"This a beautiful sounding album jam-packed with uplifting and positive vibes that will make you feel a whole lot better about life in general. Without doubt Solstice's best album to date. As long as they maintain the momentum the band's future looks very bright indeed!" Written, produced, mixed, and mastered by founder, leader, guitarist, and sole original member Andy Glass, British Progressive Folk rockers Solstice released their seventh studio album, ‘Light Up’, last month through the Giant Electric Pea record label, so today read Steven C. Gilbert's complete take on the album, plus check out our Video Of The Day of the title track.

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 Mississippi MacDonald, Bridget Kelly Band, Buddy Guy, Wolf Moon, Hillbilly Vegas (pictured), Teresa James, Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band, Annika Andersson & The Boiling Blues Band, Kelly's Lot, Zoe Schwarz Blue Commotion, Bonnie Raitt, Douglas Avery, Jamie Williams and The Roots Collective and many more.

Young, eager and excited to show off their combination of Southern Rock and 70s Soul, all covered in their love for the Blues, Dutch band Harlem Lake has been climbing the charts and jumping from big festival stage to big festival stage after winning last year's European Blues Challenge in June, and their recently released second single, 'Beware (Live at Culemborg Blues, 27.08.22)', is taken from their upcoming full length album, 'Volition Live', due out on Friday 24th February, and is not only an Ann Peebles cover about a woman attempting to steal other women’s husbands, but it'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 Bad Bones, The Answer, Judith Alice featuring Diison, Brent Osborne and Morphide.

One of the UK’s hottest Blues guitarists, with his unique brand of Blues-based Rock delivering contemporary song writing, fuelled with the kind of heart and soul that’s missing from so much modern music, Aynsley Lister returned this week to London's 100 Club as part of award winning Tuesday Blues, for his traditional annual gig, and not only do we have Chris Griffiths brilliant Photo Gallery today from the night, but also check out today's amazing Video Of The Day of the Ian Parker Band and a "Good Friend" filmed just last week at Diseworth Blues Club.

After picking up two awards last Thursday at the prestigious Americana Awards at London's Hackney Empire, for UK Artist of the Year and UK Live Act of the Year, and also having being recently shortlisted for three awards at the forthcoming UK Blues Awards 2023 for UK Blues Vocalist of the Year, UK Blues Album of the Year and UK Blues Artist of the Year, Elles Bailey kicks off her tour at Porthcawl's Winter's End tonight, with her track, 'Who's That', taken from her top 40 biggest selling Americana albums of 2022, 'Shining in the Half Light', not only currently number 20 in the global Spotify Blues chart, but also one of today's six of the best 'Friday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further forthcoming and recent releases from Woewarden, Mari Dangerfield, Eamonn McCormack, Denfire and DOL.

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 Dave Onions, Oli Brown and The Dead Collective (pictured), Savoy Brown, Feenstra And Simpson, Heavy Trash, Layla Zoe, Ronan Furlong, Marc Broussard, Dwight Anthony Davis, Sean Taylor Band, Barbara Blue, The Kendall Connection, Supersonic Blues Machine with Eric Gales, plus many more.

Frequently named alongside the likes of Biffy Clyro, Muse, Royal Blood and Thrice in their German homeland, Alternative Rock band, The Intersphere, release their brand new album, 'Wanderer', on Friday 26th May, and to coincide with this announcement, the four-piece have just released their new single, 'Bulletproof', which is today's Video Of The Day. Coming five years after their last record, this sixth album demonstrates that the band, consisting of Christoph Hessler - vocals, guitars, Thomas Zipner - guitars, Moritz Mueller - drums and Daniel Weber - bass, don't shy away from a big hook line, dramatic harmony or epic song arcs, as the hard-hitting staccato riffs and drums on this punchy Rock single pair with a groove-laden chorus, mirroring and lyrically delivering a powerful socio-political observation about the conflicting feelings that are provoked by online social media presence today.

Recorded almost entirely over the course of just two days, Indiana trio, The Cold Stares, will release their new full-length album, ‘Voices', on Friday 10th March, the band’s most mature, eclectic collection yet, balancing gritty muscle and tender emotion in equal measure, and the album’s lead single, 'The Joy', which draws from Pink Floyd as it revels in the happiness that comes with finding your true soulmate, is one of today's six of the best 'Thursday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further forthcoming and recent releases from Witch Ripper, Category VI, Frail, Slow Cinema and Iron Wings.

A New Year, new music plus a new Heavenly Homes Episode, the first for 2023, proving that Prog is very much alive and kicking, and in fact in it's best shape for decades, as testified by today's Podcast Of The Day that includes Ghost of the Machine, Gandalf’s Fist, VODA, Solstice (pictured), Peter Gabriel and many more.

Today's latest WRC Bulletin looks forward to February with our six 'February Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day showcasing some of the many gigs this month on our 2023 WRC Gig Calendar https://www.wrinklyrockersclub.com/gig-calendar-wrinklystock including Robert Jon & The Wreck (pictured), Lonely Robot, Katatonia, Dream Theater, Stone Broken and Those Damn Crows. We also look back at January, including our WRC 2022 Award Winners, our Steppers Division (Dec), Tommy Hare (Dec), The Wall, Wishbone Ash, Susan Santos, Big Boy Bloater & The LiMiTs and Nine Below Zero photo galleries/gig reviews, our latest book competition, also not forgetting our comprehensive January News Archive. Finally, don't forget that if you want to receive our monthly e-mail bulletin, please submit your e-mail address in the box below.

Including a sold out full-band concert at the London Palladium on Saturday 18th March, Beth Hart has recently announced British guitarist Connor Selby as her special guest on next month's eight-date UK Tour, following Beth's most recent album, where the Grammy-nominated powerhouse vocalist took on one of her most profound undertakings to date, on 'A Tribute To Led Zeppelin', of which Hart's version of 'Black Dog' is today's Video Of The Day. One of the brightest guitarists on the UK Blues scene, Connor has just been nominated at the 2023 UK Blues Awards for “Acoustic Act of the Year”, “Instrumentalist of the Year”, “Blues Vocalist of the Year” and “Blues Artist of the Year”.

Voluntary Mortification join today's latest The Zach Moonshine Show Podcast Of The Day, to play and talk about 'Suffer To Rise', plus there's brand-new releases and classics from Obituary, Overkill, Casket Robbery, Gutted Alive, Macabre Eternal, Never Reborn, Solar Flare, The Red Mountain, Death Warmed Over and Acid Bath.