For fans of Earthless, Hawkwind and The Who, Proto Heavy-Rock x Dirty Blues power-trio, Dead Shaman, deliver a fuzzy maelstrom infused with the weirdest sounds of the 60s and the 70s, when they release their upcoming album, 'Under the Influence', this Friday 31st March via Sixteentimes Music, of which the first audio excerpt from their sophomore effort, the single 'Grounded', is today's Video Of The Day. With both a moonshine smell plus Space-Rock from the fifth dimension, the Swiss outfit released their first full length album, ‘Out Of Phase’, in early 2020, named in tribute to the great Peter Green and his legendary 1959 Les Paul sound. Combining an A-side made of five high energy numbers and a B-side composed by one long smokey Sunday morning jam, their debut LP will also show you the full spectrum of a band who loves to take different directions.

Today's Podcast Of The Day is Beastie's Blues Club, originally broadcast live last Thursday afternoon on www.voodooradio.online straight after Beastie's Rock Show, and this latest ninety minute slice of the best in Blues, Rhythm and Blues and Music touched by the Blues, features Big Harp George, Hard Stairs, The Private Dicks Band, The Terraplanes Blues Band, Steve Bailey featuring Mississippi MacDonald (pictured) and more.

Not just living up to the promise of their previous two EPs, 'Consecration' (2016) and 'Sanctum' (2019), Chicago Stoner Doom aficionados, High Priest, carry us straight to the heavens on a chariot of fiery riffs, as they deliver their eagerly anticipated debut full-length album, 'Invocation', on Friday 23rd June via Magnetic Eye Records, and their first single taken from the album, the Psychedelic 'Divinity', is also one of today's six of the best 'Friday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further recent and forthcoming releases from Endless Exam, Kong, Circle Of Dust, Sovereign Council and Seven Impale.

"Proving the class of the originals, these somewhat stripped back versions are instant singalongs and make for a fantastic atmosphere, such as particular favourites, 'Hells Bells', 'Paranoid', 'War Pigs' and a superb 'Ace of Spades', but it’s all so much fun, including their originals littered through the set, that walking back from the camera pit through the crowd, I was met by a mass of smiles. It’s engrossing and highly recommended - even if you just go once to see them, you really must go!" Bluegrass rockers, Hayseed Dixie, who started out as an Appalachian style tribute to AC/DC, playing traditional instruments such as fiddle, and then branched out, playing songs by other Rock luminaries, as well as a few original compositions, stopped off at London's The Garage last Thursday night, on their 16-date UK tour, with special guests, the Queens of “colourful chaos”, The Hot Damn!, so today not only read Les Linyard's complete take on the gig, but also check out Les's photos plus our 'Highway To Hell'/'Freebird' Video Of The Day, filmed the night before at The Old Fire Station in Bournemouth.

Celebrating it's thirteenth event next month across the weekend of 14th-15th April, at the O2 Academy in Sheffield, Hard Rock Hell Prog XIII will be hitting this venue with a spectacular line-up, and today's 'HRH Prog XIII Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day showcases just six of the great bands taking part, namely Asia (featuring John Payne), The Flower Kings, Ozric Tentacles, Stray, The Blackheart Orchestra and The Paradox Twin.

Contemporary UK Blues-Rock band, Albany Down, play Kent's The Beaverwood in Chislehurst tonight, with support from exciting local Classic Rock covers band, Hell On Tap, and for today's Rock On The Ridge Podcast Of The Day, we go back to July 2015, which features music and interviews from all the bands that appeared at our BluesRockfest, on a memorable Independence Day at the Red Lion in Gravesend, including the aforementioned, former WRC award winners.

"He may be a young man, but he has an old soul; his guitar solos would not sound out of place on Chess Blues from the 50s or Southern Rock from the 70s, while his voice is drenched in the Stax Soul sound of the 60s. With an eight-piece line-up including a horn section, Marcus is well able to push all those stylistic boundaries." Following both last year's reimagined versions of Spotify singles 'Crazy' and 'It's Too Late' and his critically acclaimed August release, 'Young Blood', guitar prodigy Marcus King and his band returned to the UK and Europe this month, bringing his stadium-sized show full of Country, Soul, Blues and Rock 'n' Roll on a thirteen-date The Young Blood Tour, so read today not only Gary Smith's complete review of London's O2 Forum leg from last Tuesday, including support from Ida Mae, but also check out Les Linyard's superb photos plus our 'Beautiful Stranger' Video Of The Day, filmed on the night.

Partnering with Nordoff And Robbins Music Therapy Charity (Formerly Nordoff Robbins), to help raise funds and awareness for the vitally important work that they do, South-African Blues-Rock guitarist, Dan Patlansky, will be returning to the UK this May for an eight-date headline tour, including London's Powerhaus on Saturday 20th May, and 'I'll Keep Trying', taken from his latest album, 'Shelter Of Bones', 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 The Flowers Of Hell, Aittala, Becko, The Crown Remnant and Woewarden.

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 latest Rock & Blues show is today's Podcast Of The Day, featuring Pee Crayton, Albert Collins, Kid Ramos, Thorbjorn Risager & The Black Tornado, Random Earth Project (pictured), Micke Björklöf & Blue Strip, Johnny Copeland, Erja Lyytinen, Sue Foley, Frank Zappa, Jimmy Dawkins, Feenstra And Simpson, Beechwood, Michael Coleman, Joe Cocker, Mudpie, John Mayer, The Cold Stares, plus many more.

Today's latest Blues On The Radio Podcast Of The Day, starts and finishes with a couple of classics from John Verity, ahead of the Verity Bromham show at The Tuesday Night Music Club in Coulsdon tonight, plus there's a preview of The UK Blues Awards that takes place on Thursday 13th April (pictured), with tracks from Elles Bailey, Sari Schorr, Alice Armstrong, Toby Lee and Brave Rival, and finally some new releases from Doug MacLeod, Paul Cowley, Tim Jones, The BluesBones, The Özdemirs, Trudy Lynn, Geraint Watkins and Andy Fairweather Low.

Following their triumphant February tour, Robert Jon & The Wreck return to the UK for a 10-date tour this coming September (pictured), and earlier this month the Southern roots rockers released on Journeyman Records their dynamic, multi-faceted, four-track digital EP, 'One Of A Kind', of which the supercharged Rock & Roll anthem title track is one of today's six of the best 'Tuesday Rocks' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further recent and forthcoming releases from Dyspläcer, Quiz Show, Bird's View, Elles Bailey and Ropemaker.

"If music was packaged like food, this would be the equivalent of a tempting looking half baguette so crammed with delicious looking filling that the contents tumble out of the side. Sometimes of course you find that there’s not much content inside. Happily, this cracking little three song EP is full of Melodic Rock, leaving the listener more than pleasantly satisfied." We saw Half Moon Panic supporting Laurence Jones in Sevenoaks at the end of January, and not only are we looking forward again to seeing our fellow wrinklies supporting Chantel McGregor at the aptly named Half Moon in Putney tomorrow night, but early last month they released their latest EP, 'The Pit Sessions', and today, not only do we have Simon Green's considered take on the new release, but also check out our brilliant Video Of The Day of the EP opener, 'Sacrifice'.