Category: Features
VIDEO OF THE WEEK – EKKO PARK
Despite the ongoing lockdown 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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The Über Rock Singles Club – Joyous June (Part Two)
It’s DJ Astrocreep back on the decks of doom at the Über Rock virtual bar. We may still be in lockdown but there’s no reason we can’t still rock the fuck out! With no further adieu, it’s time to deliver our latest pick of the singles we’ve received over the last couple of weeks.
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VIDEO OF THE WEEK – JESSICA WOLFF
Despite the ongoing lockdown 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 – and our winning offering this week does just that…
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VIDEO OF THE WEEK – HANDS LIKE HOUSES
Despite the ongoing lockdown restrictions in many parts of the Überverse, we are still receiving a healthy bundle of submissions for our coveted ‘Video Of The Week’ title.
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VIDEO OF THE WEEK – FEUERSCHWANZ
Despite the ongoing lockdown in many parts of the Überverse, we are still receiving a healthy bundle of submissions for our coveted ‘Video Of The Week’ title. While some artists have been finding new ways of visually interpreting their songs, others obviously had done a lot of forward planning and had the guts of their filming completed in advance of the global quarantine, with the finishing touches being added in isolated post-production, while others are becoming able to capitalize on lockdown’s being eased in some parts of the Überverse to bring us fresh new visual offerings.
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The Über Rock Singles Club – Joyous June (Part One)
It’s hard to believe it’s been a fortnight since the Singles Club last opened its virtual doors and we fired up the death decks with a selection of the finest single-track releases to have come our way in recent weeks. Yet, here we are again with another bumper pick of the crop – a massive 19 tracks in total for your aural and visual delectation, whittled down from the 250+ submissions which came our way over the past 14 days or so, and once again hopefully containing something to tickle almost everyone’s musical taste buds as we traverse multiple subgenres of the glorious artform we like to refer to as rock ‘n’f’n’ roll…
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VIDEO OF THE WEEK – MUSHROOMHEAD
Despite the ongoing lockdown in many parts of the Überverse, we are still receiving a healthy bundle of submissions for our coveted ‘Video Of The Week’ title. While some artists are trying to find new ways of visually interpreting their songs, others obviously have had the guts of their filming completed in advance of the global quarantine, with the finishing touches being added in isolated post-production. However, as lockdown starts to ease in some territories, we are starting to notice the return of more “traditional”-style music videos…
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The Über Rock Singles Club – Beating The Isolation Blues (Part Five)
It’s DJ Astrocreep back on the wheels of steel and our virtual bar is back open for business once more. Monk is manning the bar this time, so get your contactless payment ready, keep your physical distance and lets’ get straight into our rundown of the latest and greatest singles to arrive amongst the 300 in the ÜR mailbox over the last couple of weeks.
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VIDEO OF THE WEEK – ALESTORM
Despite the current lockdown, we are still receiving a healthy bundle of submissions for our coveted ‘Video Of The Week’ title. While some artists are trying to find new ways of visually interpreting their songs, others obviously have had the guts of their filming completed in advance of the global quarantine, with the finishing touches being added in isolated post-production. This week’s selection once again sees a balance of these two approaches… although, to be honest, we are starting to run out of the latter, with videos filmed against the backdrop of isolation and social distancing becoming more and more the “new normal”…
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VIDEO OF THE WEEK – MASSIVE WAGONS
Despite the current lockdown, we are still receiving a healthy bundle of submissions for our coveted ‘Video Of The Week’ title. While some artists are trying to find new ways of visually interpreting their songs, others obviously have had the guts of their filming completed in advance of the global quarantine, with the finishing touches being added in isolated post-production. This week’s selection once again sees a balance of these two approaches….
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The BIG Über Rock Interview – Steven Jones (Bleed From Within)
Glasgow heavyweights Bleed From Within are about to assault our aural cortexes once more, with the release of their fifth studio album, the highly impressive ‘Fracture’, this coming Friday. Having had the pleasure of being able to absorb the album for several weeks now, Jase Walker had the opportunity to chat, appropriately socially-distanced of course. to guitarist Steven Jones about the release, where the band are coming from with it and, of course, the challenges of promoting new product in an age of lockdowns, pandemics and quarantine:
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The BIG Über Rock Interview – Arta Salehi (Quinn The Brain)
Quinn The Brain are a new band from Houston who this coming week are releasing their first official EP, ‘Open Wide’, which Gerald S can pretty safely say is his EP of the year. It was a show by the awesome Pretty Vacant (also from Houston) where Arta Salehi (vocals/ guitar) and or resident stetson-wearer met by chance a few months ago. The G man has been playing the EP nonstop since probably the end of February or beginning of March, and more recently recently braved the Covid lockdown and utilized the power of the internet to chat formally to the frontwoman about the band’s past, present, and future.
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