Most times when budding rockstars pick up a guitar and start to play for the first time, it sounds like they’re stepping on a cat – well, to everyone else in the room, anyway. And when would-be ...

DRUMS WEEK 2025: Many computer musicians shy away from programming their own acoustic (as opposed to electronic) drum tracks, understandably concerned that since they don’t know how to play a real ...

These e-drum pads pack a world of percussion sounds into a small unit drummers can play either on their own or as part of a larger hybrid drum kit. By Markkus Rovito Published Jan 5, 2024 4:00 PM EST ...

Early in the evening on Wednesday last week, a crowd packed into the pink-and-blue confines of the Elvis Guesthouse, a narrow basement bar in New York’s East Village. They were there to hear some ...

So you want to learn to play the drums. Thrash the skins. Hit some wooden circles with sticks in the pursuit of that sweet, sweet rhythm. In this endeavor I salute you, especially if you’re a kid ...

If you've seen the Oscar-nominated drama Whiplash, you probably left the theater with the following thoughts. First, "HOLY INTENSITY!!!" and floating behind that reaction a vague wonder about whether ...

The name Pangaea inclines us to expect soothing ambient tunes, a hippy exercise in whole-Earthism. But the alter ego of producer and DJ Kevin McAuley, co-founder of UK electronic music label Hessle ...

Using only a drum set at his controller, CZR Drums completed the world’s first 1 Star Drum% Speedrun of Super Mario 64 this ...

System Of A Down’s catalogue lends itself well to goofy internet remixing. In the past, we’ve highlighted a cheery, acoustic version of “Chop Suey” and a bunch of Wolf Of Wall Street clips laboriously ...