Todays May Day 2018 WRC Bulletin looks back at our April gigs including Ginger Baker, Greta Van Fleet, The Dead Daisies, Sonny Landreth, The Groundhogs, Rhino's Revenge, Joe Satriani and our Danny Bryant CD review plus we look forward to our May gigs including Beth Hart, Danny Bryant, Brothers Osborne, Greybeards, Bad Pennies, Jizzy Pearl, Hat's Off Gentleman It's Adequate (Video Of The Day), DeWolff, Bullet, FM, Sky Valley Mistress (pictured), The Rolling Stones, Tommy Emmanuel, Slow Readers Club, City Of Thieves plus our very first festival of the year: Bearded Theory. Don't forget that if you ever want to contribute a gig or CD review to our website then please get in touch!

Following on from the success of last year’s Wrinklystock 6 charity concert ‘Magic - a kind of Queen & a kind of ELO’ - this year’s Wrinklystock 7 at the Mick Jagger Centre, Dartford, on Friday 7th December at 7.30pm stars The Kast off Kinks, featuring three former members of the legendary band The Kinks! With support once again from Wrinklystock legends The Replicants, The Kast off Kinks are back together playing great music and re-living the good times whilst keeping the songs alive that made The Kinks a household name - featuring Mick Avory (original drummer on all the classic hits from 1964-84), Ian Gibbons (keyboards/vocals, Kinks 80’s & 90’s and still with Sir Ray Davies), John Dalton (bass/vocals, Kinks 60’s & 70’s) alongside Dave Clarke (guitar/vocals, formerly of the Beach Boys, Noel Redding & Tim Rose). Expect an evening of iconic hits including: 'You Really Got Me', 'Dedicated Follower of Fashion', 'Sunny Afternoon', 'Lola', 'Days', 'Waterloo Sunset', 'Come Dancing', 'All Day and All of the Night' plus more... A great night out, not to be missed! Tickets can now be purchased for £23 from the MJC Box Office on 01322 291100.

Today we welcome another all new Blues On The Radio Track Of The Day filled with music from Dana Fuchs (pictured), The Lucky Losers, The Robert J Hunter Band, Levi Parham, JT Lauritsen & The Buckshot Hunters, Lauren Anderson, The Liam Ward Band, Cherry Lee Mewis, Rebecca Downes, The Bad Day Blues Band, Beth Hart, Grand Marquis, Peggie Perkins and, ahead of his show tonight at The Tuesday Night Music Club, The Comrades Club, Coulsdon CR5 2NF, two tracks from Mike Ross!

Swedish Death ‘n’ Roll trio Jesus Chrüesler Supercar have been confirmed as special guest act at Swedish Heavy Metal five-piece Bullet’s upcoming 02 Islington Academy headline gig in London on Wednesday 16th May. Jesus Chrüsler Supercar’s second album, ‘35 Supersonic’, released in April 2016 on Rodeostar/SPV, is a ferocious yet melodious, thoroughly uninhibited, storming mix of Rock, Punk, Doom and Death metal. Bullet’s stonking sixth studio album, ‘Dust To Gold’, recently released on Steamhammer/SPV has already won a host of rave reviews.

Today's Black On Blues Track Of The Day features music from Beth Hart (pictured), Carolyn Gaines, Heather Newman, Kathy & The Kilowatts, Lori Oz, Meg Williams and Michele Malone.

Due to be released on Friday 8th June, the aptly titled ‘XIII’ is the thirteenth studio album by the Norwegian Hard Rock band TNT. It features founding members Ronni Le Tekro (guitar) and Diesel Dahl (drums), alongside bassist Ove Husemoen and new vocalist Baol Bardot Bulsara, who has replaced the recently departed Tony Harnell. Hailing from Spain, Baol is a stunning singer whose debut with the band occurred in front of 8,000 rabid fans in November 2017 when the band opened for German Hard Rock legends Scorpions at a show in Oslo, Norway. TNT fans can expect the Melodic Rock and excellent playing they have grown accustomed to from the band over their storied career. Check out their new single 'Tears In My Eyes' which is today's Video Of The Day.

