As their name might suggest, L.A. Witch are a triumvirate of black-clad female punk ‘n’ rollers who hail from the seedy underside of the city of angels, beguiling and entrapping us with their energetic and enervating of garage-meets-grunge, and who use their songs to address the issues which haunt that dark underside of the so-called American dream that has become so polluted and dissipated in recent years.
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When Lesley Mac listened to opening track ‘Pool Girl’ from Dutch indie popsters Snow Coats, she realized that, somehow, she had already heard it. It must’ve been on the radio here in the ÜK already. It feels familiar, and strangely; despite the fact that, on paper, this sound isn’t really her thing, the song evoked a feeling of pleasant recognition….
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Despite the ongoing, and some cases renewed, lockdowns in many parts of the Überverse, we are still receiving a healthy bundle of submissions for our coveted ‘Video Of The Week’ title. Many of them are produced against the background of continuing quarantine conditions in some countries, while others reflect artists being able to return and flex their creative muscles once again.
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You know how it goes sometimes, you find this new exciting band that you can’t wait to force your mates to listen to then you follow them through the years until they do one of two things – they either fade into obscurity or they hit their stride and make it big. That’s exactly how Jonny B felt when he stumbled across a video for a song called ‘General of the Dark Army’ by Unleash The Archers nearly ten years ago and was completely blown away by the power of Brittney’s voice. Our man is glad to say that this is a band that has absolutely gone from strength to strength, particularly this year with Napalm Records picking them up to release their hotly anticipated fifth album, ‘Abyss’.
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Über Röck is to mark the tenth anniversary of the death of one of Belfast’s finest and most revered musical sons, Gary Moore. A special concert, branded ‘Gary Moore – Ten Years Gone’, will be staged at the Limelight on Saturday 6 February, the exact anniversary of the East Belfast-born guitarist’s untimely death in Spain in 2011.
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