From The Archives: Street Drum Corps – A Lesson in Misfit Drumming0

by Erin Broadley

There are drummers, and then there are street drummers—, the guys who truly aren’t afraid to get down and dirty with their craft. The musicians in Street Drum Corps are both, having played traditional drums in rock bands for years before lending their sticks to something decidedly more free-form and experimental.

Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman once dubbed Street Drum Corps the “punk-rock Stomp,” and the name stuck. The band is an apocalyptic, voodoo-rock revolution born from smog stained, litter strewn Los Angeles sidewalks and has grown into a full-force, stage production that now brings its battery of sound to the masses.

Since SDC’s start in 2004, drummers Bobby Alt, Adam Alt and Frank Zummo have used found objects to create their elaborate beats and have toured the world—leaving a trail of broken drumsticks, battered trash cans and busted tail pipes in their wake. They’’ve gone from drumming in downtown junkyards (which they still do), to recording an album with DJ Lethal for Warcon Records, to performing on Late Night with Conan O’’Brien to, last fall, having their gear inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of a Warped Tour display.

SuicideGirls met up with the guys before a recent gig at Hollywood’’s famed Goth club, Bar Sinister.

Read our exclusive interview with Street Drum Corps on SuicideGirls.com.