Artist: Drummers

Crowded House have announced the death of their drummer, Peter Jones: We are in mourning today for the death of Peter Jones. We remember him as a warm hearted, funny and talented man, who was a valuable member of Crowded House. He played with style and spirit. We salute him and send our love and best thoughts to his family and friends. Liverpool-born Jones joined Crowded House in 1994 after original drummer Paul Hester quit mid-tour. Peter stayed with the band until the end in 1996, although Hester returned for some of the final gigs. Jones [...]

Well, this another one of those news pieces where the title pretty much says it all. Black Sabbath - i.e., Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, and Geezer Butler - have released a statement in response to the large statement made by Bill Ward yesterday , when he ruled himself out of the Black Sabbath reunion over contract issues. And in contrast to Ward's piece, the statement from the three other founder members of Black Sabbath is...well.... remarkably short. Here's the statement in full, published via [...]

Niki & The Dove , a Swedish three-piece, have put together a fantastic debut album with "Instinct" . Held together with aggressive, expansive bass synth and spare, driving drum rhythms, lead singer Malin Dahlström's voice lends the whole affair a chamberpop sound not unlike Florence & The Machine , though if Florence had been rendered into a pixelated sprite by someone like Robyn or The Knife . (My new synthpop band is The And The; the naming scheme is just that [...]

It's official. Dear Sabbath Fans and Fellow Musicians, I sincerely regret to inform you that after a final effort to participate in the upcoming Sabbath shows a failure to agree has continued. At this time I have to inform you that I won't be playing with Black Sabbath at the Birmingham gig dated May 19th, 2012, nor will I be playing at Download on June 10th, 2012. Further, I will not be playing at Lollapalooza on August 3, 2012 . Read the rest of Bill Ward's note below. Hopefully they can come to [...]

The producer + drummer for WhoMadeWho, Tomas Barfod, is gearing up to release his full-length LP, Salton Sea, available on May 22nd. Check out his latest video for, "Broken Glass", which is the lead... **Summary** Go to website for downloads, videos & more.

Solo drummers met een hoog improvisatiegehalte doen het goed in huize mrbungle dit jaar; ik noemde al eerder Kris Vanderstraeten en Will Guthrie . Vanwege zijn nieuwe album Cut is het nu de beurt aan Chris Corsano , ongetwijfeld de meest bekende van de drie. Dat is natuurlijk vooral vanwege zijn samenwerkingen met onder andere Paul Flaherty , Thurston Moore , Ben Chasny en Keiji Haino . Maar ook in z'n eentje weet hij een behoorlijk onderhoudend album neer te zetten. Cut bestaat uit akoestische [...]

Listening to Niki and the Dove is like being caressed by disco-inspired primitive electrogasms while staring into the eyes of an iamamiwhoami-esque Swedish vixen, all while shamelessly gyrating to the beats. This trio is a welcome addition to the waves of beat-heavy electropoppers with ambient, tribal sounds prevailing in their hybrid of nu-disco & bjorkian electropop. Keep your eyes peeled and your ears perked for their upcoming release, INSTINCT , due out May 14th.

Street Drum Corps took a few minutes to chat with us about their inspirations, future plans and upcoming shows – including the Viper Room this Thursday!

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Levon Helm is most widely known for the songs produced during his long tenure as drummer and singer for the Band: "Up on Cripple Creek", "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down", etc, But the one that might crystallize his approach to music throughout his life was "The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show," an ode to the kind of freewheeling gatherings in which the musician thoroughly reveled. Los Angeles Times (MCT) -- Levon Helm is most widely known for the songs he sang that found their way onto the pop charts during his long tenure as drummer and singer for [...]

Filed under: News , R.I.P. AP Photo, Richard Drew Levon Helm , the enigmatic drummer and baritone vocalist behind The Band has died at the age of 71 after a lengthy battle with cancer , the Times-Herald Record reports . Helm had been hospitalized at New York's Memorial Sloane-Kettering Cancer Center. "We lost Levon at 1:30 today surrounded by friends and family and his musicians have visited him," Larry Campbell, [...]

Levon Helm , legendary drummer of The Band, has passed away at the age of 71 this afternoon surrounded by his friends and family at NYC's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center according to the Times Herald-Record . On Tuesday we found out Helm was in " the final stages of his battle with cancer " and today he succumbed to the dreaded disease. Levon may best have been known for his time in The Band, but over the last few years he reinvented his career. The drummer worked [...]

Los Angeles Times (MCT) -- LOS ANGELES - The Band singer and drummer Levon Helm is in the final stages of cancer, according to a note posted on his website Tuesday by his wife, Sandy, and daughter, Amy. "Please send your prayers and love to him as he makes his way through this part of his journey," the note said. "Thank you fans and music lovers who have made his life so filled with joy and celebration ... he has...

As Rock legends go, alive that is, Mickey Hart remains a musical pioneer not content on resting on the past glories of a huge back catalog, the ex-Grateful Dead drummer is still creating popular music using cutting edge technology and good old fashioned spiritual awareness. Mysterium Tremendum is the Brooklyn born percussionist`s 16th solo release since the early seventies and has once again created an adventurous collection of trance-like beats carefully molded around scientific observations. Deluxe packages are available for this fabulous audio collaboration, intelligent song craft for all mankind (Dead Heads included) - In a small way we all contribute [...]

French death metallers Insain have checked in with the following announcement about recruiting a new drummer: "We, Insain, are proud to announce the addition of Benoit Peichert (Years Of Tyrants, The Bukkaker, ex-Darkall Slaves) as our new drummer. Sangli is, obviously, still Insain?s skin beater but Benoit will handle the fast, brutal and deadl... Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com

In the aftermath of SXSW, Canadian Music Week provides a mixture of the old guard (with a line-up including Slash and a keynote from Free/ Bad Company/ Queen frontman Paul Rogers, as well as reformations from the likes of I Mother Earth and Treble Charger ) and some of the country's newest talents as it takes over the resolutely unseasonal city of Toronto for a week of shows and award ceremonies. Wednesday : The balance of old [...]

I spoke with a college buddy last week. He had called days earlier to inform me that a young drummer friend of his was moving to town. I'm old enough to know better than to let him follow me home. Years ago, I spent twelve months or so managing a band. (and actually managed to get a label to offer them a deal) Not long after meeting them, the drummer crashed on the couch in the house where I was living. Within a couple weeks, he was living on that couch. [...]

Pitch in to help Cadette's drummer Beth Cullen.​Beth Cullen, drummer for fierce all-female rock act Cadette, lost a friend and many possessions in a fire at her home in south Minneapolis Wednesday mor

All Things Gold returns to its regularly scheduled programming next Thursday, March 8th. This time around we've got a headlining set from one of our favorite artists as of late, Niki & the Dove . Hailing from the pop Shangri-La that is Sweden, the Scandinavian duo has a heavy arsenal of electro-dance gems like "The Drummer," "The Fox" and "DJ, Ease My Mind" that should make for an incredible show. For live support we're bringing back an early ATG alum, Gordon Voidwell , who got the crowd seriously moving at last year's Cherry Blast festival with his upbeat [...]

It's funny - On Earmilk we showcase so much dance & hiphop and an overall hearty dose of DIY sort of basement producers and the like, some would say we revel in it. Maybe we find it the most fascinating (right now) or maybe it's simply more readily available for critique (verses, for instance, Pink Floyd [...]