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Mar 25, 2021

Pete Kelly of Union of Knives: Back, and Sharper Than Ever

Mogwai isn’t the only band from Scotland making waves. Here we chat with one of the busier journeyman drummers out of Glasgow to learn about his oldest/newest project. After more than a decade of inactivity, the band Union of Knives, featuring drummer Pete Kelly, multi-instrumentalist Chris Gordon, and singer Ant…

Union Of Knives

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Pete Kelly of Union of Knives: Back, and Sharper Than Ever
Pete Kelly of Union of Knives: Back, and Sharper Than Ever

Mar 17, 2021

Mogwai’s Martin Bulloch

Digging for the rhythmic gold at the core of the Scottish rock institution. Driving, methodical, precise yet bombastic…these are the qualities we rock drummers strive for when we pick up a pair of sticks. But in reality it’s rare when players fully grasp the depth of such profound attributes, and…

Mogwai

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Mogwai’s Martin Bulloch
Mogwai’s Martin Bulloch

Mar 9, 2021

Are You Hip To…Keef Hartley?

The drummer for the band that bore his name played at Woodstock and helped put progressive rock on the map. Beatle fanatics, being Beatle fanatics, may scoff at those unfamiliar with the name Keef Hartley, but you won’t be treated so sternly here. While the drummer who replaced Ringo Starr…

Keef Hartley

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Are You Hip To…Keef Hartley?
Are You Hip To…Keef Hartley?

Mar 6, 2021

Eric Harland: The Nature of Nurturing

One the the world’s greatest drummers suggests that musical growth cannot be separated from personal growth. The proof, as usual, is in the pudding. The feats required of jazz drummers are Herculean, testing their physical, intellectual, and emotional strength. There is simply no comparable musical challenge. Consider: Jazz drummers must…

Eric Harland

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Eric Harland: The Nature of Nurturing
Eric Harland: The Nature of Nurturing

Mar 3, 2021

Michael Blair on Lou Reed’s Powerful and Glorious ‘Magic and Loss’

The drummer, percussionist, and initiator of a thousand artful ideas recalls what went into — and came out of — the rock icon’s 1992 masterwork. On the occasion of what would have been Lou Reed’s seventy-ninth birthday, we’ve asked Michael Blair to recall the conceptual and instrumental ingredients of the…

Lou Reed

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Michael Blair on Lou Reed’s Powerful and Glorious Magic and Loss
Michael Blair on Lou Reed’s Powerful and Glorious Magic and Loss

Feb 26, 2021

Drum Breaks 02/25/21

Pianist, composer, and vocalist Cameron Graves’ new album, Seven (Artistry Music/Mack Avenue Music Group), features drummer MIKE MITCHELL, guitarist Colin Cook, bassist Max Gerl, and on two tracks, saxophonist Kamasi Washington. Graves and Mitchell served together on the road with fusion bass giant Stanley Clarke. “No one has the over-the-top…

Dave Liebman

3 min read

Drum Breaks 02/25/21
Drum Breaks 02/25/21

Feb 20, 2021

Susie Ibarra: Approaching Wholeness

The drummer, composer, and sound artist’s new album is a world of timbre, tone, and time. But it’s a world within a world, representing only one of her forays into understanding, illuminating, and ultimately healing our endangered planet. It’s been a tough couple weeks for drummers, with the passing of…

Susie Ibarra

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Susie Ibarra: Approaching Wholeness
Susie Ibarra: Approaching Wholeness

Feb 17, 2021

Drum Breaks 02/17/21

Jenn Wasner of the acclaimed duo Wye Oak (featuring drummer/multi-instrumentalist Andy Stack) will be releasing her second full-length as Flock of Dimes, Head of Roses, on April 2. The album was co-produced by Nick Sanborn and recorded with a small group of collaborators in quarantine at Betty’s in Chapel Hill…

Drums

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Drum Breaks 02/17/21
Drum Breaks 02/17/21

Feb 12, 2021

We’re Gonna Have A Real Weird Time Together

How an unexpected gift kicked off a lifelong love affair with the Butthole Surfers’ double-drum attack Once, out of the blue, a friend of mine offered to give me all of his Butthole Surfers albums. It seemed weird at the time. I don’t recall the reason he gave for wanting…

Butthole Surfers

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We’re Gonna Have A Real Weird Time Together
We’re Gonna Have A Real Weird Time Together

Feb 10, 2021

Ten Wrongs Make a Right

Cult of Luna’s new EP, The Raging River, proves that the strongest metal can sometimes be forged with the least likely tools For more than twenty years, the Swedish metal band Cult of Luna, featuring drummer Thomas Hedlund, have built a reputation as one of the heaviest acts on either…

Drumming

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Ten Wrongs Make a Right
Ten Wrongs Make a Right
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