Grammy-winning session drummer Dylan Wissing is now accepting a limited number of serious private students at his Hoboken recording studio. Wissing’s drum tracks appear on such Platinum-selling and #1 charting albums as Alicia Keys Girl on Fire, Drake’s Grammy-winning Take Care, and Kanye West and Jay-Z’s Grammy-nominated Watch the Throne. He appears on Kanye West’s “Power Read the Rest…
We’re huge fans of the recording/engineering blog SonicScoop, so it’s a real honor to be featured on their site. “Is this innovative studio the new king of NYC drum rooms? Our latest ‘Sweet Spot’ is a strong contender,” says SonicScoop. Take a peek at our massive wall of drums, too (and that’s only a fraction of Read the Rest…
Session drummer Dylan Wissing wins his first Grammy award for his work on Drake’s album Take Care. Wissing played drums on the track “Lord Knows” for the disc, which won the “Best Rap Album” category at the 2013 Grammy Awards. Previously, Wissing was nominated for a Grammy in the same category last year for his Read the Rest…
It’s been hard to keep up with website updates, with all the stuff that’s been going on around here. We’ve been tracking drums like mad fiends (even had the Rolling Stones’ horn section in recently for a session), finished building the new studio after the damage from last year’s hurricane, and spent a couple weeks Read the Rest…
We’ve barely had time to breathe here at Indie Studio Drummer, so much has happened since August. Here’s a wrap-up of highlights: Our first Grammy-nominated album! Kanye West and Jay-Z’s Platinum-selling and #1 charting disc Watch the Throne is up for several Grammies this year. Our resident session drummer Dylan Wissing performs on the track “Prime Read the Rest…
Thanks, Musicians Union for the heads-up (several months after the fact, but that’s fine by me)… Apparently the Kanye West / Jay-Z track “Power” I played drums on is prominently featured on the show “Gossip Girls!” If, like everyone here at Indie Studio Drummer, you are dying to find out just what happened on the Read the Rest…
Working once again with studio wizard Ken Lewis and hip hop mega-producer Just Blaze, recording an intense sample recreation for rapper Rick Ross‘ upcoming 2011 release “God Forgives, I Don’t” (Def Jam). Can’t give away the song we’re recreating, but it’s by one of the most famous songwriters in history, and the track is apparently Read the Rest…
Have been in the studio recently with amazing Americana/Soul singer/songwriter Josh Charles and the Stone Ramblers, cutting several new tunes for an upcoming release. Josh has appeared on Good Morning America, the Tavis Smiley Show, CNN, and Voice of America, and pretty much all over the Internet and print. And given the fact that his Read the Rest…
It’s the world’s most widely-read drum magazine – and the home page at www.moderndrummer.com features our very own Dylan Wissing this week! Pretty damn exciting news in these quarters…
Working with Grammy-nominated producer Tommy Faragher on the song “The Living Years” for the show Glee, which airs tonight. At the end of the day, we’re not sure which parts from Indie Studio Drummer ended up on the final version (a small army of musicians and producers worked on the song), but we think that Read the Rest…