For three decades, American rock band Tool has built a catalogue defined by long, meticulously structured songs with unforgiving rhythms and drum patterns so technical they’re rarely attempted in one ...

Every amateur drummer has a favorite drum idol. These musical crushes reveal which qualities the amateur prizes in a musician. Pyrotechnic virtuosity? Maybe you love Neil Peart. Clever atmospherics?

Acclaimed by Downbeat as “one of the hippest bandleaders now at work,” Billy Drummond’s thrilling, powerful and highly musical playing has also made him one of the most called-for sidemen of his ...