Legendary recording artist, producer, songwriter and tech pioneer, Todd Rundgren, has announced his 2021 'Clearly Human' virtual tour, featuring 25 performances, each geofenced and tailored to a different US city. With each performance emanating from a Chicago venue (the most convenient time zone to allow for 8pm show times in every market), the shows will be “localized” to give both the band and the fans a sense of place (e.g. local landmarks will appear on the video wall, catering for the band and crew will feature dishes associated with each city, etc). Emulating a traditional routing itinerary, the Clearly Human Tour will kick off Sunday 14th February 14 “in” Buffalo and wrap up Monday 22nd March “in” Seattle. Todd's band for the tour will feature Kasim Sulton (bass), Prairie Prince (drums), Eliot Lewis (keys), Gil Assayas (synth), Bruce McDaniel (guitar), Bobby Strickland (sax), Steven Stanley (Trombone), plus the erstwhile “Global Girls”: Michele Rundgren, Grace Yoo, and Ashle Worrick (background vocals).

We're now more than half way through our nine categories in our 2020 WRC Awards, and today we turn our attention to the nominees in our Best Prog Performance. In January we caught both of Francis Dunnery's It Bites gigs at Wolverhampton's Slade Rooms and Manchester's Club Academy, whilst later that month we saw The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown at Nell's in London. In early February we also took in Atomic Rooster at the 100 Club (pictured), and finally, towards the end of the month, and also in London, we attended Dream Theater's (Video Of The Day) Eventim Hammersmith Apollo gig. So if you want to cast your vote for one of these superb Prog Rock bands then simply go here https://www.wrinklyrockersclub.com/wrc-award-nominees You have until midnight on 31st December to make your choice and only one vote per category per e-mail address is allowed - so there.

Trailblazing American Rock vocalist and musician Suzi Quatro’s brand new Christmas single, ‘My Heart And Soul (I Need You Home For Xmas)’, was released last Friday on all digital platforms via SPV Records, and the touching, heart-warming video for the song, is today's Track Of The Day. Even in the highly adrenaline-fueled music business, it’s rare to find a bundle of energy and talent on a par with Suzi , the multi-million-selling female Rock pioneer who has enjoyed over 56 years of unrivalled success. With hits such as ‘Can The Can’, ‘48 Crash’, ‘If You Can't Give Me Love’, 'She's In Love With You' and ‘Devil Gate Drive’, she became an icon in the seventies, and remains so to this day. Suzi’s hugely accomplished current album ‘No Control’ was released in March 2019, prior to a sold-out ten date headline UK Arena tour, ensued later in the year by the massively acclaimed documentary ‘Suzi Q The Movie’.

Today's Track Of The Day, 'Yeah Right', is taken from Evanescence’s first album of original music in a decade, ‘The Bitter Truth', which will be released next year on Friday 26th March, and tonight at 9pm, the band will be hosting their first public performance of the Covid era, a livestream concert experience dubbed Evanescence: A Live Session From Rock Falcon Studio. The livestream will be available through to Tuesday 8th December. The band, who postponed their massive 2020 international tour earlier this year, safely assembled from Nashville, Sacramento and Germany to perform live renditions of songs from the upcoming album for the first time, as well as some fan favourites and a few can’t miss surprises.​​

Today we focus on the Best Blues Rock performance category in our 2020 WRC Awards - namely Joanne Shaw Taylor (Video Of The Day) who we saw at London's Nell's in March, Savoy Brown (pictured) who played The Beaverwood in Chislehurst in January, Never The Bride who performed at Camden's The Green Note in February, and finally, Aynsley Lister's annual visit to London's 100 Club at the end of January. So there you have it - if you want to cast your vote for one of these outstanding Blues Rock performers then simply go here https://www.wrinklyrockersclub.com/wrc-award-nominees You have until midnight on 31st December to make your choice and only one vote per category per e-mail address is allowed - so there.

