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Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley has formed a new band. The High Confessions features Shelley, industrial legend Chris Connelly (Ministry, Revolting Cocks, Pigface), Chicago metal mainstay Sanford Parker (Minsk, Nachtmystium, Buried at Sea), and engineer Jeremy ...

Photo by Jonny Greenwood Last year, Radiohead drummer Phil Selway sang two songs on the Oxfam benefit album 7 Worlds Collide: The Sun Came Out. Soon after, news circulated that ...

Photo by Jonny Greenwood Radiohead drummer Phil Selway is doing his part to raise awareness of the possibility of renewed violence in the conflict-ridden African nation of Sudan by taking part in a new campaign called Beat for Peace, ...

When I interviewed Devendra Banhart in September, he talked about his plans to lead an "all-harmonium orchestra called Droney Mitchell" and wanting to "do a record with Adam Green of all German schlager songs." He seems like a guy who is always ...

Photo by Kathryn YuThroughout the past decade, the unruly Brooklyn punk-funk mob !!! have been a party-starting institution, turning crowds of buttoned-up indie kids into sweat-drenched bacchanalians since back before anyone thought that was cool. A !!! show is pretty ...

Every year, R.E.M. send out a holiday single to members of their fan club. This year, fan club members get an extra surprise: former drummer Bill Berry, who left R.E.M. in 1997, plays on the single, as ...

The Mars Volta: Another New Drummer The Mars Volta Following a cancelled show last month in Raleigh, NC, rumors have been flying about the state of The Mars Volta. Word is that drummer Thomas Pridgen, the band's skin basher since 2007, walked ...

The day after Thanksgiving heralds the onslaught of the holiday season, and what better way to celebrate than with a space disco version of a Christmas classic? As previously reported, Lindstrøm has recorded a 40-minute version of the standard ...

Maserati, LCD Soundsystem & The Juan MacLean Drummer Gerhardt (Jerry) Fuchs Dies In Tragic Accident Maserati, LCD Soundsystem and The Juan MacLean drummer Gerhardt "Jerry" Fuchs died in a tragic accident on Sunday. After attending a benefit party in Brooklyn, Fuchs was stuck on an elevator between ...

Jerry Fuchs, drummer for several bands, including !!!, the Juan MacLean, Maserati, and Turing Machine, died Saturday night after a fall down a Brooklyn elevator shaft, the New York Post reports. He was 34 years old. According to the Post, ...

Can playing rhythmic backbone in a band that includes the dueling egos of Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon prepare someone to hold public office? So far, the British voting public has not found this to be the case. In 2007 and 2008, ...

Most renditions of the Christmas standard "Little Drummer Boy" clock out at about a minute and a half-- just enough time for most of us to forget what comes after the fifth pa-rum-pa-pum-pum. But Norwegian space-disco kingpin Hans-Peter Lindstrøm has a bigger commitment to ...

As Brooklyn Vegan reports and Crystal Stilts' publicist confirms, drummer Frankie Rose, the former Vivian Girl and occasional Dum Dum Girl, has left Crystal Stilts to focus on Frankie and the Outs, her new band. At ...

Photo by Ryan RussellDeath Cab for Cutie really have their finger on the pulse of today's youth. First they recorded a single for the Twilight sequel New Moon. Now they've got a brand-new iPhone app-- their second. Next up: Death Cab for Cutie brand Tamagotchis! Kids still play with Tamagotchis, ...

Photo by Jonny GreenwoodLast month, we mentioned that Radiohead drummer Phil Selway is getting set to record a solo album at his band's Oxfordshire studio. Selway sings two songs on the 7 Worlds Collide: The Sun Came Out benefit album, which is already out in the UK and due for ...

Recently deceased psych rocker Sky Saxon of the Seeds wasn't just an influence on Billy Corgan; the two were buddies and even casual musical collaborators. So Corgan's presence at last Friday's Saxon tribute at L.A.'s ...

Gaga’s got a frog on her throat…. New York’s own Stefani Germanotta has once again proven that she marches to the beat of different drummer — a drummer who hails from Sesame Street! The eccentric singer best known as Lady Gaga has wore some odd ensembles in her day — Does The ...

Whether you think the "real" Smashing Pumpkins died after drummer Jimmy Chamberlin was fired in 1996 or when D'arcy left in 1999 or when they broke up in 2000 or when Chamberlin left earlier this year, it's pretty clear the Smashing Pumpkins you grew up ...