"One of the things most noticeable upon repeated plays of this debut album is how restrained Aaron Keylock is with regards to his playing, with his youth and talent it would be easy to get carried away and make each song a lengthy overindulgent shred fest, however he definitely understands the concept of less is more as no song outlasts its welcome, making for a perfectly paced CD. It's the sound of a guy for whose future is so bright it's no wonder he wears shades on the cover." Read the whole of Phil C's review of Aaron Keylock's 'Cut Against The Grain' CD here. Aaron (Vid Of The Day) is also playing Planet Rock Winter’s End Fest in Poole, Dorset, on Friday 24th February and is supporting Sari Schorr at London's Borderline on Monday 20th March.

London's O2 Stone Free Festival, which opens its doors at midday on Saturday 17th June, have announced that legendary British Glam Rock giants Sweet, who during the ‘70s had thirteen Top 20 hits including ‘Blockbuster’, ‘Hell Raiser’, ‘Fox On the Run’ and the evergreen feel-good anthem ‘The Ballroom Blitz’, will be joining headliners Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow in the main arena. Indigo at The O2 will also be hosting a full afternoon of entertainment including Northern Ireland’s The Answer, who have hit new heights with their most recent album Solas plus Scottish rockers Gun, with iconic New York hard rockers Blue Öyster Cult playing a full headline set and closing the afternoon festivities, who throughout their four-decade career have garnered huge critical acclaim, in particular for the hit single ‘(Don’t Fear) The Reaper’ and other fan favourites including ‘Godzilla’ and ‘Burning For You’.

This week's Route 66 show features new tracks from Thunder (pictured), Chickenfoot, Jo Harman, Aaron Keylock and Matt Andersen. Today's Track Of The Day also has classic tracks from The Doors, Ted Nugent, AC/DC and Annie Lennox and many more plus this week's music news, social media and top jockin' from host Rory Auskerry!

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.