| Hard Rock Café rocks on with the country wide rock fest | | Posted Wednesday, February 08, 2006 2:56:11 PM by Rose Martins | Hard Rock Café are hosting a one day rock fest for marquee bands in Chicago.  The event is set to take place in July. Sony Playstation, Discover Card, Entertainment Weekly, Mountain Dew, Music-land's Sam Goody and Motorola will jointly sponsor the event, and the presenter will be the one and only, Oldsmobile Alero.
The Rock fest was started by Blockbuster, who decided to drop out of the music game, and handed the rock fest reigns over to Hard Rock Café. TBA Entertainment, who specialize in marketing and special events, work with Hard Rock to produce the event.
The Rock fest will be featured at 46 Hard Rock Venues throughout the USA, as well as TV and online videos. Famous rock bands that have made history will be performing, as well as some lesser known rockers who will be performing new rock material.
For those of you who know the lyrics of some of the music being performed, you are encouraged to join in, just please abide by the code of rocking conduct. The rock fest is a rock party, but won't be featuring any Japanese or Punk rock music. The focus is on American rock bands. The sponsors hope to expand the rock fest globally in the upcoming year or two.
The rock fest is not just about music. The sponsors all use the opportunity to launch new and advertise their products. There will be displays, interactive activities and products from all of the above mentioned sponsors.
Hard Rock rockers - Rock on!!!!
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| | | The Graduate: Sorry ladies, but the rock music stops here | | Posted Sunday, November 19, 2006 1:05:29 PM by Blog57 Team | | The seniors of the class of 2001 showered Tim Landry with uproarious applause as he took his final bow. He reattached the microphone to the mic stand and graced the audience with one final wave. The swelling crowd continued to chant, but Tim already had performed two encores. Sweaty, he was done. Yet another successful rock show was in the books. He left the crowd, which had assembled for a post-prom party, wanting more. It was pretty standard for the local legend. .... | |
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| | | Teen pop music stars take the stage at Fox River Mall | | Posted Monday, September 25, 2006 7:19:06 PM by Blog57 Team | | GRAND CHUTE Pop-rock sisters Alyson Renae and Amanda Joy Michalka brought their music to the Fox River Mall on Sunday. That the teen singers-actresses, best known as Aly and A.J., would attract 3,000 to 4,000 preteen fans to the Northwoods Cafe parking lot was never in question even if the event, the highlight of the mall's annual back-to-school shopping event, was delayed some two hours because of travel problems. "They're not fake. They're always real. They're true to who they say they are," said 11-year-old Marisa Newman of Marinette, waiting with friends and family for the Disney Channel stars to take the stage. This is the fifth year the mall holds a fall concert and the first time it was held outdoors, said Johnna VanDeurzen, marketing director.... | |
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| | | Greil Marcus: Writing About Rock Music for People Who Care About ... | | Posted Saturday, August 12, 2006 9:04:57 PM by Blog57 Team | | Greil Marcus is rightly regarded as one of the pre-eminent writers about rock music of all time. His writings in Rolling Stone magazine were among the best reasons to buy that chronicle of all things rock and roll throughout the 70s and 80s, before he lost a subject to write about with the death of rock and roll in the 90s. Most of his must-have articles from Rolling Stone were collected in a volume titled Ranters and Crowd Pleasers. Reading this book is like reading a history of the greatest music in the world from the late 70s to the early 90s, especially music with a punk sensibility, but not exclusively so. An introduction gets the engine revving with a review of the classic Rolling Stones album Let It Bleed. Greil Marcus takes this seminal Stones album and uses it to build the foundation upon which most of the rest of Ranters and Crowd Pleasers is built.... | |
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| | | Regina Spektor, Peaches, Lily Allen Kick Against Rock Machismo | | Posted Monday, August 07, 2006 7:06:42 PM by Blog57 Team | | Aug. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Rock music is male and macho. Female rock stars are often marginalized, misunderstood and mocked. In the face of this conventional wisdom, we can be thankful for a quartet of unconventional women, each with strikingly different personalities: Regina Spektor, Peaches, Lily Allen and Nelly Furtado. The feisty four have little in common apart from female confidence and desire to put male chauvinism in the garbage can on some of the most individual CDs of 2006 so far. Spektor's third album is aptly titled ``Begin to Hope'' (Sire/Warner). The songwriter's fans were worried her quirky edge on previous CDs would be blunted by a larger-label debut. In the event, her classical-trained piano is set off by the extra production, strings, synths, samples and even drums.... | |
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| | | UK rock-music festival to begin tour in Toronto | | Posted Tuesday, July 04, 2006 1:22:23 AM by Blog57 Team | | The islands in Toronto's harbour will be the first Canadian destination for the Virgin Festival, a mega-popular music event in Britain. Organizers are promising more than 40 bands at the two-day event, about half of them confirmed. The festival, slated for the weekend after Labour Day, is expected to draw up to 50,000 people. The details were revealed yesterday with characteristic exuberance and showmanship by Virgin Group chairman Sir Richard Branson. Descending a cable dangling below a helicopter, the billionaire dropped down to The Docks, a mainland entertainment complex near Ward's Island. "We spent a number of years in Britain practising on the Brits before we came here," he told reporters. "There's a lot of very, very, very big bands. And a lot of dating gets done there, I'm sure, so all in all it's very popular." .... | |
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