"Funky Drummer" by Clyde Stubblefield shaped hip-hop and pop, yet the most sampled drummer in music history died unpaid and overlooked.

MOJO traces the dazzling rise and tragic fall of Sly Stone, and hears how he still had music left to share before his death earlier this year.

The Carpenters singer/drummer is a surprising omission not just because she blazed trails but also because Lingan’s generous ...

Funk and jazz fusion band Ghost-Note plays the New Orleans Jazz & Blues Market on Saturday, Dec. 20. The band released their ...

In 1973, James Brown formed an unlikely friendship with the Rev. Al Sharpton, who he met when Sharpton was a young civil ...

The punk quartet caps off a year of crisscrossing the country with a hometown release party for its first full-length album.

Thommy Price, drummer for Joan Jett and the Blackhearts for nearly 30 years, has died at the age of 68. The news was confirmed by his wife on Facebook. "A devoted husband and proud father and ...

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 07: Matt Heafy of Trivium performs at the 2025 Seaport Concert Series - Trivium & Bullet For My Valentine at The Rooftop at Pier 17 on May 07, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by ...

Bernard Purdie was born June 11, 1939 in Elkton, Maryland as the eleventh of fifteen children. Purdie began already as a six-year-old to bang out rhythms on improvised equipment. At 14 years of age he ...

It's been about four years since Old Dominion's Whit Sellers walked a red carpet, and it sounds like that streak will continue. Yes, the group's drummer is still in the band, but singer Matt Ramsey ...

Welcome to “On That Note,” a rock-and-roll-centered column that will dive into the big stories, trends, and crazy ideas coming out of the music industry. “I talked to one drummer around my age the ...

Humanoid robots can pick up objects, run, and even play sports (to a limited degree), but can they master the rhythm of a drum kit? Thanks to new research, they sort of can. Robot Drummer is a ...