Given, today's St. Patrick's Day, Belfast born singer-songwriter and producer Gareth Dunlop releases his own long-awaited second album, ‘Animal’, on Friday 22nd April, that consists of a diverse set of songs including the soulful and anthemic ‘Right About Ready’ and ‘Look Back Smiling’, which evoke the ‘80s yet exude a timeless quality, the atmospheric new single ‘Sorrow’ (Video Of The Day) and ‘Prisoner Of My Past’, which both channel late period Roxy Music, the laid-back ‘60s dream Pop vibe of ‘Humans’, plus a memorable title song that adds an electronic bounce to its subtle groove. Gareth has also produced new records by friends and fellow Northern Irish musicians Foy Vance (‘Signs Of Life’, 2021) and Lee Rogers (‘Gameblood’, out Spring 2022), and all three artists will be on tour together in the UK and Ireland later this Summer.

Continuing our St. Patrick's Day theme, today's six of the best 'St. Paddy's Day Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day are all connected to artists from the Emerald Isle, namely Rory Gallagher, David Long & Shane O'Neill, Klubber Lang, Gary Moore, The Answer and Thin Lizzy.

Following his upcoming UK tour with special guest Danny Bryant, critically acclaimed Blues Rock guitarist Eric Gales returns this June, with another special guest, Irish Blues guitarist and singer songwriter, Dom Martin, to perform six more gigs, and today's Podcast Of The Day turns the clock back to his June 2017 UK tour, when we not only took in Gales at Nell’s Jazz & Blues in Kensington, London, but were also lucky enough to interview him before the gig.

Formed for one reason ... To Rock! ... Huntsville, Alabama, USA based rockers, Loaded Dice, consisting of Roland Edger (lead vocals), Danny Jones (bass), Daniel Rogers (guitar) and Curtis Johnson (drums), in conjunction with Cineartz Film Productions, have recently unveiled today's Video Of The Day for their new single on Delinquent Records, 'Angry'. Rolling strong at 10k+ views in the first week of director Sithara Paranavithana's worldwide cinematic release, in the past the band has earned a great deal of exposure both playing large festivals plus supporting musical artists such as Brother Cane, Collective Soul, Hootie & the Blowfish, R.E.M., Sarah McLachlan, Tori Amos, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Dave Matthews Band, Jewel, Sheryl Crow, Alanis Morissette and Kansas, to name but a few. Indeed, when the dice roll, you're gonna Rock!

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 Procol Harum (pictured), Larry McCray, Sugaray Rayford, Mercedes Nicole, Mike Zito, Edgar Winter with Joe Bonamassa, Bobby Parker, Regina Bonelli, Big Wolf, Muddy Manninen, Adam Norsworthy, Dan Patlansky, Joe Cocker plus many more.

Hailing from San Jose, California, and rocking the Bay Area with their Heavy Blues/Hard Rock, Melodic hook driving rhythms, soulful vocals, searing guitar leads and thunderous drums since 2007, Madman's Lullaby will release the follow up to last year's 'Nocturnal Overdrive Part 1', with their brand new EP, 'Nocturnal Overdrive Part 2', via Australia's MR Records on Thursday 21st April, of which the track, 'Falling', is one of today's six of the best 'Wednesday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further new and recent releases from Claim HG, No Captains, Lost Legacy, Steve Wernick and Lucid Conformity.

With several singles over the last 18 months landing in the highly respected Dutch Hit Tracks 100 Chart plus airplay from all around the world, The Druids Of Stonehenge are back with their brilliant new single based on life in 80's LA, 'Rock Candy'. featuring the gravelly vocals of David Budge doing the song justice, while backed up with the as always excellent musicianship of Carl J Hauser and Billy Cross, which is also one of today's six of the best 'Tuesday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further new and recent releases from Frank Palangi, Project Renegade, Robert Rodrigo, Voodoo Moonshine and Signal Collapse.

Today's latest Blues On The Radio Podcast Of The Day features artists who are coming to The Tuesday Night Music Club in Coulsdon over the next few months, including Eddy Smith & The 507 plus Jana Varga (who are both playing tonight), The Dave Kelly Band, Beaux Gris Gris & The Apocalypse (pictured), The Mentulls, Laura Evans, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Sean Taylor, Ian Siegal, Ramblin' Preachers, Robin Bibi & Tim Hain and Wily Bo Walker.

"A special mention must go to Bonfanti for his agile and flexuous guitar playing. It’s not every guitar player that can play the Blues that fast with precision. To set us off into the cold dark night on a high we were treated to the rapturous ‘Choo Choo Mama’ from the 1972 album ‘Rock and Roll Music to the World’. A fast paced boogie rocker that had many heads bopping and hips swaying!" That was part of our recent take on Ten Years After at London's The 100 Club at the end of January, and to complement that review, courtesy of our Swiss correspondent Marlène Rivet, today we have not only some of her excellent photos taken at their Mühle Hunziken, Rubigen gig on Thursday 3rd March in our Photo Gallery, but we also have Marlène's Video Of The Day.

With an expansive imagination, and for fans of AC/DC, Alice In Chains, Budgie and Thin Lizzy, Tyrannosaurus Nebulous debut album, 'Tyrant Lizard King', out on Friday 25th March, isn't afraid to explore boundaries when approaching legacy classic Hard Rock, with tinges of Metal, Thrash, Progression and musical acrobatics, such as the album opener, 'Get Some', which is also one of today's six of the best 'Monday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further new and recent releases from Cellar Twins, Ava Vox, Midnite Hellion, On The Loose and Lockjaw.

Originally broadcast on Friday night, today's Rock Vault 107 Podcast Of The Day includes music from Silverchair, Foo Fighters (pictured), Def Leppard, Ozzy Osbourne and 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 andsome you may not, plus they always feature a special year.

Firekind (Video Of The Day) and Loz Campbell, two of the most exciting up and coming artists on the UK Rock scene, unite side by side for a special co-headline tour at six venues over the course of a week this Summer. Hailing from Devon, Firekind fuses epic soaring vocal and guitar melodies with driving, powerful drums and bass that could fill a stadium. They are swiftly gaining a reputation as a formidable high octane live act and will release new music this year. Meanwhile, the Yorkshire based fierce and incendiary Loz Campbell, recently unleashed her hard hitting new single ‘Bad Girl’, encompassing spicy guitar riffs, sultry and alluring vocals and a rhythm heavy groove, and this modern alternative cautionary tale has had heads nodding and swaying from the turn of its ignition.