The Allman Betts Band release their second full-length studio album entitled 'Bless Your Heart' on Friday 28th August via BMG, and their first single, 'Magnolia Road', was released last month on all DSP's, and is today's Video Of The Day. Indeed, the music video was exclusively premiered via The ABB official YouTube channel, with Devon Allman and Duane Betts joining in and chatting live with fans. The single is the tie-dyed contender for Summer favourite. A semi-autobiographical lyric shared by Betts and Allman, ironically this is the only song on the album with band collaborator Stoll Vaughan as its sole author. Vaughan wrote the song alone, though namechecking detailed parts of Betts’ and Allman’s life, respectively. Musically it evokes the group’s affection for The Band and the Grateful Dead.

Not a band you can second guess, unpredictable Kent Punks Riskee and The Ridicule follow-up their first lockdown release in May, the seething anger of the Brexit-baiting single ‘Blue Jacket’, with their own respectful take on New York Pop singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey’s award-winning 2013 smash-hit, ‘Young And Beautiful’, which is today's Video Of The Day. This, however, is no guilty pleasure for the band, who are longtime fans of Lana’s work. Despite being isolated from each other at the time, the band still managed to create a video, by recording their individual parts at home, allowing their former bassist David Thomas to collate them together with footage from one of the bands early hometown gigs.

Despite the fact that we will all miss our annual pilgrimage to Maidstone's Mote Park this weekend (sob), the good news is that Ramblin' Man Fair TV is coming to your Living Room this weekend! So tune in to their YouTube and Facebook pages from 7pm tonight for the next three nights for unseen performances, interviews and exclusive content featuring a host of awesome Ramblin’ Man Fair performers past and present, including Beth Hart, Black Star Riders, Kris Barras, Bernie Marsden, Supersonic Blues Machine, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Inglorious, Blues Pills and Tax The Heat, with many more acts to be announced! See you next year over the weekend of 16th - 18th July!

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 The Della Grants, Catfish, Anthony Geraci, Wily Bo Walker & Danny Flam, Lachy Doley, Pink Floyd, Marcus Lazarus, Susan Angeletti, Kenny Blues Boss Wayne, Peter Karp, Richard Townend & The Moscow Bosscats, Laura Evans, The Isley Brothers, Crooked Eye Tommy, Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa, Johnny Burgin, Chris Farlowe and many more.

Lisa Mann (pictured) from White Crone joins today's Zach Moonshine Show Track Of The Day to talk about their new record, her past, future and present! This episode also features brand new music from Solicitor, From These Ruins, Kataklysm, Enslaved, Pallbearer, Smoulder, Lamb Of God, Zakk Sabbath, Eternal Rot, Burn The Mankind, Darkened, Deadlight Sanctuary, Manticora, Merlock, Mosh-Pit Justice, SpellBook, Temple Nightside, Tygers Of Pan Tang, Vassafor, Writhing, Xythlia, Graves of Giants, plus Zach also plays some classics from Mercyful Fate, Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath!

Funk legend Maceo Parker released his first new studio album in eight years, namely 'Soul Food - Cooking With Maceo', at the end of last month, and it's the first album on the Mascot Label Group new imprint, The Funk Garage, of which 'Cross The Track' is today's Video Of The Day. He has played with each and every leader of Funk, starting with James Brown throughout the 1960's and beyond, then jumping aboard the Mothership Connection with Parliament-Funkadelic, as well as a decade long collaboration with Prince. 'Soul Food - Cooking With Maceo' blends raw, old school Funk with the flavours of the New Orleans school of music. The funky flavour of the city weaves its way through the album as Maceo and the band take on iconic songs of the Mississippi masters such as Dr. John, The Meters and Allen Toussaint as well as takes on Aretha Franklin, Prince and Maceo’s long-time hero and Ray Charles saxophonist, David "Fathead" Newman.

Matt Pearce & The Mutiny recently released physical and digital tracks from their exclusive tour EP: ‘An Ongoing Thing: Demos, Acoustics and Covers’. Previously only available at the band’s live gigs, the current disruption to touring, combined with fans hunger for more music, has inspired Matt to make the EP more widely available, for a limited time only, giving music-starved fans a chance to revel in the Mutiny! The EP includes five tracks: ‘Got A Thing Going On’, ‘Do What You Do’, ‘Some People’ (acoustic) - all written by Matt; plus live gig favourite covers: ‘Strange Relationship’ (Prince) and ‘Oh Well’ (Fleetwood Mac). Consisting of Matt (vocals, guitar), Joe Lazarus (drums), Joe Mac (keyboards), Kelpie Mackenzie (bass), Daliah Sherrington (vocals) and Terry Edwards (saxophone), together they deliver these songs with skill, passion and gusto.

