Hello Everyone,
Here is the recap of the July 6 edition of “The Homegrown Rocker,” which airs every Sunday night from 8 to 10 PM on Q94 Classic Rock (www.q94classicrock.com), and from 10 PM to midnight on 107.1 and 101.3 Jack FM (www.1071jack.fm)!
After several weeks of guests and specials, we returned to the mailboxes this week to explore new local and regional recordings that have arrived in recent weeks. Thus, we spotlighted a number of new songs from the area music scene; we debuted new songs from The Sorters, Forrester Grey, Steve Brosky, Buckwild, Mexico Road, The JW Project, Strange Culture, Nail Bite, Pensive Fear and X-Terra. Along the way, we updated “Local Music News,” dug a 1988 number from Altoona’s Tommi-Gunn from the archive for our “Local Music Flashback,” and stepped “Across State Lines” to hear a song from Chicago’s Broken Robots! (For those who missed the program, a four-part podcast of this show is available for listening or download from Q94’s website, www.q94classicrock.com. Click on “The Professor’s Classroom,” and then scroll down to “Homegrown Rocker Podcast” and look for the four show segments marked with the date, 070625.)
Here is this week’s playlist:
HOUR ONE:
ROADKILL – “Fifth on the 4th of July”
JACKSON MONSOUR – “July 5th”
THE SORTERS – “Later Man” (new)
DONNY BURNS & THE 3RD DEGREE – “Foo Fighters Weekend”
FORRESTER GREY – “Scholastic Book Affair” (new)
HARDTACK – “Alone Feels Good”
STEVE BROSKY – “Style Is Forever” (new)
RATTLE BONES – “Desert Heart”
BUCKWILD – “100 Summer Nights” (new)
7 MILE RUN – “Night to Remember”
MEXICO ROAD – “Coal Region Girl” (new)
HOUR TWO:
EMILY’S TOYBOX – “Ain’t Drunk Enough”
ANTI-CORN LEAGUE – “It Won’t Stop”
THE JW PROJECT – “On the River Bank” (new)
WANDERLOST – “Sinners and Saints”
STRANGE CULTURE – “2 Men, 1 Trench” (new)
TOMMI-GUNN – “Blue and Gray” (1988, Local Music Flashback)
BROKEN ROBOTS – “Circles” (Across State Lines)
MAKING STATE – “Built Different”
NAIL BITE – “Nostalgia” (new)
WITH HOPES OF FALLING “The Majestic Front”
PENSIVE FEAR – “Those Crushing Days” (new)
X-TERRA – “Handwriting’s On The Wall” (new)
On our next program, we will present the 2025 installment of the annual “Cover Song Special! Hear how area musicians cover, interpret and re-imagine songs created by other (mostly famous) musicians! Listen to the “Homegrown Rocker” this Sunday night (July 13) on Q94 Classic Rock – 94.3 FM and online at www.q94classicrock.com, and on 107.1 and 101.3 Jack FM, online at www.1071jack.fm!
JULY 20 – Sascha Frost (Mass N Tha Grass Music & Arts Festival preview)
JULY 27 – With Hopes Of Falling
AUG. 3 – Dave Mayersky (Upstage Music Fest)
AUG. 10 – Billy Davis
AUG. 17 – The American Mood
OCT. 5 – Alex Shumaker
OCT. 26 – Halloween Special
NOV. 30 – Local Music on Vinyl Special
DEC. 14 – Dr. Barry Atticks (Lilla Jul Rockeband)
DEC. 21 – Christmas Special
DEC. 28 – 2025 Year in Review
(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: The Homegrown Rocker, 2513 6th Avenue, Altoona, PA 16602 (ATTN: Jim Price). You can also email digital song files or inquiries about the show to homegrownrocker@gmail.com; and submit digital song files through the link on “The Professor’s Classroom” page. And bands and musicians interested in being guests on the program can email their interest to homegrownrocker@gmail.com as well!
Jim Price
In Local Music News…
A benefit event has been set up to help out an area woman battling cancer. The “Scream For Dez” benefit will take place on Saturday night, August 2 at McGarvey’s in Altoona, with proceeds helping out Dez Getz, who is battling stage 4 melanoma. The event will start at 9 p.m., and will feature performances from the bands Abstentious, Empty Mag, False Sense and A Starlite Gray. There will also be a raffle for band merchandise and a $300 tattoo voucher sponsored by The Harvest Tattoo shop. 100 percent of the proceeds will go to Dez and her family.
A special event to celebrate Ukraine will take place later this month in Spruce Creek. “Ukraine at Colerain; a Pennsylkrainian Festival,” will happen on Saturday afternoon, July 26 at Colerain Forges Mansion in Spruce Creek. The event will run from noon to 5 p.m., and will feature children’s activities, crafts, authentic Ukrainian food, and live music from Rusya, Strings and Thunder, and Rumble and Scream. Admission is free, and donations are encouraged. All proceeds will benefit humanitarian aid organization Ukraine Sister’s Sister and Colerain Center.
Drummer Ray Gieda announced this past week that he is parting ways with the Jeremy Edge Project. Ray cited logistics, as he lives two hours from the rest of the band which makes getting to practices challenging. Ray said the departure was a mutual decision between him and the band, and the split is a friendly one.
