Music Choice + October = Rocktober!
Music Choice kicks off a month long celebration of all things rock with an action packed month celebrating ROCKTOBER through October 31st. Celebrating everything from heavy metal to today’s pop rock, Music Choice will give viewers an up close and personal view at the lifestyle and all that surrounds rock culture. FEARnet's own Spider One hosts a spooky themed rock video playlist on Music Choice Video On Demand entitled: Rock The Grave. Videos featured include: Avenged Sevenfold 'Nightmare', Stone Sour 'Say You’ll Haunt Me', Rob Zombie 'Mars Needs Women', and Ozzy Osbourne 'Let Me Hear You Scream' on October 4th. Full details below including info on how to enter the Rock the Bayou @ Voodoo contest.
Want to rock out more? Music Choice and its 24/7 interactive video network SWRV will be hosting a national sweepstakes entitled: “Rock the Bayou @ Voodoo”. One lucky winner and a guest will be flown to New Orleans to attend the annual Voodoo Festival to see artists including Muse, Weezer, and Drake perform live October 29-31st. For a complete list of rules and how to enter click here.
ROCKTOBER highlights for Music Choice On Demand, Music Channels, and SWRV include:
VIDEO ON DEMAND PLAYLIST:
SPIDER, host of FEARnet and singer of Powerman 5000, hosts a spooky themed rock video playlist on Music Choice Video On Demand entitled: “ROCK THE GRAVE”. Videos featured include: Avenged Sevenfold “Nightmare”, Stone Sour “Say You’ll Haunt Me”, Rob Zombie “Mars Needs Women”, and Ozzy Osbourne “Let Me Hear You Scream.”
PREMIERE AIR DATE: October 4
MUSIC CHOICE ORIGINALS:
Certified: Pure Rock vs. Pop Rock
Is traditional rock played out or is pop rock too soft? Special guests like Maroon 5’s Adam Levine and Disturbed along with our panelists weigh in on what’s hot in rock and what’s not.
PREMIERE AIR DATE: October 4, 2010
Speaking Of…
On the Rocktober edition of Speaking Of…, we are “Decoding” how artists like Disturbed, Paramore and Flyleaf feel about their music and their genre.
PREMIERE AIR DATE: October 18, 2010
MUSIC CHANNELS:
ShowOff, Music Choice’s interactive programming block, encourages viewers on its Rock channel to show off appreciations of all things rock with on-screen text messages and photos celebrating Rock’s culture.
AIR DATES: October 11-15, 2010 (3PM -10PM ET)
SWRV:
SWRV TAKEOVER: Rocktober Week
For one week only, rock based artists will be featured on SWRV Takeover! SWRV TAKEOVER is a 15 minute program that airs weeknights at 6 & 9pm ET where the viewer is in full control. Users become the ultimate video jacker by uploading UGV and creating their own playlist consisting of three videos. As the videos are playing, fans and friends are encouraged to comment on the VJ. For this special week, the following artists will take over control of the show:
AIR DATES: 6pm ET/9PT
PARAMORE - 10/25/2010
THE MAINE - 10/26/2010
NEON TREES - 10/27/2010
FLYLEAF - 10/28/2010
NEVERSHOUTNEVER - 10/29/2010