Innovative British Rockers Cypher16 recently released their second new single, and today's Track Of The Day, of 'Push Through The Water', taken from their upcoming second full-length album, 'It's A Long Way Back (From This Road)'. A refreshingly original Rock band, Cypher16 harnesses Metal with a hint of Modern Industrial to create a truly massive sound. Consisting of Jack Doolan - vocals/ guitars, Will Cass - guitars/vocals, Rich Hinks - bass and Declan Doran - drums, the band’s debut album, 'The Great Surveyor', was released in October 2015 to rave reviews. Indeed, the band is also known for its epic music videos, filmed at famous landmarks such as Battersea Power Station ('Lonely Road') and The Natural History Museum ('Open the Dark Door'), where the band was given unprecedented access for an entire night, in 2017!

The news that we’ve all been probably expecting, but dreading, was finally announced at the beginning of July, given current Government guidelines, when it was confirmed that Stonedead was being postponed until Saturday 28th August next year. The good news, however, is that it will return to Newark Showground bigger and stronger in 2021, having secured the same line-up, namely headliners Black Star Riders, with special guests Terrorvision and Gun, plus Tyketto, Kris Barras Band, Blaze Bayley, Tygers of Pan Tang, Myke Gray featuring Kim Jennett and opening poll winner Dead Man's Whiskey. See you at the bar in 2021!

Rock singer-guitarist Ayron Jones recently shared his explosive debut single ‘Take Me Away’ via Big Machine/John Varvatos Records, accompanied by a powerful lyric video, which is today's Video Of The Day. The single is influenced by the weight of his past and the struggles that shaped Jones’ art, and equally inspired by diverse musical influences to create a style uniquely his own. Jones’ tumultuous childhood, marred by parental addiction and abandonment, laid the foundation for the song’s themes. The gritty, genre-blending artist is an amalgam of the incredibly rich musical history of Seattle - the city that has helped to shape who he is as an artist and person. Indeed, part of the fabric of his Seattle atmosphere, Jones has opened for Guns ’N’ Roses at the Gorge and B.B. King, building early critical acclaim independently.

Dyble Longdon is a collaboration between iconic vocalist Judy Dyble (ex Fairport Convention, Trader Horne), who sadly, we learnt on Sunday, has died after a long illness, and Big Big Train songwriter and frontman David Longdon, and they release their highly anticipated album 'Between A Breath And A Breath' on Friday 25th September. The album contains seven original compositions with all lyrics by Judy and music and production by David. The songs are, at times, haunting and, at others, beautifully fragile. As well as Judy (vocals, autoharp) and David (vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, mandolin, piano and keyboards), they are joined by Jeff Davenport (Jade Warrior, drums) plus Longdon’s Big Big Train bandmates Danny Manners (double bass), Rikard Sjöblom (accordion), Rachel Hall (violin), Greg Spawton (bass guitar and Moog Taurus pedals) and Nick D’Virgilio (drums). Other featured musicians are Dave Gregory (ex-Big Big Train and XTC, guitar), Andy Lewis (Paul Weller, bass guitar), Luca Calabrese (Isildurs Bane, trumpet) and Dave Sturt (Gong and Steve Hillage, fretless bass).

"The gears are stepped up swiftly on ‘Drugland Weekend’, with some rocking lead guitar licks from former Kiss man ‘Ace Frehley’, whilst ‘Broken Love’ sees the last of the impressive guest list, which features Brian Ray, a regular in the Paul McCartney Band. This dreamy Rock tune leads us to play out with ‘Go’ and ‘Winding Road', both in true Enuff Z’Nuff mid-pace Melodic Rock style. Not a bad apple in the bunch, the fanbase will be more than happy, the proof is in the pudding and as Mr. Dio once hailed to Mr. Blackmore - "Long Live Rock ‘n’ Roll.” Today read another one of our lockdown album reviews, as Geoff C. this time gives you his take here on Enuff Z'Nuff's new CD 'Brainwashed Generation', which was released last Friday, plus check out our Video Of The Day.