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Promoting their new twelve-track album, 'Calling Long Distance', New York City Blues returns to the UK this Friday, as The Hitman Blues Band kick off a five-date whistle-stop Winter Tour (pictured), led by guitarist and vocalist Russell ‘Hitman’ Alexander, as well as Joanne Alexander (backing vocals) plus a UK backing band including bass guitarist Derek White, playing original modern Blues and inspired versions of Blues classics, of which their album title-track is one of today's six of the best 'Sunday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further recent and forthcoming releases from Midnight Vice, Lonely Empire, The Wring, Brian Riot and Miss Vain.

Revealing a catchy, personal universe, mixing colours from Architects to Alfa Wolf with each new release, new French Modern Metal band Lafayette never cease to create a buzz, and their new single and today's Video Of The Day, 'Forever Yours', is no exception! Starting out in Lyon last March with the first of five singles, 'A Soul With A Gun', this set the tone for their straightforward recipe of quatre pissed-off guys playing hard-hitting music with very contemporary influences.

Ahead of their debut EP 'Guilty 'til Proven Innocent' due out this March, Circle of Origin are a hard-hitting, four-piece band hailing from Doncaster, with Classic Rock roots and a Modern Metal edge. taking inspiration from acts such as Aerosmith to Shinedown and Stone Sour to Foo Fighters, and last September they unleashed their promo track 'Heart-Shaped Lies', that's also one of today's six of the best 'Saturday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further recent and forthcoming releases from Magana, Tough On Fridays, Rosapolvere, Dreadsunshine featuring Sally Still and Nicolas de Renty.

Today's latest 2023 WRC Award winning Blues Club Podcast Of The Day, has another two hours of non stop Best in Blues and a bit of this and that, with More Music and Less Chat, featuring Shemekia Copeland (pictured), The B. Christopher Band, Jon Anderson, Neil Sadler, Eva Carboni, Little Georgie and the Shuffling Hungarians, Brian Setzer, Kat Riggins, Robert Jon & The Wreck, Jesse Roper, Georgia Cecile, Dave Ferra, Ed Alstrom and many more.

For today's The Proper Proggy Prog Show Podcast Of The Day, we continue to play catch up with Jef Bek from Planetary Jam, broadcast on Epic Prog Radio, Fridays and Sundays 2pm (PST), 5pm (EST), 11pm (CET), for a creative mix of Progressive Rock from the 70s to today, including Billy Sherwood, Quantum, Macello Paganini, Oiapok, Ugly, Quicksilver Night, Stas Koroliov and Cen-ProjekT.

Having kicked off their massive “Rise Of The Roach Tour”, spanning Europe, the UK, plus two legs across North American arenas and amphitheatres, two-time Grammy-nominated, platinum-selling pioneers, Papa Roach, have just released their brand new single and today's Video Of The Day, 'Even If It Kills Me', via their own label New Noize Records/ADA, a welcome return to the band’s Alternative Hard-Rock roots which they debuted in Berlin on Tuesday night. With special guests for the global tour including Wage War in Europe and the UK, as well as Rise Against and Underoath in the US, the tour will see the band bring their biggest-ever production and journey deep through their vast music catalogue, including a celebration of the 25th anniversary of their iconic breakthrough album 'Infest'.

With a series of festival appearances scheduled for this year, as well as influenced by heavyweight heroes such as Avenged Sevenfold, Deftones and Bring Me The Horizon, but also merging the craft and hookability of Blink-182 and Halestorm, powerful Metallers Sypha today release their explosive new EP, 'Borderland', of which their latest album track, 'The Afterparty', that highlights the Brighton hard-hitters evolved and heavy sound, is one of today's six of the best 'New Releases Friday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further similarly timed album releases today from Bonfire, Labyrinth, Avatarium, The Ferrymen and Wildness.

For the first time in their nearly 50-year musical careers, legendary guitarists Joe Satriani and Steve Vai have united to form The Satchvai Band, embarking on an electrifying 'Surfing with the Hydra' Summer tour across the UK and Europe, and also having just announced their star-studded band lineup including drummer Kenny Aronoff, bassist Marco Mendoza and guitarist Pete Thorn, of which the icons debut musical collaboration from last March, 'The Sea of Emotion, Pt. 1', is today's Video Of The Day. Set to conclude in late July, with more dates to be announced soon, the tour will kick off on Friday 13th June, featuring stops in major cities like London, Paris, Copenhagen and Amsterdam, and will also include performances at major European Summer festivals including Hellfest, Umbria Jazz Festival and Guitares en Scene Fest.

2024 WRC 'Best Support' award nominee, as well as recently gracing Jools Holland's BBC Hootenanny Show, young number-one selling UK Blues artist Toby Lee has been recently added as a special guest to Milkfest ’25, which will take place at Indigo @ the O2 in Greenwich on Sunday 23rd February, bringing some of the biggest names on the UK Blues scene today for a one-day festival to raise money for The Brain Tumour Charity, the idea of The Milk Men, who not only want to celebrate the British Blues scene and feel passionate about raising money and awareness on this issue, but the band are also one of today's six of the best 'Milkfest '25 Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, featuring five other artists taking part, namely Dr. Feelgood, When Rivers Meet, Jo Harman, The Cinelli Brothers and Mollie Marriott.

Today's latest Live From Progzilla Towers Podcast Of The Day includes music by Ultravox, Accidental Caps, Echolyn, Druid, Ayreon (pictured), Premiata Forneria Marconi, Daryl Hall, Brian Eno, Spock's Beard, Fernando Perdomo, Simple Minds, Krokofant, Dream Theater, Sazzad Arefeen, Genesis, Renaissance, Sutej Singh, Peter Hammill, Tom Penaguin and Kansas.

Megaton Communion join today's latest The Zach Moonshine Show Podcast Of The Day to play and discuss their new Black Doomba Records album, 'Red Sky Warning', plus there's new releases from Gruddyam Donyzu, Monhell, TheNumber33, Whitechapel, Scour, Brat, Gates.To .Hell, Six Feet Under, Blind Oath, Vipërwitch, Pontifex, Bloodshot Cyclops, Crown Magnetar, Sadist, Fuzz Evil, Enrage, Eldfaerd, Lockjaw, Red Vinter, Velvetcut, Selias, Four Thirty Four, Vajra, Crown of Horns and Parthian.

Tygers of Pan Tang, Thin Lizzy and Whitesnake guitarist, John Sykes, very sadly passed away on Monday at the age of 65 after a battle with cancer, and once again we let the music do all the talking with today's very grainy 'The Boys Are Back In Town' Video Of The Day, when we saw Sykes, Gorham, Aldridge and DiCosmo blow everyone away at the Dutch Arrow Rock Festival in June 2007, one of the highlights of that weekend.