Friday 16th October will see Rock 'n' Roll maniacs Mad Dogs release their hotly anticipated upcoming full length record, titled 'We Are Ready To Testify', with Go Down Records, of which their second single 'Postcard From Nowhere' is today's Track Of The Day. Playing kick ass Rock 'n' Roll music with a true love for Garage sounds, all wrapped up in a 70's atmosphere - the Italians are known for their highly energetic and powerful sound, swinging grooves and fuzzy guitar virtuosity. Comprising of Marco Cipolletti: guitar, vocals, Luca Zenobi: guitar, Simone Mosciatti: bass and Giacomo Zepponi: drums, backing vocals, it's the band's third studio album of ten powerful songs, consisting of overwhelming riffs plus adrenaline-filled ups and downs.

The Waterboys recently released their second single ‘The Soul Singer', accompanied by today's vibrantly Psychedelic Video Of The Day, yet another taste of their highly anticipated new album, following their dramatic epic ‘My Wanderings In The Weary Land’, which was released last month to great acclaim. It’s an exuberant blast of uptempo Pop ’n ’Roll which opens 'Good Luck, Seeker' – the remarkable 14th studio album due to be released on Friday 21st August, from one of the most creative, loved and literate bands of the last four decades. 'Good Luck, Seeker' draws together many glistening strands of The Waterboys’ weird, wondrous journey, and its 14 songs are populated by unrepentant freaks, soul legends, outlaw film stars and 20th Century mystics, drawing inspiration from The Stones, Kate Bush, Sly and Kendrick as well as frontman Mike Scott’s very own musical past!

The guest on this month’s The Blues Podcast Track Of The Day is none other than legendary American musician, singer and songwriter Warren Haynes. He discusses everything from his musical heroes and his first guitar, to him joining the Allman Brothers Band and his many guest appearances. With so much to say, the episode is split into two parts, with the final part launching next month. The Blues Podcast is presented by the inimitable Big Boy Bloater – the current drive time presenter for Feedback Radio and former host of the popular Blues Magazine Show for Team Rock Radio.

Magnificent German Classic Melodic Hard rockers Mad Max, who formed nigh on forty years ago, release their stonking new studio album ‘Stormchild Rising’ on Friday 21st August on Steamhammer/ SPV. It's an unambiguous, gloriously Melodic Hard Rock opus packed with unashamedly retrospective, irresistibly hummable, hook laden Classic Rock anthems. Consisting of Michael Voss – lead vocals, lead guitars, Jürgen Breforth – rhythm guitars, Thomas “Hutch” Bauer – bass, vocals and Axel Kruse – drums, 'Stormchild Rising’ celebrates a musical direction that has never lost its significance, despite all trends and short-lived fashions; which is exactly what the band’s myriad fans want.

Today's Track Of The Day is another hour of great music for you as Blues On The Radio Show #278 hits 350 hours of output (the first 72 shows were two hours long). So have a listen to CD Woodbury, John D'Amato, Chris Bevington Organisation (pictured), Dave Thomas, Susan Santos and more, and then go back and start exploring all those previous shows!

Deviant provocateurs Pitchshifter are not only back with a a revised version of ’Everything’s Fucked’, but next year they will also be undertaking a brand new seven-date UK tour with special guests, that kicks off at KK's Steel Mill on Monday 29th November. As for their single 'EFKD 2020', they’ve brought an army with them, featuring Zak Tell of Clawfinger, Tony Campos of Static-X, Patrik Wiren of Misery Loves Co., Frank Turner, Jason Bowld of Bullet for My Valentine, Arya Goggin of Skindred, Burton C Bell of Fear Factory, Jot Maxi of Hacktivist, Adam Frakes-Sime of Stampin' Ground, Karl Middleton of Earthtone9, Paul Fletcher of Romeo Must Die, Mikee Goodman of SikTh, Dan Cook and Frank Regan of Raging Speedhorn and Kit Conrad and Charlie Bowes of Seething Akira!

