Founded at the end of 2019 as a Neo-Psych experimental band, with strong New Wave influences, released last Friday via Italy's Shyrec and France's Icy Cold Records, 'Lights in Forgotten Places', is the first full length from Venice's Karma Voyage, unleashing dreamy Shoegaze waves with their very first single from the album, 'Shine', which is also one of today's six of the best 'Tuesday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further forthcoming and recent releases from Lunar, Them Guns, Crazy Mad Ride, Gramercy Arms and Sum Of Seven.

Exactly six years ago today, Prog Rock music legend John Wetton sadly passed away after a long and courageous battle against colon cancer at the age of 67, and an official book, John Wetton - An Extraordinary Life, has just been launched about the legendary Family, King Crimson, Uriah Heep, Wishbone Ash, Roxy Music and Asia, singer/bass player, of which John's performance of 'Starless', live in Poland in 2003, is also today's Video Of The Day. The book will be published later this year, but the sign-up is now open at www.johnwettonbook.com for people to be a part of this much anticipated book created with John’s family and management, along with some seventy-plus people who knew and worked with Wetton, who pay witness and tribute to his life and work, including Steve Howe, Phil Manzanera, Bill Bruford, Robert Fripp, Carl Palmer, Rick Wakeman, Dave Kilminster, Geoff Downes and many, many more.

Today's Blues On The Radio Podcast Of The Day brings you a look at the just announced finalists in two categories of the UK Blues Awards, plus new releases and two artists who are appearing at Coulsdon's Tuesday Night Music Club re-opening night next week, therefore cue an incredible hour of music from The Nighthawks, Thomas Heppell, Trevor Babajack Steger, Big Wolf Band, Martin Harley, The Mary Stokes Band, Catfish, Ed Blunt, Sean Taylor, When Rivers Meet, Mark Harrison, Brave Rival, Dave Arcari, GA-20 and The Cinelli Brothers.

Legendary Television guitarist Tom Verlaine passed away at the age of 73 on Saturday, and today's Video Of The Day, the title track taken from their 1977 seminal debut album, 'Marquee Moon', is dedicated to Verlaine. Indeed, last year, due to illness, Television cancelled their special guest slot on Billy Idol's UK tour (see below), when they were due to play 'Marquee Moon' in full, originally hailed by critics as one of the most striking and original recording debuts in years. Formed in New York’s East Village in 1973, Television’s influence was felt worldwide with a particularly major effect on British Post-Punk Rock as well as American Indie rock. The scissory, cascading guitar lines, the jabbing vocals, and the ‘psychotic calypso’ drumming demonstrated that there was nothing punky or muddled about Television - it had the silvery clarity of a poised knife. 'Marquee Moon' was ranked #128 on Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. It was also ranked #2 on Uncut magazine’s 100 Greatest Debut Records, and #3 on Pitchfork Media’s list of the best albums of the 1970s.

A celebration of small music venues around the UK and a nod to the people that own, run and work in them, week in, week out, Independent Venue Week kicks off tonight at London's The Half Moon in Putney with James Walsh of Starsailor, with Aynsley Lister also returning to London's 100 Club tomorrow night for his traditional annual gig, and for today's Podcast Of The Day, we go back to July 2014 when Aynsley headlined our 2014 WRC Bluesfest on an awesome Summer's day, which includes tracks and interviews from all the quality bands that performed at another top independent venue, Kent's Leo's Red Lion in Gravesend.

With the promise of being ‘hands down the fattest, nastiest, chunkiest thing’ he's ever done, Mike Ross' brand-new twelve-track album, ‘Third Eye Open’, is due out this Spring, and Mike hasn’t so much started the ball rolling, as fired a first cannonball salvo with the album's debut single, ‘The Preacher’, that's full of raw Rock energy and colour, aided and abetted by guest vocals from Brit rocker Jack J Hutchinson, 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 Dreamyth, Supertilt, Redlight King, Averlanche and Time To Kill.

