As Seth Colter Walls wrote here yesterday, New York has lately been an excellent place for exploring the “difficult music,” the Stockhausens and Cages, of the past 50 years. Much of this music—which ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Typically, 4/4 styles of dance music draw on a familiar lexicon of drum sounds, but to get the ...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. When it comes to creating smooth percussion sounds, ...

These e-drum pads pack a world of percussion sounds into a small unit drummers can play either on their own or as part of a larger hybrid drum kit. By Markkus Rovito Published Jan 5, 2024 4:00 PM EST ...

The art of beatboxing is unparalleled – intricate layers of booms and clicks produced by a single person’s mouth in ways that seem almost super-human. Watching a great beatboxer turn out a series of ...

This Sunday, the UI Percussion Program will feature a range of instruments and compositions to showcase the diversity of percussion sound during its annual Iowa Fall Percussion Concert. The Voxman ...

The percussion quartet serves as faculty and ensemble-in-residence at the UMKC Conservatory. Playing on wine glasses and an empty bourbon bottle (in addition to a vibraphones and drums), Sandbox ...

Electronic drum pads are a concept that has revolutionised the drumming world. In a nutshell, you strike the on-board rubber pads to trigger pre-recorded audio samples, synthesized drum sounds and ...

Just after the Harlem riots in 1964, Roger "Montego Joe" Sanders was given the opportunity to mentor a group of young men. He was involved with HAR-YOU, the acronym for Harlem Youth Unlimited—his role ...

Using over 20′ feet of PVC pipe, a whole bunch of 2 x 4’s and a few nuts and bolts, [Jeremy] and his cousin put together a rather unique percussion pipe organ. [Jackson], his cousin who is a musician ...