Rhythm magazine

Bill Ward on Sabbath's rallying call

This week we are doffing our caps to the great and the even greater of the drum world as we kick off Drum Heroes Week.

Brian Downey on recording rock classic

Seven months after it announced that it was entering into a strategic partnership with Marshall, Softube has revealed its first fruits

Featuring Clem Burke

Yamaha is pleased to announce that the famous Recording Custom Drum Series has been re-designed with Steve Gadd and will be released in 2016.

Rush drummer Neil Peart - an ever present in our annual best prog drummer poll - appears to have confirmed his permanent retirement from music.

Brad Wilk on the incendiary classic

UK art rockers Everything Everything are known for their musicality and great songwriting, and here drummer Mike Spearman salutes the king of musical drummers, Ringo Starr

Dan Kavanagh is one of the UK's hardest working drummers, juggling gigs with Godsized, Jamie Lenman and Red Racer. Here he gives us the benefit of his experience from on the road

Vintage Trouble will blitz Hyde Park later this month as they play alongside The Who, Paul Weller and more, and you could win a pair of £10 tickets to the show.

Level 42's Phil Gould tells us what groove means to him, how to have a good time in your playing, and discusses his favourite groove drummers

As the man who laid down the feel-good funk grooves for MJ, Rufus and more, who better to help us define groove than JR Robinson?

Choose up to three players that you feel have the best groove…

Crowd-pleasing distilled

Eventide is teasing what it'll be showing at next week's Winter NAMM show, promising a new plugin technology and a new algorithm for the H9 Harmonizer.

The sixth of seven singles from the world-conquering Hysteria album, Rocket was what Rick Allen describes as a 'surprise underground hit.'

Released in August 1991, Pearl Jam's Ten went on to sell more than ten million and helped take grunge right to the heart of the mainstream.

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Alt-J, winners of the 2012 Mercury prize, have a unique sound that is due in part to drummer Thom Green's refreshing approach to the drums

Drum lingo can be something of a minefield for players both new and old, do you know your cross stick from your rimshot? Have you got to grips with, er...grip and just what is an ostinato?

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