The Westword Music Showcase

The Westword Music Showcase
This Saturday: June 16th, 2007 in Denver

Click Here to Watch Westword TV!
(see the some of the bands)

Denver's hipster-cool music, art, culture and more paper! Every year this paper
calls apon the people to help support Denver's best kept music scene.
Bringing together the best writer, insiders and music promoters, club owners and fans
to choose their favorite acts. Then they put together a festival where everyone
could come see these top acts. Every year the show gets bigger and better.

Headliners include:
Dinosaur Jr. * Lucero * The Swayback
Planes Mistaken for Stars * Nathan & Stephen
Born in the Flood * Laylight
And more...

Don't miss it!

Second Life/Tantra/ManiaTV : World's First Virtual Concert

ManiaTV! Teams with Tantra
World Wide to Simulcast the
World's First LIVE and 3-D Cyber
Music Festival

This is online history, real time music showcase featuring popular bands and celebrity cameos is set to take place on multiple platforms simultaneously using 3-D virtual phenomenon Second Life and ManiaTV!'s LIVE Internet TV platform. Denver, CO.

ManiaTV! and Tantra World Wide today announced
The world's first LIVE 3-D concert scheduled for:

May 12th, 2007 from 9:00PM-12:30AM EST.

The event, dubbed DV8-Live Cyber Festival, was put together by Farook Singh of Tantra WW and ManiaTV! as the first in a series innovative cyber concerts to be produced by the two companies. Anyone with a broadband connection worldwide will be able to watch the concert LIVE at ManiaTV! for free. For a full listing of concert details and to preview the virtual settings, Click here or go to www.tantraww.com.

Celebrity Jamie Kennedy, the star of Kickin' It Old Skool and ManiaTV!'s newest celebisodes will make cameos in-between award-winning musical acts Born in The Flood, Meese and The Photo Atlas. The popular bands will each perform a 45-minute concert in ManiaTV! studios to be broadcast on ManiaTV!'s LIVE Internet TV stream and simulcast in various virtual 3D settings on Second Life.

The virtual portion, beamed to Second Life in real time, will take place on a variety of islands, each with a different design, topography and ambience, such as: lushes gardens, underwater lost worlds, castles and urban scenes.
Concert goers will be able to access the 3D concert via www.tantraww.com.

SOCIAL CAUSE: GLOBAL WARMING- DV8 has invited social awareness partner 8th Wonder of the World, a global series focusing on the 'Betterment of Children' and paralleling the United Nations 8 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). MDG Number 7-Enviromental has been chosen for this Cyber Music Festival. 8th Wonder of the World and DV8 will use this amazing event to increase global awareness for the benefit of Planet Earth and help fight Global Warming by producing a ' Zero to Low Emissions' Music Festival.
8th Wonder of the World has also invited MannaRelief, a children's charity providing essential nutritional supplements to sick and impoverished children around the world.

ManiaTV.com

Learn More about Tantra WW
http://www.tantraww.com/

Learn More about 8th Wonder of the World
http://www.8thwow.com/

Learn More about MannaRelief
http://www.mannarelief.org/

ManiaTV.com at SXSW Austin, TX

ManiaTV at SXSW in Austin TX
March 20th, 2007

The SXSW showcase party we sponsored in Austin was a HUGE SUCCESS!
The party was "sold-out", five times over, with lines across the street of over 60 people!

"People were climbing in through the windows to try and get a glance."
- Dodge, My Old Kentucky Blog


Our party was a beautiful thing. Supported by the Monolith Festival at Red Rocks, ManiaTV.com, My Old Kentucky Blog, and more...

First up came Denver's best known up-all-nighters, Machine Gun Blues, and those boys can start of an event like none other with pure Rock and sexy entertainment.

The Western States Motel (Los Angeles) eased the crowd into their ethereal beck-esque driving music.

Third came the Laylights (Denver) who created new fans with an inspired performance and dashing presence.

Followed by Cameron McGill (Chicago), whom when asked by him to shut the windows and doors for the event we knew we were in for something a little more enchanting, and he did not let us down with his pure and gritty vocals, with acoustic guitar and backed by four string instruments that echoed through the hallways and turned the crowed silent.

By that time, the event was at capacity and there was a line across the street of over 80 people waiting to get in to the venue and it barely broke to the end.

Cloud Cult (Minneapolis) captivated the packed house with an emotional performance while painters created artwork to the music outside the window.

Earl Greyhound (New York), over the course of SXSW, had quickly become the proverbial 'Next-Big-Thing', and the excitement showed in the crowd and with the band, you could feel it in the air. Video cameras and photographers crammed into every nook and canny, jumped on speakers, did anything they could to capture a glimpse of these next Rock 'n' Roll gods.

Next up was Born in the Flood (Denver), we were their last showcase which paid off with their balls out approach and while touching the hearts of everyone in the room.

Finally Dios Malos (Hawthorne) eased us out with the smooth Indie Rock that warrants their comparisons to The Shins with just a little more flavor in their mix.

Overall these bands made this event a great success and all the right people seemed to be there supporting it.
ManiaTV.com

Check out the footage (should be up shortly): ManiaTV.com/tv/Monolith