Due to Covid-19 restrictions, Dan Reed Network have rescheduled their nine-date co-headline UK tour with Reckless Love to March 2022. All dates will feature special guest Mason Hill and all tickets remain valid.The highly anticipated tour will preview new songs from the band’s forthcoming studio album 'Let’s Hear It For The King' whose release will coincide with the UK tour. The new album won’t be for the faint hearted or those easily entertained, yet pays tremendous detail to infectious melodies, provocative lyrics and honours their shredding Funk Rock roots. ​​

Today's latest Blues Club Podcast Track Of The Day is another two hours of non stop Best in Blues and beyond with More Music and Less Chat, featuring new releases, classic tracks and UK IBBA Presenters' Picks, including music from When Rivers Meet, Soul Messin' Allstars, John Mayall, Tomas Doncker, The BluesBones, Wily Bo Walker & Danny Flam, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Layla Zoe, Julie Driscoll & Brian Auger & The Trinity, Stevie Watts (pictured) Organ Trio, Chad Strentz, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Trower, Brown & Maxi Priest, JImmy Burns, Willie Dixon, Kaz Hawkins and many more.

To be honest, a category which we had not envisaged being in our WRC 2020 Awards at the turn of the year was 'Best Livestream'. However, as they say, the rest is history and our nominees in unprecedented times are Devin Townsend's NHS fundraiser (Video Of The Day), both the Lockdown and Isolation (pictured) Music Festival's that did us so proud earlier this year, and finally, not forgetting, The Tuesday Music Club's excellent Zoom sessions. Nothing personal guys, but we look forward to the return of our Best Festival category next year, but in the meantime simply choose your favourite show here https://www.wrinklyrockersclub.com/wrc-award-nominees by hitting the vote button. You have until midnight on 31st December to make your choice and only one vote per category per e-mail address is allowed - so there.

To coincide with the release of The Pineapple Thief’s new live album, 'The Soord Sessions Volume 4’, which is out today, frontman Bruce Soord will perform a final Soord session streamed show tonight at 8pm GMT, 9pm CET and 3pm EST, on both the TPT YouTube channel and Facebook page. Having thrilled and entertained fans throughout Lockdown with his live streamed performances, The Pineapple Thief will also be supporting this September's release of their latest album, 'The Versions Of The Truth', live worldwide in 2021 & 2022, having been rescheduled from 2020, with more dates due to be announced.

Today we focus on our Best Radio Show category nominees in our 2020 WRC Awards, which includes The Blues Club Podcast (pictured), Blues On The Radio, The Zach Moonshine Show and Rock Vault 107. Indeed, the latest Rock Vault 107 show is today's Track Of The Day that includes Kiss, Judas Priest, Edgar Winter Group, Pink Floyd, Warrant, The Boomtown Rats, The Knack, The Who, Kiss, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers and loads more! Anyway, simply choose your favourite show here https://www.wrinklyrockersclub.com/wrc-award-nominees by hitting the vote button. You have until midnight on 31st December to make your choice and only one vote per category per e-mail address is allowed - so there.

Next year on Friday 5th March, The Wood Brothers (Video Of The Day) will release a double-LP vinyl reissue of their modern classic, 'The Muse', through the band's own Honey Jar Records. Originally issued on 1st October 2013 via Zac Brown's Southern Ground label, the 11-track collection was produced by Nashville music legend Buddy Miller and contains many of The Wood Brothers most celebrated songs that remain staples of their live performances to this day, including 'Wastin' My Mind', 'Sing About It', 'Neon Tombstone', 'Keep Me Around' and 'I Got Loaded'. An initial vinyl pressing of ‘The Muse’ sold out years ago and has been in high demand by The Wood Brothers' fanbase ever since. To celebrate the reissue, the band has filmed a performance of the album in its entirety, which will premiere on Friday 18th December on their YouTube channel.

Gabriel Quazar, who now splits his time between Verona, Los Angeles and Zanzibar, has just released his new crossover single, ‘Xstasy’, on all digital platforms. The Italian is a thinker, a songwriter, a singer and a passionate guitarist at heart, with an eclectic and completely original take on Rock, Alternative and modern Pop music. His alternative and avant-gardish rocking soundscape also enjoys imports from ethnical musical traditions, as much as Jazz and even Hip-Hop. His own man, his own manager, he has also appreciated the collaborations of the many who believe in him, working in Europe and Los Angeles with the well renowned producer/musician Fabrizio Grossi (Steve Vai, Ice T, Glenn Hughes, Steve Lukather, et al).