Chicago Battle of the Bands 2010 will be at two venues; Redline Tap and Metal Shaker. 2010 will be bigger and better than last year – at this year’s Battle of the Bands you will not just battle it out for prizes, you will have an opportunity to make some money! There will be 91 bands in 13 nights. (Last year we had 77 bands in 11 nights.) The battle will be open to ANY rock formats. Be part of Chicago’s largest battle of the bands. There will be $8,000 in prizes from Studio time, Music Video, photography for your PR Kits and of course the title of Chicago Battle of the bands 2010. There will be 1st-3rd place winners, and the Grand prize winner will also receive major recording time.

The battle will be from June 4th-22nd. Every Friday-Monday and ONE Tuesday Night June 22nd,
There will be 91 bands in this battle. The finale will be Sunday, June 27th! *make sure to save this date if you apply!

HOW TO ENTER:

Enter by emailing your Band’s name and member info along with full contact information (email, website, myspace page, phone number) and the two date which suit you best for the competiton. Email all this to chicagobattleofthebands@gmail.com Booking will only be taken to this email address.

Playing times will be at night. The doors open at 7p.m and this will be an 21+ event. If you have people under 21 in your band you will be playing earlier in the night since it is a 21+ venue. You will play for 30-35 min and 12 bands will advance to the finale on Sunday, June 27th. Scoring will be from Judges and fans.

Good luck to anyone entering!

Lee Jarvis.

MTV and Harmonix are to launch the Rock Band Network later this year. The Rock Band Network is a platform that will allow bands to upload their music for review by the Rock Band game creators, and possibly available as part of the game’s store, tapping into the wealth of publicity and revenue created for musicians by the Rock Band brand.

The system was devised in part to help expand the content available to the gamers, something which the limited staff was struggling to find the time to provide. And so recording artists will have the opportunity to add to the 700 tracks already part of the program by taking the stems from their original masters and creating MIDI tracks for each instrument, before sharing it with the Rock Band Network community.

Here is a short video from the people over at Joystiq, explaining the idea and the process.

There’s also a lot more detail at Billboard if you want to get into the bones of it all.

So, exciting times! Yet more ways for independent artists, studios, labels, bands, managers and many more music professionals to create their own successes, and find work in the music industry. Best of luck!

Lee Jarvis.