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Rock The Vote launches band competition

Posted by aubin on Thursday, July 10, 2008 at 4:00 PM (EDT)

Rock the Vote has announced their 2008 band competition. Dubbed "DemROCKracy," the competition allows bands to sign up to win a change to play at Rock the Vote's Ballot Bash 2008 in Denver, CO; other bands will win some huge prizes as well, in the order of new Gibson guitars, and placement on TouchTunes digital jukeboxes around the country..

This competition is a great way for smaller up-and-coming bands to gain national exposure while doing something positive as the group works to register two million young voters in one of the most important elections in years.

Any musician or band can sign up by visiting here. More than 2000 bands have already signed up.

Politics (54 comments)

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Shindo (adam) (July 10, 2008)

"Demrockracy" sounds like something Scooby Doo or that dog from the Jetsons would say.

Demrockracy. Ry Rove Roo Rorge.

-adam

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Preston (July 10, 2008)

Totally Flinstones.

Dante3000 (rich) (July 10, 2008)

It's hard to picture Astro saying "Repeal Roe Versus Wade".
-Dante
I mean...it'd just be hard to say with all the R's.

Archangel (July 10, 2008)

God damn you, I was going to make a joke about this being "like a racist white guy attempting to impersonate a generic Asian accent". You win, though.

SloaneDaley (July 10, 2008)

This is nothing but blatant editorial advertising for the upcoming election. How dare you punknews? Where is my report from the front lines of the Bane pit?

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dev (July 10, 2008)

It's like the exact same disdain for Gaslight and everything.

Spazner (July 10, 2008)

Nicely done.

Banal242 (July 10, 2008)

I don't approve of my words being a meme.

I hate memes.

dev (July 10, 2008)

It wasn't us.
- Whole Wheat Bread

Dudley_Shale (July 11, 2008)

Smash Unreal.

SloaneDaley (July 10, 2008)

I don't approve of my words being a meme.

I hate memes.

Banal242 (July 10, 2008)

Go back to your igloo, canuck.

weffjebster (July 10, 2008)

Justin Sane is stoked*

*until he realizes he's probably ineligible

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BMXpunk (July 10, 2008)

why would he be ineligible exactly?

Dudley_Shale (July 11, 2008)

He's not an American citizen anymore. He moved to England.

Banal242 (July 10, 2008)

I would suggest conservativepunk.com suggest some bands, but they seem to have left music by the wayside.

MilesQToast (July 10, 2008)

I guess you could consider playing at Rock the Vote's Ballot Bash 2008 winning a change.

soundforlanguage (July 10, 2008)

People in general are misinformed drones. Your vote DOES NOT matter. Your a fucking sheep that gets to pick between a pile of cat shit and a pile of dog shit. Teaching young people that their vote matters is just creating a new leigon of idiots that think that "democracy rules"

Fuck America. They're lying to you.

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Dante3000 (rich) (July 10, 2008)

It's true. Just ask anyone 18-23. See how much change they've made by not voting?
-Dante

SloaneDaley (July 10, 2008)

you...are.....all.....sheep, SHEEP! baaaahhhhhhhh

Archangel (July 10, 2008)

Hahah fuck I love that movie.

BarleyPat (July 10, 2008)

Nice point, but I liked it better the first time when it was called South Park.

soundforlanguage (July 10, 2008)

So South Park has already covered it? Figures. I never watch TV.

Screamboat (July 10, 2008)

Average US citizen is an idiot.... and here is some T.V. to prove it, because if I said I read that somewhere people wouldn't believe it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJuNgBkloFE&feature=related

VictorIkpeba24 (July 11, 2008)

There is a same kind of video with Italian DEPUTIES. They don't know what Darfour is.

Here it is, even if you probably won't understand a thing : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0x-fmqSXms

jacknife737 (July 10, 2008)

Your views intrigue me, I wish to subscribe to your poorly Xeroxed newsletter.

Grue (July 11, 2008)

Move to North Korea then, they know what's best for you.

soundforlanguage (July 11, 2008)

Nah fuck that, they can't even pay their own light bill.

LORDSHREDDER (July 10, 2008)

I'm a little bit country, I'm a little bit rock n roll.

