With a bold new solo album out, we catch up with the Mötley Crüe drummer about transcending conpartmentalization By: Katherine Yeske Taylor Tommy Lee is renowned for his work as Mötley Crüe’s drummer – but when it comes to his endeavors outside that band, he reveals a dizzying degree of musical diversity. With his third solo […]
By: Patrick Ryan USA TODAY Tommy Lee is 58 going on 8. “I act like a (expletive) kid anyway – I figured, ‘Whatever with the 5!’ ” jokes the boisterous Mötley Crüe drummer, who celebrated his birthday earlier this month. “I’m going Benjamin Button-style, I’m gonna keep going backwards.” But Lee is hardly living in the past. After […]
By: Larry Fitzmaurice We’ve Got A File On You features interviews in which artists share the stories behind the extracurricular activities that dot their careers: acting gigs, guest appearances, random internet ephemera, etc. It is literally a miracle that Tommy Lee’s career has lasted as long as it has. The band that brought the 58-year-old drummer […]
Lyndsey Parker ·Editor in Chief, Yahoo Music Although Motley Crüe’s big reunion tour was postponed this year due to coronavirus concerns, drummer Tommy Lee has been keeping busy during lockdown, working on his third solo album (and first since 2005), Andro — a self-described “pretty wild record” with a slew of guest stars, ranging from rising rappers […]
By Gary Graff The Mötley Crüe drummer’s third solo album, due Oct. 16, is packed with multiple guest collaborations Mötley Crüe’s Tommy Lee has been known as a wild man of nearly 40 years’ standing at this point. Leave him to his own devices, however, and things get even crazier — creatively. Evidence his rap-rock band […]
Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee on his notorious name, why he loves an underdog, and that time Axl Rose thanked him for the inspiration to write November Rain… Words: James Hickie Photos: Myriam Santos To speak to Tommy Lee is to engage with someone hyperreal. Take the conditions of this career spanning chat, for example. It […]
— Rocker Tommy Lee is in a collaborative state of mind on his new album, “Andro,” out Friday. The 14-track album, his first solo release in 15 years, includes guest appearances from multi-platinum hitmaker Post Malone, Josh Todd of Buckcherry, South African rapper Push Push, Canadian rocker Lukas Rossi, West Coast rapper Brooke Candy, singer-songwriter King Elle […]
“There’s a male and a female side to the record, and they sort of dance harmoniously at the same time,” drummer says of ‘Andro’ By: Richard Bienstock As the COVID-19 pandemic drags on through the dog days of summer, social distancing and self-isolation have begun to wear us all down to the point that […]
By: Ken Scrudato His reputation follows him—and, let’s face it, it’s a spectacularly well-earned one. After all, arguably no one in the short history of rock & roll has wrung more out of its potential for joyful, hazardous depravity than Tommy Lee, Mötley Crüe’s legendary drummer and longtime scourge of conservative America (conservative everywhere, if we’re being […]
I had the chance to talk to Tommy Lee of Motley Crue about his two loves: rap and rock. The genre of rap rock, hip-hop influenced by rock, or whatever you want to call it has created a global impact since the two musical forces converged in song years ago. Tommy enthusiastically listed his […]
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The Mötley Crüe drummer’s new solo LP arrives October 16th Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee has announced a new solo album, ANDRO, and has unveiled two singles from the effort. One track is called “Knock Me Down” featuring Killvein, and the other is “Tops” featuring Push Push. The album arrives October 16th, and also features […]
Tommy Lee has shared two new singles. The pulsating, hardcore-inflected Knock Me Down sees Lee team up with rising emo rap artist Killvein, who contributes a fiery performance. Elsewhere, accompanying track Tops enlists South African rapper PUSH PUSH to deliver a melodic, withering flow over a rhythm section of freewheeling synth leads and a trap-heavy […]
Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee has announced the details of a new solo album. The hip hop-influenced project is titled Andro, and is due out October 16. You can download two new tunes from the record — “Knock Me Down,” featuring Killvein, and “Tops,” featuring PUSH PUSH — now via digital outlets. Andro also features […]
By: Steve Baltin Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee releases two new singles, “Tops” and “Knock Me Down,” from his forthcoming solo album, Andro, today (June 5, 2020). The fact that Lee has an upcoming album, out October 16, when he was supposed to be on the road with Crue playing stadiums this summer (with […]
His lips are zipped! Tommy Lee doesn’t give his two sons advice when it comes to their love lives “Sometimes it’s better to kind of fall down and bump your head on your own,” the Mötley Crüe member, 57, told Us Weekly exclusively of Brandon Lee and Dylan Lee on Friday, May 29, while promoting […]