Tom Tom Magazine is a quarterly print magazine and website based out of New York City. It was founded in 2009 by Mindy Abovitz who currently serves as editor-in-chief. It is the only magazine in the world that is dedicated to female drummers. According to the magazine's website, "Tom Tom's purpose is to raise awareness about girl and women percussionists from all over the world, to inspire females of all ages to drum, and to strengthen and build the otherwise fragmented community of female musicians.". Tom Tom Magazine is distributed in the United States, as well as in is Europe, Australia, South America and Japan and has many international subscribers and readers. While Tom Tom Magazine is a magazine dedicated to female drummers, its readership consists of both men and women.

Features

Tom Tom Magazine includes many features including news, reviews, fashion and art. It also covers many topics such as technique for drummers, reviews of bands with female drummers, and reviews of equipment. Other segments of Tom Tom include “One Drummer One Question” in which female drummers respond to one particular question, and “Throwback” which features bands with female drummers from the past.

Many notable female drummers have been featured in Tom Tom Magazine. These drummers include, Yuko Araki, Stella Mozgawa (Warpaint

Warpaint

Warpaint is a mascot pinto horse for the Kansas City Chiefs National Football League team, currently in its third incarnation. The gelding is most famously associated with the Chiefs' glory days at Municipal Stadium when the team won two American Football League Championships, and the horse led the...

), Kim Schifino (Matt and Kim

Matt and Kim

Matt & Kim are a dance punk duo residing in Brooklyn, New York City, New York. The group was formed in 2005 and is composed of Matt Johnson and Kim Schifino...

), Sunayan Ghosh, Erica Garcia

Erica Garcia

Erica García, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is a composer, singer and an actress of Argentinian-American descent. She has been nominated for a Latin Grammy in 2000 for Best Female Rock Artist for her popular tune "Vete Destino".-Musical career:...

, Bianca Sparta (Erase Errata

Erase Errata

Erase Errata is a band from San Francisco, California. They often name experimentalists such as Captain Beefheart, The Fall, and the Minutemen as inspirations...

), Andrea Alvarez, MNDR

MNDR

MNDR is an American electronic music duo, formed in 2009 in New York City, consisting of Amanda Warner and Peter Wade.-2009: Formation:Warner moved from Oakland, California to New York City in 2008 to work as a songwriter for hire. It was only after meeting Wade that she began to consider fronting...

, tUnE-yArDs

Tune-Yards

tUnE-yArDs is the music project of New England native Merrill Garbus. When performing live, Garbus creates drum loops on the spot, and layers these with ukulele, voice, and electric bass...

, Alessia Mattalia, Boom Boom Satellites

Boom Boom Satellites

is a Japanese electronic music duo consisting of guitarist and vocalist Michiyuki Kawashima and bassist and programmer Masayuki Nakano. While their music can be mostly classified as big beat or nu skool breaks with heavy jazz influences, they are famous for the heavy usage of electric guitars in...

, Terri Lyne Carrington

Terri Lyne Carrington

Terri Lyne Carrington is a jazz drummer, composer, record producer and entrepreneur. She has played with jazz legends Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz, Clark Terry, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Joe Sample, Al Jarreau, Yellowjackets, and many more...

, Liv Marsico, Patty Schemel

Patty Schemel

Patricia Theresa Schemel is an American drummer, most notably known as the drummer of the alternative rock band Hole from 1992 until 1998.-Early music career:Schemel learned to play drums after her father bought her a drum kit at age 11...

, Daisy Palmer, Carla Azar

Carla Azar

Carla Azar is a musician and a member of the band Autolux. Azar is a multi-instrumentalist but is known primarily for playing the drums. She also plays glockenspiel, xylophone, mellotron, piano, and bass guitar.-Career:...

 and Dawn Richardson.

Cover
Drummers featured on the cover of Tom Tom Magazine include Cindy Blackman

Cindy Blackman

Cindy Blackman is an American jazz and rock drummer. Blackman is best-known for recording and touring with Lenny Kravitz...

