Last week's Blues Sunday at De Hems in Soho saw The Blue Bishops - joined by Sam Kelly and others at the jam session afterwards - at a rammed venue with an astonishing 44,000 tuned in around the world on Facebook Live! Deep Blue Sea (pictured) are gigging today from 3pm to 5pm plus a jam session till 7pm - so get on down. But if not, tune in via Facebook Live - as the whole world's invited through live streaming! For more info go here.

Even as Hard Rock Hell's triumphant flagship celebration of their first decade comes to a close (check out our review here and updated photo gallery here), HRH looks to the future with next year's festival. HRH are proud to announce another kickass, fan-picked line-up between Thursday 9th and Sunday 12th Nov 2017: Australian powerhouse Rockers Airbourne and classic 70's American Hard Rock/Heavy Metal band Y&T (originally formed as Yesterday & Tomorrow, and known as "one of the hardest-working blue-collar bands in Hard Rock history"). From the U.K. come Glaswegian Hard Rockers Gun; also Syteria: the dynamic, female-fronted Rock band from South Yorkshire. Then, adding European flavour to the proceedings, are The New Roses: Germany's most exciting, successful new Rock act!

With the announcement of our 2016 WRC Award nominees on the horizon - it was good to hear from 2015 WRC Award winners The Mentulls yesterday. "We would like to thank everyone who came out and supported the band on our recent European Autumn Tour, it really means alot to us folks - we had a blast. Many thanks also go to the promotors and venues that looked after us all so well. It's been great to meet up with all of our friends and also to meet new people in towns we haven't played before. THANK YOU SO MUCH. Andrew, Jamie, Nick and all the crew." Anyway, appropriately, today's Track Of The Day is part of The Mentulls awesome set at this year's BluesRockfest!

Today we turn our Vid Of The Day clock back to November 2012 and our very first Wrinklystock with The Beatlez as our Wrinklystock V countdown continues. We have now just one week to go to our 'Monsters Of Irish Rock' at the Mick Jagger Centre, Dartford on Saturday 26th November which sees headliners Limehouse Lizzy continue to keep the spirit of Thin Lizzy alive. With at the last count, 87% of the tickets sold, make sure you order your tickets now priced £22 here in order that you don't miss out plus don't forget our Wrinklystock V t-shirts on sale here.

"The idea of hosting a Rock festival on the inaccessible Welsh Northwest coast in November is, quite frankly, a ridiculous idea. But that is exactly what the team at Hard Rock Hell has been doing successfully for the last 10 years. This year’s anniversary event sold out its 6500 tickets almost before the last one was over. A hardy breed of rockers you might think? Not at all. The holiday camp hosting the event provides two large inside venues with well-stocked and staffed bars as well as smaller venues, assorted concessionaries and comfortable heated and dry accommodation. A far cry from Knebworth 1985 or this year’s Download." Read the rest of Mother's Hard Rock Hell review from last weekend's festival here, check out our Vid Of The Day plus go to our updated photo gallery here.

Unfortunately we missed out in the ballot to see Metallica performing a very intimate and exclusive London performance at London's House of Vans tonight. In an unprecedented move the band released music videos over the last two days for each song from their new album, 'Hardwired…To Self-Destruct' which is released today. The good news is that you can tune in here at 9pm (GMT) tonight to watch the live stream of the show. On the other hand if you want a live gig then head on down to Leo's Red Lion in Gravesend tonight to see Raveneye supported by the very impressive Wicked Stone (pictured) who we first saw at Ramblin' Man this year.

On this week's Blues Club Podcast Track Of The Day, Jim is joined in the studio by fellow Blues Presenter Nigel Day from NCB Radio's Sunday Blues Brunch. Music this week includes tracks from Tas Cru, The McKee Brothers, Beth Hart, JW-Jones, Melissa Etheridge, Paul Carrack, Bruce Springsteen (pictured), Marcia Ball, King King, Simon Campbell, Jack Mack and the Heart Attack Horns, Jonny Lang, Dr. John, Richard Townend & The Mighty Bosscats, Lisa Lystam Family Band, David Bromberg Quintet & Band, Sari Schorr, Roomful of Blues, R.D. Olson, Elles Bailey, Jeremiah Johnson, The Smoke Wagon Blues Band, Red Butler, Sugar Ray and the Bluetones, Enrico Jerimiah Marques, Nine Below Zero, Dave Keller Band, Dawn Tyler Watson, B. B. & The Blues Shacks and more.

Ronnie Baker Brooks (Track Of The Day) was born in Chicago, and started playing guitar around age six. At 19, he joined his father Lonnie Brooks, who by then had influenced some of the most well-known Bluesman of our history: Jimmy Reed, the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Johnny Winter and Junior Wells. For 12 years the two would tour together, putting Ronnie out front with Eric Clapton, B.B. King, Buddy Guy and Koko Taylor. 'Times Have Changed', Brooks’ first album in ten years, due to be released on Friday 20th January 2017, carries with it the weight of grown perspective and time spent perfecting old material. Brooks worked it with Steve Jordan, whose work runs from Keith Richards to Stevie Wonder, John Mayer and Eric Clapton. A veritable who's who is guesting on the record, from Big Head Todd & The Monsters mainman Todd Mohr, R&B/Soul singers Bobby “Blue” Bland (one of the last recordings he made) and Angie Stone, legendary guitarists Steve Cropper (Stax, Booker T. & the MG's) and Eddie Willis (Motown, Funk Brothers), rapper Al Kapone, and of course Ronnie's father, Lonnie Brooks.

Legendary New York thrashers Anthrax this year celebrated their 35th anniversary and released their new album 'For All Kings' to widespread critical acclaim. In February 2017 the band will be back on UK soil for their first full UK headline tour in over a decade! These UK dates will see the band perform classic 1987 album 'Among The Living' in its entirety alongside fan favourites. These special shows will mark 30 years of the iconic album, with support from up and coming British metallers The Raven Age.

This Friday 18th November sees the release of badXchannels (Vid Of The Day) debut EP ‘WHYDFML’ via SharpTone Records. The five-song EP marks the return of alternative heavyweight Craig Owens (Chiodos, The Sound of Animals Fighting, Isles & Glaciers), featuring his iconic rock sound with riveting notes of R&B and Soul.

Federal Charm join host Rory Auskerry in the Route 66 studio for today's Track Of The Day acoustic session and interview. There's also music news, birthdays in Rock and Blues plus tracks from The Stone Roses, Mark Knopfler, Queen & Paul Rodgers (pictured), The Brew and Alter Bridge.

The WRC first introduced you to Calfornian Rock trio Idlewar in September 2015 and the guys have recently unveiled the video for 'Glory', the latest track to be released from their extremely well received debut album 'Impulse'. Indeed there's less than two weeks to go before the Californians make their live debut in the United Kingdom, and today's Vid Of The Day features Idlewar at rehearsal, jamming songs in preparation for a UK tour with Stone Broken, plus their slot at this year's sold our Rockstock on Saturday 3rd December. With the release of 'Impulse' and last year's 'Dig In' EP, Idlewar are fast becoming renowned for their material's groove laden riffage and incredibly rich hooks, whilst the lyrics reflect on topics that are more than ever relevant to society today.