Acclaimed Folk/Americana ensemble, Only Child, led by Scouse songwriter Alan O’Hare, celebrates ten years of playing gigs and recording music this year with the recent release at the beginning of this month of their first ever vinyl long playing album, 'Looking Forward To Looking Back - A Decade Of Only Child’, of which their first single from the album, 'Bruce', is today's beautifully simple, but striking Video Of The Day. Featuring ten songs remastered for 2022 by Pete Maher (U2), including 'Scouse', 'Accidental Englishman', 'William Ralph Dean' and 'North John Street', the limited edition LP is the first release on the newly-launched Crosstown Records, from acclaimed Liverpool producer, engineer and guitarist Jon Lawton.

Klaus from Ugly Kid Joe joins today's The Zach Moonshine Show Podcast Of The Day, to play and talk about tracks from their latest release, 'Rad Wings Of Destiny'. plus there's new releases from The Red Mountain, Eyes of the Living, Casket Robbery, Summoner's Circle and Deocculted.

Canadian Melodic Power thrashers Triskelyon will be unleashing their debut album, 'Downfall', next Friday 28th October via Washington state-based Extreme Metal label Moribund Records, delivering an amazing headbanging album that harkens back to the old-school days of such luminaries as Forbidden, Agent Steel, Sentinel Beast, Détente, Overkill and Testament, of which their single, 'Balance of Terror', featuring vocals from Amanda Marie Jackman (Category VI), is also one of today's six of the best 'Wednesday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further forthcoming and recent releases from Dearly Departed, Battlejuice And LeBrock, Dragonland, Buzzed & Loaded and Celldweller.

Hot on the heels of the recent addition of Spyder as their full-time bassist, California Rock legends Steel Panther will release their sixth studio album 'On The Prowl' next year on Friday 24th February, that features thirteen new tracks from the creative brains of Satchel, Michael Starr, Stix Zadinia and Spyder, and their first single and opening track,' Never Too Late (To Get Some Pu**y Tonight)', is also today's memorable Video Of The Day. From the synth intro on the opener, to the thunderous outro of 'Sleeping On The Rollaway', Steel Panther is back with the infectious riffs, pounding drums, unforgettable vocals alongside the witty humour that has earned them a global audience. Songs like 'On Your Instagram', 'Magical Vagina' and 'One Pump Chump' are sure to fit in on the biggest live stages next to the band’s most-memorable songs, along with '1987', an incredible retro look at that unforgettable year, plus the slower, reflective, 'Ain’t Dead Yet'.

Malaya Blue starts and finishes today's Blues On The Radio Podcast Of The Day, ahead of her album launch at The Tuesday Night Music Club in Coulsdon tonight, plus there's music from Alice Armstrong & Matt Long, Aynsley Lister (pictured), Guy Verlinde, William Bell, The Rusty Wright Band, Jeremiah Johnson, Anna Davies & The Sinnermen, Rebecca Richards, Grant Dermody, Ben Levin and Jana Varga.

Now re-recorded with the current line-up, German Hard Rock titans, Bonfire, recently re-issued their charity single, 'Freedom Is My Belief' (originally released on their 1989 album 'Point Blank'), in order to help traumatised children and young people from Ukraine, with all proceeds from the single going entirely to the children, of which the track 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 Dmitry Wild, Amken, Inner Urge, Voodoo Drummer and U.D.O.

Billy Idol's second arena show on his six-date The Roadside UK Tour, takes place tonight at Cardiff's International Arena, with special guests Killing Joke and Toyah, and today's '10 Minutes With Billy Idol' Podcast Of The Day. is another chance to hear the WRC community recently catching up with Billy for some questions ahead of the tour. Following last year's release of his reflective 'The Roadside' EP, his first new music for seven years, the world’s favourite rebel is back with some new music and a stack of timeless classics. Indeed, these are Billy's first live shows in the UK since 2018, along with his touring band, featuring his long-time guitarist and collaborator Steve Stevens, plus Stephen McGrath (bass, backing vocals), Billy Morrison (guitar, backing vocals), Paul Trudeau (keyboards, backing vocals) and drummer Erik Eldenius. The WRC would like to thank Billy for his time and we're all looking forward to catching him at London's OVO Wembley Arena this Wednesday 19th October.

"The standard of music was high, and whilst they pay a wonderful tribute to this period of time, they are no tribute band. The storytelling through their act makes them more of an experience than a simple setlist. The vibrant stage show only adds to the performance." With Halloween fast approaching, Chris Griffiths bravely took in the deadly girl band from hell, The Vampirettes, at London's famous Cart & Horses in Stratford (the birthplace of Iron Maiden) on Friday night, so today not only check out Chris's frightening review, but also his terrifying photos plus their bewitching Video Of The Day, covering Sabbath's 'Paranoid', filmed at the Ealing Blues Festival in August.

Released last Friday on Dugnad Records, 'Happy Fear' is the extraordinary effort of Oslo experimental musician and Norwegian Indie-Rock band Oh Yeah Tiger drummer, Kim Uglum Reenskaug, with his project Wow Sailor, that weaves together a auditive fabric of field recordings, samples and synths and creates an atmospheric, emotional and meditative landscape, of which the closing track, 'Where Sorrow Ends', is one of today's six of the best 'Monday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further forthcoming and recent releases from Quzarra, Erja Lyytinen, Filter, Joanne Shaw Taylor and Leviathan Project.

Consisting of Alan Nimmo (vocals, guitar), Stevie Nimmo (guitar), Jonny Dyke (organ, piano), Zander Greenshields (bass) and Andrew Scott (drums), King King continue their 6-date headline/Planet Rock Rocktober UK tour at the Northampton Roadmender tonight, and last Sunday 9th October, our Swiss correspondent, Marlène Rivet, saw their "amazing" gig at the Mühle Hunziken in Rubigen, so check out today both Marlène's Photo Gallery plus her 'You Stopped The Rain' Video Of The Day.

For today's Podcast Of The Day we turn the clock back exactly seven year ago today to when the Marshman had Timmy and Junior Moore live in the Blues On The Marsh studio, as well as playing music from Andy Santana & The West Coast Playboys, Blues Evolution, No Blues, Lucy Zirins, Lily Martin, Kai Strauss, Half Deaf Clatch, Eddie Martin's Big Red Radio, Down Home Percolators, Fantastic Negrito, Fiona Boyes, Kaz Hawkins, Debbie Davis, Bob Malone and Eddie Cotton!

Comprising of PY Letellier (bass), Dave Traina (drums), Lee-La Baum (lead vocals, guitar) and Tom Shemer (guitar), The Damn Truth, the critically acclaimed Montreal-based Rock band, also kicked off their 11-date UK tour in Bristol last night, supporting both Planet Rock’s Rocktober and King King shows, plus also headlining in their own right, and last Friday, in advance of the tour, they released their latest single, 'Look Innocent', which is also one of today's six of the best 'Sunday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further forthcoming and recent releases from Chris Connelly, Mitchell's Kiss Of The Gypsy, Victoria K, Incursion and The Witching Hour.