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Written by Ross Welford
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Tuesday, 31 May 2011 05:00 |
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 Sweet Ether are a Brighton based four piece who caught the eyes and ears of our man Ross Welford on a recent support lot with Black Spiders. With a sound that throws up memories of the Seattle scene of the Nineties, their 'Forced To Begin' EP appears well worth checking out. Why? Read on to find out......
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Written by Craggy
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Monday, 30 May 2011 05:30 |
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 Bristol's Oxygen Thief, aka Barry Dolan, is a largely solo acoustic performer who sent his debut album, 'Destroy It Yourself', in to URHQ with specific instructions that Craggy, and only Craggy, could review it. Why, we don't know. Read on to see if you can work it out.......
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Written by Ben Hughes
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Sunday, 29 May 2011 05:00 |
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 With their songs featured on everything from TV shows Skins and Gavin & Stacey to the movie Killing Bono, UK outfit Stagecoach reversed their brand of "power pop for BMX kids" into Uber Rock's driveway and we asked Ben Hughes to get a Rover ticket in order to check them out.
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Written by Dom Daley
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Thursday, 26 May 2011 05:00 |
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 Featuring members of The Fuzztones and The Cramps, LA garage rockers The Lords Of Altamont return with their fourth album, the smartly titled 'Midnight To 666', and we asked our resident trash-meister Dom Daley to check it out.....
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Written by Dom Daley
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Wednesday, 25 May 2011 05:00 |
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 Veteran punks White Flag team up with Luxembourg-based outfit Versus You for a split album that has Dom Daley touching himself. Possibly. Well, it is a day of the week with a 'Y' in it.......
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Written by Dai Whistance
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Tuesday, 24 May 2011 05:00 |
 1990 was a great year for music. MTV gave birth to 'Unplugged', the world came together at Wembley for the release of Nelson Mandela, the Stone Roses played Spike Island and Whitesnake headlined the Monsters of Rock Festival at Castle Donington for the second time. Uber Rock commando Dai Whistance was at the latter event, and now 21 years on he gives his verdict on Whitesnake's performance that day thanks to this new live CD and DVD.
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Written by Dom Daley
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Monday, 23 May 2011 05:10 |
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 With claims of being related to Bruce Lee almost as outrageous as their Heavy Metal-inspired album sleeve, New Orleans outfit Supagroup offer up a brand of "Kung Fu Rock 'n' Roll" that was previously unknown to Uber Rock. Dom Daley waxes on (and off) about the band's latest album, 'Hail Hail'.....
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Written by Craggy
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Sunday, 22 May 2011 05:00 |
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 Can't really understand how the thought of putting the new EP from Ghost Writers up on this very day jumped into my head.......but enough of my mysterious tomfoolery. Craggy checks out the new self titled and self released EP from a UK-based bunch of folkers who attempt to mix a largely acoustic sound with the classic strains of classic rock. Do they pull it off? Read on...
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Written by Craggy
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Saturday, 21 May 2011 05:00 |
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 When Craggy's email came through with this review attached I, embarrassingly only reading the header, finally thought that our one night of passion was not the shameful exercise that I once believed it to be. How wrong I was. He was simply sending in his review of a grunge-fuelled duo from Ontario. The user.....
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Written by Darrel Sutton
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Friday, 20 May 2011 05:30 |
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 Relapse Records rarely disappoint on the noise front and this split album from underground hardcore acts Despise You and Agoraphobic Nosebleed appears to be no different. Darrel Sutton goes on and on and on about it......
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Written by Dave Prince
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Monday, 30 May 2011 06:00 |
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 AOR Heaven, the record label named after the place where poodle perms go to die, release the self-titled album from UK melodic rock love-bringers Big Life and Dave Prince, our resident parp-time lover, soils his undies once again (front and back) as he loses himself in the sweet, sweet sounds. Get lost yourself by clicking the link....
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Written by Jim Rowland
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Monday, 30 May 2011 05:00 |
 In just a few weeks' time Def Leppard will make their second headline appearance at the UK's Download Festival, before releasing 'Mirror Ball', the band's first live album in their three decade history to their worldwide fan base. Jim Rowland dares to stare into the light to discover if said release is 'Live And Dangerous' or maybe 'Exit Stage Left'. Which one will it be?
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Written by Ross Welford
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Friday, 27 May 2011 05:00 |
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 Eonian Records, breathers of life into long-lost cock rock albums, have done it again with the self-titled debut from TNA. Recorded in 1988 yet never before seeing the golden days of a release date, this archived debut has our resident leather boy with electric toy Ross Welford throwing his best rock shapes. Why? Sprint to that link, y'all....
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Written by Matt Phelps
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Wednesday, 25 May 2011 05:30 |
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 After a quarter of century away, UK anarcho punk outfit The Disrupters return with their cunningly-titled new album, 'Generation Retard'. Railing against organised religion, the monarchy and politicians, this album, as Matt Phelps discovered, is a noisy call to arms from a band that have been away for far too long.....
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Written by Ben Hughes
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Tuesday, 24 May 2011 05:30 |
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 Electric Woodland, retro rockers from Norway, offer up their self-titled EP complete with cover artwork featuring a dashing gentleman and a song called 'Manimal' - Ben Hughes turns himself into a a weasel and checks it out for your reading pleasure...
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Written by Matt Phelps
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Monday, 23 May 2011 05:30 |
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 With a legendary Eighties gig in Abertillery Rock City, postponed because the band couldn't get their truck around the tight corner to the venue, providing one of the foundations upon which Uber Rock was built, Saxon will always inhabit a special place in our metal hearts. We got Matt Phelps to check out the band's nineteenth album, 'Call To Arms', and report back with his frenzied findings. Read on for the denim 'n' leather details....
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Written by Craggy
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Monday, 23 May 2011 05:00 |
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 Here be Craggy, reviewing the second single from UK outfit Dead Cells. Entitled 'Here Be Dragons' this single, suggests our rock expert, is a catchy and powerful one. Read on to find out if it is the one that you want....
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Written by Russ P
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Saturday, 21 May 2011 05:01 |
 Rush are celebrating the 30th anniversary of 'Moving Pictures' right now by playing it in its entirety around the globe, and a few of us at URHQ would need matchsticks just to get past the first song. Russ(h) P however is a man who likes a bit of Canadian prog, so who better to turn back the clock and examine the reinvention of the classic album for the digital age?
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Written by Dom Daley
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Friday, 20 May 2011 06:00 |
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 Replace the words 'Punk' and 'Rock' with 'Cheap' and 'Cider' and you'll understand why the promo for the new album from Control, the second full length from the UK Oi! mob, ended up in the hands of Dom Daley.
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Written by Ben Hughes
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Thursday, 19 May 2011 06:00 |
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 Bourbon soaked gypsy blues bop 'n' strollers The Urban Voodoo Machine, the crazed collective out of East London who feature between seven and twelve musicians at any one time, return with new album 'In Black 'N' Red' and Ben Hughes was the Uber Rocker entrusted with deciphering the many styles crammed onto it. Did he manage it? Read on to find out...
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Porstmouth-based post-hardcore outfit Munroe Effect have turned out a debut album that, wrapped in some mighty fine cover art, is sure to turn heads - but will it also make them nod in approval? We asked Ben Hughes if he liked it hot?