Dixon’s “Drum Your Way to Hollywood” television program is now airing on Comcast On Demand’s ARC Channel. The show features contest winner, Lou Mars’ performing on his new Dixon Outlaw series drum set in front of a panel of judges and Dixon Drums product manager, Jim Stanek at Westlake Studios in West Hollywood, CA. The program will air on ARC through January 31, 2009. If you don’t have On Demand, you can watch it on ARC’s site or in the embed below.

Find more videos like this on ARC: The A&R Channel

Looking for a unique, inexpensive holiday gift for your drummer friends and family? Check out this electronic t-shirt from Thinkgeek. When you touch the drums on the shirt, it plays a sound! It has 7 differnt drums sounds and a built-in speaker.

Here is a cool interview with Peter Katis from Mix Magazine about his unique mixing technique for drum track. He has co-produced and mixed for bands like Interpol, The National, The Grates, Tokyo Police Club and Mates of State.

Peter likes to use the distortion he can get from overdriving a Neumann EQ and an API 2500 compressor, as well as mixing compressed and non compressed tracks together. He also likes to bus drum tracks together and distort that mix slightly.

Compression is one of the most important aspect of achieving a great drum sound in both live sound systems and studio recordings. Check out this video on compression.
(Flickr photo by eyeliam.)

Today is the birthday of possibly the worlds best drummer, Neil Peart of the band Rush.

Music Radar (via Drumtom) has an interview with Ulrich regarding the band’s production process with Rick Rubin for the new album Death Magnetic.

“Rick Rubin is a big fan of keeping things organic. We found out along the way that he’s not much for samples or triggers or anything artificial. He’s a pretty straight-ahead kind of guy - he doesn’t like reverb, he doesn’t like anything on the drums.”

Lisa Hlavinka reports that Nickelodeon’s Nick News will feature a story on Jam Camp, a summer camp that teaches kids to be rock stars. This year, campers met with drummers like Liberty DeVitto, Jeff Carlisi, Ricky Byrd, and Jim Peterik.

There are 15 Jam Camp locations across the country. 15-year-old drummer Cayla Asvestas will be featured as the drummer from the Cleavland Jam Camp location. Cayla’s story will run on September 21st at 9pm on Nick News. Here is a video taken by an audience member of Cayla’s and band’s July 18 perfmance, playing “We’re Not Gonna Take It” by Twisted Sister at The Boneyard bar (complete with cowbell!!).

Cascio Interstate Music in New Berlin, Wisconsin has a great Dixon Demon Kit display, ready for you or your band’s drummer to try out. If you are a Dixon Drums dealer and you would like your store’s display featured, send your pictures to dixondrums@gmail.com

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If you are not having any luck using Craigslist to find band mates or to join a band, you should check out JoinMyBand.co.uk. They currently have listings for US and UK regions.

Check out Igor Falecki, the 6-year-old drummer from Poland. He was 5 years ond when this video was taken.

From the NBC TV show America’s Got Talent.

This guy it pretty funny. If you or your band’s drummer can play better than him, you have a shot a winning the Dixon Outlaw Kit, along with the trip to Hollywood to play for A & R executives and be on the A&R Channel (which is watched by many musicians and labels). Just video yourself or your drummer playing at a Dixon dealer, upload it to YouTube, and add it to our group.