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Recent Press Releases

Season 2 Panel Capital Hoedown Showdown Confession with Kiefer Sutherland Keith Urban MTV Skins Subway Winners
Dame Un Break

May 22, 2012: Tr3́s: MTV, Música y Más, the bilingual/bicultural entertainment destination for Latinos in the US, announces the launch of its talent competition for aspiring Latino artists with Dame Un Break presented by Wendy's. Up-and-coming Latin music acts will battle it out on dameunbreak.tr3s.com, powered by OurStage.com for a shot at stardom. Aspiring artists can submit their auditions today through June 18th on dameunbreak.tr3s.com. The judging period for the finalists will run from July 2nd – July 16th and the winner will be announced in late July.



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Intel Video Superstars

May 18, 2012: OurStage.com is excited to announce the winner of their exclusive "Rise" competition, offering one undiscovered hip hop artist an opening slot on Drake's "Club Paradise" U.S. tour-meet Jitta On The Track! The young Connecticut based artist, who has already cultivated a strong following in the hip hop community, will join Drake, J Cole, Meek Millz, Two Chainz and French Montana for 20 tour stops. He will also get VIP treatment with a customized tour bus and will be the focus of a documentary that will follow his ascent to stardom.



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Intel Video Superstars

May 17, 2012: OurStage.com is teaming up with Intel® for the Intel® Video "Superstars" Competition, which is seeking the next generation of music video, video game trailer and short film creators.  After two successful years focused on musicians for their Intel® "Superstars" campaign, the companies are expanding their reach to a new audience of emerging video designers while giving out over $10,000 worth of tech merchandise. To enter and judge the competition, go to superstars2012.ourstage.com. Entries are currently being accepted and though the fan judging process begins on May 24th, you can watch all the great videos right now.



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Capital Hoedown Showdown

May 14, 2012: Following the hugely successful first year of Capital Hoedown Showdown, OurStage.com and Capital Hoedown, Canada's biggest country music festival, are teaming up for another year to offer one undiscovered country artist the chance to perform on the same stage as Taylor Swift at Capital Hoedown 2012. The three-day festival takes place in Ottawa, Ontario from August 10th-12th.



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OurStage at Warped Tour

May 7, 2012: One undiscovered hip hop artist will get the chance of a lifetime to be the opening act for hip hop superstar Drake on his latest US tour. OurStage.com and Real Hip Hop Network have joined forces to offer OurStage emerging artists an exclusive competition to win an opening slot on 20 tour stops, playing in front of thousands of fans at major concert venues and arenas.



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OurStage at Warped Tour

March 13, 2012: OurStage.com, the premiere digital music destination for unsigned artists, is offering musicians the opportunity of a lifetime to play on the OurStage.com Stage during the 2012 Warped Tour. The festival is known for breaking undiscovered, fresh performers and turning them into music superstars. For the first time, OurStage will sponsor a stage for twenty-two stops of the legendary festival.



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The OurStage Panel Season 2

February 23, 2012:OurStage.com, the premiere digital music destination for unsigned artists, is headed to Austin, Texas during the South by Southwest Music Festival! OurStage will crown a winner for the Season 2 finale of the site's original web series, The OurStage Panel at their official SXSW party on March 16th at The Parish. Popular brother-and-sister pop duo and SXSW showcase band, Blondfire will also perform at the show's culmination event.



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The OurStage Panel Season 2

February 16, 2012:OurStage.com, the premiere digital music destination for unsigned artists, will unveil Season 2 of their original music competition web series, The OurStage Panel on February 16th. Located at http://panel.ourstage.com, the series is the first of its kind to give top-ranked independent artists the opportunity to hear authentic feedback, in front of a live audience, from music industry heavyweights, a process that is normally done behind the scenes. Acclaimed singer/songwriter, Gavin DeGraw will also appear on the first four episodes as a guest judge.



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Intel Superstars Winner

Janurary 12, 2012:Cakewalk, the world's leading developer of powerful and easy to use products for music creation and recording, Intel Corporation, and the preeminent online community-powered, new music discovery site, OurStage.com, announce the grand prize winner of the Intel Superstars 2011 Music Competition. In just 45 days of competition, 3,294 songs were submitted across six musical genre categories, generating over 171,000 fan votes. The Intel "Superstars" 2011 Music Competition winner is Austin Renfroe with his song "Taking Me Under".