, Susie Ibarra

Susie Ibarra

Susie Ibarra is a Contemporary Composer and Percussionist who has worked and recorded with jazz, classical, world, and Indigenous musicians. She is known for her work as a performer in avant-garde, jazz, world and new music...

,Kim Thompson (Beyonce), Liv Marsico (Cold War Kids

Cold War Kids

Cold War Kids are an American indie rock band from Long Beach, California. Band members are Nathan Willett , Jonnie Russell , Matt Maust , and Matt Aveiro .-History:...

), Suphala

Suphala

Suphala is a tabla artist, composer, and producer. She is a protégé of tabla players Ustad Alla Rakha and Zakir Hussain and is based in New York City.-Background:...

, Evelyn Glennie

Evelyn Glennie

Dame Evelyn Elizabeth Ann Glennie, DBE is a Scottish virtuoso percussionist. She was the first full-time solo percussionist in 20th-century western society.-Early life:Glennie was born and raised in Aberdeenshire...

, Yoshimi

Yoshimi

Yoshimi is a Japanese given name, and can refer to:* Yoshimi, Saitama, a town located in Hiki District, Saitama, Japan* Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, a 2002 album by The Flaming Lips-People:...

, Sara Lund (Unwound

Unwound

Unwound was a United States post-hardcore band based in Tumwater/Olympia, Washington. Formed in 1991, the band consisted of Justin Trosper , Vern Rumsey , and Brandt Sandeno , all of whom had previously been in a band called Giant Henry. Brandt Sandeno quit Unwound in 1992 and was replaced by...

).

Events

In addition to being a print magazine and website, Tom Tom Magazine throws events that celebrate female drummers, beatmakers, musicians and DJ. Tom Tom has also set up panels and events at universities and colleges. These panels promote and discuss feminism, and women's representation in the media.
Tom Tom has held events in

• Brooklyn, NY
• Manhattan, NY
• Portland, OR
• Austin, TX
• Miami, FL
• Los Angeles, CA
• Palm Springs, CA

Tom Tom Magazine has also hosted panels at schools such as Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States....

 and Smith College

Smith College

Smith College is a private, independent women's liberal arts college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. It is the largest member of the Seven Sisters...

. Tom Tom's panels have included women such as Kim Gordon

Kim Gordon

Kim Althea Gordon is an American musician, vocalist, artist, record producer, video director and actress. She has sung and played bass and guitar in the alternative rock band Sonic Youth, and in Free Kitten with Julia Cafritz...

 of Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth is an American alternative rock band from New York City, formed in 1981. The current lineup consists of Thurston Moore , Kim Gordon , Lee Ranaldo , Steve Shelley , and Mark Ibold .In their early career, Sonic Youth was associated with the No Wave art and music scene in New York City...

, Shirley Braha

Shirley Braha

Shirley Braha is an American TV producer. She created the music television show New York Noise, which ran on NYC TV from 2003-2010.-Early life:...

, creator of the television show New York Noise

New York Noise

New York Noise is a one-hour indie-rock music video television program which aired from 2003–2009 on NYCTV in New York and parts of New Jersey and Connecticut. It was created, produced, and edited by Shirley Braha and funded by New York City under the Bloomberg administration...

, Marisa Meltzer author of "How Sassy Changed My Life", and Emily Rems of Bust

Bust

Bust may refer to:*Bust , a sculpture depicting a person's head and shoulders*Bust , a feminist pop culture magazine*Bust, Bas-Rhin, a city in north-eastern France*Bust, a word for a woman's breasts...

 Magazine.

Among the artists that have performed at Tom Tom events are Kim Thompson, Vivian Girls

Vivian Girls

Vivian Girls are an American band from Brooklyn, New York.- History :Vivian Girls, named after the magnum opus of outsider author Henry Darger, started in Brooklyn, NY in March 2007 as the trio of Cassie Ramone ; Katy "Kickball Katy" Goodman; and Frankie Rose...

, Mi-Gu, tUnE-yArDs

Tune-Yards

tUnE-yArDs is the music project of New England native Merrill Garbus. When performing live, Garbus creates drum loops on the spot, and layers these with ukulele, voice, and electric bass...

