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With both her latest studio album 'Paper Doll' just having been nominated as Best Contemporary Blues Album in The 2026 Grammy Awards, as well as being in the Best Blues Rock category in our 2025 WRC Awards, critically acclaimed American guitarist and vocalist Samantha Fish was recently back in the UK with her Paper Doll Tour, including special guests The Zac Schulze Gang, so further to Denise Lester's recent London Shepherd's Bush Empire review and photos, check out today not only AJ's review and snaps from the Manchester O2 Ritz leg four nights later, but also watch Samantha's 'Don't Say It' Video Of The Day, filmed by AJ that very same night.

Today's very latest Blues On The Radio Show Podcast Of The Day starts and finishes with Chloe Josephine ahead of her show at The Tuesday Night Music Club in Coulsdon tonight, plus there's a reminder of last week's TTNMC gig with songs from Electric Soul Company and Elles Bailey, as well as two tracks from the IBBA pick of the month 'With A Little Help from My Friends', namely Blue Nation and Matt Long featuring Walter Trout, and finally new releases from Alice Armstrong, Amani Burnham, Greig Taylor Band, Seth James, The Dibs and Mike Guldin.

Solid Entertainments award winning Tuesday Blues returns to London's The 100 Club tonight for a St. Patrick Night's Special, featuring Eric Bell Band, as well as Jim Kirkpatrick Band and Big River, of which today's 'Tuesday Blues Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day not only showcases two of tonight's bands, but also four other artists who are playing this iconic venue over the next three months, namely John Verity Band, Gerry Jablonski Band, David Sinclair Four and Will Wilde.

Following yesterday's Hour One, today's Podcast Of The Day is Hour Two from the very same Prog Rock Files broadcast, presented by Garry Foster, featuring an interview with special guest Darran Charles from Godsticks, that's sandwiched in between tracks from Haken and Teramaze, as well as Godsticks themselves.

Ahead of an extensive nationwide tour this May, in January Sheffield’s own authentic electrifying soul-swaggering trio Lightning Threads released their second studio album ‘Trinkets’, following their 2024 UK Blues Awards album of the year nominated ‘Off That Lonely Road’, so check out their deep, dark, in-your-face opening anthem, 'Nowhere To Go', taken from their latest ten-song offering, that's one of today's six of the best 'Monday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five recent and forthcoming releases from Neocracy, Sonic Punter, HZ Theory, Opensight and Waste a Saint.

Released last month, moving between theatrical Art-Pop, Techno propulsion and Trip-Hop atmospherics, yet always keeping one foot firmly on the dancefloor, Laurie Black demonstrates a deft ability to synthesise an eclectic palette of electronic styles into something surprisingly cohesive on her new album 'Noisebleed', so not only read today Ivan De Mello's take, but also watch today's Video Of The Day of album opener 'It's Happening'.

Today we celebrate Mothering Sunday in the UK wth today's 'Mother's Day Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, featuring six Mother's Day themed tracks from Oedipus & The Mama's Boys (pictured), Few Miles On, Mad Vantage, Jack Bruce Blues Band, Rod Rodrigues and Kev Sherry.

We were devastated to learn yesterday of the death of Motorhead legend Phil Campbell at the age of 64 after a major operation, so today we let the guitarist's music do all the talking with today's Video Of The Day of Motorhead's 'Iron Fist' and 'Damage Case', filmed the last time we saw Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons, featuring Phil (pictured) and his three sons Todd, Dane and Tyla, at Faversham's A New Day Festival in August 2023.

Today's Podcast Of The Day is Hour One of a recent Prog Rock Files broadcast, presented by Garry Foster, featuring Rush, Leoni Jane Kennedy, HeKz, Steven Wilson, Bastian Per, Moron Police, Benjamin’s Kite, The Damned and Vola.

Ten years after their last studio release, and with traces of Primal Scream’s more radical and politically charged era, yesterday Italian quartet Design shared 'Red Dragon', the first glimpse of their forthcoming album 'Faithless', released digitally via Overdub Recordings, of which the single that delivers a pointed critique of contemporary moral decay, between apocalyptic vision and Post-Punk tension, is also one of today's six of the best 'Saturday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further recent and forthcoming releases from Viamaer, Wishing Well,Tooth Gore, Tom Lardat and Draken.

Held at the iconic Casino Rooms in the heart of Kent last Saturday, the all-day Rochester Rocks Festival featured seven of the most exciting Rock acts in the country, delivering an electrifying lineup of hard-hitting riffs, thunderous drums and soaring vocals, so not only check out today John 'Mr. Rockrpix' Bull's Photo Gallery of Hollowstar, Kim Jennet, Bad Touch, Apriori, Rattlebacks, Gallows Circus and Myke Gray, but also watch today's Apriori (pictured) Video Of The Day, filmed that very same afternoon.

Today's very latest Blues Club Podcast Of The Day has another two hours of non stop Best in Blues and a bit of this and that, with More Music and Less Chat, featuring Joe Bonamassa (pictured), Elles Bailey, Melissa Etheridge, Katie Bradley & Dudley Ross, When Rivers Meet. Zoe Schwarz & Rob Koral, Peter Veteska & Blues Train, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Ezra Collective, Ed Alstrom, The Cat Empire, Omar Coleman & Igor Prado, Chris Rand and The Heavy Echo, Dirty Weather Blues Review and many more.