Uber Rock's Jamie Richards, sat happily in his sequined Tequila Rockingbirds t-shirt, got his typing finger lubed up and raring to go to let you cool peeps in on a band who, in a moment of enlightenment, decided to offer the world a slew of overblown '80s uber-rock. Our man hears Great White, Cheap Trick and Bon Jovi in these Rockingbirds, will you?

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.

Another day, another underground musical curio from your friendly neighbourhood Uber Rock. Ross Welford satiates his foot fetish with the six track, self titled EP from Boston maniacs Claw Toe. Are you ready for a crazed mash-up of Nazis, anal sex, geriatric stalkers and vegan pussies? Thought so.....

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.....

According to Dave Prince 2013 is already a great year for AOR, one that has in fact just been made even better by this the release of the second album of West Coast flavoured tuneage from Heartbreak Radio. Never heard of them? Well neither had most of us at URHQ, but with Da Prince O’ Parp ‘On Air’ we really didn’t have much choice but listen.

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.....

Lindsay Gardner, the woman behind Dearest Pinky is a multi talented person who can list guitarist, composer, arranger, engineer and producer amongst her many skills. But as Uber scribe Rob Watkins quite rightly asks, with her latest album ‘Blood And Scars’ is she also able to write a killer set of tunes? Click the link to the right and find out.

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.....

According to their press blurb, since forming at the start of 2012, Aurora have managed to develop a unique sound that is as beautiful as it is crushing, sitting unsettlingly somewhere between Paramore & Bring Me The Horizon. Intrigued by this heady claim of modern day musical alchemy Rob Watkins sitting somewhere between Cwm and Beaufort finds that this is early promise is perhaps one ‘Easily Broken’.

'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.....