What comes to mind when you hear or read about rock and roll? It’d probably be an image of a band in leather pants, tousled hair, and one or more of the band members clutching a guitar. You might also ...

Long before he was making people laugh for a living, Fred Armisen played drums with the Blue Man Group, and also manned the kit for Trenchmouth, a Chicago punk band that released five albums in the ...

The drummer is the heartbeat of songs, no pun intended. The driving sound turns up the motor on so many pieces of music and you need to have the writer person in the right place on the right song.

Few genres of music nail the drum solo quite like classic rock. Plenty of modern-day rock bands have put out a killer drum track or two, but you just can’t beat the old-school drum solos that would ...

Metallica's Lars Ulrich isn't always considered the most technically gifted drummer, but even he must admit defeat when up against Iron Maiden's Nicko McBrain.

Next to prog’s general existence, there’s no better symbol of rock-musical excess than the drum solo. Critics have never liked them; old Rolling Stone reviews would rip in-concert double albums whose ...

The late Ginger Baker could be just as explosive when not playing the drums as he was when battering out thundering polyrhythms and launching into the extended solos that made him a legend as the ...

The musician who helped define the role of the superstar rock drummer has died at 80. By Christopher R. Weingarten Ginger Baker, who died Sunday at the age of 80, was an architect of rock drumming, ...

During the recording of the album and as documented in the band's Some Kind of Monster film, Metallica frontman James Hetfield entered rehab for anger and alcohol issues, shutting down the band's ...