Ahead of his UK tour with special guest Arielle in March and April this year, award-winning South African Blues Rock guitarist and singer-songwriter, Dan Patlansky, releases his highly anticipated new studio album, 'Shelter Of Bones', on Friday 25th February by Virgin Music Label and Artist Services, and for today's Podcast Of The Day, we turn the clock back to November 2018, when we had the pleasure, once again of interviewing Dan, ahead of his then UK headline tour with support from Gorilla Riot.

With nearly 8,000 worldwide votes being received overall, including India, Russia, Brazil, Norway and New Zealand (plus many after our deadline - nice try), today we announce the final, and lucky thirteenth winner of our 2021 WRC awards, namely When Rivers Meet, who have been voted 'Best Support', as today's Bexhill De La Warr Pavilion 'Walking On The Wire' Video Of The Day testifies (pictured). Indeed, the British husband and wife Blues Rock duo recently joined King King on their 7-date UK October tour, following the release of their debut album, 'We Fly Free', in November 2020, which subsequently saw them set a record in May 2021, by becoming the first-ever artist or band to win four awards at the UK Blues Awards including “Blues Band of the Year”,“Blues Album of the Year”, “Emerging Blues Artist of the Year" and “Most Inspirational Online Performance of the Year”.

Toundra, the instrumental Rock band from Madrid, return from the isolation of their homes, to release their new album, ‘Hex’, via InsideOutMusic, this coming Friday 14th January, and their latest, and first of three singles that form one long piece of music, 'El Odio. Part I’, is also one of today's six of the best Sunday Rocks! Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further new and recent releases from Symfinity, Cruciatus Infernalis, Amoth, Carr Jam 21 and Martyr.

Hailing from Kansas City, USA, five piece powerhouse, Beyond The Grey, have made a name for themselves by combining the best of their influences such as Judas Priest, Metallica and The Foo Fighters, to make their own sound filled with heavy riffs, driving bass, banging drums and melodic vocals, such as their awesome single, 'Fight or Flight', that has been voted/awarded our 2021 WRC 'Track Of The Year', and is accordingly one of today's six 'Saturday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further new and recent releases from Above Sky, Revolution Above Disorder, Beyond The Styx, Tymo and Omhosten.

Exactly six years after The Mentulls walked away with our 2015 WRC 'Best Blues Performance' award, and after a very tight voting battle in this year's very same category, King King, who we saw at Bexhill De La Warr Pavilion during their October UK tour, have won our 'Best Blues' category, and to celebrate their award, the band who released their 10-track fifth studio album 'Maverick' in November 2020, and feature Alan Nimmo (vocals/guitar), Stevie Nimmo (guitar), Jonny Dyke (organ/piano), Zander Greenshields (bass) and Andrew Scott (drums), are today's 'Rush Hour' Video Of The Day.

"Back at the Prog stage are Finnish Prog heroes The Von Hertzen Brothers. Playing a mix of classic Rock combined with Progressive elements, Folk, Punk and contemporary Rock, the band has a sound for everyone. Guitarist Kie, playing his battered white strat, gets some killer sounds out of his Vox amp with a set that has heavy guitar but also a big keyboard sound that has Rush-like qualities. Mikko Von Hertzen has a happy look on his face the whole time, although, if you are young, good looking and front a popular band, why wouldn’t you be. The heat of the weekend feels at it’s hottest here as Kie quips to the assembled photographers "We look way better when we are soaked". And not a drop of rain all day." That was part of our Von Hertzen Brothers Ramblin' Man Fair Day 2 review, from the first day of July in 2018, and after their set we caught up with guitarist Kie Von Hertzen and drummer Sami Kuoppamaki for an interview, which is today's Podcast Of The Day.

Street Arts Project, a non-profit charity working with the homeless and vulnerable of Stratford upon Avon, will be releasing their new album, ‘Wake Me Up Tomorrow’, on Friday 14th January, prior to their free concert at the Stratford Playhouse the following evening, on Saturday 15th January at 8pm, and the first single and title track, is one of today's six of the best 'Friday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further new and recent releases from Deadwolff, Spray, Frozen By Fire, Fragment Soul featuring Heike Langhans and Andrés Cano.

Today's latest Blues Club Podcast Of The Day has another two hours of non stop Best in Blues and Beyond with More Music and Less Chat, including New Releases, Classic Tracks and UK IBBA Presenters' Picks, featuring music from the Jon Spear Band, Chickenbone Slim, Backwater Roll, The Teskey Brothers, Starlite Campbell Band, Dave Specter, The 2:19 and many more.

For fans of Slayer, Hallows Eve and Lich King, Manic's spooky cartoon lyric video, 'Halloween', a John Carpenter inspired track, released this year, just in time for the witching hour, by the Charlotte, North Carolina,Thrash/Heavy Metal band, has been voted our 2021 WRC Video Of The Year, and to celebrate, it is duly today's Video Of The Day!

Led by multi-instrumentalist and composer Jonas Lindberg, Swedish Progressive Rock outfit Jonas Lindberg and The Other Side have signed with InsideOutMusic for the release of their upcoming new album, 'Miles From Nowhere', due out on Friday 18th February, consisting of seven songs, from the soaring 'Summer Queen' (led by Jenny Storm), to the folksy instrumental 'Astral Journey', to the closing title track; a sprawling 25 minute epic which features none other than Roine Stolt (The Flower Kings, Transatlantic) on lead guitar, which is also one of today's 'Thursday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further new and recent releases from Crossbones' Creed, 1945, Robin Guthrie, Jackpipe and Blacklist Union.

"The finale sees the gleefully mad Psychoberrie and her now reanimated corpse dive into the crowd to start a fun but frantic polka circle whilst the band plays on. And a shout out here to guitarist Lex who's fretboard skills were excellent and wholly appropriate to the show. Nice Hagstrom guitar too. Ward XV1 are an interesting act that I recommend you check out for yourself. I will be seeing them again as soon as I can." You won't believe how tight the voting was in this category, but following in the exact footsteps today of Collateral (2019), Daxx & Roxane (2020) and The Howling Tides (2021), Ward XVI's performance on Day 2 of Hard Rock Hell in November (pictured), has won them our 2021 WRC 'One's To Watch' award, as testified by today's Video Of The Day of 'Burn The Witch'.

Zak Penley and Sarabeth Linden from the band, Tower, join today's first Zach Moonshine Show Podcast Of The Day of 2022, to talk about and play their new album, 'Shock To The System', plus there's new releases from Gravehuffer, Summoner's Circle, Hellpie, Nervochaos, Lucifist, Okrütnik, Misanthropik Torment, Brundarkh, Devoured, 1945, Vulture Lord, Necralant, Ironbound, Goat Sanctuary, Deconsecration, Reburied, Vrykolakas, Exodus, Aeon, The Limit, Katana Cartel, Inhuman Atrocities, Metallica, Dust Prophet, Tur, Behemoth, Afghan Haze and Iron Maiden.