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In the United States one of the oldest rows of a battle of the bands talent show has been hosted by the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, the first time in 1959. [3] The annual contest was meant to showcase teenage musicians and singers, the participants were either independent or associated with high schools and competed in several divisions like school band, vocal group, vocalist and combo.
The Fortune Battle of the Corporate Bands is an annual music competition for amateur company-sponsored bands in the United States, Europe and Australia.Created in 2001, the contest's proceeds benefit the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, which also serves as the location for the final round of the competition.
Rock Star: INXS is the first season of the reality television show Rock Star where fifteen contestants competed to become the lead vocalist for the Australian rock band INXS. INXS enjoyed great popularity through the 1980s and early 1990s, but after frontman Michael Hutchence died in 1997, the band attempted to continue with alternate singers ...
Burnett has made a statement that he would like to bring Rock Star back for a third season. Velvet Revolver was a potential candidate; however, the band declined. The show is notable for having future season 5 American Idol contestant Chris Daughtry audition for its first season. Daughtry did not make the cut for Rock Star: INXS.
Eagles of Death Metal bassist Jennie Vee in 1991 with her grand prize from Sassy magazine's Biggest Cure Fan contest. (Photo: Instagram)
Rock Star: Supernova is the second season of the reality television show Rock Star.The show, hosted by Dave Navarro and Brooke Burke, featured 15 contestants competing to become the lead vocalist for a newly formed supergroup featuring Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee, former Metallica bassist Jason Newsted, and former Guns N' Roses guitarist Gilby Clarke.
Hoadley's Battle of the Sounds was an annual national rock/pop band competition held in Australia from 1966 to 1972. [1] The winners of the national finals were the Twilights (1966), the Groop (1967), the Groove (1968), Doug Parkinson in Focus (main, 1969) and the Affair (vocal group, 1969), the Flying Circus (1970), Fraternity (1971) and Sherbet (1972).
The All-Japan Band Association annual contest appears to be the world's largest music competition in terms of the number of active contestants, [6] with approximately 800,000 competing musicians in more than 14,000 bands. [7] A competition which has recently hit the United Kingdom music scene is called SoundWave Music Competition.