We talk all about the upcoming Cymbal Summit on today's show.  We bring news of PAS drumset competition,Stanton Moore clinic tour, and The Killers' Ron Vannucci is the drummer of the week!  Show Notes  Direct Download

Interesting clip here. This shows a few guys demonstrating the visual effects seen when performing with Vic Firth's LED Lite Stix. The sticks, which have a colored LED light on the beads, are a total gimmick, but some of these look cool. However... can anyone explain to me why Vinny Appice appears to be in a bathroom towards the end of the video? [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTLqTPZe9AI&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Vic Firth LITE STIX

In keeping with the time honored tradition of taping things and then selling a DVD of said things to people... Hudson Music has released the DVD of last year's Modern Drummer Festival. Way to go guys. Source: Harmony-Central.com Featuring amazing performances and illuminating interviews from eleven of today's greatest drum artists, Hudson Music's new, four-disc, twelve-hour DVD of the 2008 Modern Drummer Festival™ is much more than merely the highlights of the most prestigious, longest-running, largest live ...

Carmine Appice (pronounced a piece) the man, the myth, the legend, the hair, the mustache... you get it all in Carmine Appice: Drum Master Class. Carmine Jumps straight into the teaching as soon the video begins and the topic is double bass shuffles. He demonstrates a basic double bass shuffle and then goes through some ideas about how spice up the basic shuffle anyway you want. The cool thing about this video is that they have ...

This presentation by Hotlicks is reminiscent of Frankenstein's monster. The idea being to take the best sections of six different Hotlicks features and blend them together in one monster presentation. Most of the movies that are sampled in this video have a full length of about sixty minutes. While this movie itself is only 41 minuets long. My point being that you getting less by watching this then you would by watching one of the ...

Drum! Magazine has posted up their April 2008 Issue online. Check it out! This issue features Thomas Pridgen, Jam Crusie recap, Mic'g hand percussion, and more.

Part 2 of Stanton Moore's two part series on New Orleans drumming is his take on modern New Orleans drumming. If you saw the first one you might get a feeling of deja-vu watching this one as lots of the same stuff seems to be covered in this DVD. For example there is another section on using the different areas of the snare drum just like the previous DVD I did note that I complained about ...

Before I begin the review, I have to make everyone aware of a policy change that I will make effective as of this review. From now on I'm going to review DVD's with more then one volume (like this one) each on their own individual merits. I realized in my review of Joe Morello's DVDs that I barely mentioned the first DVD at all in my review. Granted, my opinion at that time (and it ...

Carter is in the driver's seat this week as we talk about New Orleans drumming! Zigaboo Modeliste is the drummer of the week, the 13-stroke roll is the rudiment of the week, and we get a visit from some crazy bird ... crow ... sea gull things. Show Notes

I didn't even know he had a new record coming out, but alas, the grand master du funk has released he new album, Emphasis! (On Parenthesis). It's not out on iTunes yet, but it's available over at Amazon.com MP3 for only $8.99! I recommend you go buy it .. NOW! We'll have a full review shortly.