Last month, Augustine, aka Italian singer-songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalistSara Baggini, released her new album 'Proserpine', on the I Dischi Del Minollo label, three years after her previous album, 'Grief And Desire', and the second single taken off of the new album, 'Anemones', is today's beautiful Video Of The Day. Indeed, the new sounds, dense and sombre, are musically much closer to Dark Folk than to the Dream Pop of the previous album, given Augustine's musical influences not only come from the British Post-Punk, Dream Pop and Dark Wave scene of the eighties (Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance, This Mortal Coil, Siouxsie And The Banshees), but also from all the female songwriters and artists she loves (Kate Bush, Sinead O’Connor, Annie Lennox, PJ Harvey, Agnes Obel, Anna Calvi, St. Vincent, Bjork, Enya, Julianna Barwick, Meredith Monk).

Providing a comforting throwback to the Grunge music scene of the 1990's, Nottingham-based Just A Ride have just released their third single from their upcoming self-titled debut album, and following heavy radio play of past singles 'I Wanna Know' and 'Razor', from the likesof Planet Rock, ERB Radio and MMH Radio, their latest, 'Time Is Running Out', is one of today's six of the best 'Bank Holiday Monday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further new and forthcoming releases from Dead Soul Revival, Candlemass, Helion Prime, Dirkschneider & The Old Gang and Overhate.

On today's latest Simply Country Podcast Of The Day, there's music from Tammy Wynette, Steve Markwardt, Jimmy Dean, Lily Grace & James Blundell, Lynn Anderson, Miguel Rios, Alan Jackson, Johnny Cash, Finn McGinn, Brooks and Dunn, Dust Radio (pictured), Charlie Rich, George Holliday & Donna Marie, Travis Tritt, Destiny Band Oz, Tom O'Sullivan, Faron Young, The Winnie Blues, Laura Evans, Jim Reeves, Kenny Chesney, Howlin' Anton Bleak, Georgia Barker and loads more.

Bloodstock Open Air - The UK's No.1 Metal Festival celebrates twenty years when it returns this year to Catton Park, Walton On Trent, Derbyshire, with an extra day added over the weekend of 11th - 15th August, of which today's 'Bloodstock Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day showcase six of the great bands taking part, namely Seething Akira, Devin Townsend, Diamond Head, The Night Flight Orchestra, Saxon and Wolf Jaw.

Illustrious frontman of sardonic Indie art pioneers Art Brut, Eddie Argos will “begin his Bryan Ferry period” with a full album of Bob Dylan covers under a new side project titled Haus Band, and to celebrate the legendary songwriter’s recent 80th birthday, they have just revealed their first cover of the 1965 B-Side to ‘Subterranean Homesick Blues’, ‘She Belongs to Me’, which is today's Video Of The Day. Indeed, it's a wonderfully warm tribute from enigmatic Eddie plus fellow Berlin artist’s Olga Karatzioti-B. and Leonard Kaage (of Errorr and The Underground Youth fame), which sets the tone for the rest of the album, which is due to be released later in the year via Alcopop! Records and newly-minted German label Anomic Records.

For fans of Judas Priest, Manowar and King Diamond, Ignited’s debut album, 'Steelbound', delivers energetic and catchy melodies, inspired by traditional Heavy Metal , but with an identity and a modern approach, such as 'Pain', one of today's six of the best 'Saturday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further new and forthcoming releases from Friisk, Keith Cook, Storm, In The Whale and Fireproven.

Conceived in a similar spirit to the well received Allen/Lande project, on Friday 11th June Frontiers release 'Brother Against Brother', a new self-titled duets combination album featuring stunning Brazilian singers Renan Zonta (Electric Mob) and Nando Fernandes (Sinistra), of which the track, 'Valley Of The Kings', is today's Video Of The Day. Together, they are on fire on this magnificent album, written for them by the ubiquitous Alessandro Del Vecchio, delivering an exciting debut set of Melodic Metal songs in a showcase that will surely see the two vocalists reach an audience well beyond their homeland.

Last year's Country To Country festival, due to take place at London's O2, was yet another casualty to Coronavirus, but the good news was that, as well as Danny Vaughn and Kyle Daniel, we were also lucky enough to catch up with Austin Jenckes (pictured right) for today's Podcast Of The Day. Anyway, check out our interview, as we talked to Austin about Pizza Express, Cadillac Three, Nashville, Seattle Seahawks, Abbey Road, The Voice, Forklifts, Pink Floyd, 'If You Grew Up Like I Did', Steel Panther, Tom Petty, Rockin' out, UK audiences, crowd surfing, 'Fat Kid', set lists and Trooper beer!

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 Billy F Gibbons (pictured), Alex Lopez, Bob Malone, Jo Harman, Dexter Allen, Bad Blues Quartet, Robert J Hunter, Rob Stone, Malaya Blue, Jamie Williams & The Roots Collective, Dione Taylor, Frank Hammond Quartet, Johnny Burgin, Jimmy Burns, Taj Mahal & Keb' Mo', Lonnie Mack, The Jujubes, Superdownhome, Tanya Piche Blues Band, Chris Cain, Campbell & Johnston's Black Market Band and many more.

Supergroup LA Rats, comprising of Nikki Sixx (Mötley Crüe), Rob Zombie (White Zombie), John 5 (David Lee Roth) and Tommy Clufetos (Black Sabbath), have recently released the single, and today's Video Of The Day, 'I’ve Been Everywhere’, which will feature in a forthcoming Netflix film, ‘The Ice Road’ that opens on Friday 25th June. Starring Liam Neeson, and released through Big Machine Records, it's a Johnny Cash song, though you’d never guess, given this rocking ‘Psycho-Billy’version, that oozes velocity, power, and speed!

'A Sweet Relief Tribute' by an astounding group of musicians,saluting singer, songwriter, bassist and co-founder of the legendaryNRBQ, Joey Spampinato, is due to be released on Friday 25th June, comprising of fourteen inspired versions of their own previously unreleased takes of Spampinato-penned songs,with all the artists generously donating their proceeds to the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund, to support Joey with his current health issues, of which, 'Like A Locomotive', featuring Ben Harper, with Keith Richards, Charlie Musselwhite, Benmont Tench, Don Was and Don Heffington, is one of today's six of the best 'Friday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further new and forthcoming releases from Velvet Starlings, Fred Lee & The Restless, Them Guns, Pressure and The Crooks.

Yes, Brave Rival are back on the road again tonight,with their first gig of 2021, when they will be headlining the Blues Bar in Tring (doors 7pm), and today's Video of The Day is their recent Lockdown cover of Pearl Jam's 'Alive'. And talking of Lockdown,back in January last year, the band also headlined Hook's Echo Hotel Music Club, and have since taken the opportunity to professionally record the show, producing a cracking live album, 'Live at the Echo Hotel Music Club', which will not only be available for sale on their merch stand, but also through their website as well.