Ever since Dirt Box Disco first bludgeoned their way into our lives just over a year ago, URHQ has pretty much constantly resonated to the sound of their debut album ‘Legends’. If you want instant anthems played by masked men then these five guys are gonna be the new kings of your nighttime world. So just how do the Dirt Box guys follow up such a strong debut? Well Johnny H got an exclusive preview of 'Peoplemadeofpaper' recently - and this is his verdict. 

What a night of quality rock 'n' roll the capital offered up on this February Friday night. Not only were the reformed Dogs D'Amour playing their first of a series of European shows, but a couple of that band's former members were launching their must-hear second album at the stroke of midnight in a different venue. Would Uber Rock's Dom Daley be able to get his cowboy boots in gear and make both shows? You bet your sweet bippy on it! Missing The Loyalties would have been the death of him, and possibly rock 'n' roll.....

Just under a year after the first three Dio albums were given the deluxe reissue treatment by Universal the fourth album, 1987's 'Dream Evil', gets a similar release as part of a 2CD set that includes the band's appearance at that year's Monsters Of Rock festival at Castle Donington. Uber Rock's Gaz E wonders if anyone can truly (over)love this album.....

What do you think a brand new band featuring ex members of The Soundtrack Of Our Lives and The (International) Noise Conspiracy might sound like? Led Zeppelin? AC/DC? The Who? Well that’s exactly what Free Fall bring to the rock ‘n ’roll table ladies and gentlemen with their stunning debut album ‘Power & Volume’ and Jim Rowland is more than happy to fill his face with it. Here’s why.

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.....