Today's common drum kit is just 100 years old, even though drums have been around for millenia. It fell out of favor with the advent of drum machines and sampling. For many, there's no substitute.

Blink-182’s Travis Barker is launching a shop on the music marketplace Reverb where he’ll be selling his custom “Adam’s Song” drum kit and more gear from throughout his career.. The sale ...

The line that follows presents the song's crux, a sentiment the fellow drummer writing this shares: "It still sets my heart a-reeling / I would already be dead without my first drum set." Stream ...

Danny Carey of Tool is often dwarfed by his drum kit when the band is onstage. And he's not exactly a tiny guy either. For ...

One of the best drum kit masters, Neil Peart, ... Peart was behind many of their songs, often focused on the lyrics, but he did have input and creativity on the music at times, too.

Traditional drum sets are so cemented in popular music and culture that they won’t be going anywhere for some time. It just looks too cool to see your favorite band’s logo pulsing on the kick ...