Tag: glunk
Steve Conte ‘The Concrete Jangle’ (Wicked Cool Records)
Over the course of more than more decades than he perhaps cares to remember, a period which has nonetheless seen him develop an extremely justified reputation as one of the most respected, not to mention hardest working figures on the glunk scene, resulting in a rock ‘n’ roll CV that includes a six-year stint, covering four albums and a seemingly never-ending world tour with the New York Dolls, and a further four albums alongside Michael Monroe, as well as stints in Company Of Wolves, Crown Jewels and The Crazy Truth, not to mention his various solo projects, there is no doubting Steve Conte’s ability to turn his hand to a decent rock ‘n’ roll tune or ten. Now, almost four years after his last solo outing – not that he’s been quiet in the interim, no sirree Stevie boy – he’s back with a stonking new set of recordings – and a few very good friends along for the ride, not least in the case of former XTC mainstay Andy Partridge who co-wrote exactly half of the ten Übertastic toons featured on this magnificent collection…
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Diamond Dogs – ‘About The Hardest Nut To Crack’ (Wild Kingdom)
Look up the term “kick-ass rock ‘n’ roll” in the Oxford Dictionary Of Musical Terminology and you will see a number of references. One of them, of course, is this very website that you are reading at this exact moment in time, as we have been delivering exactly that for the past decade… and another will be legendary Swedish glunksters Diamond Dogs, who have been doing the same since the early part of the 1990s and are serving us a reminder of their collective genius with this, their latest slice of party-starting punk ‘n’ roll mayhem.
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Sami Yaffa – ‘The Innermost Journey To Your Outermost Mind’ (Livewire/Cargo Records)
Sami Yaffa will be – well, most definitely should be – a name more than familiar to regular Über Rock readers, and especially those who not only have supported the site from the very beginning but also were part of the ethos for its establishment an amazing 12 years ago. But, for the uninitiated, a quick introduction: he was a founding member of one of the greatest glunk bands of all time, the mighty Hanoi Rocks, has remained a long-term collaborator with friend and frontman Michael Monroe and played a leading role in the renaissance of one of the genre’s most influential acts, the legendary New York Dolls. Now, some four decades into his storied career, he has released his first solo album, a collection of songs which he felt didn’t quite fit into the mould of his other projects but was nevertheless determined should be heard…
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Diamond Dogs – ‘Honked All Over Again’ (Wild Kingdom)
Look up the term “kick-ass rock ‘n’ roll” in the Oxford Dictionary Of Musical Terminology and you will see a number of references. One of them, of course, is this very website that you are reading at this exact moment in time, as we have been delivering exactly that for the past decade… and another will be legendary Swedish glunkers Diamond Dogs, who have been doing the same since the early part of the 1990s and are serving us a reminder of their collective genius with this, the latest in a series of re-issues from their first decade of kickin’ those very same asses…
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The Suicide Notes – ‘Pleasures Of Despair’ (Quickfix Recordings)
Hang on a second, have we not reviewed this already? Indeed, we have… well, sort of… as Monk shall now explain. Having, not so politely, introduced themselves to us last summer with a brace of singles, The Suicide Notes – the new project from former Black Bullets frontman Billy Tee – proceeded to stick their cowboy boots very firmly in the doorway and wave a bottle of whiskey invitingly in our faces, asking “do you want some more”? Well, we didn’t say no and promptly dived straight into the groove of their debut four-track EP, which coupled those two previously released songs, ‘Smoke It Like A Cigarette’ and ‘Take A Bullet’, with their third single, ‘Momma Sang The Blues’, and a live session, ‘Ragdoll’.
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Dirt Box Disco – ‘TV Sex Show’ (Avenue Recordz)
Dirt Box Disco will be a name more than familiar to long-term regular ÜR readers, as they have (dis)graced these pages more times in the past decade than Donald Trump has topped up his fake tan during the same period… and, that’s a lot! Part of the reason for their frequent appearances has been their sheer productivity: a band who, until recently, never seemed to stop gigging more incessantly than said Mr Trump has heralded “fake news”, they have now presented us with their eighth – yes, you read that right – studio album in less than ten years – and the first since the even more prolific Spunk Volcano stepped up to take over main vocal duties since the departure of WEAB around this time last year.
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Starbenders – ‘Love Potions’ (Sumerian)
Starbenders first caught Jase Walker’s attention during their tour supporting Alice in Chains back in 2018 after some videos popped up of their energetic live performances. Admittedly he didn’t look too far into them at this point as 2018 was a bit of a rollercoaster when it came to his music tastes so a lot of music kind of fell by the wayside in favour of exploring very narrow avenues for new bands. The following year Starbenders got signed to Sumerian who happen to have a large number of bands that our boy listesn to on a regular basis on their roster and he follows them on Instagram so by way of that he started regularly seeing clips of Starbenders and eventually built a bigger interest in them in the build up to their latest album, ‘Love Potions’…
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Sleazy Way Out – ‘Here Comes Trouble’ (Sliptrick)
According to the PR blurb, this, the second album from a Canadian combo who make their intentions clear with their monicker, is “a 12 track slab of 100 per cent, whiskey drenched, alcohol fuelled, sleaze rock that will make you want to drink whiskey straight from the bottle, f**k your girlfriend (plus your friend’s girlfriend…) and party all night long!” And, to be honest, it’s hard to argue with that assertion as ‘Here Comes Trouble’ is indeed the sort of album that makes you want to drink copious amounts of alcoholic beverages and then take your lady to the next level of ecstasy, with this as the soundtrack to the resulting (multiple) orgasms.
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