To celebrate the release of their forthcoming debut album 'Are You Listening' on Friday 23rd June, The Franklys began their extensive tour last night with a special album launch show at The Old Blue Last with the tour ending back in London on Saturday 3rd June at Camden Rocks. Swede's Jennifer Ahlkvist (rhythm guitar/vocals) and Fanny Broberg (lead guitar/backing vocals), East Anglian bassist Zoë Biggs and drummer Lexi Clark have built a reputation for themselves as one of the most exciting live bands on the London circuit and beyond with relentless touring across the UK, Europe and America, including a recent support tour with Airbourne and festival slots at Isle of Wight 2015 and Download Festival 2016. Today's Track Of The Day is the vibrant, quirky and colourful single 'Weasel' taken from 'AYL'.

The WRC reached another landmark the other day when we gained our 3,000th Twitter follower! Recent tweets the WRC have received included Gary Hoey‏'s "Can't wait to play in The UK my first time!!" following our tweet that Gary is to play a special show with fellow Blues whirlwind Eric Gales at Nell’s Jazz & Blues in Kensington, London, on Friday 2nd June ahead of his European tour with Beth Hart. Similarly Ryan Hamilton recently tweeted "Thanks for making our song "Track Of The Day"! LOVE the name of your club/site. Haha. So good :-)" - after the recent release of their new album 'The Devil’s In The Detail'. By the way Ryan & his Traitors return to the UK in August. Can't wait!

London quartet The King's Parade will release their new EP 'Haze' tomorrow and will celebrate with a headline show at London’s Oslo in Hackney at 9pm tonight. Their title track is today's Vid Of The Day and the band bridge classic Blues, Soul and Pop similar to the likes of Alabama Shakes, The Black Keys and Leon Bridges. They have previously sold out headline shows at both London’s Hoxton Bar & Kitchen and the Oslo plus also held a residency at the legendary Ronnie Scott’s. They’ve also recently become a big live draw in Germany and have sold out headline shows across the country.

Rising British Doom Pop group Courtesans have been invited to perform live at the UK’s number one Metal festival, Bloodstock Open Air, at Catton Park, Derbyshire at the Sophie Lancaster stage on Sunday 13th August. Demonstrating musical diversity and making waves with their recently released EP 'Better Safe Than Sober', the band joins an extraordinary bill which includes Amon Amarth, Megadeth, Skindred, Arch Enemy, Hatebreed, Testament, King 810 and many more. Following the release of 'BSTS', Courtesans are streaming a new track, ‘Knowhere’, which is today's Video Of The Day plus they are also playing Sheffield's Mosfest on Saturday 3rd June and Gloucester's Amplified Festival on Sunday 23rd July.

On today's Route 66 Track Of The Day - new tracks from Cheap Trick (pictured), Marq DeSouza, Johannes Maria Knoll, Jarkka Rissanen & Sons of the Desert, Sheryl Crow and Brad Paisley plus music from John Fogerty, Aynsley Lister, The Faces, Mick Jagger, Volker Strifler and more!

Why not join Dan Boul of 65amps here today for his weekly one hour webcast, "Lunch With Dan Boul" at midday PT (3pm ET, 8pm UK) and participate in the conversation as his guests and him talk music. Always a great hang. And you can also check out back episodes in the archives here.

A Metallica 'Now That We’re Live' live rehearsal special from M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore will stream exclusively on Facebook Live tonight at 9pm EST, the eve of their inaugural show for the North American leg of the WorldWired Tour 2017. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees and multiple-Grammy® Award winning band will warm up the stadium stage with a full-scale rehearsal performance. The ‘Now That We’re Live’ rehearsal special will feature Metallica performing four songs in their entirety (including their current single, 'Now That We’re Dead'. The presentation will offer fans an early glimpse of the groundbreaking production elements of the WorldWired tour and will be available for on-demand viewing following the live stream via Metallica.com and the band’s Facebook page here.

Today's 2016 WRC Award winning Rock On The Ridge Track Of The Day features new tracks from Mount Holly and Inglorious plus music from Ocean Colour Scene, Royal Blood, Dirty Streets, These Wicked Rivers, Voodoo Six, Black Stone Cherry, Wicked Stone, Dead Man's Whiskey, Black Rose Cadillac, Seether, Art Of Anarchy, Big Wolf Band, Foreigner, Buffalo Summer, Deep Purple, Rival Sons, Steven Tyler, Rainbreakers, Joe Bonamassa and on their introducing stage a band from South Carolina Kelen Heller.

Was it really over six years ago that we last saw Black Rebel Motorcycle Club blowing the roof off Brixton's Academy (Video Of The Day)? Well the band have just announced an Autumn/Winter European tour with a comprehensive live itinerary which includes a return to London's O2 Academy, Brixton, on Saturday 4th November. The band are also currently working on a new as-yet-untitled studio album, which is expected to be released later this year.

Canadian Melodic Hard Rockers Harem Scarem reunited in 2013 to make ‘Mood Swings II’, a 20th anniversary re-recording of their acclaimed second album that also included three new songs that showed off a renewed musical vigour and band chemistry. This was further displayed on ‘Thirteen’ the following year, which was a definitive return to the sound that put them on the map two decades earlier. The brand new ‘United’, due to be released this Friday 12th May, now offers up 11 slabs of trademark Harem Scarem music and proves that the band is stronger than ever. They make it clear they still have something to say right from the off with the title track, a chunky slice of guitar-driven Melodic Rock nirvana that kicks off their strongest studio outing in aeons. From there, the album really takes off via a series of well-crafted songs featuring big choruses, swaggering riffs and simple yet addictive hooks to die for. Each one carries a Power-Rock packed punch, with mainmen Harry Hess and Pete Lesperance showing the Rock world that their partnership still works and that they are indeed still ‘United’.

Today's Black On Blues Podcast Track Of The Day features music from Bruce Mississippi Johnson, Corky Siegel’s Chamber Blues, Gary Cain Band, David Philips, David Bray, John Nemeth and Vin Mott.

Hardcore rising stars Broken Teeth released their debut album 'At Peace Amongst Chaos' via Nuclear Blast to great praise last year. Also known as one of the busiest touring bands in the scene, they aren't tiring anytime soon and continue with some more UK dates next Monday 15th May at Manchester's Star & Garter plus also London's Misery Fest at the Nambucca on Saturday 3nd June.