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Written by Johnny H
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Friday, 31 August 2012 04:30 |
 Having been around since 1973 in one form or another Swedish prog rockers Kaipa are back with their sixth album for Inside Out Music the curiously monikered 'Vittjar'. We asked closet jester Johnny H to step up the prog plate and review said opus whilst checking out if our urban myth about all Swedish people being into glunk really is true. What are we babbling on about? Well read the review and find out.
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Written by Johnny H
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Thursday, 30 August 2012 04:30 |
 German blues rockers Zodiac are a new name on us here at URHQ, but as always we are keen to know more about a band who quotes Zeppelin, Floyd and Graveyard amongst their influences. With our resident desert (rock) rat away touring with his leafy hound mates in Japan it was left to part time stoner Johnny H to bogart the office death deck and find out exactly which bit of the devil these guys are playing with. Click the link to find out more.
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Written by Jo Hayes
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Thursday, 30 August 2012 04:00 |
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 Helsinki vampires The 69 Eyes return with 'X', their first studio album since 2009's acclaimed 'Back In Blood'. Uber Rock's Jo Hayes got her teeth into this new platter that is staking a claim for number one goth rock album of 2012. Will this dark disc shine like a full moon, or stink like a clove of garlic? Click that blood red link to find out.....
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Written by Darrel Sutton
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Wednesday, 29 August 2012 04:00 |
 Old school hardcore punk straight out of the Basque Country distributed here in the UK via some bloke based Oop North, that's just how Darrel Sutton likes to get hold of his music these days, and the band in question this time are Segismundo Toxicomano who also apparently sing in Spanish. So what does our scribe actually make of 'Ke No Cunda El Panico'? Well click the link and find out.
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Written by Rob Watkins
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Tuesday, 28 August 2012 04:30 |
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 We know of at least 500 bands called Grace Under Pressure.....and here's another one! This GUP are a female-fronted outfit who pointed their debut EP in the direction of Uber Rock's Rob Watkins in the hope that he would love and cherish it. He didn't. Read on to find out why.....
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Written by Rob Watkins
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Monday, 27 August 2012 04:30 |
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 Uber Rock elder laughs as he sends promo disc - Uber Rock writer cries when he receives said disc: the vicious circle of life at URHQ. Fuck me how we laughed when we sent Rob Watkins the latest album from Ally The Fiddle; we get the feeling he might not have reacted in the same manner.....
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Written by Ben Hughes
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Saturday, 25 August 2012 04:30 |
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 In 2006 Primary Slave's new album was 90% finished when frontman Mark Giltrow was tragically killed in a motorcycle accident. Now, half a dozen years later, a true labour of love has resulted in the album finally getting released. Uber Rock's Ben Hughes checked it out and was left wondering what might have been.....
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Written by Brighton Rob Watkins
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Friday, 24 August 2012 05:00 |
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 For all the years I've ever known Rob Watkins I've never seen him get so excited as when the conversation turns to seminal Canadian bands like Brighton Rock and Coney Hatch. When a new album featuring members of one of those classic bands turned up at URHQ for review there was only one stereo it was gonna end up on.....
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Written by Craggy
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Friday, 24 August 2012 04:00 |
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 It's been six long years since Soul Asylum last released an album; six years and six million tears fallen from the eyes of Uber Rock's resident romantic rock 'n' roll Romeo, Craggy. How would 'Delayed Reaction', the band's first album to not feature founder member Karl Mueller who they lost to cancer, hold up after such a lengthy release hiatus? Click that link to find out if this band's career really does have a silver lining.....
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Written by Rob Watkins
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Thursday, 23 August 2012 04:30 |
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 "Can you send me a promo copy of 'Firewater', the hot new album from Dean Meehan?" a memo from Rob Watkins left at URHQ read. "I hear the guy has worked with Kiss and the Stones and other rock giants - this shit should be great," he continued. So sent it to him we did. Oh dear. Something appears to have been lost in the translation.....
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Written by Rob Watkins
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Friday, 31 August 2012 04:00 |
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 In the summer of last year Incubus collaborated with Sony Music Entertainment and producer/director Marc Scarpa on 'Incubus HQ Live', a participatory media exhibit and real time documentary that allowed unprecedented fan access and interaction with the band as they prepared for the release of their seventh studio album. Now, the band have released the ambitious project and Uber Rock's Rob Watkins checked it out.....
