SIMON: Historian and drummer Daniel Glass says humans have been beating on things since the beginning of time. DANIEL GLASS: The idea of just hitting something hard and getting an immediate volume out ...

Matt Brennan's Kick It: A Social History Of The Drum Kit is a complex, meticulously researched piece of work that spans several centuries. In the course of over three hundred pages, Brennan explores ...

PHOENIX — A unique exhibit looking into the history of drums debuts in Phoenix on Saturday. The Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix is opening up its Beyond the Beat exhibit and curator Cullen Strawn ...

Sixty years ago this month, a boy named Gary Astridge knew nothing about The Beatles. The 7-year-old was celebrating his grandmom’s birthday with his family in Buffalo, New York, when someone realized ...

Upper Dublin >> In the quiet world of the 1770s – no airplanes, trains or cars – listening to the beat of the drum was literally a way of life. That message was brought home to the eighth-graders at ...

Today's common drum kit is just 100 years old, even though drums have been around for millenia. It fell out of favor with the advent of drum machines and sampling. For many, there's no substitute.