On today's Blues Club Podcast Track Of The Day there's 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 songs from Joe Bonamassa, Stephen Dale Petit, Robert Jon & The Wreck, Kaz Hawkins, Chris Rea, Stevie Wonder, Soul Reality Featuring Jade Like The Stone, The Who, The Animals, Freddie King and many more.

Forty years later - ‘Ace Of Spades’ - the title track of Motörhead's 1980 iconic, game changing album - is one of the greatest Hard Rock songs ever written, and today, Team Motorhead are celebrating this milestone album’s anniversary here with Motörhead Day - ‘The 8th Of May’. Few songs in modern history can instantly ignite the adrenaline of music fans, and it has truly become a lifestyle anthem for several generations of Rockers, Metalheads, Punks, Bikers, athletes, rebels, outcasts and freethinkers all around the world. So why not make sure that you not only join other fans from around the globe on this special birthday, but also design your own personalised Motörhead t-shirt here?

Just days after music lost The Stranglers Dave Greenfield to Covid-19, another keyboard legend has passed away, namely Kraftwerk's Florian Schneider of cancer at the age of 73. Memories of hearing 'Autobahn' (Video Of The Day) for the first time in 1974 in a banged up VW Beetle on the shores of Lake Maggiore, with some newly acquainted German friends, come flooding back. Suffice to say that the German electronic music pioneer formed one of most influential groups of all time with Ralf Hutter in 1970, and changed music forever - Hip-Hop, Synthpop and Rock all owe a debt to him. The double whammy of course is that Covid-19 also prevented the Man Machine performing their trademark multi-media show, combining digital surround sound with breathtaking 3D animations and robotics, at Victoria Park's All Points East at the end of this month. RIP Florian.

The Brothers Osborne UK headline tour, due to take place this month, has now been rescheduled for next year, including Cambridge Junction on Monday 11th January, the prestigious Roundhouse in North London on Thursday 14th January and Leeds O2 Academy (upgraded from Leeds Stylus) on Friday 15th January. A special guest for the six show run will be announced in due course, which comes in the wake of the Maryland natives triumphant debut appearance at Download last year, plus two previous sold-out headline tours in 2018. Their latest album, ‘Live At The Ryman’, released last year, was recorded during the Brothers’ incredible three-night, sold-out run at the famed Ryman auditorium in Nashville in February 2019, featuring material from both of the band’s studio albums - 2016’s ‘Pawn Shop’ and 2018’s ‘Port Saint Joe’.

Instead of her European headline tour, New York Blues Rock singer/songwriter Sari Schorr has been grounded in New York, however, Sari has made today's haunting Video Of The Day using her iPhone, showing striking scenes of the city in social isolation and lockdown. Set to her 2016 track ‘Ordinary Life’, it's poignant and powerful. It captures a moment in time where ordinary lives became anything but, and when many have learned to be grateful for everyday experiences that we may have taken for granted: a feeling that will resonate with many.

UK powerhouse Rock band Häxan are due to release their hotly anticipated debut album 'White Noise' on Friday 24th July, which features today's Track Of The Day 'Skeletons'. This powerful lead single is the perfect gateway to a carefully curated collection of songs that's certain to whet the appetite of the band's fanbase and see Häxan reach new audiences. The Welsh trio are not only on track to deliver one of the best Hard Rock albums of the year, but have also taken the decision to release it during the unprecedented challenges of Covid-19, which is sure to lift Rock fans spirits and dare us to embrace who we are and what we are capable of when we are backed in to a corner.

Today's Track Of The Day is another great Rock On The Ridge Lock-Down show with Bootyard Bandits, Revival Black, White Raven Down, Trucker Diablo, Ritchie Kotzen, The Steepwater Band, Burnt Out Wreck, Airbourne (pictured), Quiet Riot, Falling into Red, Poet Bones, Electric Black, Jethro Tull, Babe Ruth, Savoy Brown, Empyre, Buffalo Summer, The Lazys, Gypsy's Kiss, Aviator Shades, Feather Mountain, Ashen Reach, Bone Broke Kings, Trope, In This Moment and Dire Straits

Last week Essex Grunge Metal band, Spidervayne, released their new single ‘Sundance’ through Roulette Records, taken from their forthcoming album due later this year. The band comprise of Danny 'Murf' Murphy lead vocals and guitar, Kevin '7' Smy, bass guitar, Sam 'Animal' Varley, drums and the exceptional Mitchell 'Faz' Farrington on lead guitar. Now just 24 months into their musical journey together, and with the feel of Alice in Chains and Soundgarden, they have self-released three impressive singles and released two singles on Roulette, all of which have been playlisted by Rock radio stations worldwide.

We all have our own support band stories, so let us tell you about the time we saw The Stranglers at London's Nashville Rooms just before Christmas 1975, with the brilliant Dave Greenfield on keys, who sadly died of this bloody Coronavirus last Sunday. As with every support band story, we were there to see headliner's Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias, who in turn we had seen excellently supporting Argent at London's Roundhouse earlier in March. If memory serves us correct, their brilliant set included 'Go Buddy Go', 'Sewer', 'Walk On By', 'Princess Of The Street', 'Fun Fun Fun' and 'Bitching'. With their iconic line-up of Jet, JJ, Hugh and of course Dave, who had replaced Hans Warmling earlier that year, they regularly played the Nashville (nowadays the Three Kings Sports Bar), and indeed today's Video Of The Day is a live recording of 'Peasant In The Big Shitty' from their headline set a year or so later. As they say - the rest is musical history. RIP Dave.

Today's Video Of The Day is Pandrador's first single, 'Tiwaz', taken off the Death Metal band's upcoming album 'Ov Rituals, Ov Ancestors, Ov Destiny', which is due to be released’ on Friday 19th June. Tiwaz is a fanatical prayer of a dying man, during his glorious last stand, right before he dies. He refers his words to one-handed God, Sovereign of War – Tyr (ᛏᛦᚱ). With that proclamation, he sacrifices his soul, his humanity, and his life energy in exchange for becoming an Einherjar in Valhalla!

Today's Blues On The Radio Track Of The Day returns with an hour full of new releases from Dave Ferra, Stephen Dale Petit, Bill Filipiak, John Cee Stannard, The Terraplanes, Cherry Lee Mewis, The Fargo Railroad Co., Chasin' the Train, The Milk Men, Norman Beaker, Adam Sweet, Starlite Campbell Band, E D Brayshaw and Joe Bonamassa(pictured).

Swedish Melodic Power Metal force Bloodbound returned last month with a very special Mini LP entitled 'Bloodheads United' - which is dedicated to its ever-growing fanbase. The title track is not only a brand new studio recording, but it's also a true hymn dedicated to the Bloodbound fans who have kept supporting the band over all their years. This is complemented by four more exclusive live tracks – all recorded at Bang Your Head festival in 2017.