Johnossi’s 'Blood Jungle' album launch show at London's Oslo, Hackney, takes place tonight - and the WRC will be there! The platinum-selling, Swedish Grammy winners will play the show ahead of the release of 'Blood Jungle' through Polydor this coming Friday. Johnossi (Vid Of The Day) played a sold out show at London's Hoxton Bar & Kitchen last year, and have just played their first shows in America. After tonight they'll be heading out on an extensive 24-date European tour in March. The band recently released their new single ‘Hands’, which addresses police brutality, and follows the release of ‘Air Is Free’ and ‘Weak Spots’ also taken from the album.

Believe it or not, the WRC will also be at London's Where Fires Are gig tonight at 93 Feet East in Brick Lane E1. The guys have just recently released their new single ‘I’ve Got The Time’ plus a new EP 'One Four Six One'. Where Fires Are are a 5-piece band from Leeds consisting of frontman Robbie Gillespie, Nick Banks (keys, synth), James Clegg (bass), Matt Exton (drums) and Ash Reynolds (guitar). They have an edgy Alt-Rock feel to their music featuring big riffs and soaring melodies. They are currently mid-way through their UK tour supporting the EP release and have received a great reception at the shows so far and have been hearing great things about their live set.

Where Fires Are also on the 2016 WRC Award winning Rock On The Ridge playlist from Saturday night! Today's Track Of The Day also includes music from The Black Marbles, Fire At Midnight, Wicked Stone (pictured), Osara, Crash Midnight, Cherry White, One Man Revival, Florence Black, Mindriotmt, The New Roses, RavenEye, Jackson Hewitt, Tesla, Black Label Society, Daughtry, Shinedown, Incubus, UFO, Sixx:A.M., The Who and on their introducing stage a really great sound from Dieselle May!

Just in case you've forgotten today, Evanescence’s Grammy Award winning singer/songwriter Amy Lee released a new single, 'Love Exists' last Friday as an interactive Valentine - today's Track Of The Day. Known for her soaring haunting vocals and sophisticated piano melodies, Rolling Stone describe Lee as “one of Hard Rock’s leading ladies” and Kerrang cites her as “one of the most significant and influential women in Rock”. Amy is currently in the studio with Evanescence, working on new music expected later this year. They play two shows later this year at Hammersmith's Eventim Apollo on Tuesday 13th June and Wednesday 14th June.

Celebrated South African Blues Rock guitarist Dan Patlansky returns to the UK for his April/May UK Tour with special guest Ash Wilson. This will be the first tour Patlansky will undertake following his support slot on King King’'s 2016 UK tour and Joe Satriani’'s 2015 UK and European tour. The UK tour follows Patlansky’'s recent accolade when his current album 'Introvertigo' was voted the #1 Blues Rock Album of 2016 by the Blues Rock Review. Lincolnshire-based singer-songwriter Ash Wilson is hailed as one of the UK’'s most exciting and distinctive new vocalists, guitarists and songwriters in the British contemporary Blues scene. Wilson’'s debut album, Broken Machine, will be released on Friday 21st April and features bassist Roger Inniss (Chaka Khan, ex-Laurence Jones), keyboardist Bob Fridzema (King King) and guitarist Jesse Davey (The Hoax).

Featured "On The Radar" artists in the latest issue of Rock Sound Magazine (#223), Death Blooms (Vid Of The Day) are a brand new Alternative Metal quartet from Manchester and Liverpool. Armed with confidence, plenty of skills, social awareness and angst bubbling under the surface, Death Blooms sound is both frenetic and infectious; seamlessly combining hardcore vocals with bullet proof guitar riffs, bouncing grooves and oozing an adundance of modern melodic audio sonics. Following live shows with Dope, Skindred, Raging Speedhorn and Anti-Clone, Death Blooms will release their self titled debut EP on Friday 12th May. Expect to see a lot more of this immense new band!

With the dust settling after their awesome Islington Assembly Hall gig on Saturday night - today we bring you The Pineapple Thief photo gallery here including support band Godsticks. Despite the taking of photos and vids being frowned upon on the night - your intrepid WRC reporter did manage to sneak a few shots - which include Godsticks guitarist Darran Charles guesting for TPT as he did on their last album 'Your Wilderness'.

"All the anger, the passion and the drive is there - this could be their first gig. Opening with 'Know Your Enemy', Green Day unleashed their sound on an audience that were revved up and ready to go. And go they did. Billie Joe is all about the crowd, constantly exhorting them to stand up, jump around, wave their arms, scream or just generally go crazy. Fairly common stuff you might say but you rarely see Dad’s out bopping their teenage daughters. And rarely do you ever see no-one giving a toss about it either. The set was a lengthy one - two and a half hours including the encore, which all went with lightning speed. The set was sprinkled with a good mix of hits from albums past as well as the new material. 'Revolution Radio’s title track was a big hit with the audience." Read the whole of Mother's excellent Green Day review from last Wednesday's London O2 Arena gig here.

This week's Black On Blues Track Of The Day features music from Al Brown, Willie & The Bandits, James O’Hara, Kenny Neal, Dave Fields, Tim Gartland and the Starlite Campbell Band.

Just under fourteen years since we saw them play their very first gig supporting Caravan at the Whitchurch Festival in August 2003 - and eleven studio albums later - The Pineapple Thief deservedly marched into a sold out Islington Assembly Hall last night. Despite the snow - an added attraction for the assembled masses was the addition of Porcupine Tree/King Crimson drummer Gavin Harrison to the fold - following his outstanding performance on TPT's latest offering 'Your Wilderness'. With the trusty Prog backbone of Soord, Sykes and Kitch plus Godsticks as support - much was expected - and and as usual - we were not disappointed! Watch out for a review and more pics shortly, but in the meantime check out today's Vid Of The Day.

Today's Blues On The Marsh Track Of The Day, originally broadcast on Friday night, includes music from Amanda St John, Kaz Hawkins Band, Meena Cryle & Chris Fillmore, Toriah Fontaine, Sistahs Too, Lachy Doley Band and Catfish (pictured).

We first introduced you to Pieces Of Mind in February 2015 when the band celebrated their 50th anniversary with a great new album of original stuff entitled 'Born At The Bosco'. Since then they were featured in June 2016 on BBC Four’s 'The UK’s Best Part-Time Band' and now the guys are playing the Brentwood Festival on Sunday 16th July supporting Midge Ure , Heaven 17 and Go West which takes place that weekend in aid of charity. So why not get along and see the band who shared the stage with David Bowie and Billy Fury as well as The Who during their performance at the Coed Eva Community College in 1966!