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A Fight for Fame and the Windy City meet for the first time starting April 29th 2010. Accepting bands now!
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Imagine the red velvet ropes opening and being led to your own private VIP booths at Las Vegas’ hottest night clubs. Picture toasting to the good life while rolling under the neon lights in a stretch limousine party bus. Feel the warmth of the stage lights as you perform at Wasted Space inside the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. Relax poolside soaking up the sun with your band mates after you just spent the last 3 days and 2 nights living the true rock star life you deserve...... Revel in the fact that you beat 100’s of other bands that want to be where you are at this very moment. Go ahead, indulge..... We don’t mind.
Winning band receives:
3 Day/ 2 Night Hotel Stay. VIP Nightclub Entry. Personal VIP Host. Performance at a premier rock club. VIP access to day pool party..... and more!
The Hard Rock Hotel & Casino is synonymous with Rock and Roll. That’s why we have partnered up with the hottest Hotel in Las Vegas to host our winning bands for 2 nights and 3 days. Home to the world famous Rehab pool party, Pink Taco, and the newest premier rock venue Wasted Space you better be sure to bring a camera so you can remember your Vegas trip.
Winning band receives:
2 Nights / 3 Day stay at this legendary Vegas Hotel
Voted the best rock club in Vegas, Wasted Space is yet another Vegas staple thanks to Carey Hart - professional Motocross rider & tattoo parlor owner (Hart & Huntington). Wasted Space will be playing home for a night to our A Fight for Fame winning artists. Your band will dawn the stage to perform for a club full of Las Vegas industry professionals and elite partiers. Las Vegas is truly the city that never sleeps, and know for late nights, and even earlier mornings… but we think you can keep up.
Winning band receives:
Headlining gig at Wasted Space
No explanation needed here. Guitar center has been the musician’s best friend for years. With hundreds of stores nationwide, Guitar Center is America’s most respected and recognized music store. Need new gear? You, the winning band will receive a $500 gift certificate to spend as you wish! That’s a over a year’s supply of pics, sticks, cables, and other accessories. The only thing we’ve left out is the music. But we’ll leave that up to you. It’s no wonder Guitar Center is known as the musician’s best friend…
Winning band receives:
$500 gift certificate
Founded in 1924, Sam Ash is your resource for all your music needs. With 55 Sam Ash stores across the United States, Sam Ash Music is there when you need them.
Winning band receives:
Sam Ash will be awarding our winning bands with a $100 gift certificate for 1st place,
$50 gift certificate for 2nd place,
and $25 gift certificate for EVERY band that competes!
Fancorps offers premium street and viral marketing services for artists, labels, companies, and brands looking to enhance their grass roots and online presence. We can create, manage, and customize teams and campaigns that will expose your message or product to your target demographic and audience.
Winning band receives:
Fancorps will provide our winning band with a one year membership to Fancorps.com. Your band will be able to utilize the software and tools some of the biggest bands today use to manage their street teams right from their computers. Assign tasks, chat with your fans, run contests, etc with a user friendly platform and with a click of a button.
Onlinegigs Version 4 fully automates the booking and promotional process for bands, artists, booking agents, record companies and music managers. Onlinegigs v.4 is a comprehensive Artist & Event management solution that is revolutionizing the way performance opportunities are tracked, booked and promoted.
Winning band receives:
How much more effective would you be if you no longer had to worry about the administration of booking and promoting a band or an event? No more performance contracts, web updates or tour itineraries. No more press releases or fan reminders. Onlinegigs will do it all for you, from finding the right live music venue to automatically reminding your fans about upcoming performances right on their cell phones. Our winning artists will receive: 1 year free subscription ($200 value!)
EVERY A Fight for Fame artists will receive: 2 month subscription ($50 value!)
Broadjam is an international web community dedicated to independent musicians and their friends. Find new independent music, join a music social network, and collaborate with other indie artists and fans. Broadjam members can enter song and music contests, submit songs for TV and Film licensing opportunities and much more. Our partnership with Broadjam.com will allow our artists to listen to free music, enter contests to win prizes, find licensing opportunities and music placement possibilities in TV and Film, their web hosting services to create your own band web site and share your music with the world. Their music hosting services will allow you to promote your band and gain new fans along the way.
Winning band receives:
Our winning artists will receive: Primo Mob Account. ($199.95 value!)
EVERY A Fight for Fame artists will receive: Pro Mob Account ($99.95 value!)
TextTheBand.com is a Mobile Marketing,Text Message and SMS program for Bands, Musicians, Rappers & anyone in the music industry who is looking for a new and exciting way to promote and develop a new way of marketing using Mobile Text Message Technologies. TextTheBand.com has developed a turn key Text Message Mobile Marketing platform for musicians to promote themselves right to the cell phone of anyone who sees them live at a show or concert or sees a flyer, CD or other promotional materials.
Winning band receives:
One year of enhanced texting services designed specifically for bands. Have the ability to text all your fans your tour itinerary, video's, music, and ringtones, right at your fingertips.
Image is everything. That’s why we’ve hired a professional photographer to capture that edgy image every band looks for. Our photographer will address every artistic aspect of photography including wardrobe, makeup, hair, and incorporate your bands’ personal taste to come up with an image that best represents your music.
Winning band receives:
Professional Photoshoot with High-Res, fully finished images for your promotional use.
Concert promotion, Artist Management, Company Consultations, Print Media, Overtone has hosted hundreds of local and arena size concerts throughout the entire United States in the past 10 years. This time they are concentrating on the local scene to help search, find, and announce country’s best local bands!
Winning band receives:
First prize winners will receive 5,000 full color 4x6 flyers to use as you wish. Promote your band! Promote your CD or a release! Promote your website! OR, promote the fact that you just beat out 100’s of bands to and earned the title of “THE ONE”!
