Every new drummer has one concern in setting up a new drum kit. To do this, a drummer needs to take into consideration the musical style, their personal preference as well as what financial resources and transportation options are available to the drummer. Getting the drum kit together requires some...

Ross Douthat has discovered Barack Obama’s evil genius: What Obama does have, though, is an atmosphere of crisis and a massively-unpopular opposition party, which grants him an unparalleled political opportunity to pass whatever spending the Democratic Party likes, and damn the short-term cost...

Filed under: Audio, Fun, Time-Wasters You've never seen anything as tubular, funky or mondo as this web-based drum set from RonWinter.tv, loaded with awesome 80's sounds. It's got kicks, snares, a few vocoder-ed out vocal bits, and everything else you need to annoy the crap out of anyone in listenin...

Cowboy Bebop is a great series, and if you’ve watched it, then you’re ready for this video, which is a kickass performance of the intro. It’s definitely different, but amazingly faithful to the studio version. From wikipedia for Tank!: “Tank!” is the opening song for th...

Director : Richard Linklater Release Date : 3 October 2003 (USA) Genre : Comedy, Music Cast : Jack Black as Dewey Finn, Adam Pascal as Theo, Lucas Papaelias as Neil, Chris Stack as Doug, Sarah Silverman as Patty Di Marco, Mike White as Ned Schneebly, Lucas Babin as Spider, Joan Cusack as Rosalie Mul...

Drum machine lovers, you now have the beat gear equivalent of Matt Harding and Where the Hell is Matt?. Kamoni, aka sonic creator, composer, and experimenter Micah Frank, takes his favorite devices out on the road, piecing them together into an epic YouTubular jam. Doepfer and Korg, Elektron and Aka...

This is why my day usually gets started 3 hours later than most other bloggers. Every day I have to give myself pep talks to continue to press on. Fuck the celebrities, this shit is hard on me. The following is why I make sure I stay prayed up. My friend in the head ATLien of Straight From The A cau...

After he commented on the 10 great basslines post, I asked my Danish drummer friend, Anders Faerch, to list 10 great drum grooves to check out - here’s his list. Some great stuff in there! ———————————————...

"We've got an album that came out today. It's called Watersports...it's...it's kind of a double entendre." - Daniel of Mi Ami Hilarious album title aside (safe search if you're googling the album), Watersports kills. In contrast to their live performance, the album lives up to the "drum-punk" monike...

Oscar has a little problem this year, and I'm not just talking about the fact that no human being likes The Reader even though the Weinsteins bought it a Best Picture nod. Actually, that is part of the problem. This year's batch of Best Picture contenders are a moribund lot with no real consensus fa...