Category: Uber Rock Singles Club

The Über Rock Singles Club Daily Pick – Broncos

My latest choice cut once again comes from a band featuring a man for whom we are amazed there are enough hours in the day to cater for all the various projects in which he is involved… Michael Smyth, something of a fairly ubiquitous figure on the Belfast scene, seems to have been in more bands than some of us have had pints on a Saturday night, but as if that wasn’t enough to keep him busy he is one of the hardest working promoters and press agents we know, constantly bombarding our inbox with details of bright shiny new acts to attract our magpie-like attention to such things…

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The Über Rock Singles Club Daily Pick – Breichiau Hir

Monk’s latest selection is something a little bit extra special as it comes from one of the (less than a) handful of who sing in their beautiful native language of Welsh. ‘Cuddio Tu Ôl Y Llen’ (which translates into heathen English as ‘Hiding Behind The Curtain’) is the lead track to be lifted from the Cardiff-based sextet’s upcoming second album, ‘Y Dwylo Uwchben’.

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The Über Rock Singles Club Daily Pick – Bonnie Trash

To say that twin sisters Emmalia and Sarafina Bortolon-Vettor are fascinated, obsessed if not haunted by death, and are wrapped up in its darkly cold embrace, would perhaps be the singular biggest understatement of the year so far, as the latest album from this Canadian darkened shoegaze/post-punk drone project is all about the subject – not in the macabre, violent, or outrageous sense, but as you or I might know it: a spectre lurking around the corner, capricious, indiscriminate, unexpected, ordinary, and all the more terrifying for it.

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The Über Rock Singles Club – Jaunty January (Part Two)

We may be only little more than halfway through the first month of the new rock ‘n’ roll year, but things are already hectic busy here at ÜRHQ, with new releases galore already competing for that coveted inclusion either here on the main #SinglesClub playlist or as one of our #DailyPick selections. So, with that in mind, let’s crank the amps up to neighbour-annoying volume and dive straight into our second full selection of 2025, shall we?

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