Seattle rock band Fall From Grace are the official winners of the first-ever Bodog Music Battle of the Bands. Their win aired live September on the series finale at the House of Blues in Los Angeles on the fuse network. Fans made the ultimate decision by voting via SMS text messaging, and the Seattle-based foursome Fall From Grace was awarded the $1 million dollar Bodog Music record contract. Battle finalists Blaxmyth and Fear Nuttin’ Band also performed at the packed venue.
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Bet The AI Peeps in Power Wished They had been Nicer to the Media………
The American Idols Live Tour, currently winding its way around the country and dropping its spaceship of Earthly karaoke delights tonight upon Worcester, MA, offers fans of Fox’s reality behemoth the opportunity to get within screaming distance of the previous season’s top 12 contestants. But as Sanjaya stands alone under a pink-gelled spotlight, pitchily singing to half-empty arenas about the “Man in the Mirror,” organizers are wondering what happened to the throngs of teenyboppers who dependably lined their wallets in past years. From USA Today:
· No sellouts were reported for the first 30 shows, and only one topped the 93% of capacity mark. (That was the show in Glendale, Ariz., Idol winner Jordin Sparks’ home turf.) Of the 2006 tour’s first 30 shows, 17 were sellouts and another 10 exceeded 93% of capacity.
· Nearly half (14) of the shows were below 60% of capacity. (Lowest was 38.9% in Birmingham, Ala., hometown of 2006 winner Taylor Hicks and 2003 champ Ruben Studdard.) In 2006, the lowest-capacity figure in the first 30 shows was 89.3%.
I witnessed the AI spectacle in person in 2006 and I can attest that the 19E people in charge could not have been less accommodating to the press and other media. There were no “comps” for the media and unless media folks had tickets, they were forced into a tiny room to wait until the encore where they were allowed to shoot the first and third songs only.Of the encore. All pictures had to be approved before publishing. We did it once but vowed not to return again, hence no more AI coverage. That’s karma for you.
Rooney
Check out these acoustic performances from Rooney here.. (From VH1)
Also want to read an article we did for Todays Teen in the September issue about Rooney? Here it is.
Hopeless Records and Suicide Prevention
Check out a feature on the Hopeless Records celebration for raising $1,000,000 to raise awareness about depression and suicide prevention on E! News. The news segment will include footage from the show and a small blurb about All Time Low and Amber Pacific. E! News airs during the following times:7pm premiere 8/3111pm repeat 8/313am repeat 9/1
GREY’S ANATOMY SOUNDTRACK VOLUME 3 September 11th
Hollywood Records has announced a September 11th release date for GREY’S ANATOMY SOUNDTRACK VOLUME 3, the latest companion album to the mega-popular, Golden Globe-winning ABC television drama centered around the personal and professional lives of a group of surgical interns.
Like the series that inspired it, GREY’S ANATOMY SOUNDTRACK VOLUME 3 ebbs and flows with songs that are sweet, quirky and heart-stirring. At its centerpiece is new and exclusive music from acclaimed singer-songwriter Mat Kearney, Grammy winner John Legend and the inimitable Gomez.
The album’s tracks, many of which can be heard during key emotional scenes over the course of the series, were chosen by the show’s creator and executive producer, Shonda Rhimes and executive producer Betsy Beers from a large pool of artists introduced to them by music supervisor Alex Patsavas. Among the record’s many highlights is Legend’s spare and compelling “Sun Comes Up,” Gomez’s moving “Moon And Sun,” along with poignant compositions from Grace Potter & The Nocturnals (“Falling Or Flying”), Paolo Nutini (“Million Faces”) and Brandi Carlile (“The Story”), to name but a few.