The SANTA CRUZ Your Music Olympicks “Best Vocalist” event winners:
GOLD: MORGAN - PARIAH FACTION
SILVER: SHANE - CYLINDER
BRONZE: SEAN KROHN

Congratulations to Plaster, our 2008 Monterey Your Music Olympicks Winner!
The prize this year is $1,000.00 cash, $1,000.00 gift certificate at Wise Music, an Epiphone guitar, and $500.00 in recording time at Indigital Studio. A $3,500.
00 prize package! The biggest prize in the 5 years of the event!

CHECK OUT THESE EPIPHONE GUITARS FOR THE GOLD, SILVER, AND BRONZE

WINNERS!! TAKE NOTE SAN JOSE/SACRAMENTO EPIPHONE IS SPONSORING THE ENTIRE YEAR!!!
GOLD PRIZE (Plaster)–Prophecy Les Paul Custom EX w/ gig - ENCSMEBH1

(Retail $1165 + $49)
SILVER PRIZE (Cylinder)–Les Paul Standard Plustop w/ gig - ENS-HBCH1

(Retail $915 + $49)
BRONZE PRIZE (Embrace Forever)–SG-400 cherry w/ gig - EGG4CHCH

(Retail $582 + $49)
“BEST GUITARIST” Bonus Shredder Award:
(WINNER-Brian LaPlace from Plaster, The Dead Ringers)–Zakk Wylde Les Paul Buzzsaw w/ gig - ENCZBZCH1 (Retail $1332 + $49)

The Monterey Your Music Olympicks “Best Guitarist” winners:
GOLD – Brian from Plaster
SILVER – Bill from Pride Subject
BRONZE – Jake from FUBAR

The Monterey Your Music Olympicks “Best Vocalist” winners:
GOLD – Shane from Cylinder
SILVER – Roman from Counter Clockwise
BRONZE – Paul from Plaster

The 2008 Your Music Olympicks Monterey “Live Performance Finalists”

Your Monterey Finals line-up! (order bands will play 8/9/08)
1) Smokey the Giant
2) Cylinder
3) Plaster
4) Pride Subject
5) Retribution
6) Mnemonic Device
7) Embrace Forever
8) Counter Clockwise

The San Jose YMO “Best Guitarist” Event will be held at The Downtown Brit on Friday August 15th starting at 8:00PM sharp. This is a “Solo Competition” or “Shred Off” with industry judges using a point system to determine the winners. Audience response will be part of the judging process along with skill, creativity, speed, stage presence, and (because you will be up there without your band) courage. 8-10 guitarists selected by yourmusicmagazine.com Internet polls will perform a 3-minute solo, answer 3 basic questions for the judges, then play 3 minutes of their favorite rhythms.  Each guitarist will play through one provided amp to ensure fairness and reduce set-up time.  The gold winner will receive a brand new Epiphone guitar w/ hard case!  The gold, silver, and bronze winners will receive points toward their “Live Performance “ votes. GOLD=3, SILVER=2, BRONZE=1.  The musicians that succeed in the “Best Guitarist” competiton can potentially add those points to the “Best Vocalist” event points and help improve their band’s time slot going into the September 19th Finals at The VooDoo Lounge.  Also scheduled to play on August 15th between guitarists- My First Murder and Interseed, for their “Live Performance” event.

Guitarists please confirm by sending an e-mail to: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it with band name and contact info.  Call Mike Garing at (831) 247-8981 with any questions or concerns.


The San Jose YMO “Best Vocalist” Event will be held at The Downtown Brit on Friday September 5th starting at 8:00 pm sharp.  Your Music Magazine has employed the ultimate cover band The Dead Ringers to play karaoke style for the vocalists. 8-10 local band vocalists, selected by yourmusicmagazine.com Internet polls, will perform 2 songs from the library provided. The singers will be judged AND there will be space on the ballot for fans in the audience to write in their favorite singer’s name.  This fan vote will count as a quarter of the total score.  Our music industry judges will be looking for inherent skill, creative style, stage presence, audience response, range, and courage when making their decision.  The gold, silver, and bronze winners will receive points toward their “Live Performance “ votes. GOLD=3, SILVER=2, BRONZE=1.  When you add these to the “Best Guitarist” event points bands can improve their time slot going into the September 19th Finals at The VooDoo Lounge.  Also scheduled to play on September 5th between vocalists- Perverse Recreation and Broken October, for their Live Performance” event.

