AUSTIN, Texas — The University of Texas at Austin's Longhorn Band is unveiling its new custom-built bass drum, which is even larger than its original drum, at the home game against Iowa State ...

Before I went to graduate school to get my degree in Bracketology, I was a four-year All-American at Purdue. Well, technically, I was a four-year member of the Purdue All-American marching band. The ...

AUSTIN – It is one of the most iconic sounds in all of college football: Big Bertha. If you have ever seen a Longhorns football game or listened to it on the radio, you’ll know that every time the ...

Purdue's iconic Big Bass Drum has been seen and heard at football games for the past 100 years, but it will be conspicuously absent for Saturday's game against Notre Dame. Gregg Doyel of the Indy Star ...

A Purdue icon will not be making the trip to Notre Dame when the Boilermakers take on the Fighting Irish this Saturday. For the first time in 42 years, Purdue’s All-American Marching Band will perform ...

The Western Thunder Drumline consists of marching snare drum, tenors (5 drum), bass drums, and cymbals. Students need to complete an audition so that we can place you on the instrument that fits you ...

The rat-a-tat of snare drums accompanied by the domineering beat of bass drums and the eerie melodies of xylophones and marimbas reverberated outside Decatur High on Monday as marching band members ...

They parade it proudly through the campus on football Saturdays, roll it out during every halftime performance at Ross-Ade Stadium and thump it throughout each game — the giant percussion instrument ...

Tool's Justin Chancellor and Danny Carey performed an instrumental version of the band's classic "Ænema" — just bass and drums, without the guitar and vocals of bandmates Adam Jones and Maynard James ...