Our featured guest this week on The RockDown Show is Cindy Blankenship - aka "Mothership," founding committee member of the Grizzly Awards and host of Backstage with Mothership. She's recapping the 3rd Annual Grizzly Awards and looking forward to the 2023 selections and show. We feature the rock and metal songs of the year from Seventh Day Slumber and Memphis May Fire, respectively. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/therockdownshow/support ..read more

As it turns out, Jonah33 isn't back per se, but Vince Lichlyter is definitely up to something. Hear his best memories of the band and what he's up to in this week's RockDown Artist Spotlight. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/therockdownshow/support ..read more

Nashville-based "nautical grunge" rockers and previous RockDown guest Rusty Shipp visits with us this week about their latest music as we broadcast the show on the road from Effect Radio in Twin Falls, Idaho. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/therockdownshow/support ..read more

A loaded week on #TheRockDownShow: following an emotional, vulnerable, and unorthodox social media post with a partial cover of Killswitch Engage's “I’m Broken Too” by Sports Illustrated's Inside the Texas Rangers writer Chris Halicke, we immediately had to invite him on the show. His thoughts and experience with #MentalHealth is a must-hear as we wrap #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth. Also, Kingdom Come Festival joins us to share more about the largest #ChristianRock festival in North America coming up in just a few weeks. New Music Feature: Wolves At The Gate - Stop the Bleeding. Next week, Nick ..read more

This week on #TheRockDownShow: Toronto-based rap giant Manafest has finally let his true colors show: he's a rocker. Chris shares in our #ArtistSpotlight how his musical tastes have been driven by NuMetal greats Linkin Park and Limp Bizkit, why writing books is a personal outreach, and what his latest single #SaveYou is all about. Vinyl Throwback: Petra - This Means War Bonus: Some FEEL Good music: Pillar covers Collective Soul --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/therockdownshow/support ..read more

This week on #TheRockDownShow: Eric Bjorkland brings boiling point into our #ArtistSpotlight with a captivating story of how the band got caught up in producing some songs for the famous Dude Perfect youtube channel, as well as their mission work in Sierra Leone. Their single #HopeLivesHere (ranked in our top ten for a few weeks) was actually written there under mosquito netting, plus, as a #RockDown EXCLUSIVE, you'll hear the new song Monuments for the first time on radio ANYWHERE. #Vinyl Throwback: Whiteheart - "Convertibles" Burnin' rubber baby! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/t ..read more

This week on #TheRockDownShow: Barry Blair - Guitarist got his professional start in #christianrock with a bunch of guys he met in college, later known as Audio Adrenaline. 35 years beyond those humble beginnings with "A-180" at a Kentucky Bible college, Barry has found new life as a collaborating, rock-arranging solo performer and creator of awesome covers. Dustin catches up with Barry in this week's #ArtistSpotlight. Throwbacks: Stryper (1984), Audio Adrenaline (1995) #RockRadio #classicrock #christianradio #rockcovers --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/therockdownshow/support ..read more

This week on #TheRockDownShow: it’s a story of perseverance, not taking “no” for an answer, and refusing to be limited. It’s solo and collaborative artist Matt Sassano in our Artist Spotlight. He speaks on the road from the Hope and Recovery Tour, where he’s currently opening for Seventh Day Slumber, about his life with disabilities like cerebral palsy, and how all that plays into a new song he just released this weekend called “Not My Name.” #DoNotBeDefined Throwback Vault: RED – Ordinary World (2009) --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/therockdownshow/support ..read more

This week on The RockDown Show, Pennsylvania rockers join us in our Artist Spotlight with a name that will still make many of the original Halo generation break out in a cold sweat as they remember trying to help Master Chief escape the doomed Pillar of Autumn. But Mawcore has such a greater story to tell than even that.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/therockdownshow/support ..read more

This week on #TheRockDownShow: there’s no denying that the Lone Star State is a huge part of rock… from places like La Grange… to China Grove… to… Denton? A cornerstone of the current Texas Christian Rock movement is a bunch of ladies and gentlemen that studied music, like, seriously at the University of North Texas. But it’s not strong musicianship that says… you really need to get to know them. It’s Drive Thru Society in this week’s Rockdown Artist Spotlight. Featured: last week’s Listener’s Choice winner, Matt Moore – Broken Pieces --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/therockdownshow ..read more