HOMEGROWN ROCKER 12/4/11 (THE EMBALMED)

[Jim Price]

Hello Everyone,

Here is the recap of the December 4 edition of Rocky 104.9 and Rocky 99's weekly local music program, "The Homegrown Rocker," which airs every Sunday night from 9 to 11 PM during Steelers football season on WRKY-FM (www.rocky1049.com) and WRKW-FM (www.rocky99.com).

Thanks to our guests this week, Jason Straw and Greg Hatch of Johnstown metal rock specialists The Embalmed (www.theembalmed.com). Jason and Greg updated us on the latest Embalmed happenings, and discussed the group’s new CD, Make the Children Listen. We heard tracks from the CD, and dug into the archive to check out a track from Jason and Greg’s side project from 2007, House Of Cain, for this week’s “Local Music Flashback.” Along the way, we updated “Local Music News,” and reviewed Dethlehem’s new CD, The Ghorusalem Codex Vol. 2: Of Magick & Tyranny, in “The Professor’s CD Corner.”

Here is this week's playlist:

HOUR ONE:

ROADKILL – “Santa Is a Big Fat Jerk”
(kaj) – “Down”
THE EMBALMED – “Setting Fire to Holy Water”
REPRESENT THE LIE – “On the Inside”
THE EMBALMED – “All Devil’s Day”
ABSOLUTION – “Dry County”

HOUR TWO:

LIES, INC. – “Waking the Misery”
CANDLELIGHT RED – “Medicate”
THE EMBALMED – “Devil Platinum”
DETHLEHEM – “Sky Palace of the Dragonriders”
THE EMBALMED – “Coming Black Winter”
HOUSE OF CAIN – “Emissary” (2007, Local Music Flashback)
THE EMBALMED – “Listen to the Ancients”

Next week, our guests will be State College hard rockers Represent The Lie! We will meet the band members and learn their story, and hear tracks from their debut EP, On the Inside. Along the way, we will update “Local Music News,” dig into the archive for yet another “Local Music Flashback,” and review Absolution’s The Other Side of Nothing CD in “The Professor’s CD Corner!” Represent The Lie visits the “Homegrown Rocker” next Sunday night at 9 PM!

Forthcoming guests and specials include:

DEC. 25 – CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
JAN. 1 – 2011 YEAR IN REVIEW SPECIAL PT. I
JAN. 8 – 2011 YEAR IN REVIEW SPECIAL PT. 2
JAN. 15 – CAESER PINK AND THE IMPERIAL ORGY

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…

Half Tempted has a new drummer. Former NailDriver and Scream drummer Kevin Siegel has taken over behind the kit for the popular Altoona area classic rockers, replacing Steve Bidoli. Kevin’s first show with Half Tempted took place late last month.

Pittsburgh orchestral rockers Ben Hardt and his Symphony have changed their name. Citing misconceptions over the name and increasing reluctance to have his name overshadow a group now with a large number of musicians involved, Ben Hardt announced that the group has changed its handle to the New Victorians. Hardt said he is releasing the first of three New Victorians albums on the group’s new website; the remaining two new albums will be released later as part of a sequence. A preview of the group’s new songs can be found on the new Victorians’ Facebook page.

A number of State College area bands and musicians are pooling their talents to celebrate the music of Neil Young to help out Easter Seals and State College’s historic State Theatre. “Heart of Gold: An Evening of the Music of Neil Young” will take place on Saturday, January 28 at the State Theatre starting at 7 p.m. The show will feature the music of Neil Young performed by such names as Pure Cane Sugar, the Screaming Ducks, Tyne & the Fastlyne, Ted McCloskey and the Hi-Fi’s, The Rounders, Miss Melanie and the Valley Rats, Brian Lubrecht, Pat McGinnis, Jason McIntyre & Junior Tutwiler, Tim Whitehill, Erin Condo and Tommy Wareham. For ticket information, check out the State Theatre’s website, www.thestatetheatre.org.