If you enjoy raw Bluesy vocals, hard as oak, but as smooth as mahogany, with music poured into a melting pot of Southern English Rock swamp balladry, then Junkyard Choir's new album, 'Wild Ones Never Die', due to be released on Friday 24th February, is definitely for you, as evidenced by their first single and today's Video Of The Day of 'I'll Be Gone'. The band released their debut 'Let Sleeping Dogs Lie' in 2015 and the follow up, 'Trouble In Mind' (2018) as a Bluesy Rock duo, eventually becoming a six-piece last year, featuring Mark Woods' gravelly voice plus his troupe of musicians, who, fuelled by red wine, ended up burning the midnight oil, recording the new album in a dingy little studio in Croydon!

Originally put together by guitarist and songwriter Daniel Olaisen (Blood Red Throne), debuting with ‘Wintersleep’ (2014), followed by ‘Big City Life’ (2018), released yesterday, ‘Sunwind Sails’ is the second album by Norwegian hard rockers Big City to feature vocalist Jørgen Bergersen, after the well received ‘Testify X’ (2021), that sees the singer and his bandmates kick everything up a notch from the Melodic Hard Rock meets Metal stylings of their previous releases, such as 'Diamonds In The Rough', one of today's six of the best 'Frontiers Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by three similarly timed Frontiers releases from Heroes & Monsters, Issa and Ten, plus two further tracks from Malo De Dentro and The Doubted.

2022 WRC award-winning Pete Feenstra has spent the last forty years 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 Robbie McIntosh, Roy Gaines, Gracie Curran And Friends, The Neutrons, Laurence Jones (pictured), Martin Stephenson & John Perry, Mighty Mo Rodgers, Hundred Seventy Split, Daniel Blanc, Bob Stroger & The Headcutters, Volbeat, WC Clark, Little Johnny Taylor, Stone and Chet Ivey & His Fabulous Avengers.

Today's latest Blues Club Podcast Of The Day, has another two hours of non-stop Best in Blues and Beyond with More Music and Less Chat, featuring new releases, classic tracks and UK IBBA Presenters' Picks from Phantom Blues Band, Little Steven, Ben Levin, Harlem Lake, Jewel Brown, Paul Carrack & The SWR Big Band, Backbone Blues Band, Ruth Brown, The Lucky Losers, Barbara Blue, Bee, The Bluematics, Katie Bradley, Rick Estrin & The Nightcats, Brave Rival (pictured) and many more.

For fans of Sonic Youth, DIIV and Swervedriver, and taken from their album 'Glances' released via Overdub Recordings last September, 'Not My Sound', released last Friday, is the very first song ever written by Kodaclips, before they even found a name for the band, and it's also the song that gained them enthusiastic appreciation from A Place to Bury Strangers, when the Ravenna Heavy Shoegaze outfit opened their Italian shows, and this sun-blocking wave of sound that fills the senses, 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 Valiant Sentinel, Red Cain, Alase, Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys and Less Than Three.

"'Somebody To Love', her first single from 'The L.A. Sessions', immediately brought to mind Samantha Fish, however the beauty of our current plethora of female Blues Rock guitarists is that they all bring something different to the live table. Santos is no exception, such as her versatility, once again demonstrated in her stomping cowboy boots on the riff of 'Slow Down', rockin' out with the extremely impressive Kelly." Chislehurst's Beaverwood Club, beckoned a welcome return on Tuesday to live music, kicking off the first band night of 2023, which saw the UK return of the critically acclaimed, Spanish Rock-Blues guitar queen, Susan Santos, so check out today AJ's complete take on the gig, John 'Mr. Rockrpix' Bull's photos, plus our 'Shakin' All Over' Video Of The Day, filmed on the night.

