ARTISTdirect.com Promotes ``Family Values'' Through Launch of Official Tour Web Site.ENCINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 17, 1999-- ARTISTdirect.com Brings Tour Headliners Limp Bizkit, Filter and The Crystal Method One Step Closer to Fans With Live Webcasts, Exclusive Interviews and Video Chats ARTISTdirect.com Friday announced the launch of the official Family Values Tour The Family Values Tour was created by the band Korn in 1998 to be an annual nu metal, Alternative Metal, Heavy Metal, Hard Rock and Rap tour. Korn headlined the first tour, then passed the headlining spot to Limp Bizkit in 1999. Web site (www.artistdirect.com/familyvalues) featuring live tour webcasts, a daily tour diary and exclusive photos of the Family Values Tour. "The development of the Family Values Tour Web site further demonstrates ARTISTdirect's commitment to connecting fans directly to their favorite artists," said Marc Geiger, chief executive officer, ARTISTdirect. "Through the Web site we're giving fans the chance to peer through the looking glass Looking Glass - A desktop manager for Unix from Visix. and get a behind-the-scenes look at what's really happening on the Family Values Tour." The Web site will showcase several facets of the Family Values Tour. The Web site components include:
-- Family Values Tour information: This lists participating bands,
tour dates, show times, press releases and houses the official
news archive.
-- Family Values Tour contests: Fans can enter drawings for
ticket give-aways and special Family Values contests in this
section.
-- Family Values Tour events: Fans can find out about special tour
events such as webcasts, live downloads, chats from the road and
a fan conference where contest winners can have their questions
answered live by a panel of Family Value artists.
-- Family Values Tour daily updates: A webmaster will post daily
behind-the-scenes photos, interviews and make updates to a daily
road diary.
-- Family Values Tour store: Fans are able to buy tour merchandise
and official band merchandise on this portion of the Web site.
In addition to hosting the official show Web site, ARTISTdirect is connecting fans with artists through contests aimed at giving fans the chance to win or upgrade their concert tickets. Fans will be able to showcase their singing or stupid human trick talents at karaoke karaoke (Japanese; “empty orchestra”) Use of a device that plays instrumental accompaniments to songs with the vocal tracks removed, permitting the user to sing the lead. contests sponsored by ARTISTdirect. The winners of the karaoke contests can then turn in their nosebleed nosebleed, nasal hemorrhage occurring as the result of local injury or disturbance. Most nosebleeds are not serious and occur when one of the small veins of the septum (the partition between the nostrils) ruptures. tickets for premium seats. ARTISTdirect has also recruited girl-about-town TC to be the official Family Values Tour roving reporter roving reporter n → reporter