This is FRESH AIR. Today is the centennial of the birth of jazz drummer Roy Haynes. He almost made it to the occasion. He died in November at age 99. Haynes was one of the most in-demand drummers ...

The drummer boys who accompanied them did likewise -- all except one. Willie Johnston, then 11 years old and all of five feet tall, refused to relinquish his drum. He held on to it through the ...

Primus played their first gig with new drummer John Hoffman, who recently beat out thousands of other drummers in an open audition for the job. The band performed at the Tool in the Sand festival in ...

Todd Sucherman, the band’s drummer since 1995, had to be hospitalized due to a serious case of food poisoning. In his place, Jeff Heintz, the band’s long-time production manager and keyboard ...

Per setlist.fm, they began with fan favorite “Those Damned Blue-Collar Tweekers.” Somewhat unsurprisingly (given that he filled in for Alexander in 2024 and was there anyway), Tool’s Danny ...

The Triad is on track to be home to North Carolina’s first new nuclear power plant in nearly four decades. Duke Energy plans to file an initial permit application with the federal Nuclear ...

PIEDMONT TRIAD, N.C. (WGHP) — If you can’t find something, why not just go and create it yourself? One Triad transplant was missing a taste of home, so he brought it right there to the ...

The drummer was a member of veteran heavy metal act Prong from 2005 through 2009, and again from 2018 to 2021. He appeared on the band’s 2007 album Power of the Damager. His drumming caught the ...

Former Ministry and Prong drummer Aaron Rossi has died of "a sudden, severe heart attack" at the age of 44. Known affectionately as 'The Beast,' Rossi played on Ministry's 2009 live album Adios ...

Dowdy and Fust drummer Avery Sullivan stopped by our Durham studio to chat with music reporter Brian Burns about the stories that inspired some of these songs. This is an excerpt of an edited ...

Gordon “Snowy” Fleet, who has died, probably aged 85, was the drummer with the Easybeats, the Australian band who had a worldwide hit in 1966 with Friday on My Mind. When Fleet and four ...

Bob Bryar in the music video for My Chemical Romance's "I Don't Love You" (Credit: Reprise Records) More details have emerged into the death of former My Chemical Romance drummer Bob Bryar. Three ...