"I put way more emphasis on a drummer's personality than technique." It's a surprising statement, coming from Mike Portnoy, one of the most admired drummers in heavy music for the past three decades.

His double bass drum set and generous cymbal array is a throwback to powerhouse fusion drummer innovators Lenny White and Billy Cobham – both sometime Tama endorsers (Billy Cobham is a current Tama ...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. The history of drumheads stretches far and wide – much ...

We hear it booming from car stereos as much as we do from the back of the orchestra: but why is the bass drum the unsung hero of the 21st century? For Gabriel Prokofiev (yes, he is a relation) the ...

British producer Danielle Gooding, aka Flava D, has had quite an impact on UK electronic music over the past decade and a half. Growing up in Bournemouth on the British south coast, Gooding got her ...

The thunderous punch of a bass drum is the time-honored foundation on which all of rock 'n' roll is built. That thud that hits you in the chest and moves your whole body … it taps into a deep and ...

“I had kind of just run out of ideas doing things completely by myself.” This is what John Barrett, the founder of Bass Drum of Death, tells me when I ask why his fifth full-length album is the first ...

The shell of the Drum consists of three layers of maple wood pressed together in the same style as a traditional bass drum. The lugs are larger than a standard bass drum’s and are designed to be tuned ...

When you read about Led Zeppelin, you might get caught up in the band’s antics on tour. Considering Zep had stories of a mud shark (red snapper?), ugly brawls, trashed hotel rooms, and more groupies ...

While Johnson was applying this delightful curt acronym to jet-building, it could've just as easily been applied to the garage rock movement that was starting up during the same era. The scrappy brand ...

That transcendental tick is exactly why Sub Focus was tapped to be the first drum-and-bass headliner in Red Rocks history. He ...