DrumHeads Media

By Stacey Hood

Drumheads is a drumming podcast hosted by Stacey Hood, featuring conversations with professional drummers from punk, rock, jazz, and funk. Each episode covers the real experience of making a living

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The podcast currently has 76 episodes available.

DrumHeads Media episodes:

September 13, 2026 Justin Brown – Thundercat & NYEUSI – S02E36
Justin Brown joins Drumheads for a conversation about groove, improvisation, and creating music in the moment. Best known to many listeners for his work with Thundercat, Justin has built a career that crosses jazz, funk, hip-hop, and experimental music. He has also worked with artists including Flying Lotus, Ambrose Akinmusire, Esperanza Spalding, and Vijay Iyer, while leading his own project, NYEUSI. We talk about his approach to the drums, musical chemistry, developing your own voice, and what happens when world-class musicians stop thinking about genres and start listening to each other.
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54min
September 06, 2026 Luke Garro - Piebald & GM at Noble & Cooley Drums - S2E35
Luke Garro joined Piebald in 2000, coming off a run in the Boston hardcore bands Fastbreak and In My Eyes. Twenty-five years later, the band just released Tales For The Rages, their first album since 2007 — written and recorded across six years, produced in part by Jay Maas, mastered by Jack Shirley.
But Garro's story doesn't stop at the kit. While he was touring, he was quietly building a marketing agency. That eventually led him to Noble & Cooley, the oldest operating drum manufacturer in America, where he now serves as General Manager overseeing a factory that's been making shells since 1854.
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1h 9min
August 31, 2026 Tyler Bogliole - Prong - S2E34
Tyler Bogliole took over the drum chair in Prong in 2023, inheriting a catalog older than he is and a lineage that runs back through Ted Parsons, John Tempesta, and Art Cruz. In this episode he talks about how the gig came together, what it takes to learn thirty years of material in a three-piece with nowhere to hide, and the making of Prong’s self-titled fourteenth album — out November 6 on Napalm Records, mixed and mastered by Andy Sneap. We get into kick technique, click tracks and triggers, endurance, gear, and what Tommy Victor has taught him that has nothing to do with drums.
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58min
August 23, 2026 Gabriel Vacari - Axty - S2E33
AXTY drummer Gabriel Vacari joins the show ahead of the band's Napalm Records debut, The Pain Made Me Who I Am, out August 21. We get into building drum parts for a band that swings between polyrhythmic deathcore and melodic metalcore inside a single song, what touring with Born of Osiris and Lacuna Coil taught him about consistency night to night, and how the Brazilian metal scene shaped the way he plays. Plus the gear, the practice habits, and the tracking process behind the new record.
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49min
August 17, 2026 Mike Marsh - Avett Bros/Dashboard Confessional - S02E32
Mike Marsh has drummed for two very different bands and made both work — Dashboard Confessional's rock-driven rise and, after a fateful meeting with Rick Rubin, The Avett Brothers' folk-rock world. In this episode, Mike joins Drumheads to talk about that transition, chasing a warm and natural drum sound, and why knowing when not to play is the real craft.

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1h 22min
August 11, 2026 Jared Shavelson - Mariachi El Bronx - S02E31
Jared Shavelson has powered some of punk and hardcore’s most defining bands, from The Hope Conspiracy and Paint It Black to BoySetsFire and Pure Love, along with bands like Mariachi El Bronx and performances with Seal. Known for his precision, adaptability, and relentless energy, Jared shares the craft, discipline, and stories behind a career that’s kept him at the forefront of modern drumming.

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1h 1min
August 03, 2026 Clemons Poindexter - Khalid - S02E30
Clemons Poindexter has been playing drums since he was two years old, starting in the church in Chicago before branching into just about every genre he could get his hands on. Today he's known as the touring drummer for Khalid, holding down the groove on some of the biggest stages in pop and R&B. In this episode, Clemons talks about his path from gospel drumming to touring with a major pop artist, what it takes to build a groove that serves the song and the singer, and life on the road as a professional touring musician.

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51min
July 27, 2026 Aaron Comess - Spin Doctors - S02E29
Aaron Comess has spent over three decades behind the kit, but most people know him for four minutes of music: "Two Princes," the song that turned Spin Doctors into one of the defining bands of the early nineties.There's more to the story than that hit, though. Before Spin Doctors blew up, Comess was cutting his teeth in New York's jazz scene, studying at the New School and building the kind of foundation you don't hear in a three-minute radio single. That background shows up in everything — how he locks into Chris Barron's phrasing, how he thinks about pocket, how he's moved between rock, blues, and jazz without losing what makes his playing his.

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56min
July 20, 2026 Ursula Sargent - Blue Man Group - S02E28
Ursula Sargent plays Rockstar in Blue Man Group's touring production — a role built around real-time reaction as much as rhythm. She's part live drummer, part music director, part DJ, adjusting the show's music and audio cues based on how the Blue Men and the audience are connecting on any given night. A Seattle native, she started on a single snare drum at age ten and went on to spend most of her career touring, with a brief stretch in New York.

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59min
July 17, 2026 Fredo Reyes - Los Lobos - S02E27
Los Lobos percussionist Alfredo Ortiz joins the podcast to discuss his career. Ortiz shares details about his time with the Beastie Boys, his work with Los Lobos and the technique required to bring traditional Latin percussion to modern rock music. Listen to the full episode below.

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1h 14min

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How many episodes does DrumHeads Media have?

The podcast currently has 76 episodes available.