Back in June last year we featured Mikey Qubti's House Of None as our Track Of The Day. Lead vocalist and guitarist Mikey has since been in touch with us about his new project - Desert Of Talking Shadows (Video Of The Day) - a Rock N’ Roll band from Orange County, California. As well as Mikey, DOTS features Kyle Vellanoweth on guitar, Jack Thomas on bass and Detrick Forster on drums. They’re a new young band not to be missed that brings attitude, truth, and storytelling back to Rock music as well as their explosive live shows.

Clinging to airtight songcraft, knifepoint precise Metallic instrumentation, and stadium-size Hard Rock hooks, All That Remains are cutting right to the chase on their ninth full-length album, 'Victim Of The New Disease', due to be released on Friday 9th November via Fearless Records. The quintet - Philip Labonte (lead vocals), Oli Herbert (lead guitar), Mike Martin (rhythm guitar), Jason Costa (drums) and Aaron Patrick (bass, backing vocals) - has shared the punishing and patently pummeling new track ‘Fuck Love’, which is today's Track Of The Day. The band will also embark on a European tour in December with Sevendust, where they will play dates across the UK, including London’s Electric Brixton on Sunday 2nd December.

Lead singer of Bad Wolves, Tommy Vext, was taken ill and hospitalised in Nottingham after playing Nottingham Rock City on the second night of their European tour with Three Days Grace. Calling on his Eleven Seven Label Group family, Vext reached out to As Lions front man Austin Dickinson, and power vocalist Stars of Bang Bang Romeo (both pictured) to have them fill in for him as he recovered in hospital. The good news was that Tommy returned to the fold in Bristol on Friday night and will no doubt be raring to go at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire tonight. Bad Wolves are touring hits from their debut #1 UK Rock and Metal chart album 'Disobeyalbum' including the US platinum hit 'Zombie' which has been #1 on iTunes Metal UK album charts for 8 months and their current hit 'Hear Me Now' featuring Diamante.

Progdate: Saturday 2nd August 2003. Deputising for the the missing Oxygen8 and supporting headliners Caravan - we had just witnessed The Pineapple Thief's first ever gig at The Whitchurch Prog Rock Musical Festival. It was a cracking set - so much so that we headed straight over to their merchandise stall and bought a signed version of 'Variations On A Dream/8 Days'. Now turn the clock forward 15 years or so plus twelve quality studio albums later and the Testbourne School Theatre gig is all but a distant memory as TPT headline The Shepherd's Bush Empire tonight supported by LiZard.

"Given their courageous experimentation of different times, places and moods - the consequent complementary shift of pace, tempo and feel on the majority of the songs on this album, all pulling from that well tried and tested Bad Touch foot tapping and Bluesy pump – means it’s definitely time to ‘Shake A Leg’." That was part of our review of Bad Touch's new album 'Shake A Leg' here that was finally released yesterday, and to coincide with its release, a new music video of the track 'Lift Your Head Up' is now available, which is today's Video Of The Day. Their headline tour with special guests Aaron Buchanan & The Cult Classics and Daxx & Roxanne begins on Wednesday 17th October including London's ULU Live on Saturday 10th November.

Today is the second day of the three day Four Sticks: Classic Rock Weekender at London's New Cross Inn. Headlining tonight are Praying Mantis who released their eleventh studio album ‘Gravity’ in May. The CD saw the band return with another inspired, take-no-prisoners line-up, with John Cuijpers (vocals) and Hans in’t Zandt (drums) again contributing to the songwriting process. Also playing before Praying Mantis are Frontiers stablemates Bigfoot (today's Track Of The Day), who recently announced Sean Seabrook as their new lead vocalist. The Wigan based Hard Rock band's self-titled debut album was released in October 2017 and was voted the no. 11 Album of the Year in the Planet Rock magazine readers poll as well as receiving critical praise.

