Rock gets dirty
August 28, 2008
Music fans hit the road
This summer, getting your hands on gig tickets will mean getting your hands dirty.
Up until September, some 5,000 young people aged 16-to-25 are being asked to give just four hours of their time to one of 50 local community projects. In exchange for volunteering, they will receive a ticket to a one-off concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London on 29th September. Read more
Support rocking
August 28, 2008
Access to excess
Mötley Crüe and Guitar Center are teaming up to find new rock talent in the US. The new campaign, Guitar Center On-Stage, will see the notorious rock group offer up “the ultimate, career-altering opportunity” to an up-and-coming band. Read more
Guitar Heroine
August 28, 2008
Female hygiene rocks
Australian sanitary brand Libra is promoting its new line of patterned packaged tampons to its young female audience via a girl, an amp, and a riff.
The Play With Patterns ad sees a rock chick strutting her stuff and rocking out with her guitar on a rooftop, all whilst a cascade of patterns falls around her. Read more
Earth Brother
August 28, 2008
In the midnight hour
The Chemical Brothers are embarking on a project to bring together both filmmakers and artists in a massive online geographic collaboration. The ‘Midnight Madness’ global video project, in its simplest form, is a celebration of the odd things that people get up to at the midnight hour. Read more
Rock your mouth
August 28, 2008
Chew for tunes
Perfetti Van Melle, the company behind confectionary classics such as Mentos, Chupa Chups, SMINT, and Fruit-tella is offering up the chance for you to chew your way to numerous music-related prizes. Read more
Appetite for adoption
August 28, 2008
Denny’s Restaurants in the US are running an Adopt-A-Band programme, whereby the chain sponsors bands to eat for free post-gig and host after parties. Kate Perry is the latest to find herself tucking into the RockStar Menu, a series of treats created by bands (such as Plain White T’s and the Eagles Of Death Metal) which include Taking Back Bacon Burger Fries and Plain White Shakes.
Head Stone
August 28, 2008
Here’s how to keep your ‘head’ in music marketing. Joss Stone is to embellish her acting career (after appearing as a witch in the movie Eragon and a starring role in the latest Cadbury’s Flake ad.) Stone is to star in the TV show The Tudors as Anne of Cleves, Henry VIII’s fourth wife (one of the few to still have something north of the neck post-divorce).
Got an axe to grind?
August 28, 2008
Win an Xbox and Guitar Hero 3
Our friends at Microsoft have generously given us a shiny new Xbox 360 and a copy of Guitar Hero III: Legends Of Rock to giveaway.
Quite frankly we’d like to keep it, but if we do we’ll never get any work done around here. So if you fancy yourself as the next Slash simply email us a photo of the best poodle perm you can find Read more
BT Digital Music Awards
August 11, 2008
What?: The BT Digital Music Awards 2008 will take place on 1st October at the Roundhouse in London. Artists, music products, and music services can now be entered into one or more of 19 categories designed to cover everything from the latest digital music hardware to the best artist campaigns on digital platforms. The entry deadline is 26th August. From mid-September, fans will be able cast their votes for 12 of the categories. For more info (and a full list of the categories), visit the website below:
http://www.btdma.com/nominations/
Hair Guitar
August 11, 2008
What?: AARP, the world’s largest advocacy organisation for the 50+ community, is launching the Air Guitar For My Guitar campaign which ties in with AARP’s sponsorship of Foreigner’s Feels Like The First Time tour. The air guitar and lip-synch competition will see entrants attempting to win Mick Jones’s autographed custom Gibson guitar Read more
