Winery Dogs

Former Dream Theater and current Winery Dogs drummer Mike Portnoy doesn't ask a lot of fans. He wants you to enjoy the music he makes. He is very generous with his time, often communicating online with fans and making himself available in the social media space. However, he's calling in a favor, which he is well within his rights to do.

Roland recently produced and released a video of Richie Kotzen showing off the unique features of Roland’s new CUBE Lite miniature guitar amp. It’s a 10-watt guitar practice amp with 2.1 stereo sound, built-in effects, and a new CUBE JAM feature that lets anyone learn and play along with any song.

This is the day the Winery Dogs have been waiting for as their self-titled debut disc drops in stores. The supergroup of singer-guitarist Richie Kotzen, bassist Billy Sheehan and drummer Mike Portnoy collaborated on one of the year's most anticipated discs and Portnoy took some time to provide some track-by-track commentary so that fans know what to expect. Noisecreep is proud to exclusively bring

Calling all drum nerds. Mike Portnoy, late of Dream Theater and Avenged Sevenfold, the latter in a temporary sense, and now with the Winery Dogs, has released 'The Drumming Dog' DVD. No, it's not a canine or a pooch hitting the skins and twirling sticks. It's drum-cam footage of the famed rhythm keeper himself, taken from the recording sessions for his new band's self-titled debut.

There's never a dull moment in the rhythmic life of former Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy. The skinsman left one of his post-DT bands -- Adrenaline Mob -- to focus on other projects, namely the Winery Dogs, featuring Billy Sheehan and Richie Kotzen...