"It would be churlish to say this was well worth waiting for, given what we have all been through recently, although we have certainly missed this big fella's fine chops, dirty Strat Roots and R&B, humorous lyrics and banter. Unfortunately, the band's tour ended last Friday, but with new material on its way - Allez Allez Monsieur Bloater! - Reviens Bientôt!" That was part of our Big Boy Bloater and The LiMiTs review at London's 100 Club last May, and the good news is that the big man returns to that very same venue tonight as part of London Blues Week, with support from Laura B & Her Band, and for today's Podcast Of The Day we turn the clock back to just under seven years ago in May 2016, when we were lucky enough to grab a few words with Bloater before his set, once again at this iconic Oxford Street venue.

Ahead of supporting Jared James Nichols at Camden's The Black Heart in London on Wednesday 22nd February, and influenced by the monster sound of Audioslave, Soundgarden and Alter Bridge, although uniquely fronted with a dedicated homage to Blues Rock by lead singer and multi-nominated harmonica player, Will Wilde, Brighton-based, four-piece Bad Luck Friday yesterday released 'Rebel With A Cause', the third single from their eponymous ten-track debut album, which is also one of today's six of the best 'Thursday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further forthcoming and recent releases from Chaos Eternal, Nothing Sacred, Polymerase, Fallen Sanctuary and Authentic Dissent.

With their third single, ‘Run From You', due to be released next Friday 27th January, talented and multi-layered Los Angeles four-piece Indie-rockers, Bittersweethearts, are currently bringing swirling and captivating Tarantino-esque Rock vibes, with an air of Blondie, to the Netherlands and Germany on their first overseas tour, which culminates with a debut UK show at London's Fiddler's Elbow in Camden next Wednesday 25th January, and their latest single, 'Hate To Love Polly Plastic', is today's Video Of The Day. Having graced legendary US East Coast venues such as Whisky A Go Go, The Viper Room and The Mint, the tour will be a road test of their captivating and tantalising mix of Indie/Rock/ballads and groove from their debut album to be released later this year.

Both Vader and Humaniac join today's latest The Zach Moonshine Show Podcast Of The Day, to talk respectively about their 40th anniversary/upcoming tour dates and their new release 'Until the Light Fakes Us', plus Zach also features new tracks and classics from Jeff Beck, Obituary, Inhuman Condition, Afghan Haze, Jason Aaron Wood, Hank III, Metallica, Slayer, Down, Jack Ire, The Red Mountain, Acid Bath, Deadboy & The Elephantmen, Never Reborn, Mardom, Ainur, Hell's Satans, Incognito Theory and Blood Stained Dusk.

Co-edited by David Lewis Gedge, lead singer and main songwriter with The Wedding Present, 'All The Songs Sound The Same' brings together over 300 stories from fans, friends and current and former band members, who each write about their favourite song by The Wedding Present or David’s other band, Cinerama, and not only do you have the chance of winning a copy of the book in our latest WRC competition below, but the Leeds Indie Rock band's track, 'Come Play With Me', is today's Video Of The Day. Indeed, If you’re not a die-hard music fan, you may not have heard of them, because they’ve only graced the Top Ten UK singles chart once in over 35 years, but you can now learn all about them by winning that book, by simply e-mailing wrinklyrockers11@aol.com by Sunday 15th February by telling us the name of the band's lead singer (editor’s decision is final). 'All The Songs Sound The Same' will be published on Friday 28th April and is available to order now from https://spenwoodbooks.com/product/the-wedding-present Finally, the winner of our 'All Down The Line - A People's History of the Rolling Stones 1972 North American Tour' book competition, was Peter Hamilton of Monmouth, who correctly pointed out that Sir Mick Jagger's birthday is indeed 26th July 1943!

Having released their debut studio album, 'Dead Reckoning' in 2021, followed by multiple single releases and extensive touring, Finnish heavy metallers Oceanhoarse are gearing up for the release of the band's sophomore full-length record, entitled 'Heads Will Roll', which will be coming out on Friday 17th via Noble Demon, and in support of the new album, the Helsinki based four-piece, with former and current members of well-known acts like Amoral, Warmen and others, have released their new single 'Brick', which 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 Scream Collision, RuinThrone, Fugit, Porta Cut and dEmotional.