This Friday 12th June, guitar legend Steve Hackett releases a remastered edition of the much-lauded 'Genesis Revisited: Live at The Royal Albert Hall' album, of which 'Dancing With The Moonlit Knight’ is today's Video Of The Day. Originally recorded at a sold-out show in October 2013 and released through Inside Out Music in 2014, it was about time this unforgettable gig featuring all the Genesis classics and special guests like Ray Wilson, Amanda Lehmann, Roine Stolt, John Wetton and others, receives a proper vinyl release. In addition to that, this 2020 remaster will be made available as a digital album, too, allowing all Hackett fans to revisit this great event.

The virtual version of last month's EssexBluesRockFest is still available to download here featuring 30 minute sets from Stompin' Dave, Mississippi MacDonald, The Brent Hutchinson Band, Sugarman Sam, Robert J. Hunter, The Wildes,Robin Bibi Band and Ash Wilson. Watch it at your leisure - all they ask for is a minimum donation of £6 all of which will be split between the bands.

California Rock legends and global philanthropists Steel Panther are gearing up for another first in their long and distinguished career. Today the band is going to be playing their first ever, completely live around the globe, socially distance abiding (band members will be 6’ away from each other too), virtual concert here that they are calling the Concert To Save The World. Proceeds from ticket sales will go to Heavenly Pets Animal Rescue and Live Nation’s Crew Nation Fund, and will take place from a sanitised, undisclosed location in Los Angeles that will feature full stage production and use multiple cameras to stream the event live The show will go live at 2pm Los Angeles time, 5pm New York City time, 10pm London time, 11pm Berlin time, 5am (Monday morning) Hong Kong time and 7am (Monday morning) Sydney time.

Whatever it is I Am Korny got in exchange for his soul at the crossroads: his new album 'Sleep Ain’t Paying My Dues' released last Friday, and today's Track Of The Day, speaks of a very striking bargain. The phantoms and the dreamers, the heroes, and the villains, the brave and the desperate all find their home in his songs. His is the music of an outlaw perceiving his otherness, not as a burden but a crown. Thus, every maverick since the dawn of Rock ’n’ Roll is walking by his side. Just like Nick Cave, like the Black Keys or Alberta Cross, I Am Korny is distilling the American dream and the American nightmare, the promises of the West, and the myth of that endless land into murder ballads about the underbelly of love.

"High energy female Hard Rockers Haxan have a message for their Rock mothers Girlschool. They’re saying “Were taking your 80’s Rock ‘n’ Roll, mixing it up with some 70’s Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow (featuring Ronnie James Dio), dressing it up for the present and pronouncing we’re going to be the new kids on the block!” Today read another one of our self-isolating album reviews, as Geoff C. this time gives you his take here on Haxan's new CD 'White Noise', which is due to be released on Friday 24th July, plus check out our Video Of The Day. Remember, if you are currently kicking your heels and you fancy doing a self-isolation CD review, then don't be shy, just e-mail us at wrinklyrockers11@aol.com

Today's Track Of The Day is a Zach Moonshine Show double feature with interviews of both Onslaught and Paralysis. They talk about the new albums coming out by both bands, the state of the music industry during Covid-19 plus they give their new music a spin. This episode also features brand new tracks from Behemoth, Venom, Soulfly, Jasta, Lamb Of God, Jason Aaron Wood, Texas Murder Crew, plus classics from Body Count, Hatebreed, Machine Head, Biohazard, Terror and Power Trip!

Today The New Wave of Classic Rock presents Webfest 2 2020 here from 2pm - 10pm, a fully live-streamed event open to everyone where you can bring your own beer and create your own watch parties. Bands appearing over the eight hours include, amongst others, Massive Wagons, Raider, Bad Touch, Blackwater Conspiracy, Tequila Mockingbyrd, Sisters Doll, Eulogy and Empyre, as well as Zoom links to their studio(s), guest spots and interviews. And if you are enjoying what you see please buy a band a virtual coffee here, as all proceeds go straight back to the bands involved today.

"Signing off with 'Fox On The Run' they return for the mightiest of encores and staples of every partygoers repertoire - 'Blockbuster' and 'The Ballroom Blitz'. 'Blockbuster' was the Sweet’s only UK number 1 but is probably eclipsed by the Blitz, the finest air guitar track in the land, as the track of the night." That was part of our take last Christmas at Andy Scott's Sweet gig at London's Islington Assembly Hall, and despite the absence of original bass guitarist Steve Priest, who died on Thursday at the age of 72, the night was testament to the band's undoubted musical legacy and longevity - indeed they were much more than a Glam Rock band. Therefore today's Video Of The Day is dedicated to Priest. "Are You Ready Steve?"

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 Jose Ramirez, Errol Linton, Robert Jon & The Wreck, Mojo Preachers (pictured), Nick Steed, Mike Ross, Barrelhouse, Pink Floyd, The Shadows, Norman Beaker, When Rivers Meet, Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Smith & BB King, Jamie Williams & The Roots Collective and many more.

Experimental UK Pop-Proggers Kitten Pyramid, aka Scott Milligan, return with a surprise new song, and today's Video Of The Day, 'Doughnuts', which is also appropriately National Doughnut Day, plus the first track to be taken from their second album 'Koozy!', due out next March. Seven years on from their acclaimed self-released debut 'Uh-Oh!' and five years since the ambitious 'High Five Scuba Dive' EP, 'Doughnuts' sees the Burton-on-Trent singer-songwriter-and-all-sorts-of-other-thingser, drop a reflective hymn to the importance of real people, ordinary lives and the march of time. Starting with soft chanting by Scott's family-and-friends choir, the track then follows a simple piano melody through subtle steam-engine percussion and 'A Day In The Life' drums, building to a brass and strings-laden climax, as Milligan details the "same old, same old" waiting for trains, domestic humdrum, the bedtime routine.

It was definitely a case of old suspects on a new course when Ash Return released their debut album 'The Sharp Blade Of Integrity' at the beginning of last month. After the sudden end of Miozan, it become obvious to four members of the band that giving up was not an option, although to continue under the same name wasn't even up for debate. However, out of the ashes, Ash Return were determined to remain true to the classic Hardcore style of the late 80's, in that the new sound would be combined with classic Metal influences à la Iron Maiden. Consequently Tank, Kniffel, Gerrit and Outso found frontman Johnny from true Metalheads Gloryful, subsequently inventing their own brand new genre, "Swordcore", and now are ready to escape the ashes, as testified by every single one of the album's stylistically wide-ranging songs.

Tonight Blues + Roots Rock duo Grace and Aaron Bond of When Rivers Meet are going live here on Facebook at 8pm BST to play their new record ‘Innocence Of Youth’ and have a chat about how the songs came about. Hope you can make it!