• OurStage is free to join, free to compete in and free to participate in at all levels. Our competitions fit and welcome all types of music & video . If we don't have your genre, we'll add it
• Your art remains yours forever. We demand no rights. We just ask permission to post/display your work on our site (see our Terms & Conditions).
• There's no sharing, sending, giving or stealing of your property. If you want to sell your work, that's your business.

1. OurStage is the ultimate music discovery destination for fans. Even if you don't win, there is no better way for you to discover new fans here for sole purpose of discovering new artists.
2. Prizes aren't always awarded to the highest ranked song in a channel. Often the rules state that high-ranking artists are the ones considered for different opportunities.
3. We are changing the game for artists everywhere. And the industry is taking notice by sourcing talent from our pool of fan-ranked artists. If you don't participate in our channels contests, we can't help you as much.
4. OurStage is free to join, free to compete in and free to participate in at all levels so you risk nothing by taking a chance.

1. Click on the word Judge in our navigation bar.
2. Pick the stage and channel you want to judge. We have a Music and Music Video stage, each with different channels. You can pick one of our monthly channel competitions such as rock, hip hop, country, or select a special promotional channel where artists are competing for specific festival slots, or other specific channel prizes.
3. You'll be shown two items, chosen by our advanced software that guarantees every artist receives an equal number of views throughout the month- long competition. Listen or watch both items for at least 15 seconds. Then decide which one you like better and by how much. Your ranking is registered along with all the other votes and is used to compile our near real-time charting.
4. Repeat Step 3 or go back to Step 2 and select a new channel.
5. Set an alarm clock to remind you to stop and eat. This gets addicting!

• This is not a popularity contest. OurStage is a collective taste-making community of passionate fans of music and video. We exist to allow fans the chance to judge ALL content from ALL artists fairly. Let go of old ideals and values. Share your fans with us, and other artists will share their fans with you. This is how cooperation works.
• This is a site devoted to passionate fans of music and video. There is no better place for fans to introduce you to other potential fans than here. It's what everyone is here to do. Encourage your fans to use OurStage to discover new artists. It doesn't mean they won't still love you. Ask them to be active in our community and participate in our battles so that artists everywhere can break free of the industry constraints that are partially responsible for keeping your talent hidden. You want to give it back to the man. Here's your chance.

1. Start of a new month:

   At the start of each month we archive the previous month's rankings and begin anew with a clean-slate for all. Because competitions run monthly all items in a channel start with a rank of zero. We have to assign a rank to everything to start the competition so that the battling can commence. The initial sequencing (which isn't fan-driven) may result in significant changes in the rankings in the initial days of battling as we sort it all out.

2. Heavy Battling

   Even during later stages of the monthly competition, significant ranking moves still take place due to the intensity of battling in a channel. So a number 20 can quickly become a number 150 same as a 200 can quickly become an 18. It's all based on taste.

• For new users, the channel pages are a way to find the best music on OurStage.
• For older users, placement in the Top 100 now becomes a bigger mark of distinction Think of it like charting on the Billboard Charts or another similar recording chart. By being in the Top 100 you gain more exposure (and real bragging rights) than in the past because you are now one out of a hundred, instead of one out of many hundreds.
• When we reviewed our Web site activity logs, we found people were most interested in the first 20-30 songs. While some often listened deeper in a channel, virtually no one ever listened past 100.
• Many artists don't want low rankings shown on their profiles because they feel like this makes them look bad. Artists are uncomfortable inviting their friends and fans to join OurStage when their song was ranked 400th in a channel of 900 items.

Here are some basic definitions of what our channels are like. This isn't meant to be comprehensive or too limiting, because it's art after all. It often defies being put into a box and given a name. But here are some guidelines to help you place your work. If the OurStage support team receives too many complaints about your work being in the wrong category, we may re-categorize your work. NOTE: Some songs may fit multiple categories. The OurStage community will flag a song if a better fit channel exists. Your entry may be moved to that channel as a result. If you have questions about where to enter your work, feel free to contact us at bestfit@ourstage.com and an expert at OurStage will tell you where they think it should go.

Blues

Electric Blues The electric blues is a type of blues music distinguished by the amplification of the guitar, bass guitar, drums, and sometimes the harmonica, often in the same vein as blues-rock but with an even greater emphasis on the blues sound. Electric blues is performed in several regional subgenres, such as Chicago blues, Texas blues and Memphis blues.

