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ÜBER ROCK’S ALBUMS OF THE YEAR 2019 – THE FINAL COUNTDOWN

ÜBER ROCK’S ALBUMS OF THE YEAR 2019 – THE FINAL COUNTDOWN

Posted by | Jan 1, 2020 | ,

Over the course of a year, our Über team listens to literally hundreds of albums, and once again we set them the onerous task of selecting what they feel to have been the best new releases of the past 12 months. In total, our crack team submitted almost 160 albums for consideration, with their lists then fed into our state-of-the-art musical abacus to calculate our final top ten albums of 2019. Yesterday, we presented you with our writer’s individual selections. Today, the number crunching has been completed, and we present to you our final list of the ten albums which have most tickled our team’s aural cortexes over the past 12 months… and, in the best tradition of countdowns, we present it in reverse order…

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Out With The Old, In With The New

Out With The Old, In With The New

Posted by | Dec 31, 2019 | ,

In the penultimate of our year-end roundups, we asked our writers to share their biggest discoveries/surprises of 2019, as well as their biggest disappointments over the past 12 months. We also asked them to look forward to 2020 with their predictions for the year ahead. And, of course, there is also our perennial award for the biggest cockwomble in rock (although one or two of our team didn’t read the last bit), which this year is named in honour of our esteemed and glorious (cough!) Prime Minister…

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ÜBER ROCK’S ALBUMS OF THE YEAR 2019

ÜBER ROCK’S ALBUMS OF THE YEAR 2019

Posted by | Dec 31, 2019 | ,

Over the course of a year, our Über team listens to literally hundreds of albums, and once again we set them the onerous task of selecting what they feel to have been the best new releases of the past 12 months. In total, our crack team submitted almost 160 albums for consideration, with their lists then fed into our state-of-the-art musical abacus to calculate our final top ten albums of 2019. First, here are our writer’s individual selections…

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Über Rock’s Gigs Of The Year

Über Rock’s Gigs Of The Year

Posted by | Dec 30, 2019 |

Over the course of any given year, our crack team of ninja reviewers attend hundreds of gigs and watch thousands of bands up and down the Über Kingdom – and beyond. Here are our writers’ and photographers’ picks of the most memorable shows of 2019…

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EXTENDED PLAY – UBER ROCK’S EPs OF THE YEAR

EXTENDED PLAY – UBER ROCK’S EPs OF THE YEAR

Posted by | Dec 30, 2019 | ,

Über Rock has always championed the artform known as the Extended Player, or EP to the layman – so much so that in 2020 we will be bringing back our regular feature profiling the best short form releases to come our way. In the meantime, some of our top ninja reviewers reflect on the mini albums that have perked up their aural cortexes during the current year…

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