A-Ha! 'C'Mon Take On Me' is the new album from Swedish street metallers Hardcore Superstar so we asked Uber Rock's Ross Welford, who actually has a tattoo of the band logo on his person (next to his Helix one), to check it out to find if the sun (still) always shines on HCSS.....

Best known as the voice of Mr Big, Eris Martin is returning to the UK in a way which may surprise many fans – in that he is picking up the guitar himself to play a brace of solo acoustic shows – in Belfast and Nottingham. Hang on, did we say Belfast? Well, that sounded like an excuse for Über Rock’s man in Norn Iron, Mark Ashby, to jump on the Skype connection to the vocalist’s home in San Francisco for a short (?) chat…

With their ‘Audio Guide To Happiness (Part II)’ due in record shops tomorrow, we thought it was the ideal time to catch up with JOLLY frontman Anadale, to find out what 13 songs make him want to get out of bed of a morning and record such innovative progressive pop rock. It’s a Midnite Mixtape Massace that will surprise and confuse many. So click the link and find out why.

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the infamous Mars Attacks trading cards IDW Publishing engineered a weekly comic book event that would see the bulbous-headed Martians attacking all manner of pop culture icons, from Ghostbusters to Popeye...to KISS. Uber Rock's resident nerd Gaz E checked out the Mars Attacks KISS one-shot and found the best thing the band has put their name to in years.....

Last weekend, after 22 years apart, those loveable English rogues Tyla, Bam, Jo Dog and Steve James, otherwise known as The Dogs D’Amour finally made their return to the live arena with the first in a series of intimate shows to help out their old mucker Paul Hornby who is currently fighting cancer. Johnny H popped along to The Borderline for an opening night of musical memories and oh so much more.

It's been four short months since Uber Rock's Ben Hughes last saw ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead live. As it turns out, it's been almost as long since the band members have seen each other. Not that it showed on a February night in Leeds where the band, once again, threw out a must-see, gutted-you-missed-it live performance par excellence......

Norwegian rockers Audrey Horne have been slowly building a rock solid reputation for themselves in the decade or so they have been together, and as the band proudly state “2013 will be their most exciting yet with the release of their fourth album ‘Youngblood’” Johnny H simply wonders how it has taken him so long to discover them.

Uber Rock's Matt Phelps furnished you with brand new Saxon earlier this week, now he goes old school with an album seemingly lost for a decade. Originally released in 1996, 'Victim You' from Son Of A Bitch reunites three former Saxon members - Graham Oliver, Steve 'Dobby' Dawson and Pete Gill - and, as our man discovered, could well have been a contender if time had been on its side.....

He spent 2011 Calling All Corpses now, in the year that he was surely created to flavour spooktakularly, Wednesday 13 returns with 'The Dixie Dead', a long (shadows) player that is filled with the usual schlock rock shock and B-movie trashy terror that, as Uber Rock's man-beast Ian Bell discovered upon listening, peels off its skin to reveal an unexpected maturity and more subtle descent into darkness. Stab that blood red link but keep repeating, it's only a review, it's only a review.....

Well blow me down with a denim and leather feather - Saxon actually make albums. There I was thinking that they pumped out six seconds bursts of metal. How embarrassing. There's nothing shame-faced, however, about 'Sacrifice', the band's twentieth album because, as Uber Rock Warrior, and Saxon lover, Matt Phelps discovered, this is destined to be one of the albums of the year.....

After a quarter of a century as bass player with seminal UK punk rockers The Boys, Duncan 'Kid' Reid is a kid no longer, flying solo with solo band The Big Heads. When Uber Rock handed Reid a C60 and asked him to compile his ultimate thirteen song mixtape we all knew that his choices would impress and, as it happens, possibly surprise.....

In yet another must-read interview Matt Phelps talks exclusively for Uber Rock to Dennis Ward of Pink Cream 69. But wait, it's not just that Frontiers Records-signed band that he's a member of: Ward is also a member of Unisonic and Place Vendome, two bands high on the list of favourites of our man in the field. Hit Read More to discover just how Dennis started playing bass guitar, and what the future holds for every band he is connected with.....

Forget UR Radio, this was Pirate Radio as a mutiny threatened to tarnish the good name of The Uber Rock Radio Show. Yes, Rob Watkins, head and appendage swollen by kind comments about his Watkins's Tune section of the show, tried his hardest to get the UR Elders, Johnny H and Gaz E, locked out of the BRfm studios so he could have his wicked way with ears by way of awful melodic rock nonsense. Happily, his walls came tumbling down as glunk, once again, reigned supreme. Hit Read More for 'Listen Again' podcast links.....

A lot has changed in the Hatriot camp in the little under nine months since Uber Rock last caught up with the band’s legendary frontman Steve ‘Zetro’ Souza, not least the fact that the band now features three Souzas within it’s ranks. This month also saw the release of the quartet’s debut album ‘Heroes Of Origin’ so Mark Ashby took the chance to catch up with the Souza offspring to find out exactly what lies ahead for the band.

Rumours of a cock rock car crash in Uber Rock's Dead End Drive-In have been greatly exaggerated. 'Live In Concert', the new DVD/CD package from Cleopatra Records division Deadline, includes footage from the L.A. Guns performance at last year's M3 Rock Festival and a tell-all documentary on the making of the band's cool 'Hollywood Forever' album. Gaz E pulls up as close as possible to the screen and finds a low budget gem.....

'The Power & The Glory Hole', the fourth studio album from infamous LA outfit Faster Pussycat, finally gets a European licensing deal some six and a half years after its initial release. Complete with bonus live track, this album, as Uber Rock's Gaz E remembers, almost perfectly captured frontman Taime Downe's vision of an industrial glunk fusion. Love 'em or hate 'em, sometimes you just have to shut up and fuck.....