On today's WRC Award winning Rock On The Ridge Track Of The Day, there's music from Gasoline Outlaws, Motion Device, Royal Bliss, At The Sun, The Treatment, Bad Touch, Sammy Hagar, The Howling Tides, Black Whiskey, The Dust Coda, Mouth In The South, Whitesnake/David Coverdale, Rival Sons, Jethro Tull, Aaron Buchanan & The Cult Classics, Beasto Blanco, Electric Mary, We Three Kings, Mississippi Riot, Matt Mitchell & The Coldhearts, Catfish, Black Country Communion (pictured) and on their Introducing Stage, two in a row from Dirty Honey.

It was not a great day for music fans on Monday with the news that not only has Glenn Hughes had to cancel his current UK May tour, but also that one of London's iconic gig venues, The Borderline, is to close down on Saturday 31st August. Hughes' press statement read "Glenn Hughes needs to postpone his upcoming 'Performs Classic Deep Purple Live' due to illness. He sends his regrets that he is unable to perform his UK tour which was due to start at the Holmfirth Picturedrome on Tuesday 14th May through Friday 24th May. He needs to be treated for an illness that while not life threatening, must be dealt with immediately in order for it to not become a serious problem. He is expected to make a full recovery and be back on the road in June." Meanwhile, The Borderline tweeted "It is with a heavy heart that we announce @theborderline will close its doors for the last time this summer. This has been an extremely difficult decision & one we are very sad to make."

2010 saw a marriage made in Melodic Rock heaven between Canadian Rock vocalist Harry Hess (Harem Scarem) and German producer Dennis Ward (Pink Cream 69, Khymera) as First Signal. Hess had been presented with a set of songs by Frontiers that had the same vibe and magic as Harem Scarem (who were on hiatus at the time), and an ensuing self-titled debut album received great acclaim. A second record, ‘One Step Over The Line’, followed in 2016, for which Hess enlisted the help of Swedish producer Daniel Flores (Find Me, The Murder Of My Sweet). Once again, the inspiration behind its songs were the first two Harem Scarem albums, but, as with the debut, new twists were thrown in with songs running the gamut from AOR to Arena Hard Rock. Similarly well received, the recording of a third album was therefore a no-brainer. With production duties again handled by Daniel Flores, ‘Line of Fire’ (Video Of The Day), due to be released on Friday 17th May, is another awesome slab of great AOR/Melodic Rock for the 21st century!

"Marco arrives to the stage weaving himself through the crowd to the intro, almost Angus Young style, hitting the stage to open with ‘Viva La Rock’. Leaving his two earlier albums behind with their more Jazz fused Rock, the present album brings a distinct David Lee Roth sound and feel and we are treated to a few cover versions of acts that Marco has played with over his career. Thin Lizzy’s ‘Chinatown’ and Ted Nugent’s ‘Hey Baby’ are two that are covered on both the album and in his live set." Read the whole of Geoff C's Marco Mendoza + The Brink (pictured) + Big River gig review from London's Kolis The Lounge in Camden last Thursday night here, plus check out our Photo Gallery here.

Today's Blues On The Radio Track Of The Day is another hour rammed full of great music from Matt Pearce & The Mutiny, John Primer, Ged Wilson, The BB King Blues Band featuring "The Voice" Michael Lee, Mike Goudreau, Jon Gindick, Mike Farris, Michele D'Amour and the Love Dealers, Gaetano Letizia, Wille and the Bandits, Emma Wilson, Brent Hutchinson and of course, ahead of tonight's show at The Tuesday Night Music Club, The Comrades Club, Coulsdon CR5 2NF, a couple of gems from Grainne Duffy (pictured).

So if you like your music loud with raw vocals, searing guitars, a driving bass and thumping drums, then do keep this Saturday 18th May free and get yourself along to Glitter Machine's first live show at The Lexington in London. With support from Oh Baby and Dominic McGuiness, the London based band recently released their latest single 'Black Bird' - their follow-up to today's Video Of The Day 'Take The Pain' that was released in the middle of last year.

Once again we play catch up with the Captain's Video Rock Show which is today's Track Of The Day. His mission: to get Rock music back into mainstream music again with wall to wall Rock videos from new and established bands. Episode 13 includes Cruzh, Hardline, Hollowstar (pictured), Lionville, Secret Sphere and QS.

