CONGRATULATIONS Peanut Brittle Satellite! You collected the most votes this past week, so you proceed to our live quarterfinal at Nietzsche’s on December 26.

With your win, you join A Hotel Nourishing, The Manics, and Kryszt in the first of four battles of original local bands. If you missed any of our contestants the first time around, you can still listen to all of them on the boom.artvoice.com site.

Peanut Brittle Satellite	A Hotel Nourishing
The Manics	Kryszt

Now the challenge for you all is to rally your fans to this mighty cause. For, at the show, each person through the door will receive one ballot on which to place his or her vote for his or her favorite band. At the end of the night, the ballots will be counted and a winner will be announced.

The four winners of our live quarterfinals will receive a recording package from our friends at Audio Magic, CDs of that recording from the great folks at ESP CD & DVD Manufacturing, and the opportunity face off in our Grand Finale in May. The winner that night will win a slot on WBFO’s Wednesday night concerts live from Allen Hall, a video produced by Artvoice, and a nice cash prize as well.

We’re happy to present this contest with the help of our great sponsors: ESP, Audio Magic, Nietzsche’s, and WBFO. They all play a vital role in making our town a hotspot of original music.

Some have asked, “Why hold this event on the day after Christmas?” Well, the pun would be evident if we were in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, or New Zealand, where December 26 is a recognized holiday called “Boxing Day”—which has nothing to do with the sport of pugilism.

But for our purposes, let’s pretend it does. Come out and join us at Nietzsche’s for the Main Event on Boxing Day—the Artvoice BATTLE OF ORIGINAL MUSIC. And may the best band win!