Vocalists please confirm by sending an e-mail to: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it with band name and contact info.  Call Mike Garing (831) 247-8981 with any questions or concerns.

The 2008 Your Music Olympicks SANTA CRUZ “Live Performance” event is brought to you by Lyon Entertainment and Your Music Magazine, which is NOW partnered with Sierra Nevada Brewing Company.  Special thanks to our Santa Cruz sponsors: *Pleasure Head Salon *More Music *O’Neill Surf Shop *Indigital Recording Studio *Epiphone Guitars *Coffeetopia. Please support these sponsors because they support local music!
 

2008 YOUR MUSIC OLYMPICKS “LIVE PERFORMANCE” EVENT SANTA CRUZ WINNERS:
GOLD – CYLINDER
SILVER – HONEST MISTAKE
BRONZE – MY STUPID BROTHER

To see photos from the Catalyst show by D.J. Dougherty go to our YMO myspace and check the blogs.

Santa Cruz “Best Guitarist” event  winners:
GOLD - Dylan Rosenberg – Archer
SILVER - Jake Nielsen – FUBAR
BRONZE- Daniel Christensen – The Moderna Complex

Santa Cruz “Best Bassist” event winners:
GOLD - Finn Stobbe – Serendipity Project
SILVER - Seth (Sapo Feo) – Sapos Muertos
BRONZE - Isaiah – Archer


2008 Your Music Olympicks Best CD Finalists as of YMM June Issue #60

Man Automatic – In the Eyes of a Child
The Devil Himself – Pushing the Panic Button
The Moderna Complex – Act as if
Archer - Doomsday Profits
Jade of Days – Gracas a Deus
F.U.B.A.R. – F.U.B.A.R.
EnemyInside – Wings of Devastation
Dirty Penny – Take it Sleezy
My Monster – In Tune with the Voices in your Head
3upFront -  …& Jake
Russ Pettit- The Endless Journey
Ty Oliver - Heartstrings
The Billy Martini Show - Pajama Party A Go-Go
Interseed - The Hour of Redemption
Slop Opera - Gettin’ Amongst It
Dimidium - Passive Aggression
Ballistics - Arm Yourself
Lo Nero - Relentless

♣JANUARY 1st 2008:

The Your Music Magazine "Rock Wars" are now the Your Music Olympicks! The 2008 Your Music Olympicks will be the most complete band evaluation process that has ever been attempted. Your Music Magazine has put together an influential list of music industry judges, rock stars, and online polls to analyze every aspect of Northern California’s best, unsigned local bands.  Our new format will have over 20 different categories of competition from best CD to best band logo.  The winning bands in each event will be awarding a gold, silver, or bronze medal, as well as cash and prizes in the main events throughout 2008.

Main events include:

BEST CD (Rock, Metal, Punk, and Hip Hop)

BEST LIVE PERFORMANCE (Santa Cruz, San Jose, Monterey, & Sacramento)

BEST SONG

BEST VIDEO

and more....

Secondary events include:

BEST GUITARIST

BEST VOCALIST

BEST BASSIST

BEST DRUMMER

BEST BAND PHOTO

BEST ONLINE PRESENCE

BEST COMPETITION FLYER

and more....

These events will be judged by industry insiders, rock stars, live audiences, online polls, and reader input.

YOUR MUSIC MAGAZINE will publish all of the current stats for the entire event each month throughout 2008.

Click on YMM Events for the 2008 Your Music Olympicks Santa Cruz Live Event schedule.

ALL BANDS wishing to participate send your promo pack (bio, logo, photo) to:

Mike Lyon

Publisher / Promoter

Your Music Magazine

Lyon Entertainment

1515 Capitola Rd.

Unit: M

Santa Cruz, CA 95062

(831) 477-0503

 The 2008 Your Music Olympicks “Best Vocalist” event in Monterey and Santa Cruz - dates are announced!

♣JULY 20th 2008