pars

A Shotts in the Dar… Shadows.. Tilted Shadows

Commiserating with our esteemed host (OK, it’s just Bill) this week is Gregg Shotts of Tilted Shadows and Post Traumatik. He told us that Tilted Shadows has 4 songs written and are hoping to be recording soon. This brings up their writing process. Gregg told us that sometimes David brings the song to everyone, other…

Read More

The Ginger at First Angel Media

Jana Lee Macheca of First Angel Media joined Bill in episode 360 to discuss what her company does for the local music scene. First Angel Media offers promotions, weekly article features, show & CD reviews for the Pittsburgh area music scene. The company was founded to help promote the Pittsburgh music scene. It has evolved…

Read More

Perrone, Ever Endeavor After

John Lane (Co)-hosts this episode of the Pennsylvania Rock Show. We featured Robbie Perrone of East End, Adrenaline 101, The Heavy Metal ICU, & Endeavor After, LLC. Rob went back to the future and talks about his band history, which included playing in Impugn with Mr. Hilljack. We had a discussion about one of their…

Read More

Pantera, Alice in Chains, & Skynyrd…oh MY

On this episode of the Pennsylvania Rock Show, Jake Parks from Terachain Sky joins us for the first time. We discussed their band name PanTERA-alice in CHAINs-lynyrd SKYnyrd. I spent some time letting him know just how awesome they are live. They played the Pennsylvania Rock Show 12 last month. That was the first time…

Read More

Christmas Time in the Thriving Metropolis

It’s December! Time for some Christmas Music Pennsylvania Rock Show style. We opened the show up with the Stevie J. Band’s Classic Metal Yuletide song, Slay Ride and followed it up with Doppler Affect’s folk song, Santa’s Hog. Bill then has a long chat with Jerry Mulligan and Paul Lucas of Winter’s Descent. We pull…

Read More

Shooting from the Hip

In this episode I was rambling on about the local scene. I played and talked about the Lollytrigger song that was written in my kitchen and played live on the show the very same night to get started. I also sent out a ton of thank yous to everyone that helped me pull off the…

Read More

the Pennsylvania Rock Show 12: Eve

On this episode we discussed tomorrow’s Pennsylvania Rock Show 12 benefit show for Rock For Life featuring Amber Alexis, Tilted Shadows, Terachain Sky, The Hellfire Club, and After the fall. Brian Shaffer of the Weekly RockBlog and John Lane of A Pro Radio joined me for this episode. We talk a little bit about John and…

Read More

Get Outta Town: JJ McGuigan

JJ joins us to discuss his upcoming EP, his writing process, how he became a songwriter & more. He also discusses how he came to be a MTS artist. He talks about how they choose the people that will join him in the recording studio to record new songs. We discuss the music scene in…

Read More

Did You Know: the PA Rock Show Anniversary Show Beginnings

the Pennsylvania Rock Show Anniversary Show 12: The Pennsylvania Rock Show began on September 14, 2004. On September 29, 2012 we had our first anniversary concert. The concert was a benefit show for one of Bill’s students who is in need of a liver transplant. All money that was made that day was directly donated…

Read More

Dave Waugaman Tribute

I found out that Dave Waugaman passed away yesterday. Many of you probably either haven’t heard of Dave or haven’t heard of him recently. Dave was a founding member and guitarist of the band Doppler Affect. Dave and his band Doppler Affect were there for my wife and I during a very trying time in…

Read More