Exactly one week after we saw his quartet as special guests to Orianthi at Islington's O2 Academy, last Thursday James Bruner returned to London to headline Camden's The Black Heart, with the 24 year old Illinois born and Nashville based singer having recently received a lot of traction in the Rock press, so check out today not only Denise Lester's Photo Gallery from the gig, but also watch today's 'Big Shot' Video Of The Day, also filmed by Denise that very same night.

After his audition in late 1968, Martin Barre was Jethro Tull's guitarist for 43 years, and his music career was recently covered in an autobiography, 'A Trick Of Memory', published by McNidder & Grace in November last year, so ahead of playing this year's A New Day Festival at Faversham's Mt Ephraim over the long weekend of 21st to 23rd August, have a listen to today's Podcast Of The Day and Barre's latest interview with David Randall, that includes tracks from several albums, including Jethro Tull and Alan Simon's 'Excalibur' project.

Continuing to carry the torch first lit by founder Daevid Allen in the late ’60s, Psychedelic Institution Gong return on Friday 13th March with seven-track album 'Bright Spirit', that marks the third instalment in a trilogy recorded with long-time collaborator Frank Byng, which sees Gong at their experimental best, more adventurous and more open to the dream than ever, such as album track 'Stars In Heaven', that's also one of today's six of the best 'Thursday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further recent and forthcoming releases from King Ultramega featuring Ian Thornley & Pete Thorn, Fighter V, The Scarlet Goodbye, Philojain and Tombstones In Their Eyes.

Paris-based Progressive Metal quintet Primaluce return with their new twelve-track album 'Way Of Perfection' tomorrow 13th February, and ahead of its release they premiered the music video for album opener 'The Wind Remains', that not only introduces the record’s sense of scale and atmosphere, but it's also today's epic Video Of The Day. Indeed, 'Way Of Perfection' marks a defining moment for the project, as it's Primaluce’s first fully vocal album and the clearest expression yet of a vision developed over more than a decade, built on classic Progressive Metal foundations, as well as Melodic intensity and cinematic atmosphere, but with the range and openness to reach beyond the genre’s usual borders.

2024 WRC award-winning Pete Feenstra has spent the last forty years or so listening to, writing about, talking about, and promoting Rock music, with a particular interest in the Blues, and Pete's latest Rock & Blues show is today's Podcast Of The Day, featuring Michael Katon, Jim Keller, Revolution Highway, The Mel Outsider Reformation, Kula Shaker, Julian Taylor featuring Jim James, Guru Guru, Three Mile Shout, Dirty Dave Osti, Kezia Gill (pictured), Othman Wahabi, Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real, Paul Gilbert, Lucky Peterson, plus many more.

JUNO nominated and Maple Blues Award winner Spencer Mackenzie's new eleven-track album, 'Empty Chairs', will be released next Friday 20th February by Gypsy Soul Records, with Spencer having dropped last month his fourth album single, 'Don’t Know Where I’m Going', delivering a deep, gritty guitar tone and an electrifying, fast-moving rhythm section in his rendition of Rory Gallagher’s acoustic classic, of which this reimagined cover is also one of today's six of the best 'Wednesday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further recent and forthcoming releases from Shiraz Lane, Les Flâneurs, SoulSwitch, Devil Electric and Lizzy Borden.

Today's very latest The Zach Moonshine Show Podcast Of The Day goes full Death Metal assault with an interview with Cleveland’s Vicar Blood, plus there's music from Nikola's Cage, Anima, Mysanthrium, Mistress, Cruenta Venganza, Marie Catherine, Ozzy Osbourne, Dissonance, Negative Sixxx, Sküll, Vitriol, Testament, BDF, The Grand Myth, Rotten Blasphemy, Rock 'N' Roll Villain Society, Netherdred, Crymwav, Black Reuss, Cyanate, Aseptic and WAKAS.

Showcasing a diverse Blues music lineup, last month's nineteen date January Blues Festival at London's 229 Great Portland Street, included Man of the World - The Blues Side of Fleetwood Mac - back on Wednesday 7th, so check out today not only Denise Lester's review and photos from the gig, but also watch Man of The World's 'You Don't Love Me' Video Of The Day, filmed by Denise that very same night.

Emerging from the ashes of the NWOBHM movement, becoming one of the defining UK Hard Rock bands of the late ’80s and early ’90's, legendary Little Angels are Big, Bad & Back with an ultra-rare UK tour in November 2026, featuring the full original line-up plus special guest Luke Morley, of which 'Too Much Too Young', taken from February 1993 third album, ‘Jam’, is also one of today's six of the best 'Tuesday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five recent and forthcoming releases from Kant, Bambees, Famous Strangers, Lowsunday and Dvne.

Today's very latest Blues On The Radio Podcast Of The Day starts and finishes with music from Kyla Brox, ahead of her show at The Tuesday Night Music Club in Coulsdon tonight, plus there's new releases from Samantha Fish, Selwyn Birchwood, Amin & Lachlan, Penny Jayne Black, Voodoo Ramble and When Rivers Meet, as well as a preview of the 'With a Little Help From My Friends - A Tribute to Matt Long' launch party (pictured) at Fleet's The Harlington on Sunday 17th May, featuring tracks from just some of the artists appearing, namely Brave Rival, The Zac Schulze Gang, Katie Bradley & Dudley Ross, Thomas Heppell, Will Wilde, Burning Rope and Greg Coulson.

Along with fellow producer Ilya Potochniak in Kyiv, UK-based Dutch music producer and Prog Rock musician Long Tall J recently released today's Video Of The Day, 'Stellar Dreamer', an instrumental stellar voyage of a visionary young woman who becomes a space explorer. The idea for the music came spontaneously to Long Tall J, and with the help of Scottish video maker David Macarthur it materialised further, with its inspirational and emotional message for young people who have dreams.

Currently on the road with their UK & Europe Black Light/White Noise tour, along with their musicians Julia Lage on bass and Bruno Valerde on drums, at the end of last month, Smith/Kotzen, the acclaimed pairing of guitar icons Adrian Smith and Richie Kotzen, released an expanded deluxe digital version of their highly praised second album, 'Black Light/White Noise', of which their latest single ‘Blindsided’ is today's Video Of The Day. Containing two new songs entitled ‘All The Way Down’ and ‘The Grind’, that were previously only available on the Japanese CD edition, on its release last year the album was a UK No.1 hit on the Official Rock & Metal Chart.