Uber Rock’s Top Photographs of 2018
We finish our round up of events in the rock ‘n’ roll Überverse over the past 12 months with some of our crack team of photographers sharing some of their favourite images taken during 2018…
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American Jetset – ‘Live Love Die on Main’ EP – (Self Released)
Something interesting seems to be occurring in music right now where we are seeing large elements of the past surge back to the forefront in rock music again. Sometimes it is in the guise of a band like Greta Van Fleet who owe a large portion of their sound to Led Zeppelin and manage to win new fans as well as infuriate older fans in a way not seen since Kingdom Come’s debut album. Other times, it is the likes of someone like Gin Annie who takes elements of the past and successfully combines them with modern rock. American Jetset leans a little more towards the blend of both the past and the current, but their past is based in the old ‘80s Sunset Strip sleaze scene. Remarkably, the band only formed a couple months ago and has already released their debut EP with that friendly ‘Name Your Price’ option on Bandcamp.
Read MoreSólstafir/Telepathy/Talons – Belfast, Limelight 2 – 21 December 2018
It was the winter solstice, and what more appropriate way to spend it than in the company of Icelandic folk metallers Sólstafir? Well, UR boss Monk for one couldn’t think of a better alternative (well, dancing naked in a forest with the temperatures heading towards the lower end of the mercury scale didn’t really tickle his balls – rather, it probably would have frozen them), so off he toddled to his local pub for my penultimate gig of the year:
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Über Rock’s Albums Of The Year 2018
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 more than 170 albums for consideration, with their lists then fed into our state-of-the-art musical abacus to calculate our final top ten albums of 2018.
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Über Rock’s EPs Of The Year
For many years, the EP was a much maligned, and ignored, format, especially by the mainstream media. But, it is one which has always been championed by ÜR, as it serves as invaluable to new bands who often cannot afford to record full-length albums at the outset of their careers and just wish to get their music out to the wider world.
This past year has been a particularly rich one for the short-form release, with a wealth of quality releases from both new and established bands, the latter of whom have used it to keep fans thirsting for more while satiating that thirst in the wait for a new full-length album. With that in mind, we asked some of our team who are particular fans of the EP format to pick the “top of the pops” for 2018…
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