The Kris Barras Band completed their longest UK headline tour to date at London's The Garage on Saturday night, so today not only check out John 'Mr. Rockrpix' Bull's awesome photos from the gig, but also have a gander at the Joan Jett/Girlschool vibe of impressive Irish support band Dea Matrona's Video Of The Day of 'It's Only Music'. A much heavier set, featuring songs from last year's album, 'Death Valley Paradise', their highest charting album to date, the band lined up with Kris (lead vocals/guitar), Josiah J. Manning (rhythm guitars/vocals), Billy Hammett (drums) and Frazer Kerslake (bass).

Exactly eight years ago to the day that he appeared live on the Rock On The Ridge show, today's latest Blues On The Radio Podcast Of The Day features Robin Bibi, one of many great artists playing this year's Old Bush Blues Festival in Callow End, Worcestershire, over the long weekend of 18th to 20th August, so have a listen to this special playlist that also includes James Oliver, Aynsley Lister, Hollie Rogers, Ashley Sherlock and more.

The super-resilient, Nashville-based, but by no means Nashville-sounding, Rock duo, The Bloody Nerve, continue to roll out their hard-hitting, episodically released, track-by-track, powerhouse concept album, ‘All Blood, No Treasure’, now opening the awesome Third Act, ‘Ruins’, with Episode 7: ‘Hard Hard Winter’, that's due to be released on Friday 17th March, but is also is one of today's six of the best 'Tuesday Rocks!' Tracks Of Day, complemented by five further forthcoming and recent releases from Klidas, bandwithoutband, Firewing, Shores Of Null and Riley's L.A. Guns.

Ed Aborn from Siren joins today's latest The Zach Moonshine Show Podcast Of The Day, to play and talk about their latest release, 'A Mercenary's Fate', plus there's new music and classics from The Black Moriah, Tori Lamour, Vicious Nature, Deceased, Spiter, Burning Witches, Pentagram, Vessel Of Light, Incognito Theory, Savage Master, Lenax, Accept, Dio, Black Sabbath, Savatage, Overkill, Anthrax, The Red Mountain, Thou, The Otolith, Brutal Death Fuck, Dååth, Expunged and Spillage.

With plans of hitting the road in support of its release on Friday 17th March through Perris Records, and comprising of fourteen hard-rocking career spanning tracks, 'Live Lightning' showcases the high-energy, powerful live performances that Babylon A.D. is renowned for, such as the San Francisco Bay Area finest's 1990 self-titled album, that includes their hard rock classic hits 'Hammer Swings Down', 'The Kid Goes Wild' (from the Robocop 2 film trailer) and 'Bang Go The Bells', which is also one of today's six of the best 'Monday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further recent and forthcoming releases from Heidevolk, Ehsan Imani, Wishing Well, Ammotrack and Goron.

Currently on the road with their European Island In Limbo Tour that stops off at London's O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire on Sunday 26th March, this Friday 3rd March Progressive rockers Haken will release their seventh studio album, ‘Fauna’, via InsideOutMusic, of which their latest single, 'Lovebite', is today's Video Of The Day. Also ahead of a North American tour in May/June, it's the English outfit’s most genre-busting and conceptually fascinating album to date, that also marks the return of keyboard player Peter Jones, whose sounds can be heard permeating the entire nine-track album.

Another sold out show this week at Coulsdon's Tuesday Night Music Club, so check out today not only John 'Mr. Rockrpix' Bull's brilliant photos from the Wilson Brothers gig, featuring Ash Wilson (vocals + lead guitar), Phil Wilson (drums), Roger Inniss (bass) and Adrian Gautrey (organ), but also our 'Fly Like An Eagle' Video Of The Day, filmed at Maryport's Grasslot Social Club two nights earlier.

Beastie's latest Rock Show, originally broadcast live at www.voodooradio.online at midday on Thursday, is today's Podcast Of The Day, 90 minutes of chelp, chunter and wonderful Rock music featuring Creedence Clearwater Revival, Foreigner (pictured), The Doors, The Steve Gibbons Band, No Good Sons and more.

Following the release of two albums, contemporary and experimental music duo, Leagus, were commissioned by the North Norwegian Jazz Ensemble in 2021 to write a piece for a ten-member orchestra, which resulted in pianist Herborg Rundberg and guitarist Kristian Svalestad Olstad composing and arranging the piece, 'Flora Eallin', which will now be released in full on Friday 28th April by Is it Jazz Records, and by way of introduction, the label has released the track, 'Hyperion', which 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 Flyte Risk, Elles Bailey, Grande Royale, The Bellwether Syndicate and The Backlash.

"The audience mouthing the words to even the more obscure numbers was certainly impressive, demonstrating that local midweek gigs do not get grander or better than this, the band perfectly reeling back the years on this old school night." Exactly four years ago today we took in Steely Dan at Wembley Arena, so today not only read Ivan De Mello's take below on Simply Dan (who are also playing a sold out Pizza Express in Holborn tonight and tomorrow night) from Thursday 2nd February at Chislehurst's The Beaverwood, but also check out Ivan's photos, plus our 'Reeling In The Years' Video Of The Day from that gig in 2019.

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 Joanna Connor, Jimmy Hall, Dion, Buddy Guy, Walter Trout (pictured), John Primer plus more.

Ahead of his show at London's Jazz Cafe in Camden on Thursday 5th October, Louisiana-based Blues and Bayou Soul powerhouse vocalist and guitarist, Marc Broussard, releases his new album 'S.O.S. 4 - Blues For Your Soul' via Joe Bonamassa’s independent Blues label, KTBA Records, this coming Friday 3rd March, complementing and adjusting his iconic recipe of classic Soul, R&B and Blues with the help of renowned Blues Rock guitarist Bonamassa, such as on his first single, 'That's What Love Will Make You Do', with Marc’s dynamic, soulful vocals, combined with Joe's unmatched fretwork, delivering a knockout fusion of retro Soul and modern Blues, on this riveting take of the Little Milton classic, 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 Savage Grace, Elk City, Avaland featuring Madie ex-Nightmare/Faith In Agony, Kodiak Empire and Afterglow.