KEITH GROLLEROur local sports editor strays from his position on Groller'sCorner for another of his passions. He's attracted to thesights (Shania, Faith, Carrie, Martina) and sounds (Paisley,Strait, Adkins, Keith) of today's country music scene andlikes to add a little twang to the conversation.
ARLENE MARTINEZHer music was influenced by her mom, who hasn'tturned the radio off since Arlene came home from the hospital.She's a top-40 kinda girl with a particular set in her heart forhip-hop, R&B, rancheros and musical soundtracks. Favoritesinclude the Bee Gees, Jill Scott, Neil Diamond, Q-Tip, JuanGabriel, T.I. Britney Spears and all of "Les Miserables." Sheis used to people making fun of her taste.
JOHN L. MICEKcaught the rock bug young. The TMC Harrisburg Correspondent bought his first record, U2's "Under a Blood Red Sky," at age 13 and hasn't looked back. Besides listening to artists ranging from The Ramones to Dean Martin, Micek also writes about music, his work appearing in publications including The Big Takeover, Pop Culture Press and Playlist magazine. He is likewise a former contributor to PopMatters.com. And when he's not writing about music, Micek is playing it. From 2002-07, he fronted Milkshake Jones, a power-pop act that released two critically acclaimed (if woefully overlooked) records on The Paisley Pop Label of Portland, Ore. These years he handles bass guitar duties for Fink's Constant, a ska and reggae band that gigs regularly around central Pennsylvania.
JOHN J. MOSERHe caught the music writing bug in high school when his LedZeppelin story won an award. He wrote the first story ever onJack's Mannequin, has the amount for All-American Rejects' NickWheeler on his cell phone and was the sole newspaper writergiven access to the Jonas Brothers for a day.
STEPHANIE SIGAFOOSA Jersey native raised in Northeast PA, she was reared in a house littered with 8-tracks, 45s and cassette tapes of The Beatles, Elvis, Meatloaf and Billy Joel. She also grew up on the sounds of Reba McEntire, Garth Brooks and Tim McGraw and can be found traversing the countryside in research of the sounds of a steel guitar. A fan of today's 'new country' she digs mainstream/country-pop crossovers like Lady Antebellum and Sugarland and other artists that illustrate the genre's diversity.
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