TOUR NEWS: Goo Goo Dolls announce June dates
Goo Goo Dolls have announced details of nine headlining shows in June.
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Shaam Larein – ‘Sticka En Kniv I Världen’ (Svart Records)
‘Sticka En Kniv I Världen’ is the second album from Swedish avant-garde auteur Shaam Larein. The promotional material summarizes the singer’s approach to music by declaring that “weird and wonderful doesn’t quite cover it – the experimental musical elements and alien-like vocals will guarantee to transport you to a world not of our own, unleashing a heady brew of nocturnal post-punk and avant-garde metal. Bona P sees if it lives up to the hype…
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The BIG Über Rock Interview – Chip Z’Nuff
Hair metal legends Enuff Z’Nuff are currently nearing the end of a run of dates which has seen them revisit favourite haunts all over the Über Kingdom, Ireland and continental Europe, as well as visit a few new locations they previously have missed out on previous treks. Our Spanish correspondent, and resident glunk/power pop expert, caught up with one of his musical heroes and influences, in the form of charismatic frontman Chip Z’Nuff, when the tour pulled into the historic city of Valencia.
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Über Rock Introduces… Sunliner
We first were introduced to Leeds indie punk rebels Sunliner back in the teeth of the first lockdown, when they proved they were ‘Far From Average’ – at least to the ears of our former colleague John Bedard, who was driven to declare that “if this is the kind of music we could expect on the radio I would start turning it on again! Now, two-and-a-half further down their journey, they have just released their debut full-length album.
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Änterbila – ‘Änterbila’ (Nordvis)
This self-titled debut album by Änterbila, the most recent addition to the Nordvis community, is described as “a conceptual homage to the struggles of the 18th to 20th-century peasantry in their home country of Sweden… the anguish and fury of the downtrodden are embedded in every fibre of a musical score ranging from – and transcending – what would traditionally be categorized as black and folk metal”. The PR blurb goes on to tell us that “lurking amidst the metallic darkness are passages featuring violin, acoustic guitar, and traditional arrangements… [a] formula [that] has produced a collection of songs deeply imbued with that wistful, sinister, and folkloric feeling present in various Nordic masterpieces by the likes of Storm, Isengard, Taake, Panphage, and Arckanum”. Sounds intriguing, so lets get into it…
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