Artist: Drummer

Adam Ficek is best known as the drummer with Babyshambles. He has played on both of the band's records, Down in Albion and Shotter's Nation. Adam has a solo project called Roses Kings Castles, whose self-titled debut LP was released in the UK in September. He was gracious enough to answer a few of my questions about drumming, Babyshambles, and that elusive Pete Doherty solo record... DF: I

• "Beg Steal or Borrow" by Babyshambles » begstealborrow.mp3

Six lucky candidates from a field of 5,000 have survived contests across hundreds of Guitar Center stores to compete at the 2008 Drum-Off finals on January 10. But who will walk away the best new skin-pounder in the music game? That's up to the bigshots. They were announced on Wednesday , and feature some fearsome drummers from across the sonic spectrum, including Foo Fighters' Taylor Hawkins, Tool's Danny Carey, No Doubt's Adrian Young, Avenged Sevenfold's The Rev and session vet Kenny Aronoff. Those distinguished musicians will be joined by celebration host and Jane's Addiction slammer Stephen [...]

Fall Out Boy is returning to its roots somewhat tonight, by doing a show at the Creepy Crawl. (The quartet certainly played at the old Creepy location on Tucker when it was just another Chicago band t... Continue reading "Interview: Fall Out Boy Drummer Andy Hurley" >

Nine Inch Nails drummer, Josh Freese is due to leave the band at the end of 2008 and Trent Reznor has posted details of his replacement, Lostprophets ' Ilan Rubin, on the band's official website : With great pride and excitement I announce the addition of Ilan Rubin to the lineup beginning next year. I had the chance to see Ilan playing his ass off at Reading and Leeds a couple summers ago and he blew me away. We recently invited him out to rehearse with us and he blew US away - the [...]

Babyshambles ' Adam Ficek has mapped out a solo UK jaunt. Ficek solo project, Roses, Kings, Castles , will be touring the UK early next year. Kicking off January 5, the tour will see Roses, Kings, Castles play several major cities including Cambridge, Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham. Ficek is touring in support of his recently released self-titled solo album. Babyshambles [...]

An era of rock history has drawn to a close with the death of Mitch Mitchell , last of the founder members of the Jimi Hendrix Experience. London born, shortly after the end of the Second World War, Mitchell made an early entrance to showbusiness as a child actor. Fortunately, a passion for jazz led him astray and by the 1960s, he was drumming for a number of rock groups. He missed out on joining The Who after failing at an audition, but in the end that worked out alright for both The Who and Mitchell, as [...]

The death has been announced of Earl Palmer , session drummer. Although not a well-known name, you'll be familiar with his work: he played on The Righteous Brother's You've Lost That Loving Feeling, Ike and Tina's River Deep, Mountain High and Tutti Frutti by Little Richard. The percussive beats that drive I Hear You Knocking? That would be Palmer. Later work included Elvis Costello's King Of America album in a career that stretched from the culty (The Monkees' Head) through to the populist (contributing to the sessions for the Flintstones soundtracks). Palmer originally started out [...]

Although the ceremony was held up for fifteen minutes at the "any person here present" bit as the celebrant had to plough through 175 internet pages to determine if she really was, you know, serious about this heterosexual business, KT Tunstall has married her drummer Luke Bullen.

From today's Billboard : According to local media reports, Foley died after accidentally overdosing on prescription medication. The 1990 selection of Foley, who played in such Minneapolis bands as Curtiss A, Wheelo and Snaps, as the substitute for original Replacements drummer Steve Foley has become the stuff of legend. According to Jim Walsh's oral history "All Over But the Shouting," frontman Paul Westerberg and bassist Tommy Stinson bumped into Foley at a local bar and procured a ride from him to an audition. In the car was a copy [...]

• The Replacements - Can't Hardly Wait

say hi to this big techno remix done by no one else but "eric sneo". a great track made by two great techno producers now remixed on one black vinyl. bring it on...yeah just bring it on and... listen yourself! URL: http://www.tube-tech.de / http://www.davethedrummer.net album : Wake Up (Incl Eric Sneo Remix) artist : Tube Tech [...]

