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 BB King, Boz Scaggs, Allman Brothers Band, Smokey's King Shufflers, The Marcus King Band, Trudy Lynn, Van Morrison, Wily Bo Walker (pictured), Victor Wainwright and The WildRoots, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Peter V Blues Train and many more.

As the Christmas festivities start to come to an end, our attention switches not only to New Year celebrations but also our 2019 gig calendar. So make a note of the forthcoming Tuesday Blues itinerary (pictured) that takes place at London's iconic 100 Club beginning with headliner's Crow Black Chicken, Born Healer and Vincent Flatts Final Drive on 22nd January followed by Aynsley Lister, Ryk Mead Band and Big River the week after.

The eighth category showcased in our 2018 WRC Awards is One's To Watch. Our nominees include Carousel Vertigo who we saw at London's Water Rats in March and City Of Thieves (Video Of The Day) who also played just up the road at The Big Red in July. The third nominee is Gorilla Riot who we first saw at Ramblin' Man Fair at the end of June and then again more recently, supporting Dan Patlansky at London's O2 Academy Islington. The final nominees are Collateral who have just announced a gig at Camden's The Black Heart in London on Thursday 7th February (pictured). With just four days to go until voting closes at midnight on New Year's Eve, make sure you vote here now!

Multi-Award-winning American Blues guitarist and singer-songwriter Samantha Fish has added an extra date at the Sage 2 in Gateshead on Tuesday 7th May to her UK May tour. The tour coincides with Samantha’s new studio album to be released in early 2019 which is the follow-up to her critically acclaimed 2017 albums 'Belle of the West' and 'Chills & Fever'. After launching her recording career in 2009, Samantha quickly established herself as a rising star in the contemporary Blues world. Since then, the charismatic young singer-guitarist-songwriter has earned a reputation as a rising guitar hero and powerful live performer, while releasing a series of acclaimed albums that have shown her restless creative spirit consistently taking her in new and exciting musical directions.

Following the release of his latest studio album 'Anytime You Need Me' and its consequent tour, international Blues/Rock/Soul guitarist, singer and songwriter Ben Poole has announced the second leg of his 'Anytime You Need Me' tour in February 2019. The tour kicks off on Thursday 31st January at The Maltings in Farnham and finishes on Saturday 16th February at The Leopard in Doncaster.

Next in our 2018 WRC Awards, we turn our attention to our nominees in the Best Festival category. Firstly, we look back to a sunny weekend at the end of June/beginning of July when we took in Maidstone's Ramblin' Man Fair (see The Connor Selby Band Video Of The Day), which was held a fortnight after London's O2 Arena Stone Free Festival (see our Aaron Buchanan & The Cult Claassics Track Of The Day). And just two weeks before Stone Free, we took in our third nominee, London's Camden Rocks, whilst our final nominee - Hard Rock Hell XII (pictured) was held at the beginning of November - thankfully under cover! So there you have it - if you want to cast your vote for one of these awesome festivals then simply go here!

Here's hoping that you all had a rockin' Christmas Day as the festivities continue with today's Video Of The Day and Blink 182's 'Boxing Day'. Meanwhile today's Track Of The Day is Blues On The Radio's The Great Escape Volume 3 - one of the nominees in our 2018 WRC Awards Best Radio Show category that also includes Rock On The Ridge, The Blues Club Podcast (pictured) and Black On Blues! Remember - if you want to cast your votes then simply go here!

The big day has finally arrived, so today tune into our Rock On The Ridge Track Of The Day where Bob and Jules and some special WRC guests discussed and listened to the runners and riders in this year's 2018 WRC Awards here. Remember - if you want to cast your votes then simply go here! In the meantime, check out our festive Video Of The Day and have a happy Christmas and a peaceful 2019.

Styx bring their only UK show in 2019 to the prestigious London Palladium on Tuesday 4th June for “An Evening Of Styx.” They will perform music to celebrate their hugely successful 47-year career, including tracks from their most recent studio album 'The Mission'. The band have been a staple of “Rock radio” playlists throughout this time, with songs including 'Crystal Ball', 'Come Sail Away', 'Lorelei', 'Blue Collar Man', 'Renegade', 'The Grand Illusion', 'Too Much Time On My Hands' and 'Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man)'. This will be the first time Styx have headlined their own show in the UK since 2005 and their first performance since their co-headlining tour with Journey and Foreigner in 2011. The current line-up of Styx has been working together for over 15 years and includes Tommy Shaw (vocals, guitars), James “JY” Young (vocals, guitars), Lawrence Gowan (vocals, keyboards), Todd Sucherman (drums) and Ricky Phillips (bass), along with surprise appearances by original bassist Chuck Panozzo.

It's Christmas Eve and today in our 2018 WRC Awards we focus on our nominees in the Best International category. Firstly we go back to a beautiful Summer's Day in London's Hyde Park where we witnessed not only Gary Clark Jr. (pictured) but also Santana at British Summer Time. More recently in November we saw both The Dead Daisies (today's Video Of The Day) at London's O2 Academy Islington plus Idlewar (Track Of The Day) at Camden's The Black Heart in London. So if you want to cast your vote for one of these awesome bands then simply go here!

American Blues Rock vocalist Sari Schorr will be special guest on King King's January/February 2019 UK Tour. The 10-date tour will take in amongst others, Nottingham Rock City (Thursday 31st January), London's Koko (Thursday 7th February) and Glasgow O2 Academy (Sunday 17th February). Having played over 20 festivals this summer, the band have just finished the UK leg of their special guest slot on Europe’s 'Tour The Earth' and are currently touring the European mainland leg of the tour. In May this year King King won three prestigious awards at the UK Blues Awards including Blues Band of the Year, Blues Songwriter of the Year (Alan Nimmo) and Blues Album of the Year for their fourth studio album 'Exile & Grace', which scored a Top 40 hit in the Official UK Album Charts and featured the singles '(She Don’t) Gimme No Lovin’, 'Long Time Running' and 'Broken' which became popular on Planet Rock and other Rock radio stations.

Rainbreakers will be supporting Wille and the Bandits on tour, as their special guests, in March next year, culminating with a gig at London's O2 Academy 2, Islington, on Saturday 30th. The Shrewsbury based four-piece expertly brew up the anger, anguish and frustrations of modern-day life and bottle such feelings into charged, passionate songs delivered by Ben Edwards’ forlorn, poignant vocals, carried by melodies that artfully alloy and interweave Blues, Soul and gritty Garage band Rock. Rainbreaker’s highly-anticipated debut album ‘Face to Face’ dropped in August this year, having been recorded at Monochrome Studios with renowned producer Tom Gittens.