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It’s easy to celebrate popular music. It’s one of the things that binds us together as a culture and community. Music is like an invisible hearth around which we can all gather. It’s wonderful. But ...

I don’t know what it is about drummers, but when you form a band, be prepared to cycle through several beat makers. The Spinal Tap cliché of ever-changing drummers was written into the film for a ...

From Miles Davis to Mahavishnu Orchestra, we run through the 15 greatest albums fusing jazz and rock into arresting new ...

Here are the 11 best prog rock drummers of all time! Recently, we dove into the 11 best prog rock bassists of all time, with renowned players such as Chris Squire, Geddy Lee, Dave Meros and Colin ...

If you look backward through the history of rock 'n' roll, you'll find that the ratio of women to men has always been, in a word, unbalanced. At the time of this writing in 2025, less than 10 percent ...

The saga of The Who firing, rehiring, and then re-firing Zak Starkey has taken another turn. Starkey, the 59-year-old son of Ringo Starr, had played drums with the classic rock icons for three decades ...

Veteran rock drummer Thommy Price, best known for his nearly three-decade tenure with Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, has died at age 68. The accomplished musician also performed with Scandal and Billy ...

DRUMS WEEK 2025: Nothing exists in isolation or appears out of thin air and this is true of the British drummers who changed rock to hard rock, leading eventually to heavy metal. Bill Ward, John ...