Send us a text The 4th in-depth conversation with Michael Sweet from Stryper about the band's latest release, God Damn Evil , the inevitable controversy the band has always endured, social media's pros and cons today, Michael's perspectives on continually putting out new material three decades into his career, upcoming projects, dealing with haters and critics, and much more... Inside the Interview: 01:53 – On being busy, consistently creative, & getting diagnosed with ADHD... 05:56 – About ...
Apr 18, 2018•35 min
Send us a text "Highlights & Hits" episode #051 features a double-header of guests. First up is Tom's interview with the Phantom Regiment's Kyle Jacobson talking about the acclaimed drum and bugle corps' past, present, and future. Tom also talks classic rock band line-up changes and substitutions, touring, and reunions with Mitch Brechon from Rockford's Suite Oblivion. Show #051 concludes with Tom's signature Sound Matter Moment... Guests: 01:01-13:10 - Kyle Jacobson from the Phantom Regimen...
Apr 11, 2018•35 min
Send us a text Episode #050 features Tom's commentary about the milestone 50the episode of the Sound Matters show. Tom reflects back on the show's evolution since its debut in January of 2017, and expansion moving into 2018 and beyond. Tom is joined by good friend and longtime radio host, Riley O'Neil for an insightful conversation about the show's unique format that blends the best of music, communication, and motivation topics and content. Support the show Connect with Tom: 👉🏻 https://solo.t...
Apr 04, 2018•23 min
Send us a text Tom's guest appearance and conversation with Joel Moutray on the Empower_Good Podcast. Connect with Joel Moutray: Website: www.empowergood.org Instagram: www.instagram.com/empower_good Connect with TOM LEU: Websites: www.TomLeu.com | www.16Imaging.com YouTube: www.talkshiFt.tv Instagram: www.instagram.com/tomleu (@tomleu) Official Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/tomleu2 Twitter: www.twitter.com/tomleu (@tomleu) Support the show Connect with Tom: 👉🏻 https://solo.to/tomleu 👉🏻 ht...
Apr 02, 2018•46 min
Send us a text Episode #049 features Tom's interview with comedian, actor, author, radio and television personality, Jim Florentine. Jim is best known for co-hosting "That Metal Show" on VH1 Classic, as well as voicing several characters on the popular show "Crank Yankers." Jim hosts a popular podcast called "Comedy Metal Midgets" since 2011, and has a radio show on Ozzy's Boneyard channel on Sirius/XM. The conversation hit on many topics including the writing of Jim's first book, his observatio...
Mar 21, 2018•25 min
Send us a text Tom's guest appearance and conversation with Phillip Ryan Block on the Open Heart Collective webcast. Connect with Phillip Ryan Block: Website: www.independentear.com Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/phillipryanblock Twitter: www.twitter.com/P_RyanBlock Instagram: www.instagram.com/phillipryanblock Connect with TOM LEU: Websites: www.TomLeu.com | www.16Imaging.com YouTube: www.talkshiFt.tv Instagram: www.instagram.com/tomleu (@tomleu) Official Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/tomleu...
Mar 20, 2018•47 min
Send us a text "Highlights & Hits" episode #048 features Tom's commentary and insights about the 25th anniversary of the Beavis & Butthead MTV show, and excerpts from This Week In Music History. Show #048 concludes with Tom's signature Sound Matter Moment... Support the show Connect with Tom: 👉🏻 https://solo.to/tomleu 👉🏻 https://facebook.com/tomleu 👉🏻 https://instagram.com/tomleu...
Mar 14, 2018•30 min
Send us a text "Highlights & Hits" episode #047 features Tom's commentary and insights about musicians, celebrities, and entertainers weighing-in on politics, music spotlights of The Doobie Brothers and Alice In Chains, and more. Show #047 concludes with Tom's signature Sound Matter Moment... Support the show Connect with Tom: 👉🏻 https://solo.to/tomleu 👉🏻 https://facebook.com/tomleu 👉🏻 https://instagram.com/tomleu...
Mar 08, 2018•25 min
Send us a text "Highlights & Hits" episode #046 features Tom's commentary and insights about the evolution of the three core Sound Matters Radio subject-matter topics going into 2018: Music, Communication, & Motivation. The Smashing Pumpkins and reunion tours, Led Zeppelin's "Physical Graffiti" album, the band Live, and more. Show #046 concludes with Tom's signature Sound Matter Moment... Support the show Connect with Tom: 👉🏻 https://solo.to/tomleu 👉🏻 https://facebook.com/tomleu 👉🏻...
Mar 01, 2018•23 min
Send us a text Sound Matters show #045 features Tom's intriguing and revealing conversation with the original "outlaw," legendary Nashville singer/songwriter Billy Don Burns. Billy Don's songs have been recorded by Willie Nelson, Sammy Kershaw, and Mel Tillis, and he's known and worked with the likes of Merle Haggard, Johnny Paycheck, Waylon and Shooter Jennings and Johnny Cash among many others. Both older and newer Country artists consider Billy Don as one of the greats as evidenced by his num...
