HVMM first came to our attention after the release of their single 'Lacerate' - their unique ballsy, bolshy, raw Rock sound receiving rave reviews given influences of Royal Blood and Band Of Skulls, and exactly four years ago today, we caught up with the band from Worcester at Camden Rocks Festival for a chat, before the guys took to a sweltering Belushi's stage, which is today's Podcast Of The Day.

Often compared to Chelsea Wolfe, today's Video Of The Day is 'Oh Maiden', the third track taken from Italian Psych Doom - Dark Folk songwriter Julinko's latest solo EP, 'No Destroyer', that was released in January through three Italian independent labels. The short film was shotin Julinko’s home, surrounded by the woods in the North of Italy, by Samantha Stella, Italian visual artist, performer, filmmaker, and singer/musician with another Psych Dark Folk songwriter, Nero Kane.Indeed, Samantha's work draws inspiration from, and pays homage to, the cult mystery film “Picnic at Hanging Rock” by Peter Weir and to Sofia Coppola's “The Virgin Suicides”.

Yes, you read it correctly, Daxx & Roxane, one of the bands featured on 'The Official New Wave Of Classic Rock - Volume 1' 2CD compilation album,out on Friday 23rd July, are playing a limited capacity show tonight and tomorrow night with Blind River at Camden's The Black Heart in London, and their track, 'Without You', is one oftoday's six of the best 'Live Music Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further new and forthcoming releases from Craig D Kendall, Resolve, Human Failure, Mr. Maggot and Sickrecy.

"Blues music was originally created by African Americans in the early 20th century and is regularly referred to as the devil's music with its singers expressing feelings rather than just telling stories. Voodoo Room does just this with 'Tension City Blues', culminating age old Blues prophecies with just enough riffs to carry you off, without losing you to inconsistency or musical complication. Writing with the ease of a band crafting for many years, the accomplished first original release from this band is a true pleasure, with easily understood vocals necessary for fully appreciating this style of music, as Blues is all about the telling of the story." Check out today both Di Foxy's complete take on Voodoo Room's first original album, 'Tension City Blues', released on Grooveyard Records at the end of November last year, plus check out today's Video Of The Day.

Multi-Award winning Country singer-songwriting duo, Thomas and Tessa Libreri, aka Destiny Band Oz, launch their new forthcoming album, 'Who I Might Be', on Saturday 31st July, and their second single, 'It's a Shame', a social commentary on how life has changed since Covid-19, and particularly relevant given the current snap lockdown in Victoria, is one of today's six of the best 'Wednesday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further new and forthcoming releases from Jamart, The Spooky Guests, VHF, Pearl Harbour and Ultimatium.

"It was hard to believe that despite having 20 albums under his belt and having toured with a veritable Rock who's who over the years, that the Massachusetts born Hoey, who once auditioned for Ozzy Osbourne in 1988, was making his London debut. A driving intro from AJ Pappas (bass) and Matt Scurfield (drums) saw the shades wearing Hoey ask the audience "Are you guys ready to have a good time?" before he counted in "1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4!" and his guitar and vocals duly proceeded to rip into a cover of The Alabama State Troupers 'Going Down' - power trio Blues/Rock at it's best. Wow!" Exactly four years ago today, that was part of our Gary Hoey Nell's Jazz & Blues gig review and today's Podcast Of The Day is a relaxing chat that we had with Gary backstage before his set.

Today's latest Blues On The Radio Podcast Of The Day features tracks from Connor Selby, Delta Fuse, Travellin' Blue Kings, The Dirty Mojo Blues Band, Rainbreakers, Gozer Goodspeed, Hubert Dorigatti, Gary Moore, Tom Walker, Smiling Jack Smith, a great collaboration from Ben Harper, Keith Richards and Charlie Musselwhite, plus three tracks from the new album from Mike Ross (pictured), ahead of his Zoom show tonight at The Tuesday Night Music Club.

As we approach Step Four of the Government's Covid-19 Roadmap, our WRC fingers are understandably well and truly crossed, as we gear up to finally attend some live music as per our regularly updated WRC Gig Calendar below, which in June also includes The Damn Truth live stream (pictured and Video Of The Day), plus further album reviews, including Voodoo Room, Ajay Srivastav and JP Williams Blues Band. Not only do we also look back at our May news archives, but if we have ever published anything from you over the last six years, whether it's a review, photos or your band, you will now be able to find/search for it, as we have now completed updating our 2015 news archives, reviews and photo galleries, which means everything from our dear old website has finally now been transferred! Finally, don't forget that if you want to receive our monthly e-mail bulletin, just submit your e-mail address in the box below.

Although our WRC On The Road Gig Calendar below is still very skeletal for June, today's six of the best 'June Rocks' Tracks Of The Day encompass two live dates that we intend to attend, namely our first gig, Aynsley Lister and Southbound at London's iconic 100 Club on Tuesday 22nd June, plus our first festival, namely Black Deer at Kent's Eridge Park, the following weekend of 25th - 27th June (pictured).

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 Rock & Blues show is today's Podcast Of The Day featuring a tribute to Dave Jackson (pictured) who sadly passed away a couple of weeks ago, Christone Kingfish Ingram, Johnny Guitar Watson,Rufus Thomas, Billy F Gibbons and more.

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.