Country

Alternative Country Alternative country is a term used to describe a number of country music subgenres that tend to differ from mainstream or pop country music. The term is sometimes known as Alt. country and has included country music bands that have incorporated influences ranging from american roots music, bluegrass, rock & roll, rockabilly, acoustic music, americana, honky-tonk and punk rock.

Country Videos Submit a music video presentation that fits within the definition of Country music. PLEASE NOTE: Cover songs are not allowed in any of the video Channels.

Traditional Country: A blend of popular musical forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. It has roots in traditional folk music, Celtic music, gospel music, and old-time music and evolved rapidly in the 1920s

Electronic

Ambient / Chill Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality. Ambient evolved from the early 20th century music of the impressionists, composers such as John Cage, Morton Feldman and minimalist composers and early electronic composers of the 1960s and 1970s, to rock musician Brian Eno, who is responsible for coining the phrase ambient music in the manifesto liner notes of his 1979 album Ambient 1: Music for Airports.

Electronica Electronica includes a wide range of contemporary electronic music designed for a wide range of uses, including foreground listening, some forms of dancing, and background music for other activities; however, unlike electronic dance music, it is not specifically made for dancing. The term was first used in the United States in the early 1990s with regards to post-rave global-influenced electronic dance music. Genres such as techno, drum and bass, downtempo, and ambient are among those encompassed by the umbrella term, entering the American mainstream from "alternative" or "underground" venues during the late 1990s. Prior to the adoption of electronica for this purpose, terms such as electronic listening music, and intelligent dance music (IDM) were used.

Experimental Experimental music refers, in the English-language literature, to a compositional tradition which arose in the mid-twentieth century, particularly in North America, and whose most famous and influential exponent was John Cage (Grant 2003, 174). More loosely, the term is used to describe music within specific genres that pushes against their boundaries or definitions, or else whose approach is a hybrid of disparate styles, or incorporates unorthodox, new, distinctly unique ingredients.

Folk

Acoustic Acoustic music comprises music that solely or primarily uses instruments which produce sound through entirely acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means. The retronym "acoustic music" appeared after the advent of electric instruments, such as the electric guitar, bass guitar, electric organ and synthesizer.

New Folk The term folk music originated in the 19th century as a term for musical folk lore. It has been defined in several ways; as music transmitted by word of mouth, music of the lower classes, music with no known composer. It has been contrasted with commercial and classical styles. Since the middle of the 20th century the term has also been used to describe a kind of popular music that is based on traditional music. Subgenres include folk rock, electric folk and progressive folk music.

Singer-Songwriter (female) Singersongwriter is a term that refers to musicians who write, compose and sing their own material including lyrics and melodies. They often provide the sole accompaniment to an entire composition or song, typically using a guitar or piano. This specific channel allows for entries from female singer-songwriters only.

Singer-Songwriter (male) Singersongwriter is a term that refers to musicians who write, compose and sing their own material including lyrics and melodies. They often provide the sole accompaniment to an entire composition or song, typically using a guitar or piano. This specific channel allows for entries from male singer-songwriters only.

Heavy Rock

Hard Rock Hard rock is a sub-genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage and psychedelic rock and is considerably harder than conventional rock music. It is typified by a heavy use of distorted electric guitars, bass guitar, drums, pianos, and other keyboards

Hard Rock Video Submit a music video presentation that fits with the following genre definition: Hard rock or heavy rock is a sub-genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage and psychedelic rock and is considerably harder than conventional rock music. It is typified by a heavy use of distorted electric guitars, bass guitar, drums, pianos, and other keyboards. PLEASE NOTE: Cover songs are not allowed in any of the video Channels.

Metal Metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in England and the United States. With roots in blues-rock and psychedelic rock, the bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified distortion, extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall loudness. Heavy metal lyrics and performance styles are generally associated with masculinity and machismo.

Punk Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock. They created fast, hard-edged music, typically with short songs, stripped-down instrumentation, and often political, anti-establishment lyrics. Punk embraces a DIY (do it yourself) ethic, with many bands self-producing their recordings and distributing them through informal channels.

Instrumental

All Instrumental An instrumental is a musical composition or recording without lyrics or any other sort of vocal music; all of the music is produced by musical instruments. This term is used when referring to popular music rather than to other musical genres such as European classical music. In commercial music, instrumental tracks are sometimes renditions of a corresponding release that features vocals, but may also be compositions originally conceived without vocals. An instrumental version of a song which otherwise features vocals is also known as a -1 (pronounced minus one).