Previously released digitally worldwide, Perris Records will now release on CD next Friday 3rd February, both of Torben Enevoldsen's all instrumental albums, '5.1' (2019) and 'Transition' (2022), of which the latter features Pete Steincke (Fate) on bass, Dennis Hansen (Acacia Avenue) on drums and Enevoldsen on guitar and keyboards, who also mixed and mastered the album himself and wrote all songs, except for a cover of Joe Satriani's 'Memories', and 'Transition's first track, 'In Orbit', is one of today's six of the best 'Sunday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further recent and forthcoming releases from The Almas, Dark Embrace, The Enigma Division, Medevil and Rylos.

Initially renowned for her cover versions of Blues and Rock classics on YouTube (500K subscribers - 105 million views), rising Anglo French Rock supremo Laura Cox recently released her new album, 'Head Above Water', on Friday 20th January via earMUSIC, of which her new single, and one of eleven great Rock songs bursting with energy and passion, 'Wiser', is today's Video Of The Day. Subsequently receiving great acclaim from both critics and Rock fans for her own music, with the release in 2017 of the Laura Cox Band's 'Hard Blues Shot', alongside like minded guitarist Mathieu Albiac, and then especially for her 2019 album, 'Burning Bright', watch out for Laura in March/April as the guitarist/singer is out on the road performing in both Germany and Poland.

The 2022 WRC Award winning A New Day Festival returns this year to Mt Ephraim Gardens, Faversham, over the weekend of 18th to 20th August, with a wide selection of tickets (weekend, day and camping) available to purchase here https://anewdayfestival.com/tickets and today we turn the clock back to Friday 20th August 2021, with our 30 minute A New Day 'Reflections' Podcast Of The Day, which includes interviews and more from Day 1, including Jamie Pipe (The Mentulls/Martin Barre), Tree Stewart (The Emerald Dawn), Darby Todd (Martin Barre) and Martin Barre.

Released yesterday, 'Unity', the second album by Swedish melodic rockers Arctic Rain, sees them building on 2020’s ‘The One’, with a set of bigger, bolder songs with a rockier edge that are built around the bedrock of band mainstays Magnus Berglund (guitars) and Tobias Jonsson (vocals), complemented by the rhythm section of bassist Gert Daun and drumming of new member Richard Tonyson, plus tasteful keyboards of fellow newbie Kaspar Dahlqvist, such as 'Fire In My Eyes', one of today's six of the best 'Frontiers Rocks Again!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by four similarly timed Frontiers releases from Crowne, Electric Mob, Girish And The Chronicles and Ronnie Romero featuring Chris Caffery, plus one further track from Truism.

Ahead of some live shows with her band around Italy, Germany and France over the coming months, yesterday Italian artist Kӕry Ann released her debut album, 'Songs of Grace and Ruin' via Anomic Records, of which, 'Imaginary Room', her fourth and last single, is today's Video Of The Day. This Neo-Psychedelic/Shoegaze moody song comes forth with a black and white vintage video, the last of the trilogy after the singles 'Blue Eyes' and 'Desert Song', in which the artist first plays an ethereal character who lives in nature, then progressively descends to a more human dimension.

On today's latest Simply Country Podcast Of The Day playlist, there's new music from Little Lore, Michael Botte Band and Keith McLoughlin, plus there's Bob's complete Top 20 of the best tracks of 2022, namely Adele & Andy, Aishling Rafferty, Biddy & The Bullets, Caitlin Mae, Dan Washburn, Donna Marie, Helena Mace, Jamie Donnelly, Lily Grace, Louise Parker, Lynn Campbell, Paul Jupe, Robbie Harte, Sharon Marie White, Sun-Pinned Leaves, Taynee Lord & The Crookes, The Heartland Roots Band (pictured), Victoria Eman, Wild Fire and Zoee.