Category: Features
VIDEO OF THE WEEK – BATTLE BEAST
We had another massive wave of videos come our way this past week – a veritable tsunami of more than 120 of them – all vying for the coveted title and virtual gong of being named our favourite… Believe me, we do watch all of the submissions, and a lot of them are of an extremely high quality, but there can only ever be one winner…
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THE ÜBER ROCK SINGLES CLUB – NOISY NOVEMBER (VOLUME TWO)
Welcome to another edition of the Über Rock Singles Club, which we have managed to keep up-and-running despite the numerous Covidications which we all have had to endure over the past 20 months, in order to bring you the hottest new sounds around. And once again we have another hitlist of superb sonic experiences to tickle you sonic senses, with 17 of Monk’s favourite tunes to have found their way on to the ÜRHQ deathdecks over the course of the past fortnight… Bearing in mind that we received more than 600 submissions, it was not an easy task to whittle them down to this all-too-short playlist…
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VIDEO OF THE WEEK – JAMIE LENMAN
We had another massive wave of videos come our way this past week – a veritable tsunami of more than 120 of them – all vying for the coveted title and virtual gong of being named our favourite… Believe us, we do watch all of the submissions, and a lot of them are of an extremely high quality, but there can only ever be one winner…
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EXTENDED PLAY: Bite-Sized Morsels of Musical Mayhem
For many years, the EP – or ‘Extended Player’, to give it its full title – was a criminally overlooked format. But, in recent years, it has made something of a deserved comeback, as bands face the challenge of continually producing new material but often not being able to commit to the cost of, or time to, recording full-length albums.
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Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes/Lynks/Cassyette – Nottingham, Rock City – 11 November 2021
Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes have just kicked off their latest run of headline dates, and we sent the effervescent Emily C along to capture the action on the opening night of the ÜK leg, at Nottingham’s Rock City
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VIDEO OF THE WEEK – BETH BLADE AND THE BEAUTIFUL DISASTERS
We had another massive wave of videos come our way this past week – a veritable tsunami of more than 150 of them – all vying for the coveted title and virtual gong of being named our favourite… Believe me, we do watch all of the submissions, and a lot of them are of an extremely high quality, but there can only ever be one winner…
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THE ÜBER ROCK SINGLES CLUB – IN REMEMBRANCE
To mark Remembrance Sunday, we are presenting a very special edition of the Singles Club, in which Monk has picked a short playlist of six songs commemorating the horror, pain and aftermath of war.
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VIDEO OF THE WEEK – JETHRO TULL
We had another massive wave of videos come our way this past week – a veritable tsunami of almost 150 of them – all vying for the coveted title and virtual gong of being named our favourite… Believe us, we do watch all of the submissions, and a lot of them are of an extremely high quality, but there can only ever be one winner…
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THE ÜBER ROCK SINGLES CLUB – NOISY NOVEMBER (VOLUME ONE)
Welcome to another edition of the Über Rock Singles Club, which we have managed to keep up-and-running despite the numerous Covidications which we all have had to endure over the past 20 months, in order to bring you the hottest new sounds around. And once again we have another hitlist of superb sonic experiences to tickle your sonic senses, with 17 of Monk’s favourite tunes to have found their way on to the ÜRHQ deathdecks over the course of the past fortnight…
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The BIG Über Rock Interview – Stevic Mackay (Twelve Foot Ninja)
Following on from the release of their fantastic new album, ‘Vengeance’, Jase W had the opportunity to connect, via the wonders of the interweb, with Twelve Foot Ninja guitarist Stevic Mackay to discuss said release, the influences behind the songs, nerding up flats and getting back to live action in the post-Covid era:
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VIDEO OF THE WEEK – SHAPE OF WATER
Well, it’s our very favourite day of the year, on which the veil between the worlds is briefly lowered and the spirits come back to join the living in the best party in the Überverse… not, that we need any excuse to break out the spirits and get the party started, never mind dress up in stupid costumes and get up to ghoulish goings-on… that’s pretty standard procedure any day of the week/month/year here at ÜRHQ… But, to stand alongside our special edition of the Singles Club, we thought it only natural for our Video Of The Week selection have a suitably Halloween theme to it…
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THE ÜBER ROCK SINGLES CLUB – HELLOWEEN HAVOK
Well, it’s our very favourite day of the year, on which the veil between the worlds is briefly lowered and the spirits come back to join the living in the best party in the Überverse… not, that we need any excuse to break out the spirits and get the party started, never mind dress up in stupid costumes and get up to ghoulish goings-on… that’s pretty standard procedure any day of the week/month/year here at ÜRHQ… But it is an excuse to open up the Singles Club for a specially-themed edition, in which the emphasis is on all things creepy and spooky…
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