It probably makes sense that Placebo have replaced former drummer Steve with another Steve - it makes it so much easier when you don't have to learn a new name, doesn't it? It's a bit like when Elsie Tanner's second husband was, luckily, also called Tanner. The band have poached Steve Forrest from Evaline , the band who supported them on their 2006 tour. Future support acts will do well to count their members as they pack up on the last night, lest Brian has pinched a bassist or a keyboard player. Mariya (to whom [...]

The legendary drummer from the legendary Roots, ?uestlove (seriously, the special character in his name always fucks up our blog post permalinks), will be DJing an exclusive set of his favorite cuts and some of yours this Saturday at LOVE . Tickets are 10 bucks in advance. Too bad we'll be all-day'ing it at BEMF . Sorry! Anyways, here's his Radio 1 "Sample Lesson" mixtape. (mp3) ?uestlove - Sample Lesson mixtape Godspeed!

• Questlove - Sample Lesson Mix

Guitar Center Announces Launch of World's Largest Drum Competition - Guitar Center Drum-Off '08 World's Largest Drum Competition Celebrates 20th Anniversary Offering Grand Prize Worth Over $45,000 For 20 years, Guitar Center has been committed to providing drummers across the country the opportunity to pursue their musical aspirations and achieve their dreams by way of the world's largest drum competition: Guitar Center Drum-Off. Starting August 1st, drummers can sign up for their chance to win over $45,000 in cash and prizes, joining over 5,000 drummers from across the US to compete for [...]

Manchester bands Autokat , Carlis Star and Whiskycats are playing tonight (Monday 28th April 2008) at the Manchester235 casino as part of the Manic Monday broadcast live on 96.2FM The Revolution To gain entry to the casino you have to bring along Photo ID.....it's £5 entry on the night but if you email Jacquie at The Revolution before or early on Monday you can get on the FREE guestlist. The doors open tonight at 19:30pm, but if you can't make it then you can still listen to [...]

This is a very cool Jazz Rock Fusion Video featuring drummer Bill Bruford playing Beelzebub . This Video is from YouTube . Watch here or go to the YouTube Page . WPvideo 1.10 You can hear Bill Bruford and music like this at Latch Music Radio . Be sure to go to the websites of Bill Bruford and show him your support. Tags: Drummer , [...]

In college I minored in music and history, and so dug the two that I took a class titled "Sociology of Popular Music." In a laid-back way, we weren't afraid to send conventional thoughts pear-shaped. For example, the theme of my big class presentation was, "Protest songs are affected by sociopolitical events, NOT vice-versa" (it was at that realization that I turned my back on the idealism of hippie culture, which I'd idolized during my late teens). One day, somehow, we were all talking about rap and its sociological implications for the future, and a fellow student noted, "Well, there's [...]

In college I minored in music and history, and dug the two so much that I took a class titled "Sociology of Popular Music." We weren't afraid to send conventional thoughts pear-shaped. For example, the theme of my big class presentation was, "Protest songs are affected by sociopolitical events, NOT vice-versa" (like, "Four Dead In Ohio" was affected by national outrage at the Kent State student shootingts--it didn't incur the outrage). One day, somehow, we were all talking about rap and its sociological implications for the future, and a fellow student noted, "Well, there's the thought that rap is the [...]

Today's song is "Love in a Trashcan" by The Raveonettes. The old school Velvet Underground-esque sound is cool, and they are playing in LA tomorrow and again next week. Check 'em out if you get the chance. The Raveonettes ~ " Love in a Trashcan " http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =iGaA1D-scGg Today's Video is "Atlas" by Battles. Math Rock, Prog rock, or whatever you want to label them musically its all good - they have John Stanier on the drums. That guy was the drummer for [...]

This is a very fun Jazz Rock Fusion Video featuring drummer Bill Bruford playing with Earthworks - Strom Boli Kicks. This Video is from YouTube . Watch here or go to the YouTube Page . WPvideo 1.10 You can hear Bill Bruford and music like this at Latch Music Radio . Be sure to go to the websites of Bill Bruford and show him your support. Tags: [...]

This is a very cool Jazz Rock Fusion Video featuring drummer Bill Bruford playing Hell's Bells. This Video is from YouTube . Watch here or go to the YouTube Page . WPvideo 1.10 You can hear Bill Bruford and music like this at Latch Music Radio . Be sure to go to the websites of Bill Bruford and show him your support. Tags: Drummer , [...]