Most people think a drummer is a background musician—basically just there to keep the beat for the singer and guitarist. But the drummer in a rock band is key to a band’s success. History has shown us ...

Of the top English drummers in classic rock, the most underrated arguably is Jethro Tull’s Clive Bunker. A self-taught musician, the humble sticks man is the last of the greats still alive. Clive ...

Nobody holds a rock back together quite like drummers do. Through the years, we’ve really been treated to some next-level classic rock drummers. And many of them passed on far too soon. Let’s take a ...

When you close your eyes and think about classic rock bands, what comes to mind? We guess that you see some long-haired singer belting out lyrics back to back with a ...

Neil Peart of Rush performs at Scottrade Center on Thursday, May 14, 2015. Photo by Jon Gitchoff Neil Peart, whose virtuoso chops and artful lyrics propelled his band Rush to global stardom and sealed ...

The moody, poetic, grunge-inflected rock act Tantric, founded in Kentucky in the late 1990s, may seem an unlikely headliner for the annual Opus’ Blizzard B-Day Bash at Toad’s Place. That is, until you ...

The Machine has been paying tribute to Pink Floyd for almost 40 years now, yet the band members are still fine-tuning and making adjustments after playing some of these songs hundreds of times.