Following a very busy year of touring, writing, recording and also a change in lineup, The Raven Age have now announced some very exciting news! Their upcoming album 'Conspiracy' will be released on Friday 8th March next year, via their own record label Corvid Records, and to support the release they will be heading off on their biggest UK/European headline tour to date throughout March and April, including London's The Underworld in Camden on Thursday 28th March. With this news, the band have also shared their new track ‘Fleur De Lis’ - today's Video Of The Day - a guitar heavy belter, with big vocal melodies! This is the third song featuring new vocalist Matt James, who joined George Harris (guitar), Tony Maue (guitar), Matt Cox (bass) and Jai Patel (drums) earlier this year. They've really progressed since their 2017 debut, sonically and also on the live stages, with the upcoming album showing more diversity in their sound and songwriting.

The WRC couldn't resist sharing a recent Facebook posting by proud Dad David Strange! "Feeling qualified as a Wrinkly Rocker, being in my sixties, and having been weaned on Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Free etc.. etc Great feeling when my boy took up guitar, playing in covers bands, Original bands and now a band that he is fronting... Voodoo Lake....." Suffice to say that David will be even prouder today as Voodoo Lake's 'On The Run' is today's Track Of The Day!

Our thanks to Bob - one half of the Rock On The Ridge team - for his additional photos here of both The Kast Off Kinks and The Replicants taken at Wrinklystock VII at The Mick Jagger Centre, Dartford, last Friday week. Also watch out for a special Rock On The Ridge show to be broadcast at 8pm this coming Saturday - with more details to come!

Other gigs tonight include John Verity's annual Christmas-flavoured show at the Village Hall, Cardington, Bedfordshire, at 8pm with special guests Max Milligan and Cherry Lee Mewis. Meanwhile, Power-Pop rockers Last Great Dreamers continue to promote their acclaimed album '13th Floor Renegades' with a clutch of December dates. Tonight they stop off at London's The Black Heart in Camden with very special guests Anita Chellamah and Pete K Mally (pictured).

London based Hard Rock trio City Of Thieves (Track Of The Day) play a pre-Xmas home town show at The Big Red tonight. They released their debut album, ‘Beast Reality’, in mid-October and will tour to promote it in early 2019 with Frontiers labelmates Inglorious including London's Shepherd's Bush Empire on Friday 1st February.

Regarded as one of the world’s most highly-respected Prog Rock bands, IQ (Video Of The Day) celebrated their 36th anniversary at their now legendary Christmas bash at a sold out Islington Assembly Hall last night. Their set included songs from their as yet untitled follow-up to their highly successful eleventh studio album 'The Road Of Bones', which is due out in September 2019, plus tracks from their recently released twenty-fifth special anniversary edition of ‘Ever’.

Christmas comes early with four stand out gigs in London tonight. Which one are you going to? Firstly, legendary Neo-Progressive Rock quintet IQ bring over 30 years of genre-defying sounds to London's stunning Islington Assembly Hall at their traditional Christmas bash. Meanwhile, at the Oslo, Amigo The Devil performs peripheries of Metal, Dark Folk and Americana, claimed by none but with roots in all three. Also at the Shepherd's Bush Empire, playing a mix of classic Rock combined with Progressive elements, Folk, Punk and contemporary Rock are Finnish heroes The Von Hertzen Brothers. Finally, performing at Wembley's SSE Arena, is Canada's finest Monster Truck (pictured), as part of a holy Rock trinity alongside Black Stone Cherry and The Cadillac Three!

With the birth of Brave Rival in February this year, the band are releasing their debut single 'Magpie' today through Mayfield Records and if you want to hear this track live, get along to their free launch party tonight at The London Stone in Staines, where doors open at 7.30pm and they will be performing a full set. They have also written an album's worth of exciting new material combining Blues, Rock and Soul and last month they supported the Billy Walton Band on their UK tour (see today' Video Of The Day).

Today's 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 music from Tom Hambridge, Smokey's King Shufflers, Snakewood, Mike Harris and Billy F. Gibbons (pictured).

British Melodic Hard Rock icons Magnum (Video Of The Day) have next month lined up the release of a brand new, very special album, ‘Live At The Symphony Hall’, on Friday 18th January on Steamhammer/SPV. Recorded this year on 19th April at the exhilarating final concert of their two month long ‘Road To Eternity Tour’ in Birmingham, ‘Live At The Symphony Hall’ contains an impeccable mix of Magnum classics and cracking new songs from 2018’s studio album, ‘Lost On The Road To Eternity’, which was universally acclaimed as one of, if not the best album of the group’s entire career to date when released at the end of January this year.

Check out new photos today of the sold out Slow Readers Club London Scala gig from Tuesday here plus additional photos from Wrinklystock VII from last Friday here - courtesy of Bruce Biege and Matt Thomas respectively. With more photos to come of support band Pins, this was the penultimate gig of The Slow Readers Club tour, which has seen them play the biggest shows of their career so far, with Glasgow's School Of Art and their last date, a hometown show at Manchester's O2 Apollo tomorrow, also sold out. Also watch out for more photos of Wrinklystock VII to come.

State of Salazar is back with another total and absolute AOR masterpiece - their new album 'Superhero' released last Friday! Considering that bands such as Toto, Queen, Journey, Survivor and especially Bill Conti and Vince DiCola have influenced them, State of Salazar have a lot to prove. There is no mistaking that the band delivers “feel good” music, and it is no wonder, since one of the biggest influences is “training montage” music. This is just one of many reasons why State of Salazar actually stands out from many of the other bands in the same genre. Consisting of Marcus Nygren – lead vocals and backing vocals, Kevin Hosford –keyboards and lead vocals, Johan Thuresson –guitars, Johannes Hansson –bass and Kristian Brun – drums, their songwriting, arranging and instrumental performance show that this is a band that wants to develop and contribute to the Melodic Rock genre as their Track Of The Day testifies.