Garbo Dastorg is half French, half Scot. Dom Daley is half cut and all man - when they met it was moider. Setting the bar high with reference to Saint John of Thunders, Dastorg needed his 'Black Sheep Syndrome' to be more New York Dolly than a clichéd rock 'n' roll clone. Did he manage to pull the wool over our man's eyes and ears? Read on to find out.....

Eklipse are a stunning female four piece consisting of cello, viola and two violins who have married a breathtakingly seductive gothic image to haunting renditions of popular songs, ranging from the likes of Linkin Park and Depeche Mode to Snow Patrol, Coldplay and Justin Timberlake. Curious? You should be because, as Rob Watkins discovered, this is special.....

The Smears, the essential British all-girl punk rock outfit, promised to follow up their 2009 debut with dirtier songs and, as Ben Hughes was delighted to discover, the band have not gone back on their word. Could their new album, 'Dirty Protest', fill an L7 shaped hole in this rock 'n' roll world? Click that lipstick red link to discover yet another reason why you don't have to look overseas to find albums to die for....

Who is the mysterious Rag N Bone Man? All Uber Rock's very own Mike Hammer, Dom Daley, can find out about the stranger is that he comes from Scotland and plays a noisy, lo-fi take on dirty white boy blues. Read on for possibly the only DIY, one man band review you'll read today.....

The Swinging Stylers have been spat out of Newport, South Wales and, with a member of uber-faves Bad Sam within their ranks, Dom Daley couldn't wait to find out if the phlegm still burns. Read on to see if the band had any chance of triumphing against the modern music holocaust.....

After co-writing every song on Alice Cooper's 'Constrictor' and 'Raise Your Fist And Yell', guitarist Kane Roberts went out on his own, inviting his Coop band mate Kip Winger along to write some songs for his self titled solo album. Gaz E checks out the album's reissue and finds the reasons why it never exploded like a burst of machine gun guitar fire upon its original release all too easy to find.....

Put a piece of cardboard in the collar of a twee fucker and he thinks he can cure you; put a piece of cardboard in the starched collar of a member of Thee Vicars and you'll be sure that he can cure the world of its rock 'n' roll lethargy. Dirty Water Records do it again with another retrosexual release that sounds like the vintage Stones screwing a gaggle of go-go dancers in the pews. Dom Daley says that these lords of a new church are a revelation.....

Subtitled 'Blasphemy In The Key Of C Minor', 'Forward Forewarn' is the debut EP from Sea Is For Sailors, a band that is actually a man; yes, a gentleman by the name of Sammy Mitchell wrote and recorded every one of the release's five songs, playing every instrument and singing too. Gaz E checks out a noisy curio.....

What do you get if you cross members of bands like Black Flag, Rocket From The Crypt, Circle Jerks and Redd Kross and throw them in a studio together? How about an essential album that features sixteen songs in as many minutes? How about the 'long player' (yeah, right!) from OFF!? Dom Daley borrows a bomb and checks out explosive results.....