BACKYARD ROCKER 6/22/03

Post by **Jim Price** » Tuesday Jun 24, 2003

Hello Everyone,

Here is the recap of the June 22 edition of Q94's weekly local music program, "The Backyard Rocker," which airs every Sunday night from 8 to 10 PM on WBRX 94.3 and WBXQ 94.7.

Thanks to Mike and Tim of Chapter 5, Cheeze from Suicide Switch, Carl from By Any Means Necessary, Rug and Clete from Inversion, and Bob from The Grimm for being guests on this week's program. All these musicians and their bands are members of the Blair County Collective (BCC), an association of area bands who united earlier this year to work for positive changes on this area's music scene. Thus far, the BCC has already organized several benefit concerts (including an upcoming American Cancer Society benefit Aug. 9 at the Cresson Sportsmen's Club); and they recently obtained a facility to stage all ages shows. Future plans for the Collective include a fanzine, compilation CD, organizing more shows, and outreaching to other collectives and alliances to help each other's member bands break into new regions. For more information about the Blair County Collective, visit their website, www.bccollective.com.

In addition to our discussion, we played songs from six of the member Blair County Collective bands: Chapter 5, The Grimm, Suicide Switch, Choking Faith, By Any Means Necessary and Inversion. We also premiered new songs from Num, Elysion Fields, Von Kull and D-Cell. In all, a very informative and rocking program!

This week's playlist:

HOUR ONE:

DRIVEN - "Chaos & Rock & Roll"
CHAPTER 5 - "Normal Life"
BALISTIC - "Lean On Me"
THE GRIMM - "Forced Reflection"
NUM - Stitches"
SUICIDE SWITCH - "Say Goodbye"

HOUR TWO:

ELYSION FIELDS - "Sucking Me Dry"
CHOKING FAITH - "Porno Tongue"
BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY - "Falling From Grace"
INVERSION - "K.B."
VON KULL - "My Beloved"
D-CELL - "Stupor"

This Sunday night, June 29, we welcome members of Nevermoure into the studio. Since relocating their base of operation to Baltimore several months ago, Nevermoure has become one of the hottest commodities on the Baltimore scene, and are now setting their sights on The Big Apple. We will hear songs from Nevermoure's new CD, "10 Songs.6 Great.3 Good.1 Decent. It's always a good time when Nevermoure is in the house, so don't miss their visit on the "Backyard Rocker," this Sunday night!

Other forthcoming guests and specials include:

JULY 6 - Electric Candy Shop
JULY 13 - Sound Driven
JULY 20 - Deviance
JULY 27 - Cloud Party
AUG. 3 - Flord
AUG. 10 - Acid Reflux
AUG. 17 - Gemstone
AUG. 24 - Thunderbox (tentative)
SEPT. 7 - Wiskerbisket
SEPT. 14 - Keystone All Stars (tentative)
SEPT. 21 - Jump The Gun
OCT. 5 - No Refill
OCT. 12 - Poker Face (tentative)
OCT. 26 - Inversion
NOV. 2 - Halestorm (tentative)
NOV. 9 - Michael Reich
DEC. 14 - Fat Vinny & the Wiseguys

For regular updates on what is happening on the area music scene, pay a visit to Rockpage (www.rockpage.org). Rockpage features band links, a message board, "Backyard Rocker" updates, the online 'zine publication "The Final Cut," and other local music scene information.

Bands and artists interested in having music aired on "The Backyard Rocker" are invited to send their broadcast-quality recordings to: WBXQ Radio, 4000 5th Avenue, Altoona, PA 16602; ATTN: Jim Price. Or drop the recordings off at the station during regular business hours, Monday-Friday 9 AM - 5 PM.

Jim Price