International

Latin Latin American music refers to the music of all countries in Latin America (and the Caribbean) and comes in many varieties. Latin America is home to musical styles such as the simple, rural conjunto music of northern Mexico, the sophisticated habanera of Cuba, the rhythmic sounds of the Puerto Rican plena, the symphonies of Heitor Villa-Lobos, and the simple and moving Andean flute. Music has played an important part recently in Latin America's politics, the nueva cancin movement being a prime example. Latin music is very diverse, with the only truly unifying thread being the use of Latin-derived languages, predominantly the Spanish language, the Portuguese language in Brazil, and to a lesser extent, Latin-derived creole languages such as those found in Haiti.

World The term World Music includes traditional music (sometimes called folk music or roots music) of any culture that are created and played by indigenous musicians or that are "closely informed or guided by indigenous music of the regions of their origin," including Western music (e. g. Celtic music). Most typically, the term World Music has now replaced folk music as a shorthand description for the very broad range of recordings of traditional indigenous music and song from around the world.

Pop

Indie Pop Indie pop is a genre of alternative rock music that originated in the United Kingdom in the mid 1980s, with its roots in the Scottish post-punk bands on the Postcard Records label in the early '80s such as Orange Juice and Josef K and the dominant UK independent band of the mid eighties, The Smiths. While the term 'indie' had been used for some time to describe artists on independent labels (and the labels themselves), the key moment in the naming of the genre was the release of NME's C86 tape in 1986. Although featuring a wide range of bands including Primal Scream, The Pastels, and The Shop Assistants, it over time became shorthand for a genre known by a variety of terms. Initially it was dubbed 'C86' (after the tape itself), the more ambiguous Indiepop, Cutie or a term coined by John Peel: shambling bands. Retrospectively, especially in the United States, the terms Twee or Twee Pop were used, initially ironically, due to what commentators called the "revolt into childhood" of its followers. Musically its key characteristics were jangling guitars, a love of sixties pop and often fey, innocent lyrics. The UK label Sarah Records and its most popular band The Field Mice, although more diverse than the label indicates, were probably its most typical proponents. It was also inspired by the DIY scene of punk and there was a thriving fanzine, label and club and gig circuit. Scenes later developed in the United States particularly around labels such as K Records. Genres such as Riot Grrrl and bands as diverse as Nirvana, Manic Street Preachers, and Belle and Sebastian have all acknowledged its influence.

Pop Videos Submit a music video presentation that fits with the following genre definition: Pop music is a music genre that features a noticeable rhythmic element, melodies and hooks, a mainstream style and a conventional structure. PLEASE NOTE: Cover songs are not allowed in any of the video Channels.

Jazz

Nu Jazz Nu jazz is an umbrella term coined in the late 1990s to refer to music that blends jazz elements with other musical styles, such as funk, soul, electronic dance music, and free improvisation. Also written n-jazz or NuJazz, it is sometimes called electronic jazz, electro-jazz, e-jazz, jazztronica, jazz house, phusion, "neo-jazz" or future jazz.

Rock

Alternative Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative; known primarily in the UK as indie) is a genre of rock music that emerged in the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s. Alternative rock consists of various subgenres that have emerged from the independent music scene since the 1980s, such as grunge, Britpop, gothic rock, and indie pop. These genres are unified by their collective debt to the style and/or ethos of punk rock, which laid the groundwork for alternative music in the 1970s. At times alternative rock has been used as a catch-all phrase for rock music from underground artists in the 1980s, and all music descended from punk rock (including punk itself, New Wave, and post-punk).

Classic Rock Classic rock was originally conceived as a radio station programming format which evolved from the album oriented rock (AOR) format in the early-1980s. In the United States, this rock music format now features a large playlist of songs ranging from the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s, with some stations including a limited number of current releases. The classic rock genre allows for music of these time periods or music that attempts to re-create the style of these time periods.

Funk Funk is an American musical style that originated in the mid to late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, soul jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk "de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a em rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums" to the foreground. Funk songs are often based on an extended vamp on a single chord, distinguishing it from R&B and Soul songs centered around chord progressions.

Indie Rock Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that primarily exists in the independent underground music scene. Indie rock musicians are typically unsigned, or have signed to independent record labels, rather than major record labels. Genres or subgenres often associated with indie rock include lo-fi, post-rock, sadcore, C86, and math rock, to list but a few; other related (and sometimes overlapping) categories include shoegazing and indie pop. Indie rock artists place a premium on maintaining complete control of their music and careers, releasing albums on independent record labels (sometimes their own) and relying on touring, word-of-mouth, and airplay on independent or college radio stations for promotion. Some end up moving to major labels, often on favorable terms won by their prior independent success.

