The Blues Podcast launched recently with a sizzling three episodes featuring the queen of modern Blues Beth Hart, the multi-platinum selling Kenny Wayne Shepherd and the fast rising British Blues-Rock star Kris Barras(today's Track Of The Day). The series 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. The naturally charming Bloater knows what makes musicians tick and how to get inside their head which is what makes The Blues Podcast so special – to find out about the person behind the music. It’s a chat amongst friends where they sit down and chew the fat of life and what has shaped them into who they are.

Still on the theme of things to look forward to, and now in its third year, Stonedead is an outdoor, one day, one stage, monster of a festival where Rock music reigns eternal, that again takes place this year at Newark Showground on Saturday 29th August. Firmly placed on the Rock festival map, it places the Rock fan experience at its core and is solely organised by volunteers and created for music fans. A festival experience not to be missed, this year's line up features 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.

The Blinders new single, ‘Forty Days And Forty Nights’, which is today's Video Of The Day, is the latest track to be taken from their upcoming album 'Fantasies Of A Stay At Home Psychopath', which is out on Friday 8th May via Modern Sky UK. Opening to an intoxicating blend of driving drums and forebodingly warped guitars, the track is a sinister and visceral account of the collapse of a relationship into murderous animosity, which pulsates between passages of calm and chaos. 'FOASAHP' is the follow-up to their critically acclaimed debut album, 'Columbia', released in 2018, and the band will head out on a run of intimate dates later this year, including Edinburgh, Hull and Southampton, plus London's iconic 100 Club on Monday 14th September.

Pure Reason Revolution release ‘Eupnea’, their first new studio album in nearly 10 years, on Friday 3rd April, and the band recently released their new single ‘New Obsession’, which is today's Video Of The Day. ‘Eupnea’, sees them harking back to their earliest days, while rolling in all of the musical experiments and experience they've gathered in the intervening years. They will also be setting off on a European co-headlining tour alongside Norwegian Art-Rockers Gazpacho, who are currently working on the follow up to their 2018 album ‘Soyuz’, including London's Islington Assembly Hall on Sunday 25th October, plus they currently have two Summer festival dates, firstly at the Night Of The Prog Festival in Germany on Friday 17th July and then Maidstone's Ramblin' Man Fair the day after.

Today's Blues On The Radio Track Of The Day takes the form of an entertaining shopping list including Mike Ross, Catfish, Richard Townend And The Mighty Bosscats, Dan Burnett, Elles Bailey (pictured) and more! Just have a listen and when you hear something you like, pause the show and do a search for the artists website, then buy some merchandise from them. Having done that, return to the show, repeating throughout with as many pauses as you like! There you go - fabulous entertainment and simultaneously supporting these talented musicians in these uncertain times.

Being positive and looking forward, Hard Rock Hell Spring Break, takes place next year at Camp HRH in Great Yarmouth, over the long weekend of 10th - 14th March, boasting 3 arenas and 60 bands playing over multiple genres including AOR, Glam, Sleaze, NWOCR, Metal, Stoner, Pirate, NWOCM and the return of a full-on NWOBHM pre-party featuring Vardis, Tygers of Pan Tang and Tank. Also including headliners Kingdom Come, Reckless Love and Evil Scarecrow, it's going to be a wall-shaking, ground-blistering, high decibel cycle of pure HRH Rock 'n' Metal at its best… get ready for mayhem!

British Rock band Vega will release their new album 'Grit Your Teeth' on Friday 12th June via Frontier Records, and their title track and first single is today's Video Of The Day. Yes, buckle up and hold tight, Vega are back with the album of their career, that not only will take you to screaming highs and gritty lows, but it’ll also keep you coming back for more. If their last album, 'Only Human', was a commentary of what was going on in our lives, the new album is very much a reflection of those times and the outcomes. The band’s love for Rock from the 80’s and early 90’s shines through without rehashing it, however, the album also draws inspiration from other places, such as Metal, that blends melody and hooks with power.

In the light of exceptional circumstances related to the Coronavirus outbreak, the physical music business in many European territories (including Italy, France, Germany and Spain) are moving towards a complete shutdown, with more likely to follow suit, including North America and elsewhere. As a consequence, Frontiers Music regrets to inform its fans and followers that all artist albums that had been due for release on Friday 10th April, including Dennis DeYoung's '26 East: Volume 1' (today's Track Of The Day), have now been moved to Friday 22nd May. Similarly, titles that had been due for release on Friday 8th May have been moved to Friday 12th June, with the same proviso. These date may be subject to further change based on the evolution of the global situation.

With Heavy Metal music now approaching its half century, new Power Metal band DeadRisen is an explosive cocktail of older, traditional musicians with young, hungry new school guys, who released their eponymous debut album earlier this month. The brainchild of Rod Rivera and Mike LePond, Rivera’s guitar wizardry is best known and respected world-wide in his work with Christian Metal legends Rivera/Bomma, whilst seasoned veteran LePond is not only the bassist for Progressive Metal giants Symphony X, but has also played on some of the most important albums in Heavy Metal history. Complementing DeadRisen's undoubted strength in depth is Tony Stahl (Livesay) on keyboarda and backing vocals, Dan Prestup (Midnight Eternal) on drums and Will Shaw (Heir Apparent) on lead vocals.

Welsh Southern Hard Rock group Everyday Heroes will release their forthcoming debut album ‘A Tale of Sin and Sorrow' on Friday 5th June, plus the band have also premiered a music video for new track 'Standing Stones' which is today's Track Of The Day. Not ones to rest on their laurels, 'A Tale of Sin & Sorrow' sees the four piece stepping up to the plate and delivering a first class, full length studio release following 2016's self titled introduction, and 2017's 'The Other Side of Nowhere' EP's. Recorded and produced at the Boneyard Recording Studio (Dream State, Buffalo Summer) in Neath by Andrew Francis and Phil Humphreys, it contains 11 tracks of well crafted, Blues infused Rock with character.

Like everything else, the Vive Le Rock Awards has sadly had to be delayed but the good news is it has been rescheduled to Wednesday 18th November at London's 02 Islington Academy - so something to look forward to! Further good news is that it's going to be the same line-up with the Lords Of The New Church with Michael Monroe, Neville Staple, Brian James, The Only Ones, Jim Jones, Ed Tudor-Pole and the Vive Le Rockers all-star band. Original tickets will still be valid for the rescheduled date. Refunds will be available from your point of purchase.

Today's Video Of The Day, 'Adrena', is taken from Meshiaak's blistering second album 'Mask Of All Misery', which is out now via Mascot Records. Formed in Melbourne, by 4ARM’s Danny Camilleri and Teramaze’s Dean Wells, with bassist Andrew Cameron, they have recruited drummer David Godfrey who replaces Jon Dette, following his departure due to logistical reasons with him being based in the US and the rest of the band in Australia. ‘Mask Of All Misery’ is an album that journey’s through a maze of toxic influences and the masks the exponents wear. Indeed, the album barely takes a breath through the ten songs and deals with personal struggles and the inner-strength to pull yourself through as well as burrowing into the dark underbelly for an album of uncompromising heaviness. However, the band have an ability to sprinkle light, adding visions of hope lyrically and strong sense of melody throughout the unrelenting power and musicianship of the four members.