Artvoice BOOM: Battle of Original Music

We Have our Round 2 Finalists!

The Tins You must have the latest Adobe Flash Player installed to listen to the BOOM! contestants.	The Frontline You must have the latest Adobe Flash Player installed to listen to the BOOM! contestants.
Colors In The Air You must have the latest Adobe Flash Player installed to listen to the BOOM! contestants.	Hunger Anthem You must have the latest Adobe Flash Player installed to listen to the BOOM! contestants.

CONGRATULATIONS to our four finalists in our Battle of Original Music: Colors in the Air, the Frontline, Hunger Anthem and the Tins!

These four acts will square off live and in person at Nietzsche’s on Friday, November 27. The band that gets the most votes that night wins a live-action video produced by Artvoice and a slot in the BOOM Grand Finale. The winner of the Grand Finale will walk off with a digital recorder courtesy of our friends at Guitar Center and a whopping cash prize.

As usual, we're still accepting registrations from bands interested in participating. Round 3 (of four) will begin in early December, so get your submissions in!

Welcome back to the fourth annual installment of our online Battle Of Original Music, or BOOM for short. (Get it?) For those of you who are unfamiliar with our battle of the bands for the information age, here's how it works: Local original music acts visit Artvoice.com and submit a photo, an mp3, and fill out a brief questionnaire.

Each week, two bands will be featured on-line and in the pages of Artvoice, and our readers will vote on their favorites. Every four weeks, we gather up the top vote getters for a live quarter-final showdown. Crowds in attendance cast a vote for their favorite, and a quarter-final winner will be crowned for the round. After four rounds, we bring all our quarter-final winners back for a grand finale. The winner of that takes home even more great prizes and is immortalized with eternal fame on Artvoice.com!

BOOM! IV - Band Registration

One of the first pre-requsites to being selected to participate is a valid submission! Make sure to follow the directions carefully, and refer to the help page if you require any clarification. If in doubt, feel free to contact the webmaster (webmaster@artvoice.com) if you have any questions. Good Luck!

You can still check out all the great bands who participated last year in the archives. We've also got video from all of the quarter final events, as well as the grand finale. One last shout-out to last year's winners - Type Relevant - well deserved!

BOOM! III Archive

BOOM! videos on Artvoice TV

Join us on the BOOM! MySpace to watch the contest unfold there and interact with the bands; or help us spread the word through your favorite social networking service.

BOOM! on MySpace

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Round 2 Contestants

WEEK 4: Week of Thursday, November 11h	The Tins vs. Speak Easy Three Winner: The Tins Read the original write-up in Artvoice
WEEK 3: Week of Thursday, November 5th	Fire Red vs. The Frontline Winner: The Frontline Read the original write-up in Artvoice
WEEK 2: Week of Thursday, October 29th	Colors In The Air vs. The Viva Noir Winner: Colors In The Air Read the original write-up in Artvoice
WEEK 1: Week of Thursday, October 22nd	Hunger Anthem vs. Bloodthirsty Vegans Winner: Hunger Anthem Read the original write-up in Artvoice

Round 1 - Winners: The Albrights

WEEK 4: Week of Thursday, October 1st	The Jim Crean Band vs. The Fated Grey Winner: The Fated Grey Read the original write-up in Artvoice
WEEK 3: Week of Thursday, September 24th	N'Dias (The Mix) vs. Carpo Phorus Winner: Carpo Phorus Read the original write-up in Artvoice
WEEK 2: Week of Thursday, September 17th	David Cloyd vs. The Bear Exchange Winners: David Cloyd Read the original write-up in Artvoice
WEEK 1: Week of Thursday, September 10th	The Pillagers vs. The Albrights Winners: The Albrights Read the original write-up in Artvoice