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Garage bands across the nation are finding themselves moshing to the beat of no drummer at all this year, as a drummer crisis looms.

Desperate to make their music, young bands, like companies in a tight labor market, are adopting drummer-retention plans. Tubuku, the punk band wary of losing its drummer, Brian Monte, to PaulDrawsBlank or to some other band, lets him play drum solos, a relic of the heavy-metal era that most audiences like about as much as a long line to the restroom.

The Garage Band Association of America is also petitioning congress to issue more H1B visas so that drummers from nations abroad can lend their specialized talents to this crisis that threatens to shake our nation. (Discuss)