HOMEGROWN ROCKER 1/22/12

[Jim Price]

Hello Everyone,

Here is the recap of the January 22 edition of Rocky 104.9 and Rocky 99's weekly local music program, "The Homegrown Rocker," which airs every Sunday night from 8 to 10 PM on WRKY-FM (www.rocky1049.com) and WRKW-FM (www.rocky99.com).

We took the long-overdue opportunity to start cleaning out the “Homegrown Rocker” mailboxes, and debut plenty of new recordings that have arrived in recent weeks and months on this week’s show. We debuted new tunes from Flight 19, My Hero Zero, Charlie Bush, Drop Dead Sarcasm, Christopher Wilson, Kim and Ed Rhoades, Sylex, Xs For Eyes and Voice Of Treason. Along the way, we updated “Local Music News,” dug a 1996 song by Screwface from the archive for a “Local Music Flashback,” stepped “Across State Lines” to check out a new track from Baltimore’s Images Of Eden, and reviewed the Whiskey River Panhandlers’ Songs From Grandma’s Radio CD in “The Professor’s CD Corner.” A busy, action-packed show!

Here is this week's playlist:

HOUR ONE:

FLIGHT 19 – “Promises”
LIES, INC. – “Waking the Misery”
MY HERO ZERO – “Make Some Noise”
BEN HARDT & HIS SYMPHONY – “Avalanche”
CHARLIE BUSH – “Restless Man”
THE HOPE FALLACY – “Caroline Street”
DROP DEAD SARCASM – “Rock Your Body”
BACKYARD KINGS – “We Live for This”
CHRISTOPHER WILSON – “Diane Drove”
SHELDON PORT – “Broken Down”

HOUR TWO:

RTL (REPRESENT THE LIE) – “Bleed for Me”
RAPID FIRE – “5 Steps”
KIM AND ED RHOADES – “Nothing’s Ever Gonna Happen”
WHISKEY RIVER PANHANDLERS – “J.B.”
SYLEX – “I’m Not Dead”
SCREWFACE – “Nightmares” (1996, Local Music Flashback)
IMAGES OF EDEN – “Tribal Scars” (Across State Lines)
Xs FOR EYES – “Orchard Street”
VOICE OF TREASON – “Cirque De’Were Prey”
NINETAIL – “Trials of a Madman”

On our next program, we’ll continue to get caught up on new local and regional music recordings that have arrived in the “Homegrown Rocker” mailboxes in recent weeks. We’ll debut many more new songs, including the newest from Halestorm! We’ll also update “Local Music News,” dig into the archive for a “Local Music Flashback,” and review The Illuminati’s Stars Align CD in “The Professor’s CD Corner!” And there may be an extra surprise treat in store as well! More maximum local and regional music on the “Homegrown Rocker,” this Sunday night at 8 PM!

Forthcoming guests and specials include:

FEB. 5 – LADIES OF LOCAL MUSIC SPECIAL
FEB. 12 – BACKYARD KINGS
FEB. 26 – MILLENNIUM MUSIC CONFERENCE RECAP SPECIAL
MAR. 4 – MILLENNIUM MUSIC CONFERENCE GUEST (TBA)
MAR. 18 – ST. PATTY’S DAY SPECIAL

For regular updates on what is happening on the area music scene, pay a visit to Rockpage (www.rockpage.net). Rockpage features band links, a message board, "Homegrown Rocker" updates, live show and CD reviews in “JP’s Corner," and other local music scene information.

Bands and artists interested in having music aired on "The Homegrown Rocker" are invited to send their broadcast-quality recordings to: WRKY Radio, One Forever Drive, Hollidaysburg, PA 16648; ATTN: Jim Price. Or drop the recordings off at the station during regular business hours, Monday-Friday 9 AM - 5 PM. You can also email me with inquiries about the show at profjp@rocky1049.com.

Jim Price

In Local Music News…

A benefit to fight cancer will take place next Saturday night, January 28, at the Solomon Run Firehall near Johnstown. Rock Out to Knock Out Cancer is a 5 band show where all of the proceeds are being donated to the American Cancer Society. Admission is only $10 to see 5 local bands perform: The August Response, Saving Elizabeth, One Pump Chump, Allegory and Hot Mess. The show will be all ages, and food and refreshments will be available.

And tickets have sold out for another benefit concert happening next Saturday night in State College. The “Heart Of Gold” benefit at the State Theatre will feature a number of State College area bands and musicians performing the music of Neil Young, with proceeds benefiting Easter Seals and the State Theatre. Some of the performers at that benefit include Miss Melanie and the Valley Rats, Ted McCloskey & the Hi Fis, Pure Cane Sugar, Tyne & the Fastlyne, The Screaming Ducks, Pat McGinnis and more.

And popular Altoona punk-pop rock fivesome The Hope Fallacy closed the book on their five-plus year run on stages this past Saturday night at Aldo’s in Juniata, as half of a split bill with Xs For Eyes during Aldo’s Chinese New Year’s Party. The band members are going their separate ways to pursue other musical and educational endeavors.