Feb 15, 2018•20 min
Send us a text Episode #044 features conversation, commentary, and insights about the broadcasting from the new "Sound Matters Studio South" in Florida, the 2018 Grammy Awards, conversations with Kevin McCarthy from Rockford's Local Music Scene, and more. Show #044 concludes with Tom's signature Sound Matter Moment... Support the show Connect with Tom: 👉🏻 https://solo.to/tomleu 👉🏻 https://facebook.com/tomleu 👉🏻 https://instagram.com/tomleu...
Feb 07, 2018•28 min
Send us a text Sound Matters show #043 features Tom's conversation with music publicist, Jon Freeman from Freeman Promotions. Jon gives us an inside look at the music business from a perspective few actually get to see. Jon shares some great stories and insights that shine a spotlight behind the scenes of what really goes on inside a music publicity and promotions company... Inside the Interview: 02:48 – Jon's background & the beginnings of Freeman Promotions... 04:41 - The early acts at Fre...
Jan 31, 2018•29 min
Send us a text Sound Matters Xtra… bonus episodes featuring additional interviews, “sound matters”-related commentary, and other assorted short segments and ear candy. **Tom is a guest on Q98.5 talking the 2018 Suite Oblivion reunion concert in Rockford, IL with JB Love and Shannon Zimmerman. SOUND MATTERS Facebook Group: www.facebook.com/groups/soundmatters Support the show Connect with Tom: 👉🏻 https://solo.to/tomleu 👉🏻 https://facebook.com/tomleu 👉🏻 https://instagram.com/tomleu...
Jan 12, 2018•5 min
Send us a text Sound Matters show #042 is the ONE YEAR Anniversary episode of Sound Matters Radio broadcasting on 1440 WROK out of Rockford, IL. Tom and his several guests celebrate and discuss the show's origins, evolution, and recap a successful inaugural year entertaining matters in music, communication, and motivation. Support the show Connect with Tom: 👉🏻 https://solo.to/tomleu 👉🏻 https://facebook.com/tomleu 👉🏻 https://instagram.com/tomleu...
Jan 10, 2018•59 min
Send us a text Episode #041 is the first ever holiday-themed show featuring conversation and commentary about Sound Matters Radio 2017 year in review, the 2018 Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame inductees, Xmas music stats and best sellers, as well as Tom's select holiday tracks from a cross-section of artists. Show #041 concludes with Tom's signature Sound Matter Moment... Support the show Connect with Tom: 👉🏻 https://solo.to/tomleu 👉🏻 https://facebook.com/tomleu 👉🏻 https://instagram.com/tomleu...
Dec 27, 2017•39 min
Send us a text Sound Matters show #040 features Tom's conversation with longtime bandmate Mitch Brechon from Suite Oblivion talking through his journey in music culminating in the formation of Suite O' and the band's storied history... Inside the Interview: 02:26 – Mitch's early days in Rockford, IL and start in music and bands... 04:19 - New bands at Illinois State University and onto Chicago, IL in the 80's and 90's... 07:17 – On Haven evolving into Patron Smith eventually with Mitch, Tom on d...
Dec 20, 2017•22 min
Send us a text The 2nd interview with Jack Russell, lead singer and chief songwriter for Jack Russell's Great White. Tom and Jack talk about his recent management changes, the legacy of the Once Bitten album, the recording process these days, health, sobriety, Jack's forthcoming memoir, and his philosophy on success today, and much more... Inside the Interview: 02:13 – On talking to journalists with something to say... 02:58 - On the Once Acoustically Bitten album release and live show... 07:11 ...
Dec 13, 2017•37 min
Send us a text Sound Matters show #038 features Tom's in-depth interview with Chris Vrenna, Grammy winning musician, composer, producer, remixer, and drummer best known for his work in Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, and Tweaker among many others. Tom and Chris dig deep into topics ranging from music technology, his time in Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson, his solo project Tweaker, scoring video game soundtracks, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Nine Inch Nails' legacy, David Bowie, recovery,...
Dec 07, 2017•38 min
Send us a text The 3rd interview with Michael Sweet from Stryper and Sweet & Lynch delves into S&L's second release Unified out on Frontiers Records, shooting videos in Hollywood, wearing the producer's hat, line-up changes and healing in Stryper, and much more... Inside the Interview: 01:43 – On the waiting for the release of his new music to be released... 02:48 – How is Sweet & Lynch's second release Unified different from the debut? 04:47 – On Michael's approach to producing his ...
Nov 22, 2017•21 min
Send us a text Sound Matters #036 features Tom's interview with Freddy Negrete and Steve Jones, authors of "Smile Now, Cry Later: Guns, Gangs, and Tattoos - My Life in Black and Gray". This conversation with both Freddy and Steve deliberately focuses primarily on the journey from recovery to discovery, health, life, and ultimately... giving back. Digging into Freddy's life through addiction, multiple heart attacks, recovery, and counseling youth today, to Steve's initial encounter with Freddy an...
