Following Uber Rock’s recent rave review of Crashdiet’s fourth studio album ‘The Savage Playground’, Mark Ashby caught up with the band’s mohawked frontman Simon Cruz at the end of their recent South American tour. Here our man gets to chat about said opus, its heavier direction, and gets roundly slagged off for daring to compare it to Europe! Oh, and despite being warned not to do so, he dares to raise the dreaded connection to mime artists Reckless Love, and escape to tell the tale.

Returning for the second installment of what is sure to become an uber-fave, Impaler frontman Bill Lindsey presents another Vintage Concert Bill, this time looking back at three Aerosmith shows from the 1970s! Still need tempting? How about a list of support acts that reads like this: Thin Lizzy, Nazareth and Slade? Yeah, now you're interested! Get back in the saddle with Bill for another essential read, complete with vintage concert photos and ticket stubs!

Continually proving themselves to be a rock ‘n’ roll tour de force in the live setting, will Los Angeles big dicked muthafuckers Buckcherry be back to their potty mouthed best with studio album number six, the provocatively titled ‘Confessions’? Johnny H certainly hopes so because after two albums of ballads he’s wondering if a baldy long hair mullet might be the order of the day when listening to his once fave L.A. rockers. Let us pray it is not!

You may not already know this but W.E.T. are actually a melodic rock supergroup formed under the guidance of the President of their record label. Doesn’t exactly make for easy reading that intro does it? But as Russ P soon finds out perhaps we should pin our ears back and actually listen to the band’s second album, a record already being dubbed the melodic rock album of the year.

John Corabi, famously regarded by the majority of URHQ's dwellers as the finest vocalist to ever set foot inside Camp Crue, returns with an unplugged album that, as well as offering five new songs, journeys through the singer's colourful career with reworkings of seven songs from his former bands, Union, The Scream and, of course, Motley Crue. Uber Rock's Ben Hughes discovers if Crabby really is misunderstood.....

Album number three from UK hard rockers The Union, and as Russ P quickly realizes it’s pretty much business as usual for Pete Shoulder and Luke Morley with 'The World Is Yours'. So is this a good thing or a band thing? Well that Recommended badge to the left of this text probably gives the game away for an album our scribe demands you listen to very very closely.

If you buy your ticket to see Orange Goblin don't expect to be surprised...unless you've never seen the Heavy Metal Majesty before. Yes, this bruising bunch provide high-end meat and two veg metal, with quality cuts far removed from your run-of-the-mill supermarket Shergar Burger. With an impressive undercard too what else could Uber Rock's Jamie Richards expect but a sore neck and bleeding ears?

When the first weekend festival of the New Year is also one of Mark Taylor’s favourite events, you know things are likely to get messy. So here’s the story of his 3 day beano in Skegness in the company of bands such as Blue Coupe, Henrik Freischlader, Hawkwind, Oliver Dawson Saxon plus many many more. Yup it’s time for the Great British Rock & Blues Festival – an event where only the strong survive to the end. So how did our man fair? Well read on to find out! 

It's been a long time since us Uber Rockers saw a young band called Jeff Killed John support The Wildhearts in Cardiff. Those talented youngsters became, with a sensible name change, Bullet For My Valentine and quickly morphed into the biggest Welsh music act since Shakin' Stevens. Uber Rock's Rob Watkins checks out the band's fourth studio album, 'Temper Temper', and finds lots to like.....

It all came as a bit of a surprise last month when US all-girl band Cherri Bomb announced that they had parted ways with founder member, vocalist/guitarist Julia Pierce. Looks like it came as a bit of a surprise to the band's record label too as they dropped the act within days of Julia's departure. With the true story behind the split appearing to be well hidden Uber Rock's Gaz E caught up with Pierce to try to get to the bottom of the story. In an exclusive interview for Uber Rock Julia Pierce reveals what really happened.....

What do you do when you have a bonafide musical legend willing to write for you? A legend who has played with the likes of Teenage Casket Company, Richard Bacchus, Bulletboys, Johnny Monaco, The Black Mollys and Let Loose no less? Why, you get him to write a regular blog, of course! Strap yourself in because things are about to get rough as the iconic four-stringed pop rock journeyman Rob Lane takes you, the lucky reader, Back To Bass Licks.....

With Valentine's Day just around the proverbial corner Uber Rock's power balladeer Gaz E puts pen to paper and fashions a 'Dear John' style musical letter to lovers and haters everywhere. Got dumped? Want out of a relationship? Lusting after someone from afar? There's a tune for all of you in Gaz E's Heartbreak Mixtape.....

Coming quicker than a spotty youth in an Eighties teen movie, Episode 5 of The Uber Rock Radio Show crept up on the unsuspecting folk at BRfm just a week after Episode 4 had given new hope to the art of radio broadcasting. More of the usual glunk, power pop and general goofing around was to be expected.... but what were those major surprises thrown out for fun by Gaz E, Johnny H and, the main star of the show, Uber Rock's very own AORchangel, Rob Watkins? Hit Read More to Listen and Adore!

PledgeMusic? What's all that about then? Yes, Uber Rockers, another day breaks with news of another band going down the Pledge route to releasing new product. This time it's the turn of legendary thrashers Flotsam And Jetsam, who have recently made an 'Ugly Noise', the band's eleventh studio album as it happens, available to fans. Uber Rock's Ross Welford is a big fan, but would this be a case of D.I.Y. or D.I.Why? Hit that link to discover all......

Capturing three decades in the music business in just one night and over what would have been just two sides of an LP record is never an east thing, but that’s what Great White are doing with this album album, recorded in the legendary Key Club back in early 2012. Russ P gatecrashes the celebrations to find the only thing he remembers the band for sadly now missing, so what of the record? Well read on to find out.

The Misfits return with a new album, 'DeA.D. Alive', the band's third live offering following 1982's 'Evilive' and its 1998 follow up. Uber Rock's Dom Daley greases his mullet into a devilock, slaps on some corpse paint and unleashes his mighty quill as he enters the land of the dead for your reading pleasure.....