Street Drum Corps Brings the Noise This
Summer on Projekt Revolution Tour
Special Drumline Contest and Mainstage Set
Precedes New Album Due Out on Interscope '09
From John Bonham to Clyde
Stubblefield to ?uestlove, the drum has
always been the backbone of any successful
group. Hell, go further back in time, when
drums were at the center of any tribal
ritual. It’s carnal. Primeval. A good song
hits you in the head. A good beat nails you
in the stomach. So in an era of
squeaky-clean, technologically-enhanced and
polished production, Los Angeles’ Street
Drum Corps (SDC) are more important than
ever.
Kevin Lyman, founder of the
Vans Warped Tour, summed SDC up perfectly
when he called them a “punk rock
Stomp.”
Trash cans. Barrels. Buckets. It’s all fair
game for brothers Bobby & Adam Alt and Frank
Zummo, who furnish their live sets
completely with used and found instruments.
Having honed and evolved
their rock-band-meets-performance-art set
for more than four years, playing shows at
countless festivals in countless countries,
the trio is currently prepping both a new
studio album on Interscope Records (their
follow-up to 2006’s
We Are Machines)
and summer shows on Linkin Park’s highly
successful Projekt Revolution tour starting
July 16 at Mansfield, MA’s Tweeter Center.
If you’ve seen them live
before, you already know SDC’s shows are a
primordial, stomping blast of energy,
theatricality and passion. There’s a reason
why members of No Doubt, Bad Religion, and
Revolution tourmates Atreyu all want to play
with them. Why Conan O’Brien invited them to
perform on his show. And why The Used’s Bert
McCracken has practically adopted them as
his pet band.
SDC’s diverse and vast
tourmates—which include everyone from
Matisyahu to The Deftones to 30 Seconds to
Mars—are direct proof that the trio can
survive and thrive in virtually any crowd.
Unlike so many bands whose music
automatically pigeonholes them to certain
festivals, SDC have proven that words like
“demographic” and “target audience” don’t
apply to them. To Street Drum Corps, the
only target audience is anyone who
appreciates unique performances and raucous,
energetic music. SDC are more concerned with
rhythm than genre. In their performances,
one hears tribal, rock, punk, dance and
industrial, all somehow blending together in
a chaotic, beautiful mess.
Now, after conquering Warped Tour,
Coachella, A Taste of Chaos, and any other
tour that’s gotten in their way, the trio is
set to perform on the Main Stage at Projekt
Revolution alongside Chris Cornell, Busta
Rhymes, The Bravery and Linkin Park. In
addition to introducing Linkin Park (in
their own inimitable way), the group has
been personally invited to perform select
songs with the headliners.
Hearkening back to the past
when shaman fed off the energy of the
tribe’s participants, the group will also be
introducing a special contest where one
winner per show will get the
once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to lead a
drumline with SDC from the second stage
direct to the main stage. Stay tuned for
more details.
Formed in 2004, Bobby and Adam Alt
originally started Experiment, a drum troupe
that performed mostly to elementary schools.
After hooking up with Zummo, the three
decided to take breaks from their respective
drumming gigs and became Street Drum Corps,
playing their debut gig at Magic Mountain.
After near-constant touring, the group
hooked up with House of Pain’s DJ Lethal,
who produced their 2006 self-titled debut
CD/DVD (Warcon Enterprises) featuring
“Achilles” with Stomp’s John Sawicki. Since
then, their music has appeared on such shows
as “Inked,” “The Real World” and “Love
Monkey,” and the group recently recorded a
cover of John Lennon’s “Happy Christmas (War
is Over)” with The Used’s Bert McCracken.
Street
Drum Corps
Projekt Revolution Tour Dates
7/16- Mansfield, MA- Tweeter Center
7/18- Burgettstown, PA- Post Gazette
Center
7/19- Camden, NJ- Susquehanna Bank Center
7/20- Hartford, CT- New England Dodge
Music Center
7/22- Wantagh, NY- Nikon at Jones Beach
Theater
7/23- Holmdel, NJ- PNC Bank Arts Center
7/25- Raleigh, NC- Time Warner Cable
Amphitheatre
7/26- Virginia Beach, VA- Verizon
Wireless Amphitheatre
7/27- Bristow, VA- Nissan Pavilion at
Stone Ridge
7/30- Charlotte, NC- Verizon Wireless
Amphitheatre
8/1- West Palm Beach, FL- Cruzan
Amphitheatre
8/2- Tampa, FL- Ford Amphitheatre
8/3- Atlanta, GA- Lakewood Amphitheatre
8/7- Phoenix, AZ- Cricket Wireless
Pavilion
8/9- Mountain View, CA- Shoreline
Amphitheatre
8/10- Irvine, CA- Verizon Wireless
Amphitheatre
8/12- Greenwood Village, CO- Fiddler’s
Green Amphitheatre
8/15- Cincinnati, OH- Riverband Music
Center
8/16- East Troy, WI- Alpine Valley Music
Theatre
8/17- Noblesville, IN- Verizon Wireless
Music Center
8/19- Cuyahoga Falls, OH- Blossom Music
Center
8/21- Maryland Heights, MO- Verizon
Wireless Amphitheatre
8/23- Dallas, TX-Superpages.com Center
8/24- The Woodlands, TX- The Cynthia
Woods Mitchell Pavilion
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