After analysing the track for mere moments Portnoy’s keen ear and mind pick out its rhythm and he begins enthusiastically ...

Dream Theater‘s Mike Portnoy recently ventured into unexpected territory by reimagining the drumming on Taylor Swift's ...

The Dream Theater drummer somehow had never before heard the ubiquitous pop hit. Drummer Mike Portnoy Performs Taylor Swift’s ...

How would Dream Theater's Mike Portnoy have approached one of Taylor Swift's biggest songs? Swearing he's never heard it, the ...

I would just like to take a moment that in the year of our lord, 2025, there is still a living and breathing human being on ...

Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy was tasked with playing along to Taylor Swift's hit "Shake It Off" as he heard it for the first time. Watch.

Though Mike Portnoy is all primed to promote Parasomnia – his first album with Dream Theater since 2009’s Black Clouds & Silver Linings – the progressive drum great recently side-stepped his usual ...

Mike Portnoy gets down to this sick beat on a drum cover of Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off."The Dream Theater drummer is ...

The first thing that happens when Portnoy is listening to a drumless version of the song, is the prog-metal version of Taylor Swift you never knew you'd get: he turns the pop-infused simplicity of the ...

"It sounds like something out of Disneyland in Japan," he muses, after recording a first take drum part which he admits "is ...