Rockbrat Introduces You To: Yuto Miyazawa

OK. So if you are a regular YouTube surfer and an Ozzy fan, then you’d no doubt be aware of Yuto Miyazawa. For the uninitiated, he is a ‘child prodigy’ guitarist from Tokyo who this month turns 12. His style is metal. Now, the jury is still out on whether all this child prodigy stuff [...]

Rockbrat Introduces You To: RONALD VAUGHAN

If anyone out there who is still yet to see the movie that chronicles the life of Rodney Bingenheimer, ‘Mayor Of the Sunset Strip’, then do it now. It captures all the sordid weirdness of the sunset strip from the 60s up until to today. Sadly, rock n roll has seen better days, not just [...]

Rockbrat Introduces You To: DOC HOLLIDAY

When asked who are the best exponents of the genre that is now known as ‘Southern Rock’, most pundits will come out with Skynyrd, Allman Brothers, and also equally siginifcant bands like Blackfoot, Molly Hatchet and The Outlaws. Yet one band who deserves to also be up there is Doc Holliday. As Michael B. Smith for [...]

Rockbrat Introduces You To: Kings Of The Sun + The Rich & Famous

We here at Rockbrat were big fans of Kings Of The Sun. If you were around in the late 80’s, you may remember their two amazing albums, their self titled effort from 88 and the follow up, ‘Full Frontal Attack’. The fact that they were from Australia made it even better. This band were as [...]

Rockbrat Introduces You To: The Rick Nielsen Signature Hamer

To escape the continuning aftershocks and radiation worries, Mr Rockbrat was recently gazing over some nice axes recently in a recycle store here in Japan. From a distance, the guitar which first caught my eye was an orange hamer. ‘Looks similar to one which Cheap Trick’s legendary Rick Nielsen uses’ I thought and lo and [...]

Rockbrat Introduces You To: The Neurotic Spiders

Mr Rockbrat was in his favourite Tokyo Record store recently one quiet Sunday evening and asked the staff to ‘play me something cool I may not know’ ! So the owner grabs a CD and says ‘have you heard this ?’ He cranks this particular album at full tilt and damned if it didn’t measure [...]

Rockbrat Introduces You To: The Refugees (Mr Ratboy’s new Tokyo outfit)

There is much to like about new Tokyo outfit The Refugees, who feature Sour Jazz (and ex-Motorcycle Boy/Marky Ramone’s Intruders) guitar slinger Mr Ratboy in the line-up. In a scene clogged with bands, merely content in cloning those who’ve gone before them, The Refugees have a unique style and sound all their own – and [...]

Rockbrat Introduces You To: Female Fronted Heavy Metal 1976-1989 Compilation Series

I stumbled across this site the other day and it is just exhaustive. For any girl band geek, partciularly metal band girl geeks (Mr, Rockbrat, Giglizard), this 15 CD series is indispensbile. The Female Fronted Heavy Metal Compilation series is an attempt at comprehensively documenting female fronted metal bands who recorded at least one heavy metal track [...]

Rockbrat Introduces You To: Cathy Peters

Many of you will know that in a former life, Rockbrat and Cowboy Col ran Vicious Kitten Records – the coolest label for all folks wanting the best underground rock n roll around. Vicious Kitten released two albums with a band from Worcester, Mass called The Ballbusters, (also known as Rick Blaze & The Ballbusters). The albums were [...]

Rockbrat Introduces You To: KEVIN K – ‘Joey And Me’ CD

In recent years, Florida based singer/songwriter Kevin K has penned albums that have largely reflected his experiences of touring throughout Europe, and Germany in particular. 2009’s ‘Deutschland’ and last year’s ‘Firestorm’ CD gave the listener strong thematic images of cold war Europe and post war Germany. With consistently strong, original and evocative material, these albums [...]