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San Jose, Calif.,&#151With its last several issues of DRUM!, Enter Music Publishing, publishers of high-quality informative magazines on drumming and the world's top drummers, in print and online, has been on a hard-rock/metal roll. It started two issues ago with Anthrax's Charlie Benante, followed by Evanescence's Will Hunt, and now, DRUM! presents a holiday season cover with Mastodon's heavy ...

Broadsword presents a compelling portrait of rock 'n' roll casualties by Curt Holman Every rock band that's ever jammed originated in a room like Jon Nooner's set for Broadsword at Actor's Express. A narrow, plank-like staircase leads to a basement littered with cassette tapes and comic books, while pink insulation bleeds from the walls.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]

Atlantic Theater Company presents Latino Mixfest, a free reading series of new plays from emerging Latino writers, all of them under the age of 35, Aug. 12-14 at Atlantic Stage 2 in Manhattan.

This fall, two of the most popular bands in metal will co-headline a 34-city North American tour as the Grammy® Award-winning Mastodon hits the road with Dethklok, the world’s most brutal animated death metal band from Adult Swim’s Metalocalypse. In one of the most highly-anticipated tours of the year, the Adult Swim Presents Dethklok and Mastodon tour will kick off on October 2 in Portland, Ore. and bring mayhem and destruction to local venues throughout the nation. Adding even more layers to

Edited by Albert Mudrian , Editor-in-Chief of Decibel magazin, Precious Metal takes you inside the recording studios where the most intense heavy metal albums of all time were created, providing background on the savage guitar sounds and bloodcurdling screams that have defined a musical genre. To compile this book, Mudrian pored through Decibel and expanded its interviews to bring you face-to-face with each and every band member who contributed to twenty-five immortal albums. Re