Recommended for fans of speedy Heavy Metal, Power Metal, Hard Rock and 80’s soundtracks, yesterday LionSoul unveiled their third full-length album, 'A Pledge To Darkness', via Rockshots Records, featuring 11 roaring cosmic tracks, it's a huge step forward in the Italian sextet's career, as it is more heterogeneous, and in some ways darker than the previous pair, of which the title track is one of today's six of the best Saturday Rocks! Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further new and recent releases from Lu Silver, The Strange Seeds, Slanderus, Fallen Sanctuary and Crashdiet.

"I have caught most of Joanne’s London shows over the past decade or so and her playing seems to improve with each visit; indeed, her instrumental prowess may be one reason why her voice has been rather underrated by comparison, but that should soon change on the evidence of this latest album and tour." Today, Gary Smith gives us his considered opinion of Joanne Shaw Taylor's Shepherd's Bush Empire gig in London from last Tuesday 26th April, plus check out our photo gallery courtesy of Bruce Biege plus our 'If You Gotta Make A Fool Of Somebody' Video Of The Day.

Today's latest Blues Club Podcast Of The Day has another two hours of non stop Best in Blues and a bit of this and that, with More Music and Less Chat, including Kenny Neal, Bonnie Raitt, Robert Cray Band, Black Pearl, Walter Trout, Eliza Neals, Edgar Winter (pictured), Steven Troch Band, Mississippi MacDonald, Mississippi Heat, Richard Townend, Markey Blue Ric Latina Project and many more.

Coming 40 years after he first started performing in bands in his native North West of England, Tim Bowness returns this year with his seventh solo album, ‘Butterfly Mind’, due for release on Friday 17th June via Sony/InsideOutMusic, produced in conjunction with long-time collaborator Brian Hulse, and also mixed and mastered by Steven Wilson, of which the album's first single, ‘Always The Stranger’, is one of today's six of the best 'Friday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further new and recent releases from Smoke, Tough On Fridays, Allen's Hand, Restive Nation and Master Boot Record.

Presented by London Prog Gigs and The Bedford, Psychedelic Proggers IT are to perform their 2017 album, 'We’re All In This Together', in full, at Sunday Mass, a very special "cabaret style" event at The Bedford in London next Sunday 8th May from 1pm, along with Ruby Dawn singer Carola Baer and Jon Hunt, finishing at 6.30pm with DJs until 8pm, and for today's Podcast Of The Day, we go back to London's 229 The Venue in March 2018, when we managed to do a quick interview with the 2017 WRC Best Prog Performance award winners, after their soundcheck.

With recent news of a fabulous new book, 'Keith Emerson - his life and legacy illustrated and celebrated', now available to pre-order at keithemersonbook.com - last Tuesday night at London's 229 The Venue, we were blessed to see the surviving "P" of Emerson, Lake and Palmer, as Carl Palmer's ELP Legacy UK Trilogy 50th Anniversary tour hit the capital, including classics such as 'Fanfare For The Common Man' (Video Of The Day), 'Tarkus' and 'Lucky Man', plus check out today's photo gallery. Drummer Palmer, not unsurprisingly, also contributes to Emerson's fully illustrated book, which also contains new interviews with family, friends, colleagues and fans as well as musicians, including Rick Wakeman, Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, Alan White, Marc Bonilla and Geoff Downes, to name but a few.

Last Thursday, London Prog Gigs paired two top eclectic bands, Salzburg-based Blank Manuskript and Southampton's A Formal Horse, at Camden's Fiddler's Elbow, on a night where Art and Avant Rock met Prog, so check out, not only Bruce Biege's excellent photo gallery, but also our A Formal Horse Video Of The Day, filmed at The Railway Inn, Winchester, on Good Friday. Indeed, the Austrian outfit boast an internationally successful chamber of uncompromisingly bizarre Rock music, which has gained them a reputation for their originality, characterised by their sophisticated symphonic arrangements as well as extensive Psychedelic improvisations. As for the spicy quartet from Hampshire, their incredible musical mix of Avant-Garde, Progressive Alternative, Alternative, Prog-Rock, Avant-Prog and Rock, was very reminiscent of early Yes and King Crimson, topped off by Hayley McDonnell's beautiful vocals.

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 Matt Pearce & The Mutiny (pictured), Walter Trout, Albert Cummings, Joe Louis Walker, Malone Sibun, Edgar Winter & Keb Mo, Roadhouse, Eric Johnson, Astral Drive, Eddie Martin, Eddie Vedder, Thorbjorn & The Black Tornado, Mollie Marriott, Dana Fuchs, Voodoo Ramble plus many more.

James LaBrie, known internationally as the vocalist for Progressive Metal icons and Grammy-winners Dream Theater, releases his upcoming solo album, 'Beautiful Shade of Grey’, via InsideOutMusic on Friday 20th May, this latest studio offering from the Canadian singer first taking shape shortly after the global pandemic began to emerge, but in reality, LaBrie formed a bond with his fellow collaborator, Eden’s Curse bassist Paul Logue, nearly a decade earlier, of which the second single from the album, 'Give & Take', is one of today's six of the best 'Thursday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further new and recent releases from InComing Days, Gunash, Anniken, Abertooth Lincoln and Shovel.

Currently working on releasing new music, Toronto's legendary Rock armada, White Cowbell Oklahoma, will be hitting the road with a home province tour of Ontario from April till June, to support the release this August of their first archival album, 'Textos Raros – Vol 1 – 2001-2011', via their very own label, Slick Monkey Records, that features over 40 minutes of eleven rare and never-released digital tracks, such as 'Streetknifes ‘R’ Go', which is also one of today's six of the best 'Wednesday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further new and recent releases from Last Flight To Pluto, Nomadic Narwhal, Kaapstaad, Gia G and Aztlan.

Originally broadcast on Friday night, today's Rock Vault 107 Podcast Of The Day includes music from Sugarloaf, Spooky Tooth, Scorpions, Kiss, Nazareth (pictured), Bad Company, Foghat plus many more. Indeed, you can listen live to Jules and Bob every Friday night at 8pm on 107 Meridian FM. Taking you back in time, they'll bring you tracks that you may know and some you may not, plus they always feature a special year.

"Live favourite ‘Mountain’, from 2015’s ‘Wish For What You Want’ and which also features on recent live collection ‘Live From The Barn’, ended the set and after some schtick where the guitarist pretended to ask the audience to squeeze in a bit as he took a photo, he opened a nifty app that turned his phone into a mini theremin, enabling him to coax some wild notes from his Strat’ for an explosive climax. This is a band that, almost without seeming to break sweat, provide a rollercoaster wall of sound. Smooth stagecraft and sensational music. An amazingly good live act." Today read Simon Green's complete take on Billy Walton Band's recent Tuesday Blues gig at The 100 Club in London from 5th April, with support from Brave Rival, plus check out Simon's photos and our Video Of The Day of 'Cold Day In Hell', taken on the tour at Leicester's The Musician.