36 years on from the release of their last album ‘F’ in 1982, cult German Hard Rock act Fargo have announced the arrival of a brand new studio LP, ‘Constellation’, on Friday 25th May on Steamhammer/SPV. ‘Constellation’ contains twelve contemporary, wonderfully laid-back classic Rock compositions, all effortlessly exuding the typical Fargo signature sound, not least their impressive recently released first single ‘Leave It’. Mention must also be made of the casually grooving ‘Don’t Talk’, the atmospheric ‘Cross To Bear’, ‘Losers Blues’, (reminiscent of the best of ZZ Top) and ‘Southern Breeze’, which incorporates no less than twenty Elvis hit single titles in the lyrics. Even original drummer Frank ‘Franky’ Tolle picked up his sticks again on ‘Buzz Buzz’ and ‘Don’t Talk’.

Similar to yesterday, we are once again indebted to another one of our American correspondents, namely Rick Menniti for today's Video Of The Day. Rick went to see The Record Company in Charleston on Wednesday night, a band that write and play raw, sincere Rock n' Roll. Influenced by the rough honesty of their heroes - Bluesmen like John Lee Hooker, early Punk bands like The Stooges and Rock greats like The Rolling Stones - their sound incorporates slide guitar, distorted bass, a garage-sale Ludwig drum kit and the heartland-hued voice of Chris Vos, who grew up on a Wisconsin dairy farm!

Aaron Roterfeld is not the type of person who settles for half-measures! The Roterfeld frontman took a whole seven years to let the successor to his hit album 'Blood Diamond Romance' ripen. Now the Austrian rockers are finally back with 'Hamlet at Sunset' released this Friday 4th May, playing themselves into their very own, genre-crossing league. Roterfeld are not only rocking the long-awaited fans with their new single 'Bring Your Own Star To Life', but also millions of smartphones. Today's Track Of The Day and video was chosen by the social media app "Castl.rocks" for the worldwide smartphone release 2018.

We're indebted to our new Washington correspondent Christina Wallace for tipping us off about today's Track Of The Day - 'Tennessee Whiskey' by Chris Stapleton. The Nashville-endorsed outlaw spent a decade writing hits for stars like Kenny Chesney and Luke Bryan before becoming an overnight sensation with solo debut 'Traveller' which lead to four Grammy nominations, including Album of the Year, and his first major hit, 'Nobody to Blame'.

Frontiers Records Rock Festival V - an unmissable festival for all international Melodic and Hard Rock fans, takes place this weekend as usual at the Live Music Club in Trezzo Sull’Adda, Milan. One of the best venues in Italy with its large hall, first-class PA and wide external green area, it will feature 14 international bands from 3pm to midnight, with a few nice surprises thrown in to! Saturday's roster is Stryper, Quiet Riot, Michael Thompson Band, Praying Mantis, Ammunition, Bigfoot (Video Of The Day) and Hell In The Club, whilst Sunday includes Jorn, Coreleoni, FM, Pretty Boy Floyd, Issa, Animal Drive and Perfect Plan.

"Well you can take the boy out of Dream Theatre but you can't take the Tech Metal out of the boy as Petrucci's power trio opened up with a Prog instrumental version of the recent Wonder Woman theme tune 'Wrath Of The Amazons', Petrucci pumping his fist in the air before the heavy bass line of 'Jaws Of Life' from his solo album 'Suspended Animation' - with its to die for solo guitar ending. Wow. "Hello London" - the black bearded Petrucci greeted the crowd - "This is the Metal part of G3!" And he hammered home the point with some unbelievable fret work on 'The Happy Song' which did exactly what it said on the tin making the audience feel like they were on 'Cloud Ten'. The heavy riff of 'Damage Control' - which Petrucci recently admitted he struggles to play live (although it didn't show) - highlighted his awesome engine room, namely some neat sticks work from his Boston Dream Theater mucker and the baseball capped Mike Mangini plus a pounding bass guitar solo from Floridian Dave LaRue." Read the whole of AJ's G3 Hammersmith Apollo gig review from Wednesday night here plus check out our Photo Gallery including Joe Satriani, John Petrucci (pictured) and Uli Jon Roth here (photo courtesy of Laurence Harvey).