Ever-rebellious, Southern Country Rock-influenced, 4-piece powerhouse, The Outlaw Orchestra release their 10-track debut album ‘Pantomime Villains’ on Friday 29th May. A bundle of foot-stomping fun, the band formed in mid-2016 bringing together David Roux (guitars/lead vocals), Ryan Smith (drums/percussion/vocals), Pete Briley (banjo/lap steel/vocals) and Alex Barter (double bass/vocals). Sounding like they’ve been steeped in moonshine since birth, the band do indeed hail from the Deep South – Great Britain's Southampton, to be precise! Accomplished musicianship, rich in hard Southern and 70's-style Rock plus Cajun, Dixie, Country and even Flamenco, brings the ‘Orchestra’ to the party, whilst their deep-set taste for irreverence, not playing by the rules, rebel hearts and sheer energy bring in the ‘Outlaw’ contingent.

Today's latest Blues Club Podcast Track Of The Day has another two hours of non stop Best in Blues and beyond with More Music and Less Chat, featuring new releases, classic tracks and British Isolation Blues including Catfish, Mike Ross, Kyla Brox, John Verity, Katie Bradley, Dave Ferra, The Achievers, Jamie Williams & The Roots Collective, Porch Swing Blues, Zoe Schwarz Blue Commotion, Jack J Hutchinson, Mojo Preachers (pictured), Connor Selby, The 251s, West Weston, Clare Free, Martin McNeill, Stevie Watts Organ Trio, When Rivers Meet, Wolfpack, Southbound, The Cinelli Brothers, King King and many more.

Drawing inspiration from their Nerd Rock forebearers in Coheed and Cambria, Weezer and Muse, Canada’s Double Experience aim to guide you through these troubling times with their new full-length record, 'Alignments', due to be released on Friday 24th April, of which 'Your Biggest Fan' is today's Video Of The Day. Proving that they are more than just sweater vests and big glasses, the band have crafted a concept album with heart and mind that's as catchy as it is complex! Good and evil, order and chaos - but at the same time celebrating what makes us different. The message is that concepts are not as easily-controlled as they are within tabletop gaming. In our world, thoughts and prayers are as disposable as the latest streamable series. While the lines between politics and humanity have blurred, the chasms that divide us have not.

Singer/songwriter Jonny Ong's latest track ‘Isolation’ was released last Friday via Sound Portal Studios, and it's today's Track Of The Day. This multi-instrumentalist hails from Singapore and melds traditional approaches with Western-influences.During his teenage years, Jonny not only found a deep obsession for Psychedelic music, but he was also inspired by a busker in Amsterdam to pick up the Handpan. ‘Isolation’ is a perfect blend of all these influences, skills, instruments and song writing drawn from the many years of studying his craft. Intended as a lamentation of loneliness, it's certainly something we can all certainly relate to right now.

London based trio Trident Waters release their new single, ‘Control the Animal’, on Friday 24th April, through Roulette Records and digitally distributed worldwide by Cargo Distribution. It's taken from their forthcoming album due for release this Autumn, and with three self-released EP's under their belts, they have already established themselves for some years now on the underground Rock scene, radio and in the press. The band have been together since 2015 and feature the exceptional vocal talents of guitarist Andrew Knightley, Wilson Zaidan (bass) and Greg Zaka (drums). No suprises then, when they cite their inspiration as Rival Sons, ZZ Top, AC/DC, John Lee Hooker and Joe Bonamassa, reinforcing the fact that they have the capability and musicianship to stand out from the crowd.

Otherwise recently took to the streets for today's Video Of The Day, 'Crossfire', to capture a picture of Las Vegas no one inhabiting the Earth thought they would ever witness. As the entire civilisation across planet Earth navigates towards a better day, the band took the path of continuing to create in support of their latest studio album 'Defy'. The Las Vegas quartet of Adrian Patrick (lead vocals), Ryan Patrick (guitar), Nick Bedrosian (bass) and Joe Conner (drums), push the boundaries of their signature style in terms of both songcraft and sonic experimentation alike. They've shared the stage with everyone from Stone Sour to Papa Roach, and when we all come through this together, they’ll be back on stage bringing energy, entertainment and inevitably some level of joy to all assembled across the planet.