Do you need cool shirts for your next event? Do you want quality work attire at affordable prices? Maybe you want jerseys made for your Thursday night softball league? Our in-house designer will help you develop the perfect logo or design for all of your needs. We have a large selection of apparel, from basic t-shirts to polos and work pants. Our goal is to make your experience of acquiring custom decorated apparel simple and enjoyable.
Winning band receives:
Fashionably Retro will be taking care of your T-shirt printing needs, offering our winner with a custom T-shirt printing package. Future orders will be offered at a discounted rate of 10% to A Fight for Fame Artists.
Full Self Expression empowers artists, musicians, labels, and music and new media companies to success by working with them in developing branding, communication, leadership, team dynamics, and building and maintaining contacts. Full Self Expression will work with our artists to develop career plans, mission statements, business plans, and create structures to fulfill clients goals, assess current resources and needs, create professional branding.
Full Self Expression is a firm believer in the power of community, and connects people and organizations together to create a web of success.
Winning band receives:
Every successful band has a plan. Work with our industry professionals to outline yours Full Self Expression will be offering the following for our winning artists:
-Professional Biography & One Sheet package
-Branded website with e-commerce & training on how to use it
-Artist Planning and Coaching program- 3 months free
-Electronic Press Kit design
EVERY A Fight for Fame artists will receive: Free 30 minute career consultation meeting.
Odds On Records & Studios is a multi-million studio located just minutes off the famous Las Vegas strip. We have three studios: Studio A features a 96 input SSL Duality console, a 1,500 sq. ft. tracking room, and three isolation booths. Studio B includes an SSL XL-9080k console with a large 22’ x 13’ tracking room, Ocean Way monitors, Lexicon 480 and 960 processing, as well as vintage and modern outboard gear. Studio C features an SSL Matrix console with an adjoining tracking room and SSL mic pre’s and X-Logic channel strips. Come check out our pics online at: www.OddsOnRecording.com
Winning band receives:
Winners receive one full day of recording bliss in our largest Studio (A) with our SSL Duality console. Multi-platinum engineer/producer included. Our engineers have recorded the greatest including Celine Dion, Carlos Santana, Ozzy Osbourne, Pink Floyd, Blink 182, Fastball, MXPX, Sum 41 among other heavy hitters.
+ Celebrity Judges
A Fight For Fame is Judged by
Nicole Gabriella Millette: Entertainment writer, and Cover Designer
July 8th: Special guest judge from Nashville..Greg Farricielli of "Madness Sound Productions": Studio Owner/Producer/Engineer
+ Concert Schedule
The Cubby Bear
1059 West Addison Street
Chicago, IL 60613-4304
(773) 327-1662
http://www.cubbybear.com
The Cubby Bear, formally known as Cubs Pub and Cubs Grill, opened in 1953. It's one of the most famous landmarks on Chicago's North Side. Since then we've grown a lot, around our love for the Chicago Cubs and Wrigleyville. And is now proud to call A Fight for Fame home!
Schedule:
Thursday, April 29, 2010
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Thursday, May 06, 2010
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Thursday, May 13, 2010
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Thursday, May 27, 2010
Contenders:
Modus Ponens
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Psychadelic Blues Rock
Providers
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Rap
Thursday, June 03, 2010
Contenders:
HOLLOWRAIN
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Rock/Tribal
Modern Conversation
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Folk, Rock, Reggae, Indie, Alternative
Scourge
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Heavy Metal, Threash Metal
TurningDownToday
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Hard Rock
Thursday, June 10, 2010
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Thursday, June 24, 2010
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Thursday, July 01, 2010
Contenders:
Gidgets Ga Ga
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Rock
Horrids
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Punk/Rock n Roll
Kelroy
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Experimental/Alternative
Thursday, July 08, 2010
Contenders:
Dramatic Visions
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progressive
Just Infinite
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R&B, Hip-Hop, Rock
Visionaire
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Rock/Soul/Alternative
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Contenders:
Midcoast Da Team
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Hip Hop
Monk9
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ROCK
Seppuku Survivor
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Expirimental/Instrumental/Proggressive
TrainWreck Symphony
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Alternative Metal
young duggie
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rap/hiphop
Thursday, August 05, 2010
Contenders:
Righteous Hillbillies
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Southern Rock, Rock & Roll
The Evening Funeral
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Metal
The Living Daylights
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Rock
The StereoDrones
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Modern Rock/Alternative/Pop Rock
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Contenders:
BIG X
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hip hop , rap
Solo Mob Empire
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Hip Hop - Rap
Stoney Canal Entertainment Inc.
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HipHop/ HipRock
Warmouth
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Heavy Metal
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Contenders:
Along the Parallel
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Hard Rock
The Queue
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Rock, Pop, Alternative
Thursday, August 26, 2010
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F.H.O.D.
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Hard Rock/Metal
Thursday, September 02, 2010
Contenders:
DON'T SLEEP
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RAP/HIP HOP
Thursday, September 09, 2010
Contenders:
F.A. The Squad
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Hip-Hop
JoBu
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Rock Reggae
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Contenders:
Jennifer Benson & The Mission
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Rock, Poprock
rabak
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Rock/Jazz
Zammis
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hard rock/funk/blues/pyschodelic
Thursday, September 30, 2010
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Thursday, October 07, 2010
Contenders:
Fifth Story
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Indie Rock / Garage / Alternative
lynxwail
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Rock/Indie
River Gypsies
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Doom Folk
Same Ol' Sunday
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Rock
The Plastic Boots
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blues rock
Thursday, October 14, 2010
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