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, another short look back at the recent Broadstairs Blues Bash and much more Music this week Includes tracks from Eliza Neals, Larry Griffith Band, Elles Bailey, Marty Manous, Philipp Fankhauser, James O'Hara, David Bray, Erja Lyytinen, Martin McNeill, Andrew Jr Boy Jones, Fran McGillivray Band, Rag’n’Bone Man, The Rumblestrutters, Mick McConnell, Richard Ray Farrell, Husky Tones, Fantastic Negrito, Wily Bo Walker, Gwyn Ashton/Chris Finnen, Ash Wilson (pictured), Catfish, Toriah Fontaine, Teresa Watson Band, Zoe Schwarz Blue Commotion, Lachy Doley, Vika Bull & The Essential R&B Band, At Last - The Etta James Story, Camera Soul, Marcus Malone, Southern Avenue and B. B. & The Blues Shacks.

Dawes have premiered their new video 'Roll With The Punches' featuring Mandy Moore - today's Vid Of The Day. In the video, Moore and Taylor Goldsmith, Dawes’s front man, star as a couple in the throes of a breakup. Dawes is currently on a 50-date North American tour, with stops in New York, Chicago, Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles, Nashville and more. Billed as “An Evening With Dawes”, each night will feature two sets by the band with no opener. Dawes consists of Goldsmith, Wylie Gelber (bass), Griffin Goldsmith (drums, vocals, percussion) and Lee Pardini (keyboards, vocals). The band has toured extensively playing headline shows worldwide and major festival appearances including Bonnaroo, Austin City Limits, Lollapalooza and Newport Folk Festival. Recently, they have toured with My Morning Jacket, Bob Dylan, Mumford and Sons, Conor Oberst and Jackson Browne.

In mid-2015, former Venom member Tony "Demolition Man" Dolan, together with original members Jeff "Mantas" Dunn and Tony "Abaddon" Bray, formed a second incarnation of Britain's seminal Black Metal band. After coming together under the flag Venom Inc, history began to write itself once again. Now, after proving their lasting prowess on the road and at festivals internationally throughout the past year, the band is pleased to announce their signing with premier international Heavy Metal label Nuclear Blast Records - and consequently the band is scheduled to release a new album this year - more details coming soon! Venom Inc are also set to perform at several festivals in Europe throughout 2017, including stops at Hammerfest Festival, Inferno Festival, Heavy Metal Cauldron and others where the band will perform classic Venom sets.

The WRC were delighted to hear recently from our friend Pete Pagonis - drummer from Idlewar: "We have great news - we are honored to be nominated for Best New Band by Planet Rock Radio for the Rocks 2017 awards!" Well if you want to vote for Idlewar (who we originally introduced you to in September 2015) or any other WRC favourites, then you need to vote here by 23:59 tonight. The winners will be revealed during Wyatt's show on Planet Rock from 10am this Friday. Meanwhile, today's Idlewar Vid Of The Day 'Soul' was edited by Pete and is taken from their latest LP 'Impulse'.

Of course, yet another mate of the WRC is Route 66 host Rory Auskerry - and on today's Track Of The Day originally broadcast on Sunday - Rory features new music from Mick McConnell and The Sharpeez plus a review of Jo Harman (pictured) and Elles Bailey's gig in Manchester. There are also classic tracks from The Rolling Stones, Chris Rea, Van Halen, Foo Fighters and Rory Gallagher plus music from Rob Tognoni, the Jimi Barbiani Band and Brooks & Dunn.

Just days after Gwyn Ashton was featured on Monday's Black On Blues Track Of The Day, another good friend of the WRC, Rob Taylor, Artist Relations Director at NMB Live, contacted us to tell us that he had bumped into Gwyn at the NAMM Music exhibition in Annaheim at the end of January. For the record, pictured with Rob (second right) and Gwyn (furthest right) are Bobby Kimball from Toto (first left) and second left, young Canadian Sophia Radisch, who Rob tells us to keep an eye on, as she's flying up the charts.

