California-based band Pattern-Seeking Animals, featuring Ted Leonard (lead vocals and guitars), Jimmy Keegan (drums and vocals), Dave Meros (bass) and John Boegehold (keyboards), releases its newest opus, 'Prehensile Tales' on Friday 15th May through InsideOut Music. Its their follow-up to last year's much-lauded eponymous debut and their second album expands the stylistic niche carved out by the debut and adds additional twists and turns along the way. With one of the six songs on the album clocking in at over 17 minutes, the band introduced violin, flute, trumpet, cello, sax and pedal steel to the sound palette that was once again recorded and mixed by Rich Mouser at The Mouse House.

Signed in late 2019 to Golden Robot Records, Canadian Hard Rockers Fortunate Losers have released their new single ‘Tidal Waves’, the title track from their upcoming EP, which is today's Track Of The Day. ‘Tidal Waves’ is a soaring Rock track highlighted by the Richard Patrick-esque vocals of versatile singer and guitarist Devon Cox, with echoes of Alice In Chains, Filter, Bush and Led Zeppelin, as it drags you along on an intricate and atmospheric, yet authentic Rock journey. The band was formed by Devon and bassist Brent Boileau, and along the way they added guitarist Brad Giffen and drummer Alex Wheeler, who bring a youthful energy, new fire, pounding beat and fresh ideas to the band’s exciting future.

Metal quintet Wars have released two brand new tracks, ‘Only Monsters’ and ‘A Fog of Feeling’, under the collective title ‘Chapter One’, and are the first instalment of the band’s second album 'A Hundred Shivers', which will be released next year. Releasing an album in ‘chapters’ may be untraditional, however, today's Video Of The Day of the first single ‘Only Monsters’ from their follow-up to the musical narrative of 'As Within /// So Without', is a commentary on the current climate of division we live in, underscored with powerful instrumentation.

Glaswegian rockers King King have rescheduled their UK tour dates and will tour the UK in October 2020 and February 2021 including London's Electric Ballroom on Saturday 13th February. All tickets from their postponed April 2020 UK tour will be valid. The band recently released their outstanding new single 'I Will Not Fall' on their own independent label, Channel 9 Music, which went straight onto the A-list on Planet Rock. This will be the band’s first tour since February 2019 and the first tour with the new line-up – Alan Nimmo (vocals/ guitar), Andrew Scott (drums), Zander Greenshields (bass) and Jonny Dyke (organ/piano).

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 UK Independent Blues Broadcasters Association Presenters' Picks, including songs from CW Ayon, Porch Swing Blues, Clare Free, James Taylor, John Doe Trio, Jamie Williams & The Roots Collective, Rhythm Express, King Solomon Hicks (pictured), Saverio Maccne, Roomful of Blues, Donald Fagen and many more.

Hailing from the heart of Brighton, powerful melodic riff laden Rock monster Graces Collide have ignited the touch-paper and are about to rocket through the clouds with new studio album 'Our Tomorrow' out on Friday 10th April 2020, which includes their recent second single 'Another Sun' - today's Video Of The Day. Consisting of the cool and calm Danny Wenham on vocals and lead guitar plus the strong and energetic twins Jurgan & Will Hamblin playing bass and rhythm guitars respectively, it's a 10-track epic that features a bunch of new songs along with some pet-sounds, and they’ve even enlisted The Rocket Dolls frontman Nikki Smash to lend a soaring vocal on their latest single/live favourite!

At the end of last month, Empyre released their cover of 'You Know My Name' from the James Bond film 'Casino Royale' written by Chris Cornell and David Arnold, and that single is today's Video Of The Day. We last saw the band performing at their 'Self Aware' album launch party at London's Water Rats last November and the guys tell us that further new tracks from them are not far away!

Marking forty years since the emergence of the infamous masked drummer 'Thunderstick', who became the iconic figure for the then burgeoning 'New Wave Of British Heavy Metal' movement, his eponymously-named band will tomorrow release their first ever official live album 'Something Wicked This Way Came - Live in France'. Best known for his time with Samson and an early Iron Maiden, Barry Graham Purkis (AKA Thunderstick) has recruited vocalist - Raven Blackwing, guitarists Vinny Konrad and Lee Quenby, plus bass guitarist Rex Thunderbolt - who have once again brought back the Thunderstick magic to a series of festival dates and live gigs. Indeed, now signed to Roulette Records, an eagerly-anticipated follow-up studio album is currently being recorded and is scheduled for release this July.

Brilliant, Swedish, rising Country star Ellinor Springstrike released her new single ‘This Fire’ last Friday, and it's today's Track Of The Day. Recorded in Nashville, USA, with Grammy nominated Jimmy Ritchey in the producer’s chair, this accomplished and melodic track has wide commercial appeal and is now available on all major streaming sites. Written by G. Dunlop, B. Maher and B.Maher, and published though Distrokid, the single is taken from her forthcoming EP which will be available on CD later this year. To coincide with its release, Ellinor will also be touring Europe, including UK dates at the Staxtonbury Music Festival in Scarborough on Saturday 4th July plus Tommy's in Filey the day after.

It’s been exactly three years since the outstanding debut of Bonfire vocalist Alexx Stahl on 'Byte The Bullet', plus their celebrated follow-up 'Temple Of Lies' a year later, and they are going to set the bar even higher with their latest offering, 'Fistful Of Fire', due to be released on Friday 3rd April. Indeed, the band from Ingolstadt formed 35 years ago, have recently rocked countless stages at home and abroad, and the new album fires on all cylinders across its 11 tracks.

Today's latest Rock On The Ridge Track Of The Day is another full show of great music including Bad Touch, Gin Annie, Molly Karloff, King Creature, Doomsday Outlaw, Little Red Kings, These Wicked Rivers, Shakra, Biff Byford (pictured), AC/DC, Massive Wagons, Black Palms, Tomorrow Is Lost, Samarkind, Goodbye June, Blacktop Mojo, Collateral, The Rocket Dolls, Small Town Titans, Blues Pills, Sweet Crisis, The Richmond Project, Rob Lamothe & Nick Brophy.

Last September Dreamlord signed a contract with No Remorse Records, and as well as opening the Annihilator concert in Athens in November, a month later the band released its 'Disciples of War' debut (see today's Video Of The Day). The Metal band was originally created in 1995, and after a series of concerts and demos, 2007 saw the release of a mini-CD and live series. Subsequently, after four years of inactivity, due to professional and personal commitments, the band reunited in 2011, and the current band line-up was finalised in 2013.