Category: Features
The Über Rock Singles Club Daily Pick – Astralnaut
For the second successive day, we are on our home turf as our latest selection comes from renascent Norn Iron stoned doomsters/doomed stoners Astralnaut, who are taking us to the ‘Tipping Point’ with the latest taster from their imminent self-titled debut album, which has been an epic 15 years in the making and is definitely well worth the wait… Thankfully, Ben Shepherd is nowhere in sight as the Armagh antagonists lay down some seriously heavy riffage guaranteed to take us over the edge:
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The Über Rock Singles Club Daily Pick – The Boat Sank
Today’s choice was a complete and utter no-brainer. It’s the absolutely titanic (sic) new offering from the equally huge sounding The Boat Sank. The band’s name is a reference to their native Belfast’s most (in)famous and notorious – and, it has to be said, crassly exploited – export and its fate. Yes, there was a boat, and it sank… as the band say on their rather cool line of merch: “get the fuck over it”.
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The Über Rock Singles Club Daily Pick – Willie Dowling
Good morning pop pickers (well, it is morning somewhere in the Überverse), and let us start your day off with my latest choice cut, which sees our good friend Willie Dowling, a regular visitor to both these pages in general and the Singles Club in particular (that’s his private booth, the third one on the left, over there), who is confessing to killing his imaginary friend on his own latest selection from his forthcoming solo album.
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VIDEO OF THE WEEK – DAL AV & DAEDRIC
The theme of this weekend at ÜRHQ seems to be collaboration, as my latest audio-visual treat comes from another conjoining of forces, this time in form of dark synthwave industrialists Daedric and modern metallers Dal Av, who are #RacingTheParallel with this futuristic new offering, which comes complete with a suitably ‘Blade Runner’-inspired cyberpunk-style video:
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Dave Dawson ‘Pop Idle – 30 Years On The Road As A Professional Singer’ (Good Day Books)
Long term Über readers may recall reviews we have run in the past of books such as ‘Dear Mr. Kershaw’, ‘Dear Mr. Pop Star’ and ‘Grammar Free In The UK’ by a certain OAP Mr. D. Philpott, compiling hundreds of letters, with replies, sent to various rock, punk and pop musicians, chastising them for lyrical misdemeanours. Those books have proved very popular, but now, with ‘Pop Idle – 30 Years On The Road As A Professional Singer’, the man behind the facade of D. Philpott finally comes out of the closet to reveal his real identity, and his real life, in another highly entertaining read. His name is Dave Dawson, and he has spent 30 years of that life as a professional singer ‘on the bottom rung of the showbiz ladder’.
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The Über Rock Singles Club Daily Pick – The Greeting
My latest hot off the presses (sic) choice comes from a collaborative project between Irish indie veterans Big Generator and post-punk gothic artist pMad, who are addressing some of the things we don’t #Need in this fucked up Überverse – such as war, hate, distrust, propaganda, bullying and all the horrible attributes of life – with this debut release:
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The Über Rock Singles Club – Foreign Hands
Mionk’s latest selection sees us entering the #HorrorDomain created by upcoming metalcore upstarts Foreign Hands, making their second appearance on the Club playlist with the latest taster of what is shaping up to be a very impressive debut album.
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The Über Rock Singles Club Daily Pick – Yungblud
It takes a lot for a cover version to make it onto the playlist here at ÜRHQ, but this one absolutely knocks it out of the park, as the Doncaster-born emo superstar-in-the-making takes this classic KISS song and gives it a totally unique treatment, which importantly retains elements of the original, especially in its middle section, but surrounds it with a darker, grittier interpretation which really helps to reinvent the song for the modern era:
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The Über Rock Singles Club Daily Pick – Coughin’ Vicars
Monk’s latest selection comes from a band to whom he was drawn by their name, as these Liverpool DIY punks keep us occupied until that time when the feeling turns cold with the lead cut from their forthcoming second album.
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The Über Rock Singles Club Daily Pick – Eivør
Monk’s latest selection is something ever so slightly left-of-centre as it could be seen as more of an electro-pop offering than a rock tune, but it pushes the sort of experimental boundaries that the boss has grown to explore more and more in recent times. It comes from Faroese singer.composer/songwriter Eivør, who combines her background in traditional Nordic folk, jazz and prog rock with her new found passion for dark gothic-infused electronica with this, the latest single to be extracted from her forthcoming new album.
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The Über Rock Singles Club Daily Pick – Rich Ragany
My latest selection is the latest solo offering from the frontman best known for his work with outfits such as The Role Models, The Loyalties and most recently, The Digressions. Yes, Rich Ragany is delivering us ‘A Pleasant Fiction’ with the first cut from his forthcoming album. The lead track features a very special guest in guitarist Ken Mochikoshi-Horne of Los Angeles punk legends The Bronx.
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VIDEO OF THE WEEK: KISSIN’ DYNAMITE
Monk’s latest choice of audio-visual treat comes from German glam rock revivalists Kissin’ Dynamite who, after inviting us to ‘Raise A Glass’ now address their inner monsters with the second in the series of thematically-linked clips offered up as tasters for their forthcoming new album, on which they are determined to prove they are definitely, and defiantly, ‘Back With A Bang’…
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