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Hot Chelle Rae Winner Announced

November 30, 2011:New York, NY – OurStage.com, the premier destination for indie music discovery, has announced Pop/Rock artist Suzi Oravec as the winner on their "Hot Chelle Rae Opening Act" Competition. Chosen through fan ranking and industry elite input, Oravec will take the stage with the recent American Music Awards FAVORITE NEW ARTIST winners as part of 107.5 The River's "Acoustic Christmas 11" at TPAC's War Memorial Auditorium in Nashville on December 2, 2011.



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Songs of the Revolution

November 15, 2011:OurStage.com, a partner of MTV Networks, launches Songs of the Revolution, a series of live recordings that showcase the raw talent of buzz-worthy artists, touring through Boston, the historical hub of revolution.

Artists are invited into Moontower Studio in Somerville, MA to record a live session with OurStage Community Manager and Producer, Scott Janovitz. Audio recordings of the sessions are then made available for streaming and free download on OurStage.com.



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Intel Superstars

November 1, 2011:Cakewalk, the world's leading developer of powerful and easy to use products for music creation and recording and OurStage.com, along with new sponsors Orange Amplifier, Gibson Guitars, and Blue Microphones, have come together to launch with Intel Corporation another exciting competition for emerging artists. The "Intel Superstars 2011 Competition" invites musicians and producers to submit original music in six genre-based competitions: Rock, Pop, Country, Singer-Songwriter, Urban, and Latin.



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The Panel

October 25, 2011:OurStage.com, the premier destination for indie music discovery, has launched the The OurStage Panel, a revolutionary web series featuring top-ranked independent artists and influential music industry experts. A first of its kind, the The OurStage Panel allows emerging OurStage.com artists the extraordinary opportunity to be reviewed and critiqued by top industry professionals from a variety of disciplines across the music industry (A&R, Radio, Management, Producers, Licensing, etc.).



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Hot Chelle Rae

October 6, 2011:OurStage.com announced today that they will give one lucky emerging pop or rock artist the opportunity to open for pop-rock band Hot Chelle Rae. From October 1, 2011 until October 31, 2011 artists can upload an original song that best represents their music to OurStage.com for consideration.



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BigD Nye

October 3, 2011: Big D NYE, Dallas-Fort Worth's hottest annual New Year's Eve destination, is counting down to 2012 in a big way. For a second year, organizers at WFAA and American Airlines Center are searching for one band to play a special live set during the evening's massive celebration at Victory Park near downtown Dallas.



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Travis Barker

September 19, 2011: Today OurStage.com, New Era, Rolling Stone magazine and DJ Irie, announced a competition to give up-and-coming DJs their big break. The highly anticipated New Era "Fly Your Own Flag" DJ Competition, powered by OurStage, offers aspiring DJs from across the United States the opportunity to win the chance to guest DJ at a New Era sponsored party featuring DJ Irie at Miami, Florida's Mansion Nightclub.



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Travis Barker

September 15, 2011: Continuing its support of aspiring artists, Guitar Center, the world's largest retailer of musical instruments and equipment, and Jane's Addiction today announced Boys as the winner of Guitar Center On-Stage: Jane's Addiction unsigned artist competition. After an intense 8-week period of peer judging through OurStage.com, Jane's Addiction personally selected the winning band from the top 100 artists entered, giving Boys, from Denver, CO, the potentially career-altering opportunity to open for the band in Los Angeles, New York and Chicago.



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Travis Barker

July 25, 2011:As winner, Twin Berlin will have the opportunity to record a 3-song EP with Barker, have Barker appear on their single from the EP, receive worldwide digital distribution of the album through TuneCore as well as $10,000 in new gear from Guitar Center.



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Campital Hoedown Showdown

July 21, 2011: After triumphing over 98 other artists and over 192,000 online judging matches in the Capital Hoedown Showdown, using the OurStage.com proprietary technology, Saskatoon natives WYATT, Calgary duo Pear and Sharon, Ontario songwriter Danielle Bourjeaurd all competed in front of a live panel of celebrity judges and an enthusiastic audience at the Lone Star Texas Grill.



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Confession

March 29, 2011:Continuing its mission to discover the best new up-and-coming independent artists, preeminent online music discovery site OurStage.com recently teamed with Digital Broadcasting Group (DBG), producers of Kiefer Sutherland's highly anticipated new online action-thriller series The Confession, to launch "The Confession Song Competition" earlier this month. OurStage artists recently submitted their best original tracks at www.ourstage.com, and one talented winner will have their original music placed on an upcoming webisode of The Confession, which is set to debut on March 28th on Hulu.com and across select DBG sites.