It is finally coming on Friday 19th May - a live CD/DVD from The Dead Daisies! If you’ve been to a show last year, 'Live & Louder' (Vid Of The Day) captures all that! 16 songs, recorded during their terrific UK/Europe tour last Autumn. Influenced by 70’s and early 80’s Rock, The Dead Daisies sound is soulful and accessible – equal parts of Aerosmith, Bad Company and Foreigner: muscular vocals, Bluesy riffs, big choruses, powerful melodies and strong hooks. With stellar musicianship and pulverizing live shows, fans across the globe are discovering the band that is bringing back Rock & Roll! The band features in their ranks some of the finest Rockers on the planet, among them one of the premier lead guitarists of this day and age, Doug Aldrich (Whitesnake, Dio). He completes a powerhouse line-up consisting of charismatic singer John Corabi (Mötley Crüe, The Scream), the well travelled bassist Marco Mendoza (Thin Lizzy, Whitesnake), the drumming powerhouse of Brian Tichy (Ozzy Osbourne, Foreigner) and bringing the thunder from down under, Australian rhythm guitarist David Lowy (Red Phoenix, Mink).

Today's March 2017 WRC e-mail Bulletin not only looks forward long-term to November and Wrinklystock 6 featuring Magic - a kind of Queen & ELO - but also short-term to March gigs including Dan Reed Network, Big Boy Bloater & The Limits, Sari Schorr & The Engine Room, Monster Truck and Devilskin, plus a review of Planet Rock's Winter's End waiting in the wings. We also look back at the gigs and CD's we reviewed in February including, Green Day, The Pineapple Thief, Manimal, Aaron Keylock, Ash Wilson, Johnossi and Where Fires Are, plus our two part interview with Black Orchid Empire. Remember just go here to sign up for FREE membership where you can get discounts on selected gigs and merchandise! And if you are not currently on our e-mail circulation list then please send us your details in the contact box below!

Described as Hard Rock with a soft underbelly, we saw the awesome Black Orchid Empire headline at Camden's Monarch in early February. At yet another Camden Rocks showcase, The Monarch is a real rock pub, a microcosm of today's music business as bands bartered equipment with each other during their sound checks, whilst we were interviewing BOE consisting of New Zealander Dave Ferguson (bass/vocals), American Billy Freedom (drums) and Brit Paul Visser (vocals/guitar) backstage beforehand. In fact the interview was so good and long that we split it into two parts - the second and final part is today's Track Of The Day where the guys talk to us here about, amongst other things, guitar heroes, production, music videos, festivals and Petula Clark!

Sweden's Doom darlings Avatarium are back with their third studio album and once again, singer Jennie-Ann Smith and her gentlemen cast a spell over you with a truly magical sound experience - 'Hurricanes And Halos' will take the world by storm on Friday May 26th and contains eight majestic new tracks. Once again, the band rely on beauty and darkness, heavy guitars and fragile sounds, unique female vocals and the mystic vintage Blues sound from the 60's, while still staying on modern ground and trusting into the haunting soul of Doom Rock. Six out of the eight new tracks were forged by Candlemass wizard Leif Edling, but guitar master Marcus Jidell and singer Jennie-Ann Smith also contributed to the songwriting and formed a worthy successor to 'The Girl With The Raven Mask' (Vid Of The Day) - an album that topped multiple soundchecks in 2015 and brought them the 'Up And Coming'-award from German Metal Hammer.

Today's 2016 WRC Award winning Rock On The Ridge Track Of The Day - originally broadcast on Saturday night - includes music from Trucker Diablo, Tequila Mockingbird, Dirty Thrills, 100 Watt Vipers, Puppet Kings, JacksonHewitt, Five Horse Johnson, Palace Of The King, Dogfeet, Doomsday Outlaw, Tax The Heat (pictured), AC/DC, Mount Holly, Dead Letter Circus, Artful Candid, The Blue Van, Royal Blood, The Black Delta Movement, Partisan, Radiohead and on their 'Introducing Stage' Lowercase Gods!

The WRC are of course off to see Joe Bonamassa at his sold out Royal Albert Hall gig on Thursday 20th April - but we also have two spare tickets for his sold out show the following night. In the true spirit of "Keeping Music Live" - no secondary ticket outlets for the WRC - all we want is face value! So if you are interested in seeing JB then simply send us a message in the contact box below and we will get back to you!