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Written by Mark Ashby
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Thursday, 30 August 2012 04:15 |
 London based dub step/punk four piece Subsource are what you might call "the perfect crossover act" potentially appealing to your average Corsa driver juts as equally as your average 4x4 driver who likes to be down with the kids on the weekend. Pulling up alongside the band's 'Generation Doom' EP in his Yellow Ford Anglia with a jacked up back end and wide wheels we have uber scribe Mark Ashby, so what exactly will he make of it all?
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Written by Mark Ashby
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Wednesday, 29 August 2012 04:30 |
 Fans of Lamb Of God take note as your kings have contenders to their throne. That's because NYC street metal brawlers Ikillya made a memorable live debut here in the UK recently for all the right reasons. Playing music that could very well be described as brutal yet funky we sent Mark Ashby out on a 'Recon' (sorry couldn't help it) to check out the outfit's debut album is all about and this is what he brought back to base.
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Written by Jo Hayes
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Tuesday, 28 August 2012 05:00 |
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 If you checked out the Heavy Hearts diabetes benefit album earlier this year then you may already be familiar with Role Models. Uber Rock's Jo Hayes listened to the band's 'Fuck You, See You At The Talent Show' 12" and, basically, couldn't stop listening to it. Click that link to find out why.....
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Written by Ross Welford
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Monday, 27 August 2012 05:00 |
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 They've supported the likes of Gun, Voodoo Six, Attica Rage and Adrenaline Mob, now Glaswegian rockers Mercury Underground prove that they're not great pretenders by showing Uber Rock's Ross Welford, via their self-titled EP, that they are going places. Read on to find out where.....
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Written by Gaz E
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Monday, 27 August 2012 04:00 |
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  When Frank Carter parted company with Gallows to go on quest to find Pure Love his former band (and brother) were lost, right? Wrong. Very wrong, in fact. With the recruitment of Alexisonfire's Wade MacNeil Gallows, as Uber Rock Gaz E discovered, pulled off a masterstroke as this, the band's self-titled third album, is essential listening. Read on to find out why.....
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Written by Rob Watkins
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Saturday, 25 August 2012 04:00 |
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 Victoria Celestine is a fifteen year old singer/songwriter who reduced Uber Rock's Rob Watkins to tears with her album, 'From The Outside' - we don't even know where to go with this. What we do know is that our very own leader of the teen pack shouldn't take his computer to be repaired in PC World.....
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Written by Ross Welford
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Friday, 24 August 2012 04:30 |
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 "I blame Dio" - a greater line in a review you have not read this week. Uber Rock's Ross Welford checked out 'Chapter 1' of Eternal Of Sweden's musical story, knowing little about the band, not even where they were from. Read on to discover how a deceased rock legend gets blamed for a crime he didn't commit.....
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Written by Ross Welford
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Thursday, 23 August 2012 05:00 |
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 Did we make the cardinal sin by sending the latest album from Arizona metal crew Psyphen to Uber Rock's Ross Welford? Not a chance, as our man in the field made liking this album his goal. Read on to see why 'Ontogeny' could be a surprise inclusion in his album of the year squad.....
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Written by Johnny H
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Thursday, 23 August 2012 04:00 |
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 Taking almost as long to record their albums as Def Leppard, London Oi!/streetpunk mob Argy Bargy clearly like to suffer for their art, and that art of course is songwriting. Now well into their second decade together as a band Daryl Smith, Watford Jon, Dalbus and Ray Dust think they might have just have released the album of their career, so the four year wait for their fourth long player must have been worth it then? We asked Johnny H to give us his verdict on the 17 songs that make up 'Hopes Dreams Lies & Schemes'.
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Fusing the blues of Rory Gallagher with the funk of Parliament Co. Sligo four piece Oddsocks Revival make for a very interesting musical prospect indeed, just ask Mark Ashby - he simply can't get enough of this magical band and their debut album 'It's Time'. So read on and find out why pretty soon they could be lighting up your lives too.