Hello Everyone,
Here is the recap of the August 30 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)!
Thanks to this week’s guests, Trevor Novotny and Will Heinrich of Northern Cambria-based grunge meisters Altered State, for being a part of our program! Trevor and Will told us about Altered State, their music, live show, and just-issued debut album “Ink,” and we heard songs from the album! We also debuted new songs from Post Traumatik, Hate Grenade, Ugmo and Making State; plus updated “Local Music News,” and played a 2002 song from Altoona’s Broken Neck for this week’s “Local Music Flashback!” (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, 083026.)
Here is this week’s playlist:
HOUR ONE:
OPEN ENDS – “Awakened”
BLOOD UNION – “Outlaw”
ALTERED STATE – “Dextroamphetamine”
BLOOMFIELD PEST CONTROL – “Zhang”
ALTERED STATE – “Ordinary People”
POST TRAUMATIK – “Good Good Things” (Descendents cover) (new)
ALTERED STATE – “Death Machine”
TOM NEVERS FIELD – “Heaven Held Hostage”
HATE GRENADE – “Reflections” (new)
HOUR TWO:
ABOVE THE RADAR – “Otherside”
THE JADED LIPS – “Karma”
ALTERED STATE – “In His Head”
UGMO – “Mason Dixon” (new)
ALTERED STATE – “Sativa”
BROKEN NECK – “Drive By” (2002, Local Music Flashback)
ALTERED STATE – “Kerosene”
FARGE – “Your Life”
MAKING STATE – “Fanny Pack” (new)
LYNDHURST – “Clean and Sober”
JACKSON MONSOUR – “Willard’s Song”
TRADING PAINT – “Wringing Out A Sunday”
On our next program, we check in on our mailboxes and explore new local and regional recordings that have made their way to us in recent weeks! We’ll be debuting numerous new songs; including a song off Alyssa Hankey’s new album “Good Country People,” John Peacefire and the latest from Altoona’s Walkney! Listen to the “Homegrown Rocker” this Sunday night (September 6) 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!
UPCOMING GUESTS AND SPECIALS:
SEPT. 13 – John Peacefire
SEPT. 27 – “Instruments Do the Talking” Special
NOV. 29 – Acoustic Jam 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: 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 popular arts space in Bedford has closed its doors. The nonprofit Bedford Arts Cooperative, which has hosted arts programs and events since 2016, announced its closure late last week, citing eviction by the property owner. The Arts Collective has served as the home to Off Pitt Street Theatre Company, and has hosted theatrical, creative arts and musical events including open mic nights, album-release events and more. They have also presented instructional arts workshops and hosted guest artists from across the country. No immediate future plans for the organization have yet been announced.
As area Celtic rock group Full Kilt is winding down, with their final public performance next Saturday during the Cambria City Ethnic Festival in Johnstown, band members Mike Zerbee and Mandy Passmore-Ott will continue to perform together in a traditional Irish folk duo called Reel Time. The duo will make their performance debut on Saturday, October 10 during the annual Hollidaysburg PumpkinFest.
Popular area country music performer and bandleader Chris Woodward recently introduced a praise and worship band called Hopes Rising, in conjunction with the release of his first Christian music album. Chris announced this past week the addition of new keyboard player Seth Pieklo to the Hope Rising roster. Chris will also continue to front and perform with his long-running country music group, Chris Woodward & Shindiggin.’
And York-based pop-punk rockers Lyndhurst have announced that they are taking a hiatus from live performing to devote more time to their families and personal lives. The group’s last two shows before the break will take place on September 4 at Harrisburg’s Capitol City Music Hall and on October 3 at the Iron and Ink Music Festival in Frederick, Maryland.