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In 2024, acclaimed instrumental Post-Rock quartet If These Trees Could Talk released a single, 'Trail of Whispering' Giants', the band’s first new music in eight years. And this Friday the Akron, Ohio-based outfit release via Metal Blade Records, 'The Hidden Hand', a full album of nine stellar, provocative songs, of which the album track 'Blurry Creatures', that embodies the raw nature of the ITTCT via unrelenting riffs with epic highs and lows, ambient syncopated delays and a battle chant that stimulates the senses, is also one of today's six of the best 'Tuesday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further recent and forthcoming releases from Gipsy Fiorucci, Downturn, i-Atlas, Cambrian and Fernando Molinari.

Today's very latest Blues On The Radio Podcast Of The Day features music from Ben Poole (pictured), Ray Beadle, Dana Fuchs, Ross Harding, All Night Boogie Band, GA-20 with Charlie Musselwhite, Hollie Rogers, Backwater Roll Blues Band, Giles Robson, Bad Influence and Gemma Dorsett.

Two titans of Progressive music, Steve Hackett (Genesis) and Steve Rothery (Marillion), come together on ‘The Roaring Waves’, due out on Friday 28th August via InsideOutMusic, a striking and deeply atmospheric instrumental album shaped by memory, imagination and the elemental power of the sea, of which the album’s first single, ‘The Black Sea’, is today's stunning Video Of The Day. Ahead of Hackett's Best Of Genesis & Solo Gems UK tour this October, this record has been years in the making, and it will now finally see the light of day, bringing together seven instrumental compositions that move fluidly between the cinematic and the intimate.

With the stage timings now having been announced, Maid of Stone returns to Maidstone this month over the long weekend of Friday 17th to Sunday 19th July, and now in its fourth year with their most ambitious lineup to date, not only did this Mote Park Festival win Best Festival in our 2025 WRC Awards, but today's 'Maid Of Stone 2026 Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day also feature six of the many great bands taking part in just under a fortnight, namely headliner's Saxon, The Wildhearts, FM, The Virginmarys, Danko Jones and Silveroller.

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 a listener choice from Mike Barrington including Marillion, The Blackheart Orchestra, Jethro Tull, Ebony Buckle, Tangerine Dream, Porcupine Tree, Genesis, Solstice and Dire Straits.

To keep awake before the football later, we're also off to see British Summer Time at London's Hyde Park, so check out today's Video Of The Day of V.B.O.'s (Vice Business Only) charismatic and dynamic take on headliner Duran Duran's track, 'The Wild Boys'. Indeed, this Italian duo will be releasing their new eponymous nine-track album on Friday 24th July via Reigning Phoenix Music, which sees this album closer building on the intensity of the original, with fierce guitar stabs and grounding bass, as well as warm analogue synths and keys, that accentuate the atmosphere and '80s feel, while soaring vocal melodies honour Simon Le Bon's classic performance.

Hailing from the icy island of Kodiak before setting up shop in London, the birthplace of Punk, Kodiak Bears return with 'Come On England!', just in time for England's early hours World Cup game tomorrow versus Mexico at the Azteca, of which this new football anthem packed with riffs, chants and furious firepower, is also one of today's six of the best 'Mexican Standoff Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further England songs including Griff Griffiths & Friends, Baddiel, Skinner & The Lightning Seeds, Fat Les, Sham 69 & The Special Assembly and Neil Diamond.

Today's Podcast Of The Day is Hour One of a recent Prog Rock Files broadcast, presented by Garry Foster, including Big Big Train, Exploring Birdsong, The Pineapple Thief, Galasphere 347, The Bardic Depths, Bruce Soord and The Anaton Project.

Today we salute our musical friends across the pond as they celebrate Independence Day, including acclaimed American Hard Rock quintet Tesla who are set to release their new fourteen-track album, 'Homage', on Friday 17th July via Frontiers Music Srl, marking a full-circle moment in their storied career, finding the band returning to their roots with a collection of covers honouring some of Rock’s most timeless hits, as well as an original album opener, 'Never Alone', that's also one of today's six of the best 'Independence Day Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, featuring five further recent and forthcoming releases from American artists namely DieveNoire, Night Ranger, Ecce Shnak, Parker Barrow and Scar Chamber.

Back at the end of May, another Solid Entertainments award winning Tuesday Blues took place at London's iconic The 100 Club featuring headliner Will Wilde (pictured) plus support from The Bad Day featuring the BD Horns and Get Loose, so see today not only Denise Lester's well worth waiting for review and photos from the gig, but also watch Will's 'Blues Is Still Alive' Video Of The Day, filmed by Denise on the night.

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, including Grace Potter, Giles Robson, Jethro Tull, When Rivers Meet, Hollie Rogers, Rory Gallagher. Joanne Shaw Taylor, The Mel Outsider Reformation, Victoria's Big Easy, The Zac Schulze Gang (pictured), Goose, Brian Setzer and many more.

2024 WRC award-winning Pete Feenstra has spent the last forty years or so listening to, writing about, talking about, and promoting Rock music, with a particular interest in the Blues, and Pete's Rock & Blues show is today's Podcast Of The Day, featuring Emerald Moon, Black Stone Cherry, Brent Johnson, The Mel Outsider Reformation, Smoking Snakes, Rob Koral & Zoe Schwarz (pictured), plus many more.