Author: Team Uber

VIDEO OF THE WEEK – JASON PAYNE & THE BLACK LEATHER RIDERS

As the rays of light at the end of the dark tunnel that has been the past 14 months of isolation and generally being shit upon from great heights grow brighter day by day, the rock ‘n’ roll year that is 2021 has somehow crept, crawled and sneaked closer to its halfway point, with its DMs firmly planted in the mire and muck of the chaos around it, with a healthy slew of new music pinging itself our way, and especially the continuing tsunami of submissions we receive for our coveted ‘Video Of The Week’ award… Yes, as we’ve said on multiple occasions, one constant throughout the vagaries of inconsistent and often hard to stomach lockdowns is the amazing level of adaptive creativity that bands and video directors the length and breadth of the Überverse have continued to show, often in the most adverse of circumstances.

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Def Leppard – ‘Volume Three’ (UMC/Virgin)

As its title suggests, this is the third in a series of four ambitious boxset collections being released by Def Leppard, encompassing their entire recording career by combining newly remastered versions of their ten studio albums to date with compilations of previously unreleased material – most of which is probably being offered fourth in order to make these various packages more attractive to even the most diehard of fans, who most likely will have all of the original releases in various formats… but, then again, the attraction is even stronger due to the fact that, in light of the vinyl revival of the past decade or so, several of the studio offerings are being pressed in that format for the first time.

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Stöner – ‘Stoners Rule’ (Heavy Psych Sounds)

Undisputed legends of the stoner/desert rock scene, Brant Bjork and Nick Oliveri are no strangers to each other, having worked together most notably in Kyuss and more recently Vista Chino. Stöner is the not-so-subtle name of their latest collaboration, where the duo are joined by drummer Ryan Gut from Bjork’s solo band, and ‘Stoners Rule’ is the equally unsubtle title of their first album.

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