Nov 16, 2017•21 min
Send us a text Sound Matters episode #035 features Tom's interview with Frankie Muriel of KingoftheHill and Dr. Zhivegas. KOTH was/is the epitome high-energy fun, talent, and showmanship mixed into a rock and roll band. And as it should be, as Frankie and Tom discuss in this interview, along with his recollections and first hand accounts about what it was like to have a ringside seat to the wild ride that was rock and roll in the late 80's and early 90's, and much more... Inside the Interview: 0...
Nov 01, 2017•24 min
Send us a text Episode #034 features Tom's interview with comedian, author, and "That Metal Show" co-host, Don Jamieson. Don discusses his decades long career as the "rock 'n roll comedian," "That Metal Show," the state of music today, winning an Emmy, writing for Lisa Lampanelli, opening for Andrew Dice Clay, and more... Inside the Interview: 03:17 – "That Metal Show"... what happened and what's next? 06:00 – On Netflix and the future of media and entertainment... 07:42 – Is rock music dead? 09...
Oct 27, 2017•35 min
Send us a text Sound Matters episode #033 features Tom’s tribute to the late, great Tom Petty who passed away this week with music, commentary, conversations, and reactions from musicians and friends influenced by Tom’s life and musical legacy. Support the show Connect with Tom: 👉🏻 https://solo.to/tomleu 👉🏻 https://facebook.com/tomleu 👉🏻 https://instagram.com/tomleu...
Oct 08, 2017•32 min
Send us a text Tom's interview with Aryn Jonathan Black, lead singer of the great Austin, TX rock band Scorpion Child. Tom and Aryn spoke in the spring of 2016, just before the release of the band's second album, Acid Roulette . Conversations get into discussions about his musical influences, comparisons, perspectives on performing live, touring, and his even lessons learned in the music business along the way... Inside the Interview: 02:06 – On the release of Scorpion Child's second album Acid ...
Oct 05, 2017•23 min
Send us a text Tom's in-depth interview with the hilarious and insightful Amy Dresner, author of the riveting book "My Fair Junkie: A Memoir of Getting Dirty and Staying Clean" on Hachette Books. Inside the Interview: 03:21 – Special subject-matter on Sound Matters... 04:16 – Never had "handlers"... 04:31 – How terrifying is Amy's newfound success as an author? 07:35 – On what to leave in and what to leave out... 09:43 – On Amy's Dad reading her book... 10:04 – What was learned writing this book...
Sep 25, 2017•39 min
Send us a text Episode #030 features conversation, commentary, and insights about cover bands who do it differently, National Recovery Month, TOMLEU.com, Nikki Sixx and Sixx Sense radio, author Amy Dresner interview preview on show #031, and comedian Don Jamieson interview preview. Show #030 concludes with Tom's signature Sound Matter Moment... Support the show Connect with Tom: 👉🏻 https://solo.to/tomleu 👉🏻 https://facebook.com/tomleu 👉🏻 https://instagram.com/tomleu...
Sep 18, 2017•17 min
Send us a text Episode 029 features conversation, commentary, and insights about podcasting, Motley Crue, Nikki Sixx, and interviews with radio personality Kevin McCarthy and Kevin Polky, Executive Director of Shatter Our Silence. Show #029 concludes with Tom's signature Sound Matter Moment... Support the show Connect with Tom: 👉🏻 https://solo.to/tomleu 👉🏻 https://facebook.com/tomleu 👉🏻 https://instagram.com/tomleu...
Sep 03, 2017•39 min
Send us a text Tom's interview with Bryan Wilkinson... best known currently as guitarist for both The Last Vegas and Chicago’s Black Actress, as well as a prolific solo artist performing under the banner of Bryan W. Music... Inside the Interview: 03:26 – On Bryan W. solo acoustic, live song choices, overall sound and style...? 06:29 – On doing an acoustic tour previously with The Lust Killers... 07:01 – On Bryan's vocals... 08:10 – On status of The Last Vegas... 09:37 – The booking & busines...
Aug 27, 2017•20 min
Send us a text Episode 027 features conversation, commentary, and insights about "The Defiant Ones" (Jimmy Iovine & Dr. Dre) documentary on HBO, Styx, Riki Rachtman, Rockford's Local Music Scene with Kevin McCarthy, Ratt, Heavy Metal (the film), and the Gin Blossoms. Show #027 concludes with Tom's signature "Sound Matter Moment"... Support the show Connect with Tom: 👉🏻 https://solo.to/tomleu 👉🏻 https://facebook.com/tomleu 👉🏻 https://instagram.com/tomleu...
Aug 21, 2017•35 min
Send us a text Episode 026 includes Tom's recap and commentary on his many recent travels shooting and doing media at Chicago Open Air and Country Thunder 2017, and an overview of the excellent Armed Vision reunion show and the 3 reasons WHY it was so successful. Show #026 concludes with Tom's signature "Sound Matter Moment"... Support the show Connect with Tom: 👉🏻 https://solo.to/tomleu 👉🏻 https://facebook.com/tomleu 👉🏻 https://instagram.com/tomleu...
Aug 06, 2017•20 min
