The New Year is off to a good start ’cause Tommy Lee is finally putting out some new music. It’s an electronica project called WTF? Check out the tracks on the group’s Myspace page. As always, we are down for listening to whatever Tommy is putting out, whether he’s fronting a band and playing guitar or manning the turntables, but we can’t wait to see him play some drums again soon too.
Never too early to start the back-patting.
Yamaha has put together a list of its artists who played on Grammy-nominated albums this year. The award show will take place in Los Angeles on February 10, 2008 (assuming, that is, the on-going writers strike doesn’t somehow bring it down), but until then, the Yamaha hopefuls are:
Now this is fuckin’ cool. Albanian artist Anri Sala‘s newest exhibit combines the two things we love most: drums and James Joyce. Oh, and Franz Ferdinand of course. Three things, then.
When you enter Sala’s exhibit, called Ulysses after Joyce’s great novel, you’ll hear the melody of a new song by Franz Ferdinand, also cleverly called Ulysses. Visitors are then led downstairs, given a “score” (i.e., a set of verbal instructions like “bootless” and “lickitup” and”rolywholyover”), and invited to sit at a kit and create the tune’s drum part. The catch is that you have to remember the song’s melody…and follow that verbal score for hints. Every visitor’s effort is recorded, and if you’re lucky, you’ll end up on a CD release of the project that’s scheduled to drop before the Glasgow lads’ official disc.
Finally. A place for performance-art, Franz-fanatic, Joycean drummers to call their own. The world is complete.
Get your sticks in shape, mutherfuckers, ’cause it’s time again for Guitar Center’s annual Drum-Off. The regional finals take place in just over a week, November 14, 2007. Go here for store locations and contact info. We can’t, unfortunately, give you God’s number if you need to beg for better chops: she’s busy finding us money to help pay for this blog.
The finals will be held in Hollywood on January 5, 2008. The always-entertaining Stephen Perkins is slated to play host, and we’re hoping that also-billed bashers Brooks Wackerman, Adrian Young, and ?uestlove will get to do some actual drum playing of their own.
