With thousands of votes being cast as far and wide from Jamaica, Colombia, Brazil, Belarus, Lithuania and Hungary, today we announce the first winner in our 2025 WRC Awards Best Podcast Category, and the winner is ....... Blues On The Radio! So massive congratulations to Richard Dunning, and to prove the point, his final musical look back at 2025 is also today's Podcast Of The Day, featuring The Cinelli Brothers, Bison Hip, Georgia Van Etten, The Swaps, Laurence Jones (pictured), plus many more.

The twelve runners and riders in today's 2025 WRC Awards 'Tracks Of The Year', are Stayawhile, Barber Q, The Man-Eating Tree, Suicide Puppets, Derev, Envy Of None (pictured), Celeste Corsano, Enigmatic Sound Machines, ODC, Danko Jones, June 1974 and Kaunis Kuolematon, chosen from over 2,000 tunes that we have shared this year on our daily 'Tracks Of The Day'. Anyway, simply choose your favourite(s) here https://www.wrinklyrockersclub.com/2025-wrc-awards-voting  and hit the vote button. You have until midnight tonight to e-mail all your thirteen category choices with only one submission allowed per e-mail address.

Following their latest album, 'The Hives Forever Forever The Hives', last month we just couldn't resist seeing The Hives, one of the best live bands on the planet, back in London at a freezing Alexandra Palace (pictured), so not only is today's 'Walk, Idiot Walk' Video Of The Day, filmed on that crazy night, but the Swedish Garage Rock outfit are also one of six nominees in our 2025 WRC Best International Artist Award, alongside Kenny Wayne Shepherd, DeWolff, GA-20, Manu Lanvin and Jimmie Vaughan and the Tilt-A-Whirl Band. Anyway, simply choose your favourite(s) here https://www.wrinklyrockersclub.com/2025-wrc-awards-voting  and hit the vote button. You have until midnight tonight to e-mail all your thirteen category choices with only one submission allowed per e-mail address.

The nominees in our Best Podcast category in our 2025 WRC Awards are Prog Rock Files, The Blues Club, Blues On The Radio, The Zach Moonshine Show, Rock Revival, and last but not least, Pete Feenstra's Rock & Blues Show, which is also today's latest Podcast Of The Day, featuring Chris Duarte, Winds of Neptune, Jane Getter Premonition, Paul Gilbert, John Hiatt, Del Bromham, Teresa James & The Rhythm Tramps, Bumblefoot, Gov’t Mule, Godzillionaire, Double Trouble, The Steve Morse Band, plus many more. Anyway, simply choose your favourite(s) here https://www.wrinklyrockersclub.com/2025-wrc-awards-voting  and hit the vote button. You have until midnight tonight to e-mail all your thirteen category choices with only one submission allowed per e-mail address.

The nominees in our Best Podcast category in our 2025 WRC Awards are Prog Rock Files, The Blues Club, Blues On The Radio, Pete Feenstra's Rock & Blues Show, Rock Revival, and last but not least, The Zach Moonshine Show, which is also today's latest Podcast Of The Day featuring an interview with Minnesota Pete Campbell of Axe Dragger for a no-bullshit deep dive into real Heavy Metal, as well as music from Antisaint, Bound To Prevail, Eden on Fire, Scandal Tree, Them Damn Kings, AnomiC, Ozzy Osbourne, Zakk Sabbath, Pantera, Rustbucket, Black Label Society, Dark Chapel, Megadeth, Kings of Thrash, Cyanide, Netherdred, Septarian, Metal Church, Viperwitch, Nemesis, Vick LeCar, Altered States and Acid Bath. Anyway, simply choose your favourite(s) here https://www.wrinklyrockersclub.com/2025-wrc-awards-voting  and hit the vote button. You have until midnight 31st December to e-mail all your thirteen category choices with only one submission allowed per e-mail address.

With soaring melodies, symphonic textures and bold creativity that redefines the Neo-Prog genre, as well as celebrating the 20th anniversary of 'The World Through My Eyes', Bavaria's RPWL (pictured) completed their European tour last month at London's The Dome, so not only is '3 Lights' filmed on the night, today's Video Of The Day, but they are also one of six nominees in our 2025 WRC Best Prog Rock Awards, that also includes Focus, Solstice, Sloane Square Band, Du Bellows and Franck Carducci & Mary Reynaud. Anyway, simply choose your favourite(s) here https://www.wrinklyrockersclub.com/2025-wrc-awards-voting  and hit the vote button. You have until midnight 31st December to e-mail all your thirteen category choices with only one submission allowed per e-mail address.