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Keith Urban

February 14, 2011: Continuing its support of aspiring artists, Guitar Center (www.guitarcenter.com), the world's largest musical instrument retailer, today announced Brandon Green as the winner of Guitar Center's Your Next Record with Keith Urban. After an intense 8-week period of peer judging through OurStage.com, the top 100 unsigned artists from a group of over 6,000 submissions were chosen in a process designed to send one talented unsigned artist into the studio with Grammy Award-winner Keith Urban and producer Dann Huff. Urban hand-selected the winner with his creative team.



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MTV Skins

December 22, 2010: MTV has selected artist 3D Friends as the winner of the "Score SKINS Music Project." 3D Friends, a music project of Daniel Chavez Wright of Austin, TX, will have his song "Lina Magic" featured as the official theme song to SKINS, a new American television series based on the hit British series of the same name



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NMS

December 6, 2010: New Music Seminar Los Angeles announces the initial list of confirmed NMS players (speakers) and movement (session) topics for it's upcoming conference, set to take place at the NMS Revolution Hall, February 14th through 16th at the SHERATON Universal Hotel in Los Angeles. Speakers include OurStage CEO Ben Campbell.



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Big D NYE

November 29, 2010: Last October when WFAA and American Airlines Center announced an innovative new contest that would select a band or local artist to showcase at the state's largest televised New Year's Eve celebration, the switchboards and web site lit up with requests for more information.



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NMS

November 23, 2010:The SUBWAY® restaurants chain, Clear Channel Radio and OurStage.com are proud to announce Stars Go Dim as the winner of the SUBWAY FRESH ARTISTS™ competition. Selected as the grand prize winner by a panel of Clear Channel Radio programmers, SUBWAY® executives and the Goo Goo Dolls, Stars Go Dim will get the chance to be the opening act at a future Goo Goo Dolls concert, plus a $1,000 cash prize, a session with a professional song writer, and additional assistance to develop their musical careers.



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Big D NYE

September 2010: To support new music discovery and up-and-coming artists, Clear Channel Radio, in collaboration with OurStage.com, partnered with the SUBWAY® restaurants chain to kick off a nationwide campaign and competition called SUBWAY FRESH ARTISTS™ that began on September 10th. And the votes for the regional winners are in!



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NMS

August 2, 2010: In July, Grammy-nominated Aspire/Young Money/Cash Money recording artist Drake teamed with OurStage.com and Sprite® for the "Thank Me Later" Competition. Lokz, of Toronto, triumphed over thousands of musicians across North America to earn an opportunity of a lifetime—a coveted performance slot in front of 15,000 fans at Drake's first annual O.V.O. Festival.



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Andre Harrell

June 16, 2010: Music mogul Andre Harrell, Radio One, Inc. and OurStage are proud to announce "The Andre Harrell Superstar Soul Search," an online and live competition to find the next big thing in Soul/R&B music.



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Hanson

June 07, 2010: Emerging indie acts will soon be making their voices heard loud and clear to scores of fans, as HANSON and OurStage are proud to announce the "Shout It Out with HANSON" opening act competition. Thirty-five coveted slots are up for grabs, as the multi-platinum band of brothers turn to the public to source the opening acts for the first two legs of their upcoming North American tour.



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John Mayer

June 03, 2010: OurStage has announced the "Side Stage Warfare" competition, in partnership with John Mayer's 2010 Battle Studies Summer Tour, to give artists/bands in eight U.S. markets the chance to perform on side stages for the seven-time Grammy Award winning artist.



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Bon Jovi

May 11, 2010: After weeks of intense competition from thousands of bands across North America, during which more than 3.3 million votes were cast by fans, the winners have finally been chosen for Bon Jovi's "Wanted: A SuperBAND Tonight!" opening act contest. Thirteen lucky, up-and-coming artists in eight cities across the U.S. and Canada have scored a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity—opening for Bon Jovi at one of the GRAMMY Award-winning band's "The Circle Tour" stadium dates.



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Lilith

May 2010: The 2010 Lilith Tour and OurStage.com are excited to announce the winner of the Kansas City-area local talent search: Sara Swenson. The 2009 Kansas City Pitch Music Awards Singer-Songwriter of the Year" entered the competition with her original pop song "Be Not Far." Sara will kick things off with a performance on the Village Stage in Kansas City on July 15 at Capitol Federal Park at Sandstone.



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