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Written by Gaz E
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Monday, 20 June 2011 05:00 |
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How awesome a metal band do you have to be to get your cover artwork featured not once, but twice in Uber Rock's highly amusing Album Cover Of The Week feature? This week we welcome back a band who were the first, the one that popped our Album Cover cherry. This, my friends, is what metal is all about......
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Written by the UR Fashion Guru
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Thursday, 16 June 2011 05:00 |
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Designed by Rich Jones (Amen, The Black Halos, The Loyalties), the new Uber Rock shirt is a must-have fashion accessory for anyone with a clue...and a body. Click the link for details on how to get one of these cooler than thou shirts, but be warned, the supermodels chosen to pimp the UR merch will leave you moist.....
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Written by Gaz E
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Monday, 06 June 2011 15:00 |
Josh Todd and the boys from Buckcherry are back in the UK this coming week playing a series of shows that includes two intimate headline shows in Glasgow and London. We have two pairs of tickets to give away for the London gig on June 14th. Read on to find out how you can win them....
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Written by Gaz E
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Monday, 28 June 2010 06:00 |
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Too hot for ya? Been dumped by your lover? Upset over sporting events? Not looking forward to the start of yet another working week? Let Über Röck heal your wounds. Medical science has proved that looking at topless men and a load of dogs makes everyone feel better.....
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Written by Gaz E
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Monday, 21 June 2010 05:00 |
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The stirring in Gaz E's loins that coincided with last week's iconic album cover has ceased just enough for him to add this week's work of art to the site. If you need a lift, a boost, a reason to live even, then this album cover will give you just that. Ladies and gentlemen, Über Röck presents.....
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Written by Gaz E
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Sunday, 13 June 2010 05:30 |
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Subtitled 'The Death (Or Possible Survival) Of The Independent Record Store', filmmaker Brendan Toller's documentary examines why over 3000 independent record stores have closed across the US in the past decade. This is a film that will cut to the quick of every true Über Röcker....
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Written by Gaz E
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Monday, 07 June 2010 05:00 |
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Life has teeth, we all know this. To make the working week easier to deal with, every Monday morning Über Röck will gift you good people a classic album cover with the aim of inspiring you, exciting you, making life worth living. Dig the album out from your moth-balled vinyl collection, search for it on eBay, paint the artwork on the back of your bike jacket but, most of all, love it....
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Written by Andy P
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Friday, 17 June 2011 05:00 |
Peering out from behind his very own wall just long enough to pen a special article for us on this Special Edition DVD and CD set of Roger Water's 'The Wall Live in Berlin', Uber Rock's Andy P rejoices at once again feeling comfortably numb as he celebrates the happiest days of our lives...as the Berlin Wall finally fell.
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Written by Gaz E
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Monday, 13 June 2011 05:00 |
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I can just imagine the concept meeting regarding the almost perversely alluring piece of cover art that awaits your eyes with just one click of that shiny red link; "What we need to pull in the kids is a leather-look sleeve.....a leather-look sleeve with a stupid friggin' bird slapped on it.....
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Written by Gaz E
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Monday, 06 June 2011 05:00 |
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Into Year 2 of Über Röck's famed Album Cover Of The Week feature and we have to get back to the classics. Get back to the legends who got us into this business in the first place. Get back to the kind of artwork that inspires mofos like us to get up every morning and provide the RÖCK for you people. This kinda thing.....
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Written by Gaz E
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Monday, 28 June 2010 05:00 |
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 Rush : Beyond The Lighted Stage, the acclaimed documentary from Sam Dunn and Scot McFadyen, comes to DVD and blu-ray. Über film geek Gaz E loses himself in the story of "The World's Most Popular Cult Band."
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Written by Gaz E
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Monday, 14 June 2010 05:00 |
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The awe-inspiring debut of our new Album Cover Of The Week feature made grown men cry. As gentlemen wept, Über Röck's very own art lover Gaz E kept it together...for your sake. This week he offers you, his brothers and sisters in rock, an album cover that has deeply romantic connections to his black heart.....
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Written by Lord Zion
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Tuesday, 08 June 2010 05:55 |
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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, Lord Zion used to write tasty blogs for us Über Röckers. To be fair to the hot rocker, he's been busy writing a new SPiT LiKE THiS album so we forgive him! With his fifth blog, please welcome back - and praise - the Lord.....
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Written by Jason Daniel Baker
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Sunday, 06 June 2010 05:00 |
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As Vancouver-based power/thrash metal outfit Omega Crom celebrate almost eight years on the underground scene, our man Jason Daniel Baker looks at what makes them tick and tells us why you should too.....
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