"Matthews' 'Queen of All The City' keeps things rocking, all about that women who is out of your league - or is she? with Matthew's bass and Dave Two-Jackets drums driving things along very nicely with more great work from Seager and Stocker. And you take the man out of the Medway but you can't take the Medway out of the man - Gary's 'Midnight Train' - all about being run out of town - sees Bad Pennies all aboard and rocking and a rolling all the way down those Medway tracks before the band jump off the wagon once more on Matthews' 'Temperance Boogie' - another crackerjack - albeit its sentiment being that it can make a good man go bad." That was part of our take last year on Bad Pennies CD 'Songs From The Medway Delta' and the guys duly walked off with our 2018 WRC Best Reviewed CD award. So a big thank you to Iron Horse manager Julie Hamley for presenting the guys with their deserved award (pictured) when they played Julie's Sidcup, Kent, music venue last Saturday night!

After an intense touring schedule over the last few years, The New Roses will be back in the UK this year when they play the London Borderline on Thursday 28th November, as part of their ‘Nothing But Wild' Tour. The German band are the epitome of ‘Blue Collar Working Class Rock ’n’ Roll Music’, which is represented in their lyrics and manifests itself in an incredible connection to their fans. The unique sound was created through several diverse influences from Classic and Hard Rock, Country and Blues, which makes them the premier stadium Rock ’n’ Roll band out there. Their two albums ‘Dead Man’s Voice’ (2016) and ‘One More For The Road’ (2017) received international praise and today's Video Of The Day - ‘Without a Trace’ - was picked for the soundtrack of US TV series ‘Sons Of Anarchy’ plus the series’ trailer campaign in Germany.

The long-awaited follow-up to a self-titled album released in 2001, ‘Winds Of Change’ (today's Video Of The Day) was released last month featuring new songs by Survivor founder Jim Peterik in collaboration with a who’s who of Melodic Rock stars, including Kevin Chalfant (ex-The Storm), Dennis DeYoung (ex-Styx), Danny Vaughn (Tyketto), Matthew and Gunnar Nelson (Nelson), Kelly Keagy (Night Ranger), Lars Safsund and Robert Sall (Work Of Art), Toby Hitchcock (Pride Of Lions), Mike Reno (Loverboy), Jason Scheff (ex-Chicago) Kevin Cronin (REO Speedwagon) and a previously unreleased track by the late Jimi Jamison. ‘Winds Of Change’ continues this tradition and live dates are being planned that will reflect the line-up of this record.

Legendary US Heavy Metal trio The Rods have signed to Steamhammer/SPV to release their resounding seventh studio album ‘Brotherhood Of Metal’ on Friday 7th June. Hailing from upstate New York, The Rods were formed in Spring 1980 by guitarist/vocalist David ‘Rock’ Feinstein, whose first brush with success had come a decade earlier as a member of Elf with his cousin Ronnie James Dio from 1967-1973. Six years and five albums later, The Rods decided to go separate ways in 1986 and disappeared from the scene for more than twenty years, rising again like a phoenix from the ashes in 2011 with their outstanding comeback album ‘Vengeance’. ‘Brotherhood Of Metal’ contains eleven songs (a twelfth track will be included as a bonus track on the vinyl edition), recorded by exactly the same line-up that cut their 1982 cult release ‘’Wild Dogs’ - namely Feinstein, Carl Canedy (drums) and Garry Bordonaro (bass).

Swedish Alternative Metalcore outfit Imminence recently followed up the successful releases of their songs 'Paralyzed', 'Infectious' and 'Saturated Soul' with their fourth single 'Lighthouse' (today's Track Of The Day) off their latest third full-length record 'Turn The Light On'. The highly anticipated album embodies the diversity and vastness in Imminence’s identity of heartrending emotion. A significant milestone in the group’s discography and an exceptional composition of sheer force and fragility that fears no boundaries or constraints. Since the release of their previous album 'This Is Goodbye' in 2017, the band have strongly established themselves in the European scene as one of the most up-and-coming and exciting bands on the market today. With the success of their own headline tour and several sold out shows, they have reached a new plateau and are ready to truly distinguish themselves and their sound with this new album.