Rock Video Submit a music video presentation that fits within the definitions of a Rock genre. PLEASE NOTE: Cover songs are not allowed in any of the video Channels.

Modern Rock Modern rock is a term commonly used to describe a rock music format found on American commercial radio. Generally beginning with late 1970s punk but referring especially to rock music since the 1980s, the phrase "modern rock" is used to differentiate the music from "classic rock", which focuses on music recorded in the 1960s through the early 1980s. More specifically, the modern rock format consists of commercial radio stations that primarily play alternative rock. As such, the format is also frequently called alternative radio.

Soft Rock Soft rock (also referred to as mellow rock, light rock, or easy rock) is a style of music which uses the techniques of rock and roll (often combined with elements from folk rock and singer-songwriter pop) to compose a softer, more toned-down sound for listening, often at work or when driving. Soft rock songs generally tend to focus on themes like love, everyday life and relationships. The genre tends to make heavy use of acoustic guitars, pianos, synthesizers and sometimes saxophones. The electric guitars in soft rock are normally faint and high-pitched.

Southern Rock Southern rock is a subgenre of rock music. It developed in the Southern United States from rock and roll, country music, and blues, and is focused generally on electric guitar and vocals.

R & B

Contemporary R & B Contemporary R&B (also known as R&B) is a music genre of western popular music. Although the acronym R&B originates from its association with traditional rhythm and blues music, the term R&B is today most often used to define a style of African American music originating after the demise of disco in the 1980s. This newer style combines elements of soul, funk, dance, and, from 1986 on with the advent of New Jack Swing branded R&B, hip hop.

Soul Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of funky, secular testifying." The genre occasionally uses improvisational additions, twirls and auxiliary sounds. Catchy rhythms, stressed by handclaps and extemporaneous body moves, are an important feature. Other characteristics are a call and response between the soloist and the chorus, and an especially tense vocal sound.

Spiritual

Christian

Urban

Alternative Hip-Hop Alternative Hip-Hop refers to Hip-Hop groups that refuse to conform to any of the traditional stereotypes of rap, such as gangsta, bass, hardcore, and party rap. Instead, they blur genres - drawing from funk and pop/rock, as well as jazz, soul and reggae.

Hip-Hop Hip-hop is a cultural movement which developed in New York City in the early 1970s primarily among African Americans and Latin Americans. Hip hop's four main elements are MCing (often called rapping), DJing, graffiti writing, and breakdancing. Other elements include beatboxing, hip hop fashion, and slang. Since first emerging in the Bronx, the lifestyle of hip hop culture has spread around the world.

Hip-Hop Videos Submit a music video presentation that fits within the definition of Hip-Hop music. PLEASE NOTE: Cover songs are not allowed in any of the video Channels.

Rap Rapping (also known as emceeing, MCing, spitting (bars), or just rhyming) is the rhythmic spoken delivery of rhymes, wordplay, and poetry. Rapping is a primary ingredient in hip hop music. Rapping can be delivered over a beat or without accompaniment. Stylistically, rap occupies a gray area among speech, prose, poetry, and song.

Other

Cover Bands A cover band (or covers band) is a band that plays mostly or exclusively cover songs. Other common terms are wedding band, party band and function band.Cover bands play songs written and recorded by other artists, usually well-known songs (as compared to "original" bands which play music they themselves have written). There are a wide variety of cover bands - some cover bands play material from particular decades, for example a 1980s cover band. Others focus exclusively on the music of a particular group, usually iconic groups, and are called tribute bands: it is not uncommon to find Led Zeppelin tribute bands, Pink Floyd tribute bands, Aerosmith tribute bands, or U2 tribute bands. Some cover bands will play a variety of song styles, of widely different artists, genres and decades. Another type of cover band is one that covers songs in a different genre or style than that of the original composition (e.g., jazz versions of what were originally hard rock songs).

