Drumming

This performance-driven documentary tracks the lengths to which organisers and players went in February 2020 to put together a show featuring mostly female taiko drummers from both Asia and the US. (Taiko are Japanese barrel-shaped drums that come in a range of sizes, from roughly bucket-sized to airplane-engine sized.) Taiko also refers to a whole style of performance that has grown up around ensembles playing together in overlapping or contrapuntal rhythm patterns, sometimes supplemented with singers, dancers and other…

Awards ceremony kicks off with tribute to classic television Travis Barker ushered in the 2024 Emmys by drumming to Phil Collins’ “In the Air Tonight.” The 75th awards ceremony kicked off with host Anthony Anderson paying tribute to classic television show history. While sitting at a grand piano in a Mr. Rogers-esque living room, he welcomed a Compton, California chorus onstage (explaining there was a white member because Kevin Costner was born there) before they broke out into a medley of…

Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker has shared a drumming video from the hospital following the birth of his baby. Barker`s new Instagram Story showcased his drumming skills in the doctor`s office, reports ‘People’ magazine. The Blink-182 drummer shared the clip, days after he and Kourtney Kardashian Barker welcomed their baby boy. In the video, the 47-year-old musician is seen playing on a snare drum pad, next to the medical equipment and the doctor’s station. As the video continued, followers and fans got…

Jack White has weighed in on a week-long online debate about the drumming prowess of his former White Stripes bandmate and ex-wife Meg White.Following the band’s nomination to the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the US political reporter Lachlan Markay tweeted: “The tragedy of the White Stripes is how great they would’ve been with a half decent drummer. Yeah yeah I’ve heard all the ‘but it’s a carefully crafted sound mannnn!’ takes. I’m sorry Meg White was terrible.”Meg White is noted for what she has called her “childlike…

Chloe Kim celebrated her 27th birthday in a way few people do: drumming for 10 hours. When I visit her just outside Hobart on Tuesday she’s sitting behind her drum kit, languidly tapping out a steady rhythm for a small audience. Next to her is a screen that shows she’s been drumming for 45 hours and 54 minutes over four and a bit days: her goal is to hit 100 hours by the tenth.The clock ticks over: 46 hours on the dot. Kim, a slight woman with a perennially cheerful face, puts her sticks down and smiles. This is mostly…

As day breaks over the heads of the clubbers on a Kampala rooftop, arms are raised in unison as they dance on to the bass-heavy tracks. Florence Lugemwa has only been Dj-ing for a few weeks but had the party going until after sunrise. By lunchtime, Lugemwa is still bright-eyed as she clambers down from a truck in Ggaba, one of Kampala’s most deprived communities, with the battered trombones, trumpets and drums to hand out to an eager crowd of children.Even when she’s sleep deprived from a night on the decks, Lugemwa makes…

Tangerine Dream – Journey Through a Burning Brain (1970)Klaus Schulze’s first appearance on vinyl was as a drummer in the nascent Tangerine Dream, a band that bore no resemblance whatsoever to the Tangerine Dream who were famed in the mid-70s for their beatless, beatific electronic epics. The frazzled, occasionally terrifying contents of their debut album Electronic Meditation sounded like early Pink Floyd with all the songs removed and the freeform experimentation cranked up to 11. The second track, Journey Through a…