Rockin' 101 - Minnesota Homegrown - Local Bands / Local Music

Show Host - Tim Ryan

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Hi everyone and thanks for checking out Minnesota Homegrown. Rockin' 101 has been supporting local independent music for over 20 years. I'm extremely happy to be part of the show for several years (It's been so long that I can't even remember when I started). It's actually been around 10 years now.

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Rockin' 101 is looking for new material from bands for Minnesota Homegrown. You can also email Tim Ryan the location of your CD quality mp3 file to tim@rockin101.com. Submit you material to:

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Minnesota has a TON of very talented bands. Every month Minnesota Homegrown will highlight one of those local favorites. As music fans who support the local music scene, simply vote for one of the five choices in the right hand column. You can vote once per week.

The band who has the most votes during the month will kick off Minnesota Homegrown for every show of that month. We'll also highlight the band right here at Rockin101 - dot - com.

Qualified band should have enough material for a month of airplay on Minnesota Homegrown.

Bottom two bands will be dropped off the poll for the following month (don't worry it's only for a short time).

FEBRUARY BAND OF THE MONTH

BIO: Quietdrive kick-started 2009 by taking their enduring brand of power pop rock abroad conquering four continents, lighting up Mideast stages for US troops and catching fire in Japan. At home, they never forgot their loyal fan base and made contact regularly with visits to U.S. high schools and colleges while touring clubs and talking with music students about their experiences and the biz. And they have a lot to talk about, including their creative and instructive moves from a major to an indie to their own record label, each with its own memorable benchmarks.

4 vans, 1 Top 25 hit, 3 label “experiences,” 7+ million downloads and 1000 gigs later…

As the year winds down, Quietdrive is releasing Close Your Eyes, a collection of seven exciting new songs and a short film that brings fans inside the world of Quietdrive in a whole new way. For the well-traveled band founded in 2004, each leg of their recording journey has produced noteworthy results:

• For Epic Records, the band made "Time After Time" a household name again and a Top 25 hit in 2006 from their debut album, When All That’s Left Is You.

• The Indie label The Militia Group released Deliverance and it rocked to the top of the Alternative Rock charts.

• Now on their own label with Close Your Eyes — featuring the single "Jessica" as a free download — the band is hitting the road again in a 29-city tour and partnered with Best Buy to continue their “Music Education Experience” in U.S. schools, many that are losing music ed to dire budget cuts.

The fall tour feautures special guests "The Higher," and will be followed by a second visit to Japan after a raucous, hearty welcome earlier this year.

Weekly Wednesday Sickam Webcast: Up close and inside live with the band

Online, where the band first made its impact with more than 7 million downloads from its MySpace page, Quietdrive offers an array of podcasts, music downloads, blogs, Tweets, photos, fan chatter, merch, and breaking news about the band — including its zany, weekly intimate webcast every Wednesday — Stickam — where anything can happen.

Check out www.Quietdrivemusic.com for tour details

Twitter: http://twitter.com/quietdrivemusic

Facebook: http://apps.facebook.com/ilike/artist/Quietdrive

MySpace: www.myspace.com/quietdrive

PLAYLIST

March 7, 2010

Quietdrive "Jessica"

Hourless "Girl Is Crazy"

Destrophy "Disconnect"

Epicurean "Lithograph"

Attention "Back To The Line"

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