Exactly 32 years after Florida radio station WKRL played Led Zeppelin's 'Stairway To Heaven' (Video Of The Day) for 24 hours straight, and exactly six years after Purple Zeppelin won our 2015 WRC 'Best Tribute' award, congratulations to Coda - A Tribute To Led Zeppelin - who have won our first 2021 WRC award for 'Best Tribute'. Indeed, we hope to catch up with the guys at Hastings White Rock Theatre on Saturday 29th January to present them with their well deserved award. Meanwhile, also in today's first WRC Bulletin of 2022, we also look forward to January and our WRC Gig Calendar, plus we look back at December, including The Cinelli Brothers and The Sweet (Islington Assembly Hall) gig reviews, our Bad Touch, The Sweet (Bexhill) and Ana Popovic photo galleries, our Less Than Hollow, Bernie Marsden, Mississippi MacDonald and E D Brayshaw album reviews, also not forgetting our comprehensive December news archive. Finally, don't forget that if you want to receive our monthly e-mail bulletin, please submit your e-mail address in the box below.

As we look forward to hopefully a much better New Year (it couldn't be any worse could it?), today's six 'January 2022 Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day showcases some of the many gigs this month on our 2022 WRC Gig Calendar https://www.wrinklyrockersclub.com/gig-calendar-wrinklystock namely Focus (Friday 21st Under The Bridge, London), Sham 69 (Saturday 22nd O2 Academy Islington, London), Tremonti (Tuesday 25th Shepherd's Bush Empire, London), The Howling Tides (Wednesday 26th The Rescue Rooms, Nottingham), Stone Broken (Thursday 27th Electric Ballroom, Camden, London, pictured) and Saxon (Saturday 29th Eventim Apollo, London).

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 Catfish, Mississippi MacDonald (pictured), Richard Townend & The Mighty Bosscats, Connor Selby, Jimmy Regal & The Royals, Jamie Williams & The Roots Collective, Trev Turley, Tanya Piche Blues Band, The 251s, Dave Thomas, Dave Hunt and many more.

Today, we are going to attempt a first at www.wrinklyrockersclub.com by broadcasting six different Videos Of The Day over New Year's Eve, showcasing our six nominees in our 2021 WRC Video Of The Year award, namely 'The Great Divide' by Franky Perez, 'I Never Want To See Me Again' by TBelly, 'Halloween' by Manic, 'Live In S:t Nicolai' by Imminence, 'Fine Lines' by Derek Day (pictured) and 'Controlled Explosion' by The Vegan Cannibals. Simply choose your favourite(s) here https://www.wrinklyrockersclub.com/2021-wrc-awards-voting from each of the lucky thirteen categories provided, and hit the vote button. You have until midnight tonight to make your choice and only one vote per category per e-mail address is allowed.

Decerebration joins today's The Zach Moonshine Show Podcast Of The Day to play and talk about their new album, 'Follow The Scars', plus there's new releases from Behemoth, Sorcerer, Nattas, Pike vs The Automaton, Obsolescence, Jackpipe, and some classics, by request, from King Diamond, Acid Witch, Ozzy Osbourne, Gary Hoey, Grave Robber, Machine Head, Slayer, Suicidal Tendencies, Body Count, Skid Row, Pantera and Reign of Vengeance.

Midnight tonight is your last opportunity to vote for the runners and riders in our 2021 WRC Awards, including our six 'Tracks Of The Year' nominees featured on today's '2021 WRC Awards Rock!' Tracks Of The Day from King Buffalo (pictured), Empyre, Highland Rose, Beyond The Grey, Kardashev and October Thorns, chosen from over 2,000 tunes that we have shared this year on our daily 'Tracks Of The Day'. Simply choose your favourite(s) here https://www.wrinklyrockersclub.com/2021-wrc-awards-voting from each of the lucky thirteen categories provided, and hit the vote button. Make your choice now and remember that only one vote per category per e-mail address is allowed.