"Small Town Blues’ and ‘Nothing To Hide’ took us back to the ‘Lucky 13’ album, before the less familiar (and possibly new?) ‘I Don’t Want The Blues’ set up another trilogy from ‘The Divine And Dirty’. ‘She’s More Than Enough’ and ‘Lovers Or Losers’ sandwiched what was for many of us the highlight of the night: the extended guitar solo on Kris’ heartfelt tribute to his late father, ‘Watching Over Me’." Today we have another Gary Smith review here - this time The Kris Barras Band's recent 100 Club gig in London supported by Matt Edwards - plus check out our Photo Gallery courtesy of Tim Russell here.

With a review of last night's Steve Hackett Genesis Revisited Tour with his band and 41-piece orchestra at London's Royal Festival Hall to come, Steve also releases today a special 6XCD 2DVD Collection 'Broken Skies - Outspread Wings (1984 - 2006)' which includes today's Video OF The Day. Not only that, but Hackett has also announced that his band will perform 20 shows around the UK in November next year. For the first time ever, Steve will perform the seminal Genesis album 'Selling England By The Pound' in its entirety. Released in 1973, the album went to No. 3 in the UK charts and has been described as ‘the definitive Genesis album.’ It includes firm favourites such as 'Dancing with the Moonlit Knight', 'Firth of Fifth', 'Cinema Show' and, of course, 'I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)'. Other favourite classic Genesis tracks will also feature in the show. 2019 also marks the 40th anniversary of one of Steve’'s most popular solo albums 'Spectral Mornings' and he will rightly celebrate this milestone by performing masterpieces from the album. Fans will also be treated to highlights from Steve’'s new album, to be released in 2019.

The Blues Club Podcast Track Of The Day returns today with another two hours of non-stop Best in Blues with More Music and Less Chat featuring New Releases, Classic Tracks, UK Independent Blues Broadcasters Association Presenters' Picks and much more. Music this week Includes tracks from King King, Detonics, Sons of Liberty UK, Joe Bonamassa, Trev Turley & Friends, Billy F Gibbons (pictured), Midnite Johnny Morana, Sari Schorr, Black Joe Lewis, Laura Rain, The Mojo Preachers, Khalif Wailin Walter, Lawrence Lebo, Tas Cru, Mike Farris, Connor Selby, Vargas Blues Band, Deborah Coleman, John January & Linda Berry, DC Blues, Frank Bey, Zoe Green Band, Josh Smith, Beki Brindle Band, Jethro Tull, Steve West Weston, Jim Allchin, The Jeremiah Johnson Band, Lindsay Beaver, B. B. & The Blues Shacks and many more.

With a review of Sunday night's The Bad Flowers, Federal Charm and Those Damn CrowsBorderline gig to come, today, as promised, we have our interview here with Federal Charm which is also today's Track Of The Day. We met guitarist Paul Bowe and drummer Josh Zahler in advance of their set, and the guys made us feel most welcome. So have a listen to some great banter as we discuss their tour, the release of their latest album 'Passenger' plus how they have got heavier and hairier since the very first time we saw them supporting Joanne Shaw Taylor at London's Jazz Cafe way back in 2015.

"Then Duane rejoined the fun surprisingly early (Stokes would also alternate with Stachela during the rest of the gig) for the ABB’s ‘Blue Sky’, before matters took an unexpected twist or two. Devon switched to acoustic as seats were brought on stage for all the six-stringers and we were treated to the Grateful Dead’s ‘Friend Of The Devil’ and Gregg Allman’s ‘Multi-Colored Lady’." It's been well worth waiting for, so today read the whole of Gary Smith's Devon Allman + Duanne Betts Islington Assembly Hall review from exactly one month ago here plus check out our Photo Gallery courtesy of Tim Russell here.

It was good to hear from Hats Off Gentleman It's Adequate frontman Malcolm Galloway who we recently saw at a Prog Night they promoted at Camden's Fiddler's Elbow in London (pictured) alongside IT and The Wood Demons. The band have just released the video for their first single 'Stand Up' which is today's Video Of The Day, which is taken from their next album 'Out Of Mind'. With their own brand of defiant Progressive Rock from London, 'Stand Up' is one of the Rockier songs on the album with the video being produced by Malcolm and Mark Gatland.