Following both a triumphant performance at Donington's Download Festival, plus the release of their eagerly anticipated new album, 'LoveCop', via Odyssey Music in June, power-disco rockers Royal Republic have announced a four-date UK headline tour starting on Thursday 31st October at London’s Electric Ballroom, and for today's Video Of The Day we also go back to June, when the Swedish quartet belted out 'Freakshow' at Nurburg's Rock am Ring Festival in Germany. Produced by Adam Grahn and Michael Ilbert at the legendary Hansa Studios in Berlin, 'LoveCop' is the band’s fifth studio album and sees them at their most bold, brazen and brilliant whilst effortlessly crossing genres to deliver their own brand of infectious good time Rock infused power-disco.

2022 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 Ronnie Earl, Gary Hoey with Brian Setzer, Jason Ricci, Robert Jon & The Wreck (pictured), Medicine Head, The Imperial Crowns, The John Scofield Band, Pangaea, Garret T. Willie, Widespread Panic, Roy Harper, plus many more.

Featuring special guest artiste Kim Cypher on soprano saxophone, last month, Prog Rock collective, Random Earth Project, released a taster track, 'Hotel', for their follow up album to 'Airwaves', that's due out late/end 2024, of which the instrumental piece, written by keyboard player Carleton Van Selman, is today's Video Of The Day. Originally meant to be the theme tune for a TV series, in which Carleton featured, about the high's and the low's of owning and turning a shell of a building into a high class hotel, Kim is also well known in the world of Jazz, having worked with some notable names along with her solo and band endeavours.

Constantly touring and multi-awards-nominated, Mark Harrison and his band, have a unique sound and style that is very much their own genre, incorporating elements of Classic Roots, Rock, Folk and Blues, and their lucky thirteen-track seventh studio album, 'Fools & Clowns', that would sit nicely with classic artists such as The Band and Little Feat, is due to be released on Friday 30th August, of which the single, 'Them And Us', is also one of today's six of the best 'Wednesday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further recent and forthcoming releases from  Pig, Pythonic, Matney, The Plague and Mordkaul.

Today's Live From Progzilla Towers Podcast Of The Day includes music by Leonard Cohen, Focus, Ghost On Mars, Gowan, Trilogy, Kraanerg, Merit Hemmingson, Solstice, David Baerwald, Regna, Viima, Kaipa, The Chewy Center, Last Plane Out, Tenk Van Dool And Paul Sears, Crimson Fete, Jadis, Sun Shanty, Pink Floyd, The Dave Foster Band (pictured), We Broke The Weather, The Radicant and Willow.

Ahead of "infesting" London’s OVO Arena Wembley with their first-ever headline show next year on Friday 7th February, last Friday, Rock icons, Papa Roach, united with eight-time Grammy Award winning Carrie Underwood, to release a new recording of their multi-format hit single 'Leave A Light On (Talk Away The Dark)', a band favourite, first performed live last year on their tour with Shinedown and Spiritbox, that's also today's Video Of The Day. The dynamic duet was recorded in Nashville, Tennessee, and continues the mission of the Californian band to raise awareness for suicide prevention and mental health awareness, alongside partner organisation(s) the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP), who will receive royalties generated from both artists from the song, in perpetuity.

Today's latest Blues On The Radio Podcast Of The Day starts and finishes with Tamara Stewart, as she's playing Coulsdon's The Tuesday Night Music Club tonight, plus there's a live recording of Dom Martin, Demi Marriner and Elles Bailey, who recently joined in on their 10th Anniversary celebrations, as well as new releases from Catfish, Smoke Stack Rhino, Sean Taylor, Sean Webster Band, Eva Cassidy, Shemekia Copeland, Blue Milk and The Imagine If, and last, but not least, three IBBA Picks of The Month from Bywater Call (pictured), Chris Cain and Elles.

Last Friday, the day before their much-awaited live performance at this weekend's Wacken Open Air, iconic thrashers Flotsam And Jetsam premiered a brand new track, 'A New Kind Of Hero',  taken from their upcoming, new studio album, 'I Am The Weapon', slated for a lucky Friday 13th September release via AFM Records, of which the epic album opening track 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 Sound Storm, Orbita Wiru, Hence, Dirty Power and Duke Garwood.

As promised, following the County Armagh Rock quartet recently kicking off Ebbw Vale's Steelhouse Festival (The Welsh International Classic Rock Festival), our intrepid WRC correspondent Oz caught up with Trucker Diablo after their brand of ‘Muscle Rock’ was just what was needed to get the weekend going, so not only listen to today's Podcast Of The Day, but also read Oz's transcript of their interview, plus watch today's Video Of The Day, filmed on that Friday, that indeed includes Northern Ireland's finest, as well as King King and a poignant tribute to Bernie Marsden.

Taking place over the forthcoming August Bank Holiday weekend with over forty artists appearing, the Wokingham Festival features a wide range of musical genres including a showcase of some of the best current Progressive music artists, including That Joe Payne, The Paradox Twin, Amanda Lehmann, Storm Deva and more, with tickets available at  http://www.wokinghamfestival.co.uk  Saturday and Sunday also features a wide range of musical styles including tribute and cover bands, as well as original artists, with the 'big Prog day' on the Monday, that focuses on the best of Prog and Rock, with a great lineup including headliner's Ozric Tentacles, Spriggan Mist and Hoopy Frood.

A sextet consisting entirely of Chucks (seriously), Gothenburg based, Swedish Rock monster, The Chuck Norris Experiment, last month celebrated twenty years with their brand-new eleven-track studio album, '20', released by Ghost Highway Recordings and Savage Magic Records (US), of which 'Jason Voorhees' is not only the latest single from the new album, but it's also one of today's six of the best 'Monday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further recent and forthcoming releases from The Cosmic Gospel, Judy Sings The Blues, The Tragic Company, Collapse Under The Empire and Mortalus.

Delivering an eclectic meld of Rock, Pop, Jazz and Classical, and following the success of their recent album, 'Assorted Marvels', My Glass World returns with their new single, 'Compassion For Animals', continuing on the band's tradition of exploring diverse themes coupled with their signature distinctive sound, of which this latest thought-provoking song, is also one of today's six of the best 'Sunday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further recent and forthcoming releases from Chrysalïd, Riley's L.A. Guns, The Speed Of Sound, Tubefreeks and Paradis.