Following the release earlier this month of Slade's, 'Sladest' (1973), on limited deluxe edition blue and white splatter vinyl, that's also been expanded to 20 songs on a CD, including a USA 7” Edit bonus track of 'Skweeze Me, Pleeze Me', next Friday 25th November, BMG will also be releasing a limited edition 12” coloured vinyl of ’Merry Xmas Everybody’, today's Video Of The Day. This new 12” single package also contains 'Let’s Dance', 'Okey Cokey' and 'Auld Land Syne/You’ll Never Walk Alone', all taken from Slade’s 'Crackers - The Christmas Party Album', with all 16 songs also available on both limited edition transparent and smokey white vinyl, plus also on CD, which contains four bonus tracks.

The solo music project of Irish musician, Paul Dillon, pMad's Post Punk, Gothic Rock sound has been described as the bastard child of The Cult and The Mission, and on Tuesday 29th November he releases his debut album, ‘Who Why Where What’, thirteen tracks not only brim full of singles, remixes and new tracks, but also a colossal and passionate alternative dark brooding Alt Rock masterpiece, that blends crashing guitars, pounding drums, stirring vocals, with a controlled intense passion that builds beautifully, such as 'Who Am I', one of today's six of the best 'Friday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further recent and forthcoming releases from Leaflet, Candy Coffins, Enbor Arnasa, Voicians and Souldrainer.

Exactly five years ago today, Wrinklystock VI took place featuring Magic, a tribute to two of the greatest British Rock bands of all time - Queen and The Electric Light Orchestra - together in one fabulous show with The Replicants at The Mick Jagger Centre, Dartford, and for today's Rock On The Ridge Podcast Of The Day, we turn the clock back to that charity gig, plus great music of course from Queen, ELO, Little Brother Eli, Stone Temple Pilots, Monster Truck and many more.

Ahead of two live performance in their home capital in December and January, and influenced by 80s and 90s British Pop, Alternative Rock and Post-Punk bands like Joy Division and Placebo, plus American acts such as Pixies, The Smashing Pumpkins and Nirvana, The WaterStriders are a four-piece act hailing from Athens, best described as Indie Rock, Alternative and Garage Pop. characterised by distorted guitars and melodic lines, who have just released their new full-length album on the Old Bad Habits Label, 'My Name is Expectation', of which their single, 'I Never Die, My Name Is Expectation', is one of today's six of the best 'Thursday Rocks!' Tracks of The Day, complemented by five further recent and forthcoming releases from Troy Redfern, Diplomatics, Gramercy Arms, Faster Pussycat and Darren Michael Boyd.

"This time, it was a tour in support of his latest album: 'New Direction' along with a few old faves slotted in for good measure. Most notably 'Hey Baby', which I had seen him do since his days with “The Nuge”! Showing my age unfortunately…. The set was nicely mixed with some other older tracks and the new album. A great song selection too." Following the release in September of his fourth solo album, ‘New Direction’, a collection of 10 uplifting and life-affirming songs, last Sunday, Marco Mendoza completed his 10-show UK tour at Londpn's famous The Underworld in Camden, with special guests Silent Thieves, Bad Actress and Nitroville, so check out not only Tim Russell's complete take on the gig, but also some of his excellent photos, plus our 'Higher Ground/Chinatown/Jailbreak' Video Of The Day.

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 The Temptations, Too Slim and The Taildraggers, Alter Bridge, Sammy Hagar & The Circle, Otis Rush, Riverside (pictured), The Stills Young Band, The Crusaders, Aerosmith, Rod Stewart, David Paich, Little Johnny Taylor, Thornetta Davis, Brian Setzer Orchestra, plus many more.

Today's latest The Zach Moonshine Show Podcast Of The Day, not only features Raven as the co-host, but also Gravehuffer, who talk about their new single and cover of Twisted Sister's 'Destroyer', plus there's new and classic tracks from Twisted Sister, Inhuman Condition, Casket Robbery, Midnight, Kreator, Mercyful Fate, Morbid Cross, Obituary, Witches Of God, Danzig, Never Reborn, California Condor, Incognito Theory, Gorgoroth, Watain, Rotting Christ, Last Retch, Me And That Man, Korrosive, Snipers Of Babel and Reign of Vengeance.

"Two fine voices and a very tight band sent everyone home smiling. More of the same please!" The recent nine-date Jo Harman/Mike Farris UK tour stopped off at London's Jazz Cafe in Camden on Saturday 5th November, and not only do we have Gary Smith's complete take on the gig, but also Ivan De Mello's Photo Gallery plus our Video Of The Day of them both performing, 'How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You', filmed on the second night of the tour at Surrey's Haslemere Hall.

Not only did the new movie, ’Sam & Kate’, starring Dustin Hoffman and Sissy Spacek, open in theatres across the US last Friday, but the score for the film was written by The Cure's very own Roger O’Donnell, which was inspired by Roger's beautiful new solo album, ‘7 Different Words For Love’, that was also released last Friday on his own label 99X/10 (pronounced Ninety-Nine Times Out Of Ten), and 'One Last Word', taken from the new album, is one of today's six of the best 'Wednesday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further recent and forthcoming releases from Iron Asparagus, Cilvarium, Highway Queen, Richy Nix and Nomadic Narwhal.

Following the band’s globally acclaimed and gold-certified 2018 release, 'When Legends Rise', which achieved four No.1 singles back-to-back, multi-platinum Grammy-nominated Hard Rock band, Godsmack, will release their eighth studio album, 'Lighting Up The Sky', next year on Friday 24th February via BMG, of which the album’s opening track, 'You And I', is today's Video Of The Day, following their first single off the record, 'Surrender'. With over 20 years of chart-topping success, the Massachusetts-bred quartet, consisting of Sully Erna (vocals, guitar), Tony Rombola (guitar), Robbie Merrill (bass) and Shannon Larkin (drums), have cemented themselves as 21st-century Hard Rock titans.dropping one more classic album as they ascend into the celebratory portion of their career.

Ahead of performing their album live for the first time on tour in Portugal from this Saturday, Dead Can Dance singer Lisa Gerrard and Irish composer Jules Maxwell release an extended Deluxe edition of their critically acclaimed 2021 album, ‘Burn’, this Friday 18th November, consisting of the seven original tracks from the album, plus Jules Maxwell’s original 2015 demos, of which, 'Noyalain (Burn)', is one of today's six of the best 'Tuesday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further forthcoming and recent releases from Hounds of Thyra, Kaixo featuring King Protea, Triskelyon, bandwithoutband and Faraz Anwar.

Today's latest Blues On The Radio Podcast Of The Day features Johnny Rawls, Aynsley Lister, Shawn Pittman, Mississippi MacDonald (pictured), Kai Strauss, Jana Varga, Krissy Matthews, Rebecca Downes, Greg Brice, Trevor Babajack Steger, Kyla Brox and The James Oliver Band, ahead of their show at The Tuesday Night Music Club in Coulsdon tonight.