Formed in 2017 by English vocalist/guitarist John Payne (ex-Asia, GPS) and American keyboard player Erik Norlander (Last In Line, Lana Lane, Rocket Scientists), Dukes Of The Orient's ‘Freakshow' is due to be released next Friday 7th August, of which, 'The Monitors', is today's Video Of The Day. It's the second album by the Prog AOR duo, and Payne’s powerful arena-seasoned vocals carry soaring melodies and lush harmonies over the sea of classic synthesisers and keyboards, artfully painted with Norlander’s signature sonic palette. Payne and Norlander had worked together in 'Asia Featuring John Payne', an offshoot of the British Progressive Rock group which Payne was a member from 1991 to 2006, when Asia's original lineup reunited. Following lead singer John Wetton's death, Payne and Norlander formed DOTO as a vehicle to release new material, both out of respect for Wetton, and to distinguish themselves from Payne's former band.

Seminal US Bay Area Melodic Power Metal band Vicious Rumors are set to unleash their searing new studio album ‘Celebration Decay’ on Friday 21st August, and in advance they have already released earlier this month their first single from the album, ‘Death Eternal’, to be followed by their second single, ‘Pulse Of The Dead', on Friday 7th August. It's the follow-up to 2016’s highly acclaimed ‘Concussion Protocol’, and ‘Celebration Decay’ is the band's lucky thirteenth studio album - an even more more accomplished successor, which packs an even harder musical punch. Originally when they set off on tour in 2018, Vicious Rumors mastermind Geoff Thorpe, long-standing drummer Larry Howe, new vocalist Nick Courtney plus new guitarist Gunnar Dügrey had only planned twenty concerts to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their 1988 classic ‘Digital Dictator! As they say, the rest is history, as Vicious Rumors march on, including a three part mini documentary on the making of ‘Celebration Decay', the first episode of which was aired at the end of last month.

ike many musicians and bands around the world, members of Montreal's Heavy Stoner Rockers Paradise have been separated from one another as a precaution to the Covid-19 pandemic. Not able to see each other to have regular jams along with postponements of performances, the band, consisting of Fred Crew Grr (guitar), Matt Hias (drums), Fred Kelly (bass), R.L. Black (vocals) and Frank Kelly (lead guitar), has adapted to the state of the world and continues to promote their heavy and winding arrangements of Corrosive Rock with the creation of a new quarantine video series entitled "From The Van". Today's Track Of The Day is their first FTV video, 'Away From You', taken from their new eponymous album released in March, that sways on the line between Hard Stoner Rock and Pure Heavy Metal.

Multi-talented, pigeonhole-defying guitarmeister and multi-instrumentalist, Mike Ross recently released his first sweet-sounding single, and today's Video Of The Day, 'The Loser', from his excellent new, genre-crossing 10-track solo album ‘The Clovis Limit Pt.2’, which itself is due out on Friday 30th October. Listeners may well detect the piquant flavours of Humble Pie and similar ingredients in the sound and feel of ‘The Loser’, yet it has less of Mike’s trademark Heavy Blues electric guitar fuzz and drive than many of the tracks on the new album, but that just gives the limelight to his other facets. Indeed, it’s a fine, original song, which begins the roll-out of fresh material from a new album that’s remarkably strong on multiple fronts: a showcase for Mike’s songwriting and musicianship on multiple instruments. The close-knit sound that this impressive, multi-tracked, approach produces belies its one-man-band origins! A man wearing many hats, with aplomb and a grin, Ross is also the vocalist and producer, and he whistles too!

Six-time Grammy nominees Brothers Osborne will release their third studio album, 'Skeletons', on Friday 9th October, and the duo recently played one of its tracks, 'All Night', as part of “CMA Summer Stay-Cay”, which is today's Track Of The Day. The single has already cracked Top 40 on the Country airplay charts in the US, and was the No.1 most added song upon its debut. Guitarist John and vocalist/guitarist TJ Osborne teamed up with longtime producer Jay Joyce for 'Skeletons', co-writing every track on the project along with frequent collaborators Lee Miller, Craig Wiseman, Natalie Hemby, Casey Beathard and more.

Peter Green, the dexterous Blues guitarist who led the first incarnation of Fleetwood Mac, sady passed away yesterday, aged 73. The legendary guitarist and singer founded the group alongside Mick Fleetwood, John McVie and Jeremy Spencer in 1967, and despite his latter demons, he was still ranked as one of the greatest guitar players of all time. Indeed, he was responsible for many of the band's early hits, including 'Black Magic Woman', 'Albatross' and today's Video Of The Day, 'Oh Well'.