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A Conversation With Freddie Gruber

He hopped, he bopped, he danced. Most of all he stayed outside the mainstream. I first met Freddie Gruber 20 years ago, but I didn’t get to really know ... Read More

Alex Acuña: Command In All Directions

The setting was perfect. Sear Sound Studios in Midtown Manhattan, pianos and music stands keeping company with a whole host of percussion instruments, incl... Read More

From Griller To Killer: Nick Augusto

On a muggy summer day in Orlando, Nick Augusto is at a service station staring into the engine bay of his Nissan Xterra when suddenly a rainstorm hits. “Can yo... Read More

Chad Smith’s Red Hot Return

To order this issue, click here, or go here to subscribe. With a new guitar player, a fresh outlook, and their first album in five years, the red hot Ch... Read More

Sean Kinney: From The Ashes

Alice In Chains was supposed to stay dead. They know this. Everyone knows this. This is a band whose members had long ago offered themselves up as willing s... Read More

Mike Portnoy Bashes For Dimmu Borgir

This ain't no April Fool's joke: Mike Portnoy is the brand spankin' new drummer for the Norweigan-based black metal band, Dimmu Borgir. He revealed in an e... Read More

Ray Luzier: Raw Korn

Ray Luzier Takes Nü-Metal Pioneers Back To Their Roots If you’ve ever seen Ray Luzier do a clinic, he comes off as more P.T. Barnum than pedagogue. In S... Read More

Jay Weinberg Joins Forces With Madball

Suddenly news about the world’s most famous drumming son, Jay Weinberg, is all over the place. Today we heard that he has accepted the drum chair with the ... Read More

Chad Butler: Switchfoot seeks hope in the face of adversity

It’s 1986 in the sun-drenched suburbs of San Diego where the cookie-cutter tract homes sit too close together, just five feet to the neighboring fence, and... Read More

Andrew Forsman: Young Prog Warrior

Sitting in a Mexican dive in the heart of San Francisco’s Mission District, Andrew Forsman vividly recalls the day in seventh grade when his parents told h... Read More