1. Click "Start Upload" to go to a small pop-up window to upload your song. Please make sure that you have pop-up blockers turned off so that your browser is able to open this window. Next, find your song on your computer by clicking "browse". Now the upload will begin. Please do not exit this window until the pink bar says "Done!" and the "close window" button appears. Go back to the "upload new stuff" page and click "continue."
2. This next page allows you to give information about your song. Fill in as many of the fields as you can (artist, song title, genre, album, description). This information will be shown wherever the song is displayed on the site. Click "continue".
3. On this page, you can browse your computer for cover art to be displayed along with the song. You can choose either the cover art off the album the song is from, or perhaps just an artist picture. It's important to have a picture so that you grab the attention of our listeners. Click "continue"
4. In final step, you can select a channel to compete in.. Please read the channel descriptions carefully before placing your song in competition because we monitor our channels and will remove songs that don't fit. This is particularly important for our promotional channels as they have very strict rules. You can also withdraw the song from competition by clicking the withdraw button on this page once it's entered.

1. Just click on the small shopping cart icon on the desired song's media item page. Look for notification indicating that the item is in your shopping cart.
2. To access your shopping cart, click the link at the top of the page. This will bring you to the shopping cart page where you can edit your items.
3. Click the "Check Out" button. You will then be directed to a PayPal window outside the OurStage site.
4. Here you can either pay directly with a credit card or pay with an existing PayPal account. Follow the on-screen instructions.
5. Once you've confirmed your payment through PayPal, your music should download to your computer (provided pop-up blockers are turned off). If you didn't receive your download(s), then you can access them by:
1. Logging into your OurStage account and clicking on the Profile" link at the top right hand side of the web page.
2. On the next page, scroll down and look for "My Account" on the right hand side. The bottom half of this block is labeled "Purchase and Sales Info".
3. Click on "My Purchases," and you can now access all music purchases you have made to-date.
4. Click on "Download" for any items you have purchased now (or in the past), and you can designate the location where the zip file will be placed.
5. Depending on your browser, just clicking the zip file will allow you to extract/copy the MP3 file(s) to wherever you designate.

• Illegal, Infringing or Abusive Message Content, described as: unlawful, harmful, tortuous, defamatory, libelous, obscene, invasive of the privacy of another person, threatening, harassing, abusive, hateful, racist, infringing, pornographic, violent or otherwise objectionable or inappropriate as determined by OurStage
• Violations of Third Party Rights, described as: content that contains personal information about any individual, violates the privacy/publicity of any other individual or entity, or anything that you are under a contractual obligation to keep private or confidential; impersonations of any person or organization, including and without limitation, the personnel of OurStage; misrepresentation of an affiliation with another person or organization; slanderous or libelous comments; infringements on copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, or other intellectual property right of a third party

• Sony Video Mp3 player pre-loaded with the Clipe's new album Til The Casket Drops
• 8 GB E Series Walkmalk Video Mp3 Player

• A sit down meeting with Columbia Marketing Executives.
• Round-trip airfare for two (2) to New York, NY from an airport nearest the winner's residence; hotel accommodations for one (1) night (one room, double occupancy).
• A signed copy of CLIPSE's album Til The Casket Drops

The Converse Get Out of the Garage Contests are separated into two separate genre competitions. Your song must fit into the correct genres defined below.

Get Out of the Garage: Urban

• Accepted genres for the Get Out of the Garage: Urban Channel must fall into the following genre channels on OurStage: and Urban and R&B Channels including Alternative Hip-Hop, Rap, Hip-Hop, R&B and Soul.

Get Out of the Garage: Rock

• Accepted genres for the Get Out of the Garage: Rock Channel must fall into the following genre channels on OurStage: Rock and Hard Rock Channels including Alternative Rock, Funk, Indie, Modern, Rock, Soft Rock, Sothern, Hard Rock, Metal and Punk

Submissions for both genre channels must follow the follow criteria for entry:

• Entry cannot contain: vulgar, obscene or indecent language or behavior; defame or libel an third party; are otherwise deemed inappropriate in the sole discretion of Sponsors; or violate any third party's copyrights or other rights (all of this basically means don't be a jerk)
• Entry cannot consist solely of vocals; song must be accompanied by musical instruments.
• Entry cannot be instrumental only, but must include vocals
• Entry must be your own original content
• Visit the official rules and regulations here

• Your submission did not fall into the acceptable genres for entry as specified above.
• Your submission did not follow the requirements stated for the Converse "Get Out of the Garage" Contest stated above.

