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The Drum Dog Podcast goes deep on the instrument we love. In our interviews, we sit down with world-class drummers, from session players to festival headliners, for honest, unhurried conversations about their playing, their careers and the craft behind the kit. Guests include Bill Bruford, Gavin Harrison Antonio Sánchez, and Mel Gaynor.
On 'The Back Beat', our weekly format, Dan talks spotlights drummers worth your attention, goes through albums that are must-listens, worthwhile gear, and think-pieces to ruminate on.
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Four working-class kids from one of the roughest corners of Birmingham picked up guitars, bass and drums with no plan beyond getting out of the factories - and ended up inventing an entire genre. This is the story of Black Sabbath: the blues club circuit, the accident that nearly e…
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Had a great chat with Pat Garvey ahead of Ozric Tentacles' UK tour to talk about 32 years as a working drummer. He tells us how he landed the teaching gig at BIM, how he went on to start the Brighton Drum School, and what it was like recording drums for the new Ozrics album, H…
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Bernard Purdie reckons he has played on 4,000 albums for 2,500 artists, and the striking thing is that almost nobody in the business thinks he is exaggerating by much. Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Steely Dan, King Cur…
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Simon Phillips is one of four people we're interviewing at the UK Drum Show 2026 in Liverpool, so this week I'm digging into why his Voice record with Hiromi is on repeat, plus the four culprits behind rushing and how to fix them.00:00 - Cold open: UK Drum Show 2026, Simo…
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With the White Stripes, Meg White tore rock’n’roll down to its bare bones. Alongside Jack White, she created some of the most exciting music of the past 25 years, with a fiercely elemental drumming style that flew in the face of its critic…
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This week on the pod, we're covering a strange new track from Angine de Poitrine that just debuted on Fallon, why Mark Guiliana might be the best case study going for drummers who think "feel" and "precision" are opposites, and a proper look at Pearl's…
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Everyone calls Mark Guiliana the drummer who fused jazz and electronic music. He played on David Bowie's Blackstar, he's toured for years with St. Vincent, he made a duo record with Brad Mehldau, and Time Out once tried to explai…
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Was very excited to chat with Adam, drummer for Chicago blues-rock outfit The Empty Pockets, ahead of their new album Dear Billionaires. We got into joining a band that already had years of history and a married couple at its core, why he stripped his kit down to a three-piece setu…
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You've probably heard Chris Dave play drums without ever knowing his name. He's contributed grooves to Adele's ‘21’, D'Angelo's ‘Black Messiah’, and Justin Bieber's ‘Purpose’. Questlove ca…
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Blue Note's opening a London venue, so Jochen's back for his second appearance and we're running through the London rooms that actually matter for jazz. Ronnie Scott's, the Jazz Cafe, Steam Down, Cafe OTO, and a fifth slot we gave up on and turned into honourabl…
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