Danish cow punks D-A-D have been one of those bands we have always admired from afar here at URHQ, with their ‘No Fuel Left For The Pilgrims’ album they certainly promised a lot, then it all went a bit…quiet. Playing the odd show every now and then in the U.K. we’d always wanted to check Jesper and the boys out live but never really got the chance, that is until Ian Bell snook along to the Slade Rooms in Wolverhampton recently and finally got to tick the band off our list. Here’s to a night of ‘Bad Craziness’.

Twenty-one years might have passed since the legendary line-up of The Dogs D'Amour - Tyla, Bam, Steve James and Jo Dog - last played together but for many an Uber Rocker it seems like yesterday. Imagine how we all felt when it was announced that the classic line-up would reunite for a series of UK live dates?! If that wasn't cool enough, accompanying the live shows was a new EP featuring four brand new songs! Uber Rock's Dom Daley listened to 'Cyber Recordings 2013' secure in the knowledge that he wasn't gonna be disappointed. He wasn't.....

You might know Orianthi as the guitarist in Alice Cooper's band, but the Australian six string seductress is a star in her own right, playing with the likes of Michael Jackson, Prince and Michael Bolton, and knocking out a solo album or three when she has a spare minute. Uber Rock's Gaz E checks out her third album, the Dave Stewart-produced 'Heaven In This Hell', and finds a soft rock masterclass that could be your guilty pleasure of the year.....

Counting Crows will play live in the UK for the first time in four years when they hit these shores to play six shows next month. Preceding that welcome UK tour will be the release of 'Echoes of the Outlaw Roadshow', a collection of live songs recorded over several dates of the band's 2012 North American tour. Uber Rock's Dave Prince caught up with the band's frontman Adam Duritz to ask about the forthcoming UK tour, and just how the band manages to pick a different live setlist every night.....

With releases by the likes of Radio Nasties, The Hip Priests, Jonny Cola & The A-Grades, Hooligan and a host of other great bands swelling the URHQ DJ bag to bursting point The Uber Rock Singles Club returns with spin master Johnny H once again at the death decks, and this month he’s looking to get all nostalgic ahead of Record Store Day 2013.

With their fourth album ‘Youngblood’ Norwegian metallers Audrey Horne have perhaps struck the perfect blend between rampaging foot on the monitor metal with melodic vocal sensibility. The band’s frontman Toschie picks his thirteen tracks to make the Midnite Mixtape Massacre, and perhaps in turn unravels the mystery behind the band’s rather unique sound.

What do you get if you throw a couple of original members of Whitesnake in a band with the drummer from Thunder and Rick Wakeman's son? Basically, you get Snakecharmer. With a new album out via Frontiers Records impressing all who hear it, Snakecharmer are sure to become a favourite band amongst classic rock fans. Uber Rock's Matt Phelps caught up with the band's bass player, the legendary Neil Murray, to find out everything you need to know about the recording of the album, the band's touring plans, and...well.....you'll have to read it to find out. Yes, it's another must-read Uber Rock interview exclusive......

In another Uber Rock Interview first, we chat with Mr Lordi and Mana from the band Lordi all about their new album ‘To Beast Or Not To Beast’, what it was like working with metal producing legend Michael Wagener for a second time, what their upcoming European tour will bring, plus how they the band are still dealing with the loss of their previous drummer Otus.

After Uber Rock's once-sensitive guru Rob Watkins got mutinous and tried to take over The Uber Rock Radio Show two weeks ago with his lies and Loverboyed-up little people we felt that we had to act to safeguard our glunk rock jewels. So we got legendary South Wales stixxman Matthew Blakout to protect the quality tunes that we hold dear with his flaming sticks o'parp. Yes, the unquenchenable tumbling tub thumper sat in for the entirety of the two hour radio bonanza listening, for the first time in his troubled life, to decent music. Listen Again podcast links enclosed!!!

Not many people finding out they have terminal cancer would react quite in the way Wilko Johnson did recently, declaring himself to be happy for the first time in ages, and announcing plans for a final farewell tour and album before he finally puts down his trusted Fender for good. Johnny H was lucky enough to get himself a ticket for possibly Wilko’s last ever show in Bristol as part of said tour, for a night all about one man’s musical legacy. 

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…