On March 29th and 30th, Brad Lee Entertainment presents the first of what I can only hope will an annual Rocklanta Festival. Rocklanta will feature such glam, hard rock, and sleaze bands such as XYZ, Lillian Axe, Dangerous Toys, Warrant, and Tora Tora just to name a few. I’ve had the pleasure of speaking with […]

Tim “Ripper” Owens is a true rock n’ roll fantasy come true.  From fronting bar bands to replace one of the most iconic metal singers (Rob Halford) in Judas Priest, Ripper has done it all.  Since his departure from Priest, Ripper’s powerful vocals can be heard on albums by Charred Walls of the Damned, Iced […]

For ten years, Anna Murphy was a member of the folk metal band Eluveitie from 2006 until 2016. For ten years, Anna played the hurdy gurdy (a stringed instrument that produces sound by a hand crank-turned, rosined wheel rubbing against the strings) and clean vocals in the band. In 2014, Anna released a solo album […]

In 1992 I attended a Faster Pussycat show here in Atlanta, GA at the Masquerade.  That night, the band that was their direct support was band out of Canada that I was only familiar with by name: Slik Toxik  For 45 minutes, Slik Toxik annihilated that room and pretty much had Faster Pussycat looking like […]

30 years ago I was an awkward teenager starting at a new school sporting a Warrant t-shirt and snakeskin boots.  I saw them blow Motley Crue off the stage in 1990, I saw them kill Poison in 1990, and even saw them do a really great shed show as headliners.  Eventually with a change in […]

It’s hard to believe that it was nearly 30 years ago when I first heard Dangerous Toys.  Dangerous Toys had a few MTV Headbangers Ball hits with songs like “Teasn Pleasn”, “Scared”, and “Gimme No Lip” just to name a few.  The band had two hit albums, their self titled debut and Hellacious Acres which […]

If you were a teen or even an early 20-something and living in new Orleans, Lillian Axe was a band that you knew about whether you liked them or not.  Lillian Axe are considered one of the forefathers of the New Orleans 80’s hard rock scene that would go on to spawn other legendary bands […]

Actor, musician, joker, and all around nice guy with a laugh that fills a room.  Not exactly what you would expect to hear about a guy that goes by the name Demolition Man.  From acting in the Russell Crow movie Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World to fronting Venom Inc, Tony “Demolition […]

Back in 1989 I was in 10th grade when this little band from Memphis released a song/video called “Walkin’ Shoes.”  That band was Tora Tora and they would go on to be one of those sadly short lived bands.  Tora Tora released their debut album Surprise Attack and followed it up with what I consider […]

HAPPY NEW YEAR, FOLKS.  I couldn’t think of a better way of kicking off the new year than to do so with an interview with Michelle Schrotz of one of my all time favorite bands, Brave.  Brave is about to release their first album of new material since 2008’s Monuments entitled The Calm|The Storm and […]