With a resigned air of inevitability, Spirit of Rock announced yesterday the cancellation of this year’s Ramblin' Man Fair due to be held at Mote Park, Maidstone, over the weekend of July 17th - 19th. However, it will also come as no surprise to learn that many of the bands booked for 2020 have expressed their desire to play at next year’s festival, due to be held over the weekend of July 16th - 18th July 2021. Indeed, wherever possible, this year's line up will be repeated next year, despite, inevitably, there will be changes as RMF features a large array of international artists, although many of them have already been in touch to already secure their same positions on the bill for next year’s show.

Brighton five piece Indie-Punk rockers Creature Creature will release their second official single, 'Broken Windows', this coming Friday 22nd May, ahead of their debut album 'Two Finger Tantrum', which is due to be released on Friday 10th July through their own label Creature Eats Records. Regardless of its sombre heart, 'Broken Windows' is an out and out Rock banger, complete with epic solo and driving choruses. Creature Creature consist of Scully – vocals, Zeus – guitars, Dave Cobley – bass, Seb Cole – keys and Matt Hill - drums, and are for fans of Royal Blood, Dinosaur Pile-Up, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes.

Rapidly rising new young Hard Rock trio Theia, who were due to support Magnum on their now cancelled UK & Irish tour, released their latest single ‘Eyes Like Fire’ in March, written by Magnum mastermind Tony Clarkin, which is today's Video Of The Day. Obviously, the Burton-On-Trent band so impressed Tony when they supported Magnum several times last year, that he not only offered his song to them, but also invited them to play as special guest act on Magnum’s entire upcoming UK tour when it's rescheduled later this year. Raised on his father’s record collection of Marc Bolan, Alice Cooper and AC/DC, main man Kyle Lamley, (guitar/lead vocals) teamed up with lifelong friend Paul Edwards (bass/vocals) to form the spine of Theia in 2014, with drummer Ash Lamley recruited in 2019 to complete the current line-up.

Multi-platinum, four-time Grammy-nominated Rock band Goo Goo Dolls have debuted a brand new lyric video for their single 'Fearless', which is today's Track Of The Day. One of the standout songs from last year's 12th studio album 'Miracle Pill', it's directed and produced by Michael Perlmutter, and the comic-book-inspired piece is a heartfelt celebration of life’s everyday heroes. The band also filmed a live performance of 'Fearless' in association with Global Citizen for their “Together At Home” Series. The stripped-down rendition was recorded in an effort to spread awareness and raise funds for the World Health Organization to help end Coronavirus. In addition to 'Fearless', the engaging and timely album also features numerous other instant-classics such as its smash single/title track and the slow-burn 'Autumn Leaves'.

Today's Video Of The Day of 'I Can't Be Satisfied' is dedicated to The Pretty Things frontman Phil May who has sadly died at 75 after suffering complications from emergency hip surgery after falling from his bike. Formed in 1963 in Sidcup, Kent, by Phil and Dick Taylor, they took their name from Willie Dixon's 1955 song ‘Pretty Thing’, which was initially recorded by Bo Diddley. The Pretty Things were preceded by Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys, which consisted of Dick Taylor on bass, fellow Sidcup Art College student Keith Richards on guitar and Mick Jagger on vocals. When Brian Jones was recruiting for his own band, all three joined Jones and Ian Stewart and were dubbed the "Rollin' Stones" by Jones in June 1962. Taylor quit the Stones five months later, when he was accepted at the Central School of Art and Design in London. It was there that Taylor met Phil and The Pretty Things were born. RIP Phil.

The Other are back, unleashing what may very well be their most bone-chilling effort yet, releasing their new album, 'Haunted', on Friday 12th June, of which their track 'We're All Dead' is today's Track Of The Day. For as long as it has existed, Germany’s biggest Horror Punk band has been under the spell of monsters, of outsiders, serial killers, apparitions, nightmares and creatures stitched together in secret laboratories. On 'Haunted', however, terror and shock come in a different guise. And with Rod Usher the very figurehead of his undead army, it's their most personal effort yet. And their most painful, at that.

Due to the current Covid-19 lockdown, the 2020 FORM UK Blues Awards will still take place tonight at 6pm as a virtual Awards ceremony here on the Federation's YouTube channel. It will be compered by Blues Legend Paul Jones and feature many high profile guest presenters. Nominations for the Awards were invited from a panel of more than 800 people from across the Blues spectrum in the UK during a two week period in January, and voting was open for two weeks from 3rd February. Good luck to all concerned.

Presented by Rec Rooms, in association with Eel Pie Club, tonight at 9pm there's a Live Stream here featuring Micky Moody (ex Whitesnake) plus Ali Maas. It's a gig you will not want to miss, so please make sure you donate the requested £5 to help musicians and venues. Thank you.

Yesterday, David Crosby (Track Of The Day) digitally reissued, via BMG, CPR’s two studio albums 'CPR' and 'Just Like Gravity', plus the group’s two live albums - 'Live at Cuesta College' and 'Live at the Wiltern'. All four albums will also be available on CD on Friday 31st July. After being a part of two of Rock & Roll’s most foundational bands (The Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash, respectively), and four years removed from a life-saving liver transplant, David Crosby channeled the creative frustration he had been feeling into CPR’s 1998 self-titled debut. Joined by noted session guitarist Jeff Pevar and Crosby’s recently reunited son James Raymond, the trio crafted smart, heady, Jazz-indebted Rock that showcased their stunning harmonies. They followed that three years later with 2001’s 'Just Like Gravity', an album that refined the burgeoning trio’s sound.

Today's Video Of The Day is 'Monster Railroad' from White Cowbell Oklahoma's 20th annual Xmess show at Toronto's Lee's Palace! Where else would you get to a show with (real) chain saws, an alien, drunk Santa, a county sheriff, Burlesque dancers, oh and a legendary kiss ass Rock 'n' roll band that is White Cowbell Oklahoma? Believe it, it happened, so enjoy it with a beer in your hand. And our Canadian correspondent Moose On The Loose promises that he will drip feed more Dangerous Canadian Content footage over the coming weeks as part of an ongoing campaign, so you have been warned!

Todays 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 Norman Beaker, Nigel Barker (pictured), Tommy Emmanuel, Marcus King, The Temperance Movement, The James Hunter Six, The Rolling Stones, Heritage Blues Orchestra, Albert King, Robert Cray & Johnny Copeland, Red's Blues, The Blues Band, Fruition and many more.

Dinosaur Pile-Up's brand new podcast, 'The Cosmic Barbecue', the first of the on-going series, is now available on all DSP's here. The podcast finds Matt Bigland (vocals, guitar), Mike Sheils (drums) and Jim Cratchley (bass) discussing “everything and anything”, prompted by questions from fans, and is the band’s way of staying connected during the current coronavirus pandemic. Dinosaur Pile-Up recently released their critically acclaimed new album 'Celebrity Mansions' via Parlophone in 2019, to lay claim as one of the UK’s most exciting and talked-about Rock bands on both sides of the Atlantic.