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Today's latest WRC Bulletin looks back at March, including our Operation Julie, Danielle Nicole, Joe Webb, Aynsley Lister, Orianthi, Fantastic Negrito, Man Of The World, James Bruner, Chantel McGregor, The Wood Demons, Tiny Magnetic Pets and Soho Calling Festival photo galleries/gig reviews, plus our Tom Davies & The Bluebirds album review, as well as our normal comprehensive February News Archive. We also look forward to March with our six 'March Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day showcasing some of the many gigs this month on our 2026 WRC Gig Calendar including The Hold Steady, This House We Built (pictured), Elles Bailey, Mason Hill, The Blackheart Orchestra and Infected Rain. 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.

Formed in 2019, Blues Rock quartet Tom Davies & The Bluebirds were nominated and went on to become finalists in the Emerging Band of the Year category at the UK Blues Awards in 2025, and on Friday 10th April they release their eleven-track debut album 'Angel On The Mississippi', written and arranged by Tom, so see today not only Ivan De Mello's review but also watch today's Video Of The Day of the album track 'You're Gonna Wreck My Life'.

Today's Podcast Of The Day is Hour One of a recent Prog Rock Files broadcast, presented by Garry Foster, featuring Perfect Beasts, Exploring Birdsong, Big Big Train (pictured), Steven Wilson, Solstice and Magenta.

For fans of Guns N' Roses, Aerosmith and Motley Crue, tonight rambunctious South Wales hard rockers Sleazy Money play their 'Sink Or Swim' Single Release Show at Treforest's Green Rooms, of which this dirty, bluesy Rock n Roll track about getting shitfaced and grafting women, is today's self produced (in a photobooth), tongue in cheek, Video Of The Day. Formed in 2024 and hailing from the gritty streets of Merthyr Tydfil, the quartet are already turning heads with their raw, larger-than-life attitude and sound, drawing from ‘80s Glam-Metal and Sunset Strip sleaze, fusing high-octane riffs with anthemic hooks and a wild stage presence that’s impossible to ignore.

Alongside mainstay founding members Ben, Jeff and Dana, plus the addition in 2023 of amazing new vocalist Travis Wills and guitarist Mark Borgmeyer, Crimson Glory release via BraveWords Records their first new album in 26 years on Friday 17th April, the nine-track 'Chasing The Hydra', making this album one of the most anticipated releases of 2026 within the Heavy Metal scene, of which the first single and title track is also one of today's six of the best 'Saturday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further recent and forthcoming releases from Robben Ford, Outrage, Essex & Cherie Currie, Darren Michael Boyd and Metalite.

Today's very latest Blues Club Podcast Of The Day has another two hours of non stop Best in Blues and a bit of this and that, with More Music and Less Chat, featuring Ally Venable, Mike Zito, Elles Bailey, Kim Wilson, Robert Jon & The Wreck (pictured), Greg Coulson, Ed Alstrom, Mr Lonely, Alex Lopez, King Solomon Hicks, John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers, The Zac Schulze Gang, Eric Bibb, Rebecca Downes, Ross Harding, Otis Walker Band, The Badrock Blues Band, Dirty Shoes Band, Tom Davies & The Bluebirds, plus many more.

Following yesterday's Hour One, today's Podcast Of The Day is Hour Two from the very same Prog Rock Files broadcast, presented by Garry Foster, featuring an interview with special guests Tom and Alex from The Magpie Arc, that's sandwiched in between tracks from the band as well.

Heading out on a UK tour next Wednesday, including Putney's The Half Moon in London on Wednesday 29th April, as well as diving deep into the band’s eclectic musical DNA, from huge riffs that shake the ground to beautiful melodies and grooves that carry you away like the tide, not only are Wille & The Bandits back today with their most ambitious project yet, their new ten-track album 'Salt Roots', but the quartet's third album single, the Latin Rock of 'Reina del Mar', is also one of today's six of the best 'New Releases Friday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five other similarly timed album releases today from Black Swan, IT'sALIE, Black Reuss, Joel Hoekstra's 13 and The Browning.

Irish Alt-Rock heavyweight's Thumper (pictured) not only released their blistering new ten-track sophomore album 'Sleeping With The Light On' last Friday, but ahead of their biggest headline show to date next Wednesday at Dublin's The Academy, on Wednesday night the six-piece also headlined the Soho Calling Festival at London's The Social, along with Hunny Buzz, Yangbans and Joe Butler, so see today not only Ivan De Mello's review and photos from the gig, but also watch today's Video Of The Day of Thumper's latest impact album single 'Gang Signs'.

Co-founder and DJ of London's legendary Blitz Club, Rusty Egan is an icon of the UK and European Electronic Café scene and enthusiastically champions Electronica groups like Tiny Magnetic Pets (pictured), who you knew would be a class act recently, when they flew in especially to London from Dublin for a DJ set/gig at The Camden Club, so see today not only Denise Lester's review and photos from the night, but also watch Tiny Magnetic Pets' 'Modern World' Video Of The Day, filmed by Denise that very same evening.

The timings (pictured) have been announced for Milkfest ’26, that takes place this coming Sunday at Indigo @ the O2 in Greenwich on 1st March, bringing some of the biggest names on the UK Blues scene for a one-day festival to raise money for The Dementia UK Charity, including Average White Band/McCartney/Pretenders legends Hamish Stuart & Robbie McIntosh and Blues Rock greats the Climax Blues Band, plus a special guest appearance by Elles Bailey, and today's 'Milkfest '26 Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day feature the other six artists taking part, namely festival founders The Milk Men, as well as returning to his local manor, Squeeze legend Chris Difford, UK Blues Band of the Year Brave Rival, Vocalist of the Year Alice Armstrong, Acoustic Act of the Year Mississippi MacDonald and UK Blues Challenge winner Errol Linton.

Today's Podcast Of The Day is Hour One of a recent Prog Rock Files broadcast, presented by Garry Foster, featuring What Strange Beasts, Crack The Sky, HeKz, Big Big Train, Undoubting Thomas, Peter Gabriel and Andrew Stone.