The infamous Mission from Gadd Tour opens its doors to audiences throughout the UK and Ireland in September.

Another week, another free dtx download!

Acoustic Kit - Vintage Kit This has been programmed to sound like an original Yamaha 9000 kit with black lacquered shell interiors and rounded bearing edges. The original samples are of Birch Custom Ab...

It's summer festival season for me again with Will Young. The last three shows in the run were fantastic, Rochester Castle, Leicester Tigers Rugby Club and then 5000 people at Kenwood...

The Invasion Of... is a 5 piece band hailing from London, England.  Born out of the demise of Dirty Pretty Things, the band was set up by Gary Powell, in early 2009. M...

The music biz is like trying to ride through a bog on a dirt bike; it's fine if you keep up your momentum and stay on the throttle, but if you falter, you fall flat on your face in the mud and end up being used for grip by everyone else coming pa...

The festival season is now well under way!  The 40th Glastonbury festival happened at the end of June where many big names performed to the huge crowds.  A plethora of Yamaha gear was used throughout the weekend from the main stag...

Keith Carlock has been a busy busy man this year what with touring with Rudder, Steely Dan and John Mayor and performing at our intimate drum clinics earlier in the year. Yet he still found time to talk us through his drum set up at Wembley arena ahead...

Earlier this year the legendary Keith Carlock treated us to a series of up-close and personal drum clinics across the UK.  We are now lucky enough to have this awesome video footage of Keith performing on his PHX kit at the Manchester Drum Centre....

A recent Yamaha Drum endorsee, Paul Bostaph has played drums for Forbidden, Slayer, Exodus and Systematic, and is currently touring around the world with his band Testament. Live aswell as in the studio Paul relies on his 8-piece Oak Custom drum kit. <...

Last month was a fantastic month for live music and we also had many artists in the top 40 who play Yamaha instruments. With the festival season just around the corner June is looking to be just as busy.

Here is a SMALL selection of th...

As announced last week British rock band Young Guns recently took receipt of the first Rock Tour drum kit to land in the UK. Now you can see it in action as it takes a staring role in the bands video for new single 'Sons of Apathy'.

So this week I played and was the MD for a Mencap charity event called 'Our Friends Acoustic' at the Indigo2 in London. It was a spin on classic 80's artists doing their hits in a new acoustic way. I think most people assume that acoustic means men with...

During their four night run at O2 Shepherds Bush Empire the Yamaha Download team went down to meet up with Toby from The Temper Trap.  Check out this exclusive video on the Yamaha Download YouTube channel.

Volcanoes may erupt, but we're still making music!

The month of May sees the temperature heat up outside as well as things getting hot in the world of Yamaha! Below is a small example of which artists are using our Yamaha gear on records...

As Young Guns take possession of the first Rock Tour drum kit to land in the UK Download catches up with Young Guns drummer Ben Joliffe on his experience with the kit. Check out our extended interview with Ben here and click on the link below.

The Avedis Zildjian Company hosted its 7th UK Artist Session at the renowned London Hard Rock Café on 29 March 2010 attracting its biggest attendance of Artists to date.

I have just returned from two great trips with Alison Moyet, one to Israel and one to Greece. Our first gig was in Holon just outside Tel Aviv and after a 'difficlut' flight I unpacked my legs from under my chin and wobbled through security.

Zildjian Artist, Jonathan Gaskin (My Passion), is currently back in the studio laying down tracks for My Passions upcoming release.

Musikmesse 2010 in Frankfurt, Germany is just around the corner. From March 24-27, the city will become host to world's leading trade show for the world of music. For all the info you need, visit MesseFrankfurt.com

Zildjian is delighted to welcome their newest member to the Worldwide Family of Artists... Jonathan Gaskin of UK's My Passion.

Zildjian are delighted to announce that the 2010 Tour consists solely of bands with Zildjian drummers... and we were on hand to catch up with the guys n gal during their sound check yesterday.

Zildjian and Yamaha Music UK is delighted to welcome Conor Egan, drummer from top Irish band, The Coronas, to our family of world-wide Artists.

Zildjian is delighted to announce that Ben Gordon of top Australian band Parkway Drive is our newest member to the worldwide family of Zildjian Drumstick Artists.

Yamaha Music UK and Zildjian are delighted to welcome Ben Kennedy to our family of worldwide Artists; Ben is currently drumming with NZ born/UK based pop/dance sensation Ladyhawke.

In January of 2010 we (the freshly reformed Skunk Anansie) got together to start writing a new record after almost 10 years in the wilderness. Hoorah!

After 6 weeks of a daily commute to Hackney from Guildford (which involved car to th...

Download brings you Andrew Small's Bass Drum Accents!

Andrew Small has used his series of Warm Up's and Bass Drum accents throughout his career to hone and develop his technique.

The Latest In Our Warm Up Series

We have reached the penultimate episode of our Warm Up series as we bring you  Andrew Small's Warm Up No 4. That means only one more heat pun to come! Enjoy and look out for Warm Up No. 5 next week!

DownLoad Brings You Andrew Small's Third Warm Up!

Click on the video and download the PDF to get practising with warm up no.3.

The Second of Andrew Small's Warm Ups!

As promised last week, DownLoad brings you the second instalment of Warm Up's by legendary drummer Andrew Small.

DownLoad in association with Andrew Small brings you an exclusive series of Drum warm ups.  Keep your eyes pealed as we reveal a new warm up each week.

Last month it was all about festivals and this month is all about touring. There really is something to suit every musical taste in the UK in September.

Yamaha artist Matt Racher has spent the summer touring Europe with Kylie Minogue's 'X' show. Using not one, but two Maple Custom Absolute kits, and the new DTXTremeIII.

Yamaha Corporation of America held a grand opening ceremony for Yamaha Artist Services Hollywood on Saturday, October 21, 2006.