Back in 1977, ex-Argent members Bob Henrit, Jim Rodford and John Verity went into Trident Studios in London to record the follow up to their self-titled first album, 'Phoenix', however, the album was put on ice, and somehow the masters were lost over time - until now - with the recent release of 'Out of the Sun', of which the aptly named opener, 'Are You Ready', is one of today's six of the best 'Thursday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further new and recent releases from Xhamain, Fugatta, Blacklist Union, Allen Key and De Arma.

Stuffed with turkey, roast potatoes and brussel sprouts, just two days after Christmas six years ago, Rory Auskerry was back on his Route 66 radio show with another helping of Rock & Blues, which is today's Podcast of The Day, featuring tracks from Black Keys guitarist and singer Dan Auerbach, Foghat, Jared James Nichols, Moreland & Arbuckle, FM (pictured at Ramblin' Man in 2015), Within Temptation, ELO, Aerosmith, Van Halen, Jerry Lee Lewis and Dire Straits.

Robert Jon & The Wreck not only return to the UK for a 12-date UK tour in May next year, but the Southern Californian Rock band are also one of our nominees in our Best Blues category in our 2021 WRC Awards - along withMike Ross, King Kingand Emma Wilson(Video Of The Day). Simply choose your favourite(s) here https://www.wrinklyrockersclub.com/2021-wrc-awards-voting from each of the lucky thirteen categories provided, and hit the vote button. You have until tomorrow night at midnight to make your choice and only one vote per category per e-mail address is allowed.

Today we turn our attention back to our 'Best Livestream' category in our 2021 WRC Awards, and the following four nominees who kept music alive with virtual shows before the long awaited return of live gigs this year, namely Puscifer's Billy D and The Hall of Feathered Serpents global event, Buds & Spawn's Perhaps Contraption Livestream, NWOCR's Webfest and, once again, The Tuesday Night Music Club's excellent Zoom sessions. Indeed, today's Blues On The Radio Podcast Of The Day is part one of two, dedicated to artists who will be playing live at Coulsdon's TNMC, namely Sam Kelly's Station House, Chris Corcoran, John Verity, Jack J Hutchinson (pictured), Matt Woosey, Eddy Smith & The 507, Jana Varga, Beaux Gris Gris & The Apocalypse, The Mentulls, Laura Evans, Alvin Youngblood Hart and Sean Taylor. Anyway, simply choose your favourite(s) here https://www.wrinklyrockersclub.com/2021-wrc-awards-voting from each of the lucky thirteen categories provided, and hit the vote button. You have until midnight 31st December to make your choice and only one vote per category per e-mail address is allowed.

"Having waited 30 years to bring out his first album, the question that might have been raised in relation to a follow up, brought out with almost indecent haste a year later is, has the guitarist fallen foul of the difficult second album syndrome? It’s the old story; all those songs saved up over the years without an outlet, come flooding out, often leaving the well dry after the creativity has drained away. However, in this case the opposite is true; E D has smashed it out of the park and come up with a better offering than his first, pretty tasty album." With quite possibly our last album review of 2021, today read Simon Green's complete take on E D Brayshaw’s latest album, 'Random Repeat', released in mid-October, plus check out today's Video Of The Day of 'Just Another Night'.

As we look forward to hopefully a much better New Year (it couldn't be any worse could it?), today's six 'January 2022 Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day showcases some of the many gigs next month on our 2022 WRC Gig Calendar https://www.wrinklyrockersclub.com/gig-calendar-wrinklystock namely Focus (Friday 21st Under The Bridge, London), Sham 69 (Saturday 22nd O2 Academy Islington, London), Tremonti (Tuesday 25th Shepherd's Bush Empire, London), The Howling Tides (Wednesday 26th The Rescue Rooms, Nottingham, pictured), Stone Broken (Thursday 27th Electric Ballroom, Camden, London) and Saxon (Saturday 29th Eventim Apollo, London).