The mighty drum solo is the stuff of legends, and iconic drummers like John Bonham, Neil Peart, and Keith Moon are behind ...

Dave Grohl's guest performance on the album Songs for the Deaf remains a high point for modern rock percussion. The community ...

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 ...

Back in the 1960s and ’70s, classic rock was big, and the spotlight was usually brightest on the guys with the mics and/or the guitars. We think the ones in the back, sticks in hand, setting the ...

Drums and percussion are the foundation of any rock band. Just look at the following three songs from some of the biggest names in classic rock. The whole of these songs are spectacular, but those ...

Ginger Baker was a paradox: a gamechanging rock drummer who insisted that he “never played rock,” a forefather of heavy metal who couldn’t stand the genre, and a Londoner who thoroughly assimilated ...

A drummer from the 1990s has been ranked one of the most underrated drummers of all time by publication What Culture. He was mainly known for one band but had other projects and played in a bevy of ...

Despite having never been in a band or actually showing any real aptitude for playing the drums, I’ve always in some small way identified as a drummer. I got my first drum set when I was 16, with ...