If you’re a music fan who hasn’t thought much about drumming (I’m guilty on both counts), “Backbeats” will be a revelation.

EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — The original lead singer and drummer for the rock band Rare Earth will perform a benefit concert that will help music students in underserved neighborhoods around the El Paso ...

When it comes to the drummers in a band there are often jokes flying around poking fun at them and at times their musicianship. There are no doubt many examples to show how unfair that is, and I dare ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. Over the weekend, the iconic heavy metal band Iron Maiden ...

Most people think a drummer is a background musician—basically just there to keep the beat for the singer and guitarist. But the drummer in a rock band is key to a band’s success. History has shown us ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Mark Laws, a veteran country music drummer and bandleader for “American Idol” alum Alex Miller, was shot and killed Sunday in his Tennessee home, authorities said. The 62-year-old’s ...

As the drummer and singer of Genesis, Phil Collins revolutionized progressive rock in the ’70s, and with the release of “In the Air Tonight” in 1981, he kicked off a successful solo career that would ...

The Blow Monkeys singer Dr. Robert has revealed Oasis stole his drummer Alan White. The It Doesn't Have to Be This Way singer was touring as a solo artist in the 1990s and Alan was part of his live ...

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

Drummer Javier Nin was scheduled to play with local band Folktale San Pedro at what would be the very last show hosted at Las Rosas, an Allapattah bar and live music venue that closed in 2022. But Nin ...

How the keeper of the beat is adapting to shifts in worship music. It was a church drummer’s worst nightmare. In the middle of a service, David Wagner was playing “Heaven Invade” with his worship band ...

Whitney Houston's drummer and music director Michael Baker, a 1975 Duluth Central High School graduate, remembered the late singer as a sweet person who brought beauty to the world. Michael Baker ...