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Today's Podcast Of The Day is Hour One of a recent Prog Rock Files broadcast, presented by Garry Foster, featuring Rush, Crown Lands, Exploring Birdsong, Bruce Soord, Covet, Benjamin's Kite, Gong and Yak.

Drawing comparisons to the likes of Beartooth, While She Sleeps and Memphis May Fire, and ahead of a short run of three UK tour dates joining The Mechanist next week, yesterday fast-rising British Metal quartet, Aleya, independently released their gripping new single and today's Video Of The Day, 'Sapphire Skies', the first instalment in a run of singles to be unleashed this year and taken from their forthcoming EP. Creating an immersive sound that balances underground integrity with widespread appeal, 'Sapphire Skies' delivers an explosive showcase of things to come from this emerging N.W. England powerhouse, reawakening Metalcore with their own genre-fusing sensibilities and fiercely modern edge.

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 Robert Jon & The Wreck, Gary Moore, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Wille and the Bandits (pictured), Greig Taylor Band, Voodoo Ramble. Peter Veteska & Blues Train, The Band, King King and many more.

Canadian Progressive Rock duo Crown Lands have steadily emerged as one of the genre’s most ambitious modern voices, with the band now due to deliver their most demanding and fully realised work to date, when they release via InsideOutMusic their new seven-track studio album 'Apocalypse' on Friday 18th May, having recently returned with the epic 19-minute long lead title-track, that's also one of today's six of the best 'Saturday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further recent and forthcoming releases from The Falls, Solace, Harsh, Xanimal featuring Nagavalli and Sugar Virus.

After a string of singles across 2025 and into the new year, today Leeds-based quartet, The Mechanist, self-release their colossal and conceptual debut LP, 'Synthetic Sun', now stronger and more assured than ever, that sees them at the top of their game with an 11-track, 36-minute masterclass in the realm of Tech Metal, of which its focus single, the anthemic and groove-laden 'Stargazing', is also one of today's six of the best 'New Releases Friday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five other similarly timed album releases today from Suncraft, Fighter V, Sugar Horse, DA and Negaatio.

Ahead of an eight-date European tour that begins next month, and for fans of Eclipse, Europe and Whitesnake, today Spanish Melodic Hard Rock quintet Xtasy release their ten-track album 'Phoenix', via Art Of Melody Music/Burning Minds Music Group, of which their third striking preview and single, 'Can’t Get Enough', is today's Video Of The Day. Capturing the uplifting side of Xtasy’s sound, the track delivers the kind of infectious energy that has become a signature element of the band, highlighting their ability to balance strong melodies with powerful guitar arrangements, combining classic Melodic Rock influences with a contemporary production.

With the award-winning Finnish guitarist and Blues artist extraordinaire's 50th Anniversary Rock Blues Birthday UK Tour taking place this October (pictured), today's Podcast Of The Day takes us back exactly nine years ago to the day when we interviewed slide goddess Erja Lyttinen at her private unplugged set at Soho's Ain't Nothing But Blues venue, the day before her 'Stolen Hearts' album launch at London's iconic 100 Club.

This week saw yet another sold out show at Coulsdon's The Tuesday Night Music Club, featuring Bristol-based trio True Strays blending Alt-Americana, Blues Rock and Neo-Psychedelia into heartland anthems filled with soul and grit, as well as a pared back version of Caitlin Krisko and The Broadcast, with newlyweds Caitlin on vocals and Aaron Austin on guitar (pictured), so check out today not only John 'Mr. Rockrpix' Bull's Photo Gallery from the gig, but also watch today's True Strays 'Insecurity' Video Of The Day, their latest single taken from their 'Never Ending Sunset' sophomore release last October.

Following the release of their critically acclaimed studio album 'Straight To It' last September, 2025 UK Blues Awards "Young Artist of the Year” winners The Zac Schulze Gang not only take their explosive live show and their signature blend of 70s classic Blues Rock and modern alternative influences on the road tomorrow and Saturday, but they are also heading out on a six-date November tour later this year, so check out today the Kent-based trio's track 'Have My Say', one of six 'Thursday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five recent and forthcoming releases from Degreed, The Fods v Sonia Hutchinson, Mudslinger, Graham Parker & The Goldtops and Sum Of Seven.

Today's latest The Zach Moonshine Show Podcast Of The Day features a full interview with Dave Matrise of Jungle Rot, plus there's a fresh batch of this week’s underground Metal releases to keep your speakers bleeding, including Severed Sun, Lords Of Salem, Krushya, Mistress, Ru_Bass, Annonymal, Ozzy Osbourne, Black Label Society, Rotting Empire, Vithial, Flesh Feast, St. October, The Haunted North, Kalmo, Thy Sanatorium, Crucial Velocity, Rhino Proof, Binary Order, Burnt Witch, The Red Mountain and Brutal Death Fuck.

This year's 2024 WRC Award winning A New Day Festival takes place over the long weekend of 21st to 23rd August at Faversham's Mt Ephraim in Kent, celebrating its tenth anniversary with yet another eclectic mix of Prog Rock, New Wave, Rock, Folk, Blues, World Music and all spaces in between, so today's 'A New Day 2026 Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day feature just six of the many bands taking part, namely Hawkwind, Sweet, Brave Rival, Martin Turner ex Wishbone Ash, Flor De Loto and The Mentulls.

Drawing from the likes of The Rolling Stones, The Clash and Nick Cave, having recently signed with Republic of Music, London’s loudest Rock ’n’ Roll band The Heat Inc. return to Camden’s legendary The Dublin Castle tonight (along with support from lightening-in-a-bottle all girl Punk Rock outfit Hypoxic Angels), armed not only with a brand new album on the horizon, but also the launch of their single, 'True Romance', which is today's Video Of The Day, filmed live at Lincolnshire's Call Of The Wild Festival. Indeed, last year we described their debut album, 'Asleep at the Ejector Seat', as if the then expanded five-piece were tearing through the ten tracks like a runaway amplifier, as well as delivering swagger, pulse and precision, where Post-Punk grit collided with Britpop cool.