Firewind (Video Of The Day) release their latest eponymous album via AFM on Friday 15th May, not only, as usual, featuring the brilliance of exceptional guitarist Gus G (Ozzy Osbourne, Arch Enemy, Dream Evil), but it also sees the debut of vocalist Herbie Langhans (Avantasia, Radiant, Seventh Avenue), stepping up to the plate. Over the last 20 years, Firewind's faithful have been in awe of the band's fantastic riffs, hooks and solos from Gus' gifted hands plus a great vocal melody – an integral part of every Firewind song. In that respect, nothing has changed on their latest album, with Herbie's charismatic voice nailing each and every last one of the ten new songs, infusing them with a remarkable expressive force.

Illustrious German Heavy Metal/Hard Rock guitarist Axel Rudi Pell has lined up the release of his utterly excellent new studio album ‘Sign Of The Times’, on Friday 8th May on Steamhammer/SPV. Furthermore, both American musicians in the band - singer Johhny Gioeli and drummer Bobby Rondinelli - were on fire when they added their magic to the mix. Axel’s most recent studio album, ‘Knight’s Call’, crashed into Germany’s national top 10 album chart and the UK’s top 40 Rock chart, and was universally acclaimed on release in 2018. Now ‘Sign Of The Times’, which also includes Ferdy Doernberg on keyboards and Volker Krawczak on bass, even outshines its much lauded predecessor, which is all set to be proclaimed a career-defining, landmark album, propelling Pell ever higher into Hard Rock’s heady stratosphere!

Today's latest Rock On The Ridge Track Of The Day includes music from Buffalo Summer, Massive Wagons, Black Stone Cherry, Little Red Kings, Threering, Valley of the Sun, Clutch, Axel Rudi Pell, The Devil In California, Devilskin(pictured), Siena Root, Led Zeppelin, Rainchild, Black Smoke Trigger, The Rocket Dolls, In This Moment, Wayland, Harem Scarem, Ereley, Deadland Ritual, Blacktop Mojo, Like A Storm, Electric Black, Stone Sour and Black Label Society.

Today's Blues On The Radio Track Of The Day features one track from each of the top 16 albums that appeared in The IBBA chart for March - an uninterrupted hour of music from Roomful of Blues, Bywater Call, Thorbjørn Risager & The Black Tornado, John Blues Boyd, Ridgerunner, The Robert Cray Band, The Reverend Shawn Amos & The Brotherhood, The James Pitts Band, Lee Ainley's Blues Storm, Mary Jo Curry, Zoe Schwarz Blue Commotion, John Doe Trio, Jamie Williams & the Roots Collective, Ryan Perry Band, Andres Roots and Rory Gallagher(pictured).

Because of Covid-19, our 2020 WRC On Tour t-shirt here is now well and truly out of date , however, to make up for it, why not design your own personalised Motörhead artwork here? This unique name generator allows you to have your monicker emblazoned around the legendary Motörhead war-pig, which you can share and save, or have it printed on a limited edition t-shirt. With three designs running over a limited period, there’s never been a better time to pledge your allegiance as a Motörfan and to show it off once this lockdown is finally over.

"Skin' starts with warming melodically plucked strings before gradually building with sumptuous decorous piano, plush teasing percussion and insistent palatial drums. Semkina's mellifluous vocals are delicately soft and gracefully soothing despite the highly sensitive, painful and emotionally charged lyrics, “I am sanding light, peeling my skin off, off my body where you touched it”. 'How To Be Alone' starts quiet and wispy before ascending with assertion. The lyrics cascade like water falls from euphonious vocals, “I will teach you how to be alone my girl”." Today, not only read another one of our self-isolating album reviews, as Steven C. Gilbert gives us his take hereon Mariana Semkina's (Iamthemorning) 'Sleepwalking' CD that was released on Valentine's Day, but also check out today's Video Of The Day.