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The 2010 Podcast Battle of the Bands
By: Darrin Snider (darrin at indyintune dot com)Thursday, November 5, 2009 7:00:00 PM
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Voting ends at 11:59PM on January 31, 2010. Fans: Click here to register and vote for your favorite artists. |
An Idea Whose Time Has Come...
How it works:
- Entry Fee: $5 per song (submitted as MP3 file); maximum 3 songs per act.
- All genres, styles, and levels of experience accepted. Quality of the recording submitted does not matter, as long as it's in the correct format.
- 80% of entry fees go towards grand prizes; 20% go towards contest expenses
- Submitted MP3's will be featured on a series of special "Battle Podcasts," available for free on iTunes, indyintune.com, and all sites that syndicate our feed.
- Songs will also be made available for fans to individually stream, listen to, and vote on at indyintune.com
- Grand prizes will be awarded based on audience vote
- Additional prizes will be offered in individual categories, with winners chosen by independent judges
Current Grand Prizes (Determined by Fan Vote):
(Note: Exact amount of cash prizes are determined by the number of entries. Check back regularly for current totals.)- First Place: A deluxe studio package from Blue Square Sound (4 hours recording; 6 hours mixing and mastering) and cash prize of 50% of registration fees collected.
- Second Place: 20% of registration fees.
- Third Place: 10% of registration fees.
Current Category Prizes (Determined by Panel of Independent Industry Judges):
(Note: We're still open to new sponsors. If your organization would like to support the Indianapolis music scene by sponsoring a prize/category, click below for more information.)
- Unplugged Award: One paid gig ($200) at Claude and Annie's Fishers for the artist or group with the best acoustic song.
- ...Worth a Thousand Words Award: One live photo shoot of your next performance from Nick T. Photography to the song with the best lyrics.
- We Just Need a Break Award: A free instore performance opportunity (and batch of delicious home made cookies) at Indy CD and Vinyl to the best song from a band that formed in 2009.
Other Prizes:
(Note: These may eventually be assigned to an award category, we just haven't though all that part through yet.)
- All winners featured on a one-page spread in the Spring issue of Crossroads Resonanaces zine.
- Selected contestants invited to appear as featured guests on an episode of Indy In-Tune.
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Registration closes at 11:59PM on December 31, 2009. Artists: Click here to register and submit your best song(s) |
Further Information:
- Return to the Main Battle Page
- Artists: Click Here to Register and Submit Your Music
- Music fan interested in listening to the entries and voting for your favorite band? Click here!
- Interested in becoming a sponsor? Click here to sponsor a prize
- For the Official Rules Click Here
- General questions or just want to contact us? Click here!
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 Darrin Snider is the OCD music nerd responsible for creating Indy In-Tune. By day he's a cloud engineer and business analyst, but he still hopes to someday be an overnight freeform disc jockey married to the local weathergirl who happens to be a former eastern-European supermodel. |
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- As such, they generally need a lot of lead-time to put something out -- we're talking weeks of lead time, not hours.
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