn oil drums into beautiful instruments using state of the art technology. ...

MTV.uk

Drum't Get Better'n That! MTV.uk, UK - Jul 7, 2007 Calling themselves the SOS All Stars, Roger Taylor, Chad Smith and Taylor Hawkins took to the stage to lead a drum collective that launched Wembley's leg of ...

Canton Repository (subscription)

Illinois group wins drum corps competition Canton Repository (subscription), OH - Jul 7, 2007 Of course, that is the name of their show this year, and although they took third place in the annual Pro Football Hall of Fame Festival Drum Corps ...

SA draws drummer back to jazz roots The Herald Eastern Cape, South Africa - 50 minutes ago By Lonwabo Haya LEGENDARY vanguard drummer Makhaya Ntshoko recently returned to South Africa for his second home visit since leaving for Switzerland in 1962 ...

SAN FRANCISCO Drummer injured on July Fourth to lose finger San Francisco Chronicle,  USA - Jul 7, 2007 An errant July Fourth firework may have destroyed one of 17-year-old Roisin Isner's fingers, but it won't end her musical career, the punk rock drummer said ... Teenage drummer seriously injured by fireworks San Jose Mercury News UPDATE: Tinkture Drummer Had Her Hand Blown Off in Dolores Park ... SF Weekly Firecracker Maims Teen Drummer's Hand TMZ.com Punknews.org - abc7news.com all 23 news articles

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