Inspiration…creativity…drive…patience…flow…all of that and more has fueled the past 3-year stretch of making music. At the end of 2019, just before we were all locked in for a worldwide pandemic, I had started tracking songs for my first solo album while developing plans to turn Read More …
Tag: Mike Gruwell Drums
Red Hot Empty Burden EP Hitting Hard
Just 6 months after the release of our debut album Corridors, Red Hot Empty finished our follow-up EP Burden. This EP means the world to our band. Burden is written about anything you ever had to silently carry on your shoulders. This album also features some Read More …
By The Numbers Album Release!
By The Numbers album is here! This collection of 11 drum beats, grooves and instrumentals is a follow-up solo album to That GTown Sound. These rhythm-focus tracks are punctuated by moody trumpet, bass and piano melodies interweaved with groovy drum breaks. By The Numbers was Read More …
Red Hot Empty Album Delivers
From our first jam eight months ago, it was as if it was already written in the universe that Red Hot Empty would have an album by year’s end, and a welcomed presence throughout Atlanta’s punk scene. A week after our first jam we played Read More …
By The Numbers Album Progress
By The Numbers, the forthcoming follow-up solo album to That GTown Sound is progressing right along inside GTown Studio. Two singles have already been released, and more than half of the album is recorded and mixed. I’m really excited with how each song is changing Read More …
Stone Dresden Turns 30
Stone Dresden came together in 1991, and became the first post-high school band for 4 kids from the Eastside. We all grew up within walking distance of each other, but it was the guitar/bass duo of Chad McCollum and Shawn Psachos who were childhood friends Read More …
Already Taking On 2022!
Vinyl, Vinyl, Vinyl! As I look out at the year ahead for One Drummer Drumming, it’s the vinyl releases that top the list. Normally I would have timed the vinyl to drop on the same day that each album was released digitally, but current long Read More …
The Pursuit of Drumming…
I switched from the trumpet section to drums half-way through my first year of junior high school. The trumpet was something handed down to me from an uncle, and was the only instrument I had to play for elementary school band. In junior high school, Read More …
Resurrecting Black Moses
Thanks to Seattle musician, recording and engineering guru Jack Endino, the 90s sounds of Black Moses have been resurrected. Black Moses never had the traction, following or longevity of many of our peers during that time, but we still could rock a show with our Read More …
New Solo Album Released
The new album is complete! I ended up with 11 songs at just under 30 minutes total. I decided to stop there as it felt these songs had a fairly common musical theme from being written and recorded over the past year at my home Read More …