, Emily Wells

Emily Wells

Emily Wells is a violinist whose style "merge[s] ... hip-hop and classical". She also uses many other instruments in her work, including glockenspiels, analog synthesizers, and even toy pianos and other toy instruments. In live performances, she does not use any pre-recorded loops, rather she...

, The Suzan, and MNDR

MNDR

MNDR is an American electronic music duo, formed in 2009 in New York City, consisting of Amanda Warner and Peter Wade.-2009: Formation:Warner moved from Oakland, California to New York City in 2008 to work as a songwriter for hire. It was only after meeting Wade that she began to consider fronting...

.

Contributors and Staff

Mindy Abovitz (Editor-in-Chief)

Candice Ralph (Head Designer), Jessica Moon (Design Team), Harlo Holmes (Webmistress/Coder), Katyann Gonzalez (Web Editor)

Photographers Bek Andersen, Stefano Galli, Jee Young Sim, Jennifer Leigh Aschoff, Erin Nicole Brown, Rebecca Smeyne, Piper Fergueson, Aaron Wojack, Andrew Strasser, Meg Wachter, Ports Bishop, Jay Oligny, Dan Watkins, Bex Wade.

Videographers Tamar Glezerman, Angela Cheng, Tiny Favorite, Alex Carulo

Regional Correspondents Lisa Schonberg, Valentine Freeman (Northwest Correspondent), Liv Marsico, Nicole Turley (LA Correspondents),Laura Fares, Megane Quashie (London Correspondents), Kiran Gandhi (DC Correspondent), Emi Karaya (Japan Correspondent), Rachel Thorne (Australia Correspondent), Sam Low & Sal Harrington (Bristol Team)

Writers/Contributors Evelyn Glennie

Evelyn Glennie

Dame Evelyn Elizabeth Ann Glennie, DBE is a Scottish virtuoso percussionist. She was the first full-time solo percussionist in 20th-century western society.-Early life:Glennie was born and raised in Aberdeenshire...

, Allie Alvarado, Temim Fruchter, sts, Rachel Bloomberg, Dawn Richardson, Leslie Henkel, Adam Katzman, Sara Magenheimer, Caryn Havlik, Melanie Glover, Alex Carulo, Bianca Russelburg, Adee Roberson, Michael Lowe, Fiona Campbell, Courtney Gillette, Stephanie Barker (Tech Editor), Rebecca DeRosa, Anika Sabin (Review Editors), Cathy Hsiao, Teri Duerr (Copy Editors) Hannah Cristina, Linnea Lamon, Lindsay Birk, Stephanie Monohan, Katie Dvorsky, Jami Forshee (Interns)

Events Sean Desiree (Events)

Availability

Tom Tom Magazine is available by subscription, and is also carried in many stores throughout the US and abroad. Some of the places that Tom Tom is carried include

• Kim's Video and Music
  Kim's Video and Music
  Kim's Video and Music is a video and music retail store in the East Village of Manhattan, New York City, described as the "go-to place for rare selections" and "widely known among the cognoscenti of new, experimental and esoteric music and film"...
  
  , New York City
• Bluestockings Bookstore, New York City
• Veronica’s People Club Greenpoint, Brooklyn
• Main Drag Music, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
• In Other Words Bookstore Women's Books and Resources, Portland, OR
• Dumpster Values, Olympia, WA
• Amoeba Records, San Francisco, CA
• Reform School, Los Angeles CA
• Domy Books, Austin, TX
• Gals Rock, Paris, France
• Missing Link Records
  Missing Link Records
  Missing Link Records is a record store in Melbourne, Australia. The shop first opened in 1971, but was then called Archie and Jughead's, named after the comic. The shop's co-founders, David Pepperell and Keith Glass, established the shop as a much-needed rock record shop...
  
  , CBD,Australia
• Do You Read Me, Berlin, Germany
• The High Seas, Auckland, New Zealand http://tomtommag.com/blog/?page_id=1193