HOMEGROWN ROCKER 9/27/15

[Jim Price]

Hello Everyone,

Here is the recap of the September 27 edition of 105.9 Qwik-Rock's weekly local music program, "The Homegrown Rocker," which airs every Sunday night from 8 to 10 PM on Lion Country's Rock Station, 105.9 Qwik-Rock. The show can also be streamed via Qwik's website, www.1059qwikrock.com.

Again, we checked out more new music on this week's program, and debuted new tunes from Jack Pyers, Spacefish, Bill Hoffman, the Leeja Stark Band, Corners Of Sanctuary and Embers Fall. We also updated "Local Music News," dug a 1995 song by Pittsburgh's Whiskey High from the archive for this week's "Local Music Flashback," and stepped "Across State Lines" to hear music from Baltimore/Washington D.C.'s A Sound of Thunder.

Here is this week's playlist:

HOUR ONE:

THE GRANATI BROTHERS - "The Sun in Your Eyes"
THE BIG TIME - "Transparent"
JACK PYERS - "In This Dream"
RHYNE McCORMICK - "Soul Dust"
NATE MYERS - "It's My Music"
JOHN "JT" THOMPSON - "Why Can't You Be True?"
SPACEFISH - "Tin Man"
SHIFT SEVEN - "Mountain Rose"
BILL HOFFMAN - "My Dirty Soul"
THE SITCH - "Run for Your Life"

HOUR TWO:

MAXWELL STRAIT - "Babblefish"
LOVEBETTIE - "Are You Out There"
LEEJA STARK BAND - "Alexia"
AFTER THE FALL - "The Nameless"
SKELL - "No Solution"
WHISKEY HIGH - "Axeslayer" (1995, Local Music Flashback)
A SOUND OF THUNDER - "The Night Witch" (Across State Lines)
CORNERS OF SANCTUARY - "Hellequin"
EMBERS FALL - "Wrath"
WRITING OFF TOMORROW - "Torture Games"

Next week, more new music will make its debut as we keep checking out new recordings that arrive in the "Homegrown Rocker" mailboxes! Along the way, we will update "Local Music News," dig a "Local Music Flashback" from the archive, and step "Across State Lines" to hear a song from an out-of-state independent band or artist. (And if ongoing technical issues are resolved, there may be a "Professor's CD Corner" feature.)

Upcoming guests and specials include:

OCTOBER 25 - Halloween Special
NOVEMBER 29 - Local Music Live in Concert Special
DECEMBER 6 - Sterling Koch
DECEMBER 20 - Christmas Special

(All dates are subject to changes as circumstances warrant.)

Bands and artists wanting to submit news items for "Local Music News" may email their news to homegrownrocker@gmail.com. Indicate "MUSIC NEWS" in the subject heading!

Bands and artists interested in having music aired on the show are invited to send their broadcast-quality recordings to: Magnum Broadcasting, 315 South Atherton Street, State College, PA 16801; ATTN: Jim Price/Homegrown. Or drop the recordings off at the station during regular business hours, Monday-Friday 9 AM – 5 PM. You can also email digital song files or inquiries about the show to homegrownrocker@gmail.com.

Jim Price

In Local Music News...

Call it a warm-up for November's annual Patched Together benefit concert..."A Patch of Bluegrass" featuring Mama Corn will take place on Friday night, October 2, at 9 p.m. at the U.S. Hotel in Hollidaysburg to raise money toward the Home Nursing Agency's Healing Patch program. The night will feature Mama Corn's brand of bluegrass music, along with prize giveaways and Patched Together T-shirt sales.

The Rock for Life Concert Series presents another benefit concert in early October to raise money toward Rock for Life, the musical initiative to help out youngsters in western PA with life-threatening or debilitating conditions. The Rock for Life Rocktoberfest concert will happen on Friday night and Saturday, October 2 and 3, at the Iselin Ballfield near Saltsburg. Friday night's music will kick off at 6 p.m., with performances from the bands Coal Town, Cobra Kai, Outlined in Blood, From Within, Transcendence and A Common Crown. The music then resumes at 1 p.m. on Saturday, with performances by Suffacate, Boomstick, OverMyDeadBody, Unbroken Soul, 2KD, Tilted Shadows, Untamed, Homicide Black, Staley's Comet, After The Fall and Skell. Donation is $10 per person at the gate, and overnight camping is permitted.