A Chat with Bradley Adam Band (19.09.25)
Bringing the masses a “new band, a new project, and new music…”, Bradley Adam Band breathes life into 90s acoustic rock, ready for modern-day enjoyment. We speak with frontman Bradley about their debut album, BAB, what music means to him, future plans, and more.
OSR: Rather cliché, but how did the Bradley Adam Band form? What drew you to music and to pursue a career as a musician?
Bradley: I was in numerous bands over the past 7 years with musicians that led to friendships or bands breaking up, like all rock bands do. After a while of not getting everyone to show up to the studio to record new material, I decided to start a new project and call it Bradley Adam Band or BAB, so I could get new music recorded that I had been writing.
I’ve been drawn to music my entire life, and it goes back to hearing Roxanne or Ace of Base or Madonna in a car seat as a baby when my mom would drive me around with her. Then I started playing instruments like trumpet for school and guitar, but at 17 years old was when I started taking guitar lessons for a senior project in high school and went very seriously into learning how to really play the guitar well, and the rest was history at that point.
OSR: What does music mean to you?
Bradley: It’s coping for me. It’s coping with life and hardships that therapy can’t touch sometimes. It’s expression. It’s telling the truth, it’s letting out something that I’ve been holding onto. It’s one of the gifts of life.
OSR: You recently released your album BAB. What can you tell us about it? Is there any backstory or theme?
Bradley: BAB is self-titled, so Bradley Adam Band. Backstory is I wanted to make a new record that was based on acoustic guitar, but a full rock band behind it. Like what Kurt Cobain was trying to do with Nirvana’s next album before he passed away, and do a “record like REM” as he said.
OSR: What do you hope people take from BAB?
Bradley: I just hope they will like it and listen to it again and again and again. lol.
OSR: What does BAB mean to you, and what do you take from it?
Bradley: It means love and relationships and all the drama in between. Hardships in life and seeing it through to the other side. It’s really just an honest expression of my personal life and relationships, hopes, dreams, fantasies and what reality actually ends up being!
OSR: I know most musicians say they wouldn’t change anything about their releases, but if you could change something about BAB, what would it be and why?
Bradley: I would probably try a different mixing source. Rowan is great as a sound engineer, and I’m very comfortable recording with him, but I feel if I used a 3rd party mixer at this point in my musical journey, it would take me to the next level, but I also gotta pay more money for that! lol.
OSR: If you had to introduce your music to a new listener, which song would you recommend?
Bradley: I’m still debating. I really like ‘Elise’ a lot and so did Rowan, and my musician friends all liked ‘Elise’, but the final product has the vox a little high in the mix and you can’t hear the instrumentation too well (which I pushed for) and then Spotify does their standard volume lowering (so use the bandmix version for streaming it) and then the final product doesn’t sound great cause I’m not on a major record label making millions for them while they pay me $70k a year to tour 365 lol.
‘Ghost’ sounds pretty good overall off streaming, and you can hear and feel the kick drum and bass more and hear the electric guitar nicely over the acoustic, so I would probably recommend that. It’s also a song about grief and loss, which I think a lot of people can relate to.
OSR: What advice do you have for new musicians entering the industry?
Bradley: Best of luck to ya! I am 37 years old now and have been trying to ‘fake it till I make it’ for almost 20 years now. Nothing went the way I hoped or planned or wished for, and I have a day job as a therapist in substance abuse now. Ian (the drummer) is a lot older and retired from working a career in manufacturing, and he would tell me and some of our other bandmates before, “lower your expectations”. I didn’t like hearing that before when I was younger, but there’s a lot of truth in that. Lower your expectations and you won’t be disappointed at the end of the day, cause the last thing you DON’T want to do is give up something you LOVE doing! And I love writing, recording, rehearsing, and playing live music! So, lower your expectations and don’t quit!
OSR: What can we expect from Bradley Adam Band in the future?
Bradley: Hopefully more albums and live shows, but I gotta get musicians together to support me and play with me live to the bar staff at hole-in-the-wall dive bars! lol!
OSR: Do you have a message for our readers?
Bradley: Music is honesty, and it’s real and it’s always there for you. You don’t need me to do that for you or tell you that; you have your own music and taste in music, so never let that go or stop engaging in it. It’s better than therapy or drugs sometimes!
Many thanks to Bradley Adam Band for speaking with us. Find out more about Bradley Adam Band on their Instagram, Bandcamp, and Spotify.
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