Interviews

Download Festival

Our coverage starts here of 2009’s hottest festival including: Frank Beard – ZZ Top Leo Crabtree – The Prodigy Paul Cook – Man Raze

Asaf Sirkis

The UK session drummer talks to Brent Keefe about becoming a first-call player

David King

The Bad Plus’s sticksman gives Don Zulaica the track-by-track run down of For All I Care

Features

Meinl Festival

Drummer talks to the players at this year’s Meinl festival in Moscow

Steve Smith

Steve and Mark Griffith’s Drum Legacy column covers the great Philly Joe Jones

Gear

Tama

Limited Edition Super-duper Hyper-Drive

PDP

The budget busting 100% maple M5

Pearl

The Supernatural Demon Drive

Meinl

New Jazz Swing

Drum Software

Oli Bell samples the samples

UFIP

Roto-cast Bell Crashes

Remo

Vintage Emperors reign