Today's Track Of The Day is another great Rock On The Ridge Lock-Down show with Bootyard Bandits, Revival Black, White Raven Down, Trucker Diablo, Ritchie Kotzen, The Steepwater Band, Burnt Out Wreck, Airbourne (pictured), Quiet Riot, Falling into Red, Poet Bones, Electric Black, Jethro Tull, Babe Ruth, Savoy Brown, Empyre, Buffalo Summer, The Lazys, Gypsy's Kiss, Aviator Shades, Feather Mountain, Ashen Reach, Bone Broke Kings, Trope, In This Moment and Dire Straits

Last week Essex Grunge Metal band, Spidervayne, released their new single ‘Sundance’ through Roulette Records, taken from their forthcoming album due later this year. The band comprise of Danny 'Murf' Murphy lead vocals and guitar, Kevin '7' Smy, bass guitar, Sam 'Animal' Varley, drums and the exceptional Mitchell 'Faz' Farrington on lead guitar. Now just 24 months into their musical journey together, and with the feel of Alice in Chains and Soundgarden, they have self-released three impressive singles and released two singles on Roulette, all of which have been playlisted by Rock radio stations worldwide.

We all have our own support band stories, so let us tell you about the time we saw The Stranglers at London's Nashville Rooms just before Christmas 1975, with the brilliant Dave Greenfield on keys, who sadly died of this bloody Coronavirus last Sunday. As with every support band story, we were there to see headliner's Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias, who in turn we had seen excellently supporting Argent at London's Roundhouse earlier in March. If memory serves us correct, their brilliant set included 'Go Buddy Go', 'Sewer', 'Walk On By', 'Princess Of The Street', 'Fun Fun Fun' and 'Bitching'. With their iconic line-up of Jet, JJ, Hugh and of course Dave, who had replaced Hans Warmling earlier that year, they regularly played the Nashville (nowadays the Three Kings Sports Bar), and indeed today's Video Of The Day is a live recording of 'Peasant In The Big Shitty' from their headline set a year or so later. As they say - the rest is musical history. RIP Dave.

Today's Video Of The Day is Pandrador's first single, 'Tiwaz', taken off the Death Metal band's upcoming album 'Ov Rituals, Ov Ancestors, Ov Destiny', which is due to be released’ on Friday 19th June. Tiwaz is a fanatical prayer of a dying man, during his glorious last stand, right before he dies. He refers his words to one-handed God, Sovereign of War – Tyr (ᛏᛦᚱ). With that proclamation, he sacrifices his soul, his humanity, and his life energy in exchange for becoming an Einherjar in Valhalla!

Today's Blues On The Radio Track Of The Day returns with an hour full of new releases from Dave Ferra, Stephen Dale Petit, Bill Filipiak, John Cee Stannard, The Terraplanes, Cherry Lee Mewis, The Fargo Railroad Co., Chasin' the Train, The Milk Men, Norman Beaker, Adam Sweet, Starlite Campbell Band, E D Brayshaw and Joe Bonamassa(pictured).

Swedish Melodic Power Metal force Bloodbound returned last month with a very special Mini LP entitled 'Bloodheads United' - which is dedicated to its ever-growing fanbase. The title track is not only a brand new studio recording, but it's also a true hymn dedicated to the Bloodbound fans who have kept supporting the band over all their years. This is complemented by four more exclusive live tracks – all recorded at Bang Your Head festival in 2017.

Shrouding themselves in mystery, today's Video Of The Day is French Alternative/Prog duo Hidden Phase, who released their debut album - 'The Deviant Place Theory' - last October, that is nuanced and melodic and takes in a number of different sounds and moods to make an atmospheric and engaging album. Its eight tracks showcase the songwriting and musical talents of the Angers duo, aka Identity 1 - vocals/keyboards and Identity 2 - guitars/bass /keyboards, to fine effect. Indeed, there are a number of exceptional tracks with moments of delicacy, heavy guitars, melodic choruses and affecting ballads, of which fans of Tool, Deftones, Porcupine Treeand The Pineapple Thief will find much to enjoy.

"After a first few spins, there’s no doubting the 70’s Classic Rock influences of Deep Purple/Rainbow. Indeed, this record could easily be what Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow, featuring Ronnie James Dio, would be releasing now, if they were still together today. Pell has also removed the dated mystic wizards and kings from earlier releases, going for a more up-to-date lyrical choice of content." Today read another one of our self-isolating album reviews, as Geoff C. this time gives you his take here on Axel Rudi Pell's new CD 'Sign Of The Times', which is due to be released this Friday 8th May, plus check out our Track 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

Nigel Barker has, until now, been a hidden gem of the UK music scene and this exciting, unusual and wholly original artist releases his first single ‘Telling My Troubles To Strangers’ via all major streaming platforms on Friday 15th May, and is taken from his forthcoming new album ‘Five’, which comes out later this year. A real master Bluesman and a phenomenal songwriter who's music straddles, Blues, Americana, Rock and lo-fi Pop, Nigel recorded, produced and mastered all parts himself on this innovative track at his own Wonderland Studios West.

Today's Track Of The Day is the fifth episode of The Blues Podcast featuring legendary English Rock and Blues guitarist Robin Trower who sits down with Big Boy Bloater to discuss various subjects such as gear, his time with Procol Harum, his dream band, how he got into guitar and much more. Over five decades ago, the iconic British Bluesman made his first mark in R&B hopefuls The Paramounts, then forging his reputation over a five-album tenure with Procol Harum. But for Trower’s long-standing fans, the main event is his solo career, which exploded in 1974 with 'Bridge Of Sighs': the gold-selling masterpiece whose highlights like 'Day Of The Eagle' and 'Too Rolling Stoned' paired his soul-drenched fretwork with the emotive vocals of the late James Dewar.

"The final song on the album is the monumental labyrinthine title track 'Eupnea', all thirteen minutes and twenty three seconds of it! Opening with the immortal words 'Breathe', it already sounds epic before it even gets off the starting block! Sustained Floyd sounding synth chords set the scene with diaphanous airy harmonic vocals gliding over the top. Rampant guitars hammer out perfectly executed repeating melodic phrases, determined to make their musical statement of intent to facilitate and guide the passage of the piece onwards through the maze of sound and upwards into the euphoric stratosphere." Today, not only read another one of our self-isolating album reviews, as Steven C. Gilbert gives us his take hereon Pure Reason Revolution's 'Eupnea' CD that was released last month, but also check out today's Video Of The Day for their track 'Ghosts & Typhoons'.

It's Lockdown Sunday again - so there's another Isolation Music Festival (pictured) being streamed here from 12.50pm UK time, including Dave Ferra, Joel Fisk, Bill Mead, Cherry Lee Mewis and the one and only Chesney Hawkes! Also tonight there are live streams from Dan Burnett, who is here at 6.30pm as part of his World Tour, plus Redfish who are also performing here at 8pm.