• Participate in at least 100 judging battles using either 25 Sort4 or 100 Head-To-Head judging methods (or any combination of the two that results in 100 total judging battles). Both Sort4 and Head-to-Head battles are acceptable forms of judging on OurStage.com. Additional information on the forms of judging can be found here.
• The entrant must vote within either the Converse Get Out of the Garage' Rock or Converse Get Out of the Garage' Urban Contest Channel during the Contest Period (Nov. 1 to Nov. 30). There is no limit on the number of times you can vote.

• A roundtrip coach class airline ticket to Austin, Texas for winner and a guest from the major U.S. airport nearest the winner's home
• Two consecutive nights (one standard room, double occupancy) at a Sponsor designated hotel
• Admission for two to the Get Out Of The Garage Concert Event

One artist from each genre channel competition will win the grand prize and receive:

Grand prize winners will each be given a two day trip to Austin, Texas to perform on the official Converse stage, this includes: a roundtrip coach class airline ticket to Austin, Texas for winner (if winner is a band, each band member in the entry materials will be given a roundtrip airline ticket); a standard hotel room for two nights (if winner is a band, each member in the entry materials will be given a hotel room); a meal per diem of $40/per day/per band member; Guitar Center gift certificate.

Four Artists runner ups from each genre channel competition will receive:

Four CDs, one pair of Converse shoes, and a Guitar Center gift certificate. If the winner is a band, each individual in the band will receive the above-mentioned items.

• Voting will start on OurStage on November 1 2009. Members of the OurStage community will be asked during this Judging process to rank entries in the channels. The OurStage community during the judging process will narrow down the competitions to the Top 10 for each genre channel.
• The Top 10 finalists in both of the Get Out of the Garage Contests will move on to the stage of the Contest, where entries will be judged by a panel of qualified judges, who are experts in the field of music, based on the following four criteria: Creativity (25%); Melody and Music (25%); Lyrics (25%) and Entertainment Value (25%). In the event of a tie, the entrants will be re-judged based on: Creativity (50%) and Melody and Music (50%).
• The Top 10 finalist will be considered based on their entertainment value, which accounts for 25% percent of their final ranking. This is determined by the footage of their live performance videos that appear on their OurStage profile and/or EPK.
• Or or around November 28 2009 and email will be sent out to the Finalist of each Get Out of the Garage Contests. The email will tell the finalist how they will be evaluated based on the criteria stated above, and will inform all the finalists to full update their profiles and EPK's.

• Your submission did not fall into the acceptable genres for entry as specified above.
• Your submission did not follow the requirements stated for Cakewalk's Your Music Anytime, Anyplace Songwriting stated above.

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• Have released a full-length album within the past six (6) months prior to the start of competition. Releases issued prior to May 1st, 2009 are ineligible.
• Have released two EPs released within the past six (6) months prior to the start of the competition. Releases issued prior to May 1st, 2009 are ineligible.
• Have a full-length album pending release prior to Jan 1st, 2010.
• Have released an EP within the past 6 months and have another EP pending release prior to Jan 1st, 2010.

• Participate in at least 100 judging battles using either 25 Sort4 or 100 Head-To-Head judging methods (or any combination of the two that results in 100 total judging battles). Both Sort4 and Head-to-Head battles are acceptable forms of judging on OurStage.com. Additional information on the forms of judging can be found here.
• The entrant must vote within Indie Rock channel during the Contest Period (Nov. 1 to Nov. 30). There is no limit on the number of times you can vote.

• Illegal, Infringing or Abusive Message Content, described as: unlawful, harmful, tortuous, defamatory, libelous, obscene, invasive of the privacy of another person, threatening, harassing, abusive, hateful, racist, infringing, pornographic, violent or otherwise objectionable or inappropriate as determined by OurStage
• Violations of Third Party Rights, described as: content that contains personal information about any individual, violates the privacy/publicity of any other individual or entity, or anything that you are under a contractual obligation to keep private or confidential; impersonations of any person or organization, including and without limitation, the personnel of OurStage; misrepresentation of an affiliation with another person or organization; slanderous or libelous comments; infringements on copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, or other intellectual property right of a third party
• Cover songs are ineligible from the competition and will be removed.

• Album distributed on over 250 digital retailers and promotional outlets
• Solicitation for editorials, reviews, artist spotlights, Mp3 giveaways, etc. through SideCho personal relationships with over 800 sites, blogs, etc
• Bio composition, marketing plan formulation, marketing blurbs, and additional promotional documents
• Direct contact with a label representative to discuss ideas and personalize approach
• Accounting breakdowns to show where artist's music is selling
• Assistance with regional show bookings
• Regional promotion of album in physical record stores