It’s been quite a long time coming, but the newly-redesigned and updated site for Drum Corps World has finally been completed.  Nearly all of the content from the previous site (articles, scores and historical products) has been transferred and a portion of the photos from earlier in this decade.  It was an enormous task that required considerably more time than anticipated.

One of the primary features of the new site is that the current and back issues of Drum Corps World are now accessible from the front...

Steve Vickers, Publisher
publisher@drumcorpsworld.com

It’s been a number of years, but we’re preparing to launch a brand-new look for our Web site, sometime in early June.

All of the content from the old site will be transferred, including all of the articles, scores and schedules. The “store” will also have a new look, with easier-to-read descriptions of all the historic CDs, DVDs and books we have available for sale.

The big news is that the issues will be accessible through the front page of the...

by Ken Mason, DCW staff
audiodb@yahoo.com

Is your favorite corps on CD yet? Check again before answering, because we’ve added another dozen discs to “The Beat Goes On” drum corps audio recording selections. These compact discs are the digital versions of the original recording work of Stetson D. Richmond and Alf Wateska, optimized for your listening pleasure. Treat yourself to recordings of your favorite corps or surprise someone you know with a holiday gift from our audio...

Over the 39 years between Drum Corps World’s first edition in October 1971 and the final printed issue in April 2011, a total of 766 issues were produced, totaling 15, 556 pages of material. That’s an average of 398 pages per year.

Since Drum Corps World went on-line May 1, the total number of pages produced in five interactive monthly issues (May, June, July, August and September) and seven e-mail PDF blasts (June 22, July 8, July 15, July 22, August 5 and August 22) totals 552.

And did you know it’s all FREE?

That’s...

As the eyes of the drum corps world shift their focus to the upcoming Drum Corps Associates World Championships slated for Friday, September 2, through Sunday, September 4, in Rochester, NY, drum and bugle corps fans from around the world will have the unprecedented opportunity to join with thousands of fans in attendance as the all-age circuit launches the online DCA Fan Network and presents a live video webcast of its preliminary competition.

“For the first time ever, fans of all-age drum corps worldwide will be able to enjoy the...