Shouldn't the bands be required to be politically charged?
Plot Skrewdriver against Anti-Flag.

the_problem_with_fire (July 10, 2008)

ALL is playing in denver on 8/29 fuckers

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dev (July 10, 2008)

Tell me where you heard that right meow.

the_problem_with_fire (July 10, 2008)

from the band. they also just played a friend's wedding about a month ago here in fort collins with chad on vocals, though scott will be singing at the denver show

baldsteve (July 10, 2008)

Everything is coming up Milhouse!

I have never had shows line up for me when I'm working. Now I get Off With Their Heads and All.

Lets just hope Milo is in the area and 'drops by'.

veganboyjosh (July 10, 2008)

those aren't the only shows you'll be going to.

you get my email regarding such?

baldsteve (July 10, 2008)

Yes. We will see what Congress has in store for me, then I'll figure out what my downtime looks like.

veganboyjosh (July 10, 2008)

i can't imagine what congress has in store for you will be much worse than what they have in store for the rest of us...

baldsteve (July 10, 2008)

Yeah, my life is one big 'sneak-preview'

veganboyjosh (July 10, 2008)

How depressing.

baldsteve (July 10, 2008)

You're telling me.

carrymeoutlaw (July 10, 2008)

I've only really paid attention to the '04 election and this year's, but it seems like every year is one of the most important elections in a long time.

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baldsteve (July 10, 2008)

It's like this every time. It never changes. The only one I think didn't really mean anything was the '84 election with Reagan. That was a landslide, and EVERYONE knew it would be.

Dante3000 (rich) (July 10, 2008)

'96 with Clinton Vs. Dole. Holy crap that was a joke fest.
-Dante

baldsteve (July 10, 2008)

Yeah, literally. Norm MacDonald did a fucking great Dole.

The election was even more of a joke.

LORDSHREDDER (July 10, 2008)

I think this one is "important" because of the taboo of it. Also, W will finally be out of office. Regardless of who takes the chair, I think a lot will be radically different, whether it be for the bad or the good.
It always ends up being really frustrating though. I try to focus on the state measures that come up.

TheComebackKid (July 10, 2008)

Go TouchTunes!

From: A proud TouchTunes employee :)

BMXpunk (July 10, 2008)

I'll consider it important when they start showing the other parties that are running instead of this bullshit 2 party system they ram down people's throats. 2 sides of the same damn coin.

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soundforlanguage (July 10, 2008)

For sure, The Libertarians, Greens and Democratic socialists should have a shot.

Guy_Incognito (July 11, 2008)

Amen, I'm not voting for the two major parties again until one of them actually puts forward a real deal leader rather than a career politician.

I'd vote a wacko third party just to tip the balance before I'll vote for another career politician like Obama or McCain.

BMXpunk (July 10, 2008)

In other news... it is a chilly 105 degrees outside right now. The Valley sucks!

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Dudley_Shale (July 11, 2008)

You live in Phoenix?

KungPowza (July 10, 2008)

Rock the Vote isn't about getting more people to vote, it's all about convincing young people to vote Democrat. Totally punx.

ChicagoPat (July 11, 2008)

probably the biggest reason why americans and to a lesser extent canadians are turned off to voting is because of voter antipathy, not voter apathy. that is, because of the winner-takes-all style of elections we have in america certain areas are dominated by one party and people who may have differing political sentiments feel their vote is worthless. it's not that people don't care, it's that people feel the system is rigged against them and get turned off to the "democratic process."

Guy_Incognito (July 11, 2008)

There is very little difference between the two major parties other than how they present their sales pitch.

I'm voting 3rd party for the first time in my life. I know they won't win, but even if I can help them get a significant percentage it will help to change things. It's not like we have a bad law set in this country, it's just that we have a complete lack of leadership.

We elect politicians rather than professional statesmen. For some people, everyone has the Jerry Springer mentality when it comes voting. We'd sooner elect celebrities like Obama or McCain than vote for someone with actual leadership experiance in running a large organization. The USA is the largest organization in the world, you'd think we'd want to elect someone competent at running large organizations successfully. You know, maybe a guy like Jack Welch, Michael Bloomberg

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