HOMEGROWN ROCKER 2/5/12 (LADIES OF LOCAL MUSIC)

[Jim Price]

Hello Everyone,

Here is the recap of the February 5 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 knew what we were up against this week from the sporting world. So while Eli Manning and the New York Giants fought for their Super Bowl XLVI victory, the “Homegrown Rocker” spotlighted the talented women of the area and state’s music scene with the annual “Ladies of Local Music Special.” We celebrated the ladies who sing, play guitars, basses, drums, keys, strings and other instruments, and debuted new songs from the Rebekah Starr Band, Riley Roth, Halestorm, Halle Kate, Key of V and Tarra Layne. We also updated “Local Music News,” dug into the archive for a 2001 song by Pittsburgh’s Voodoo Babies for this week’s “Local Music Flashback,” stepped “Across State Lines” to check out a song from Trenton, New Jersey singer/songwriter Kelly Carvin, and reviewed Michi’s Where Your Heart Is CD in “The Professor’s CD Corner!”

Here is this week's playlist:

HOUR ONE:

LOVEBETTIE – “Dirty Mary” (Alexandra Naples – keys/vocals)
MISS MELANIE & THE VALLEY RATS – “Just a Little Bit” (Melanie Morrison – vocals) (live)
REBEKAH STARR BAND – “Pretty Playthings” (Rebekah Starr – vocals)
LIES, INC. “Invertigo” (Lily Taylor – vocals)
RILEY ROTH – “Angel” (Riley – vocals)
E.V.K. – “Fun” (Chelsea Moses – vocals/drums)
HALESTORM – “Daughters of Darkness” (Lzzy Hale – vocals/guitar)
GRACES DOWNFALL – “Always the Victim” (Natalie Jurosky – bass)
SKYLA BURRELL BLUES BAND – “Dirt Poor” (Skyla Burrell – vocals/guitar)

HOUR TWO:

MYCENEA WORLEY – “Low” (Mycenea – vocals/guitar)
PURE CANE SUGAR – “Designated Driver” (Kate Twoey – vocals/guitar, Natalie Berrena – vocals, Molly Countermine – vocals)
HALLE KATE – “Lost World” (Halle – vocals)
MICHI – “Warrior” (Michi Egger – vocals/guitar)
KEY OF V – “Sirius” (Val LaCerra – vocals/guitar, Erin LaCerra – vocals/viola)
VOODOO BABIES – “Shine” (Lori Bernish – vocals) (2001, Local Music Flashback)
KELLY CARVIN & THE FUTURE – “Pain” (Kelly – vocals/guitar) (Across State Lines)
DARCIE MINER BAND – “Falling Apart” (Darcie – vocals/guitar)
TARRA LAYNE – “Stick Shift King” (Tarra – vocals)

On our next program, we welcome Cambria County-based indie rockers the Backyard Kings as our guests. We’ll meet the band members and learn their story, hear tracks from their Writing Home EP, and they’ll bring acoustic instruments and play a few numbers live for us! We’ll also update “Local Music News,” dig into the archive for a “Local Music Flashback,” and review Caeser Pink & the Imperial Orgy’s Four Legs Good…Two Legs Baaad!!! CD in “The Professor’s CD Corner!” The Backyard Kings visit the “Homegrown Rocker,” this Sunday night at 8 PM!

Forthcoming guests and specials include:

FEB. 26 – MILLENNIUM MUSIC CONFERENCE RECAP SPECIAL
MAR. 4 – MILLENNIUM MUSIC CONFERENCE GUEST (TBA)
MAR. 18 – ST. PATTY’S DAY SPECIAL
MAR. 25 - MEDIKADED
MAY 13 – RON GALLUCCI

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…

More benefit shows are coming together on the area music scene. The bands Half Tempted and Ganister will donate their talents to help out the family of local cancer patient Kevan Gochnour at “The Concert for Kevan,” which will take place on Friday night, February 17 at 30 Something in Altoona. That show will begin at 10 p.m., and donation at the door is $5 per person.

Madhatter’s in St. Boniface will present “Giggity Days: Benefit for John Dibello” on Saturday afternoon and evening, February 25. That event will start at 12 noon, and feature performances from a number of area bands and acoustic artists, including Felix & the Hurricanes, Punk Fiction, Forever On Holiday, Acoustic Stew, Big Soul, Joe Konior and Alicia Hritsko, Bob Helbig and others. More details will be forthcoming.

Penn State Altoona’s Christian Music Fellowship is organizing the “Love Out Loud” benefit concert, which will take place on Saturday night, February 18 in Penn State Altoona’s Adler Gymnasium. The bands In Remembrance Of Me, Arson In The Suburbs and Chris Vipond and the Stanley Street Band will perform. The show will start at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $5 for Penn State students and $10 for the general public; proceeds will help out Love 146, a nonprofit organization working to abolish child sex slavery and exploitation.

And a benefit to help out the surviving family of car accident victim Patti J. Miller and Ron Miller Jr. is coming together for Sunday, March 11 at Pellegrine’s in Altoona. The “A Promise for Patti Family Benefit” will start at 1 p.m. Bands that have offered their talents for this benefit thus far include The Hawks, Ambush, Four Day Creep, Screaming Ugly, Johnny Danger and E.V.K.; more will be announced soon.