drumlove

Here's what I hope will be the final word on my Xymox pad order. First of all, Melissa at Xymox deserves a raise, a double end-of year...

Heading out very early in the morning for my singer-songwriter thing, on tour back east. I have to pack light since I'm lugging a guita...

Last weekend, I went up to Seattle for two days with the Unpresidented Brass Band, to join with dozens of other street/DIY cmmunity bands fo...

It's early summer, and the beginning of the marching season for so many of us. Whether you march with an uber-modern DCI corps or your ...

In seventh grade, I got a timpani solo on a piece our middle school band was playing. It required the use of very hard wooden mallets. The o...

Video treat: UBB plays in downtown Portland. Sellwood Middle School students playing hooky decide to start swing dancing right in front of ...

When I was in college in the early 1980s, I came across a large lot of used drum and percussion parts, sticks and accessories at the downto...