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.

"Joanne Shaw Taylor's delivery of these Blues masters does not fail to stand up to the mark with her tracks resonating strongly and taking you back to a time when life was hard but simple. You can sense the fun that she had in creating this album and it's one that you'll want to play again and again. The classic Blues songs that she chose accentuate her deep, husky vocal skills and show off her phenomenal range and joy in performing, a real treat." Exactly a year after she won our WRC 2020 'Best Blues Rock' award after her performance at London's Nell's that March, Joanne Shaw Taylor has followed up that triumph by winning our 2021 'Best Reviewed Album' award for 'The Blues Album', as testified by today's Video Of The Day of 'Let Me Down Easy'.

Given 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, it's no real surprise that Pete's Rock & Blues show has won our WRC 2021 Best Podcast award, and as proof, his latest '2021 Highlights (Part 1)' show is today's Podcast Of The Day, featuringThorbjorn Risager, Mike Zito, Five Points Gang, Richard Townend, Roger Chapman, Mick Pini/Audio 54, Joanna Connor, Voodoo Ramble, Mike Ross (pictured), Troy Redfern, Tommy Castro, Marcus Flynn, Danny Bryant, Fabrizio Grossi And Soul Garage Experience, The Black Keys, Starlite Campbell Band plus many more.

Just over two years after Finnish Death and Gothic Doom Metal icon, Tuomas Saukkonen (Wolfheart, Before the Dawn), returned with 'Waves', his sophomore solo-album under the flag of Dawn Of Solace, his brand new album, 'Flames of Perdition', will be released on Friday 28th January on Noble Demon, of which the track, 'Event Horizon', is one of today's six of the best 'Wednesday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further new and recent releases from Heino Brand featuring Angèle Macabiès, Aeveris, Perceived, Obsolescence and Prognostication.

To be honest, once again it was a category which we had not envisaged being in our WRC Awards at the turn of 2021! However, as they say, the rest is history and the winners of our 2021 'Best Livestream' Award is the Tuesday Night Music Club, a deserved salute to their excellent Zoom sessions. Indeed, today's first 2022 Blues On The Radio Podcast Of The Day, is the second part of Richard Dunning's look at who's physically coming to Coulsdon's Tuesday Night Music Club in 2022, including Ian Siegal, Brave Rival, Moonshine Society, Sean Webster Band, Debbie Bond, Connor Selby (pictured), The James Oliver Band, plus there's also a bonus track from The Robin Bibi Big Band, recorded live at The TNMC's Christmas party!

"Coghlan finally returned to his kit on his favourite Quo song, ‘April, Spring, Summer & Wednesdays’, plus ‘Don't Drive My Car’, an interesting take/edited version of ‘Pictures of Matchstick Men’, along with the encore of ‘Rocking All Over the World’. Cue mass applause from the socially distanced crowd in the house, and even though we really tried to get them out for a second time, we humbly accepted the fact they had already played an afternoon show!" Exactly four years to the day that Queen + Adam Lambert walked off with our 2017 WRC Best Rock Performance award, John Coghlan's Quo have done the very same in 2021, thanks to their Putney Half Moon gig back in July (Video Of The Day/pictured). Unfortunately, the legendary drummer's recent return to the same venue was cancelled because of Covid, however, we hope to catch up with JC in 2022, not only to present him with his award, but also hopefully for an interview! Watch this space!

Award-winning songwriter Jake Bugg is the latest artist announced for Europe’s premier Americana playground Black Deer Festival, that takes place this year at Kent's Eridge Park over the weekend of 17th-19th June, and today's 'Black Deer Rocks!' six of the best Tracks Of The Day features artists taking part, including of course Jake, the Belfast Cowboy Van Morrison, Wilco (only UK show of 2022), Amy Montgomery, returning festival favourites The Dead South, plus legends The Waterboys.Further new additions to the festival line-up also include Pokey LaFarge, The War and Treaty, William Prince, The Lost Brothers, Declan O’Rourke, Steak, Treetop Flyers, Yasmin Williams, True Strays, Midnight Skyracer, Isabella Coulstock and My Girl the River.