For almost a decade, AGMP Concerts have been presenting a celebration of Blues Music, from the early days of The London Blues Week to the now month-long January Blues Festival, that returns to 229 Great Portland Street this Saturday 3rd January, opening with The Animals and special guests Geno Washington and The Ram Jam Band, for a total of nineteen nights of a diverse Blues music lineup, of which today's 'January Blues Festival Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day features just six of the many great bands taking part, namely King King, Ten Years After, Ben Poole, Kyla Brox, Ajay Srivastav and John Verity.

Last month, Clarksdale Blues guitarist and singer Christone "Kingfish" Ingram's London O2 Forum Kentish Town gig had the bonus of support from Mathias Lattin (pictured), so not only is today's Video Of The Day of the 2023 US International Blues Challenge winner covering Al Green's 'Love & Happiness' with Blues and Soul prodigy Dylan Triplett, filmed the following night at Manchester's Albert Hall, but Mathias is also one of six nominees in our 2025 WRC Best Support Awards category, alongside Also Eden, Willie Dowling, Blue Nation, Tom Moriarty and These Wicked Rivers. Anyway, simply choose your favourite(s) here https://www.wrinklyrockersclub.com/2025-wrc-awards-voting  and hit the vote button. You have until midnight 31st December to e-mail all your thirteen category choices with only one submission allowed per e-mail address.

Acclaimed Texas based Blues Rock guitarist and vocalist Ally Venable completed her five-date UK tour in October, and consequently her outstanding performance with her trio at London's The Garage (pictured), also sees her as one of the nominees in our Best Blues Rock category in our 2025 WRC Awards, so check out today's 'Best Blues Rock!' Tracks Of The Day including Ally, along with the five other nominees, namely Erja Lyytinen, The Cinelli Brothers, Bywater Call, Rebecca Downes and Samantha Fish. Anyway, simply choose your favourite(s) here https://www.wrinklyrockersclub.com/2025-wrc-awards-voting  and hit the vote button. You have until midnight 31st December to e-mail all your thirteen category choices with only one submission allowed per e-mail address.

The nominees in our Best Podcast category in our 2025 WRC Awards are Blues On The Radio, The Blues Club, The Zach Moonshine Show, Pete Feenstra's Rock & Blues Show, Rock Revival, and last but not least, Prog Rock Files, of which further to yesterday's Part 1, Part 2 of the very same recent broadcast, presented by Garry Foster, is today's Podcast Of The Day, featuring music from Tribe3, Jethro Tull, Uriah Heep and Encircled. Anyway, simply choose your favourite(s) here https://www.wrinklyrockersclub.com/2025-wrc-awards-voting  and hit the vote button. You have until midnight 31st December to e-mail all your thirteen category choices with only one submission allowed per e-mail address.

Just under six months after we described John Lodge's performance at Guildford's G-Live (pictured) as "as good a chance to hear an authentic rendition of the classic Moody Blues sound as you can currently get", the legendary Birmingham born bassist/vocalist unexpectedly passed away at the age of 82, so very fittingly, as well as being one of our six nominees in our 2025 WRC Best Rock Performance awards, John is also one of today's six of the 'Best Rock Performance Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, along with the five other nominees, FM (O2 Academy Islington in September), H.E.A.T (Islington Assembly Hall in January), Uriah Heep (London Palladium in February), Luke Morley (London's Bloomsbury Theatre in September) and W.A.S.P. (London's Eventim Apollo in September). Anyway, simply choose your favourite(s) here https://www.wrinklyrockersclub.com/2025-wrc-awards-voting  and hit the vote button. You have until midnight 31st December to e-mail all your thirteen category choices with only one submission allowed per e-mail address.

2017 WRC Best Blues Rock winner Dan Patlansky was a special guest at Bywater Call's London Garage gig last month (pictured), so not only is the South African guitarist's performance on the night of 'Madison Lane' today's Video Of The Day, but his uber fluent fret work as well as his commanding use of a loop machine, also sees him one of six nominees in our 2025 WRC Awards Best Unplugged category, along with John Mitchell & Jez Fielder, Jontavious Willis, Dom Martin, Rachel Croft and Shaun Kirk. Anyway, simply choose your favourite(s) here https://www.wrinklyrockersclub.com/2025-wrc-awards-voting  and hit the vote button. You have until midnight 31st December to e-mail all your thirteen category choices with only one submission allowed per e-mail address.