Hamid Drake’s fluid fusion of jazz, reggae, and world-music percussion styles has made him an invaluable part of countless groups.
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Monday marks Oozing Wound’s final show with founding drummer Kyle Reynolds
The thrash revivalists are already on the hunt for a new drummer.
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Warm up with Yyu’s delicate ‘Drummer’
Chicago-via-Kansas experimental musician Yyu has released a delicately magical new collection of demos and rough drafts.
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Friday: Benefit at ESS for drummer Frank Rosaly
Details about the impressive lineup for Friday’s benefit for drummer Frank Rosaly at Experimental Sound Studio
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Great jazz drummer Paul Motian has died
Singular jazz drummer Paul Motian has died at age 80.
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A Cushicle
Bands with regular engagements are easy to take for granted–until I saw A Cushicle again last month, I’d been telling myself “I’ll just catch them next week” for more than a year. But such engagements are perfect for jazz: the musicians get the time and space to develop a deep rapport. This trio of guitarist […]
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Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O.
Guitarist Makoto Kawabata, hirsute helmsman of Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O., once titled a reissue series of his own early work “Learning From the Past.” That could just as easily be AMT’s motto: this nine-year-old band from Nagoya, Japan, has amassed a ridiculously cluttered catalog (45 entries, not including side projects and […]
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Acid Mothers Temple/Spaceheads
The sprawling psychedelia of the Japanese collective Acid Mothers Temple–more formally known as Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O.–makes the neohippie trappings of their countrymen in Ghost seem downright subtle. On their recently released second album, Pataphisical Freak Out MU!! (P.S.F.), about 15 of the 30-some “famous and unknown musicians, artists, dancers, farmers, […]
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Acetone
Neil Young’s influence on a disillusioned generation rears its head again in this young LA trio. On their debut album, last year’s Cindy (Vernon Yard), Acetone bashed away at loose grooves, Mark Lightcap’s guitar staggering drunkenly through the wreckage left by Steve Hadley’s frantically splashing drums and Richie Lee’s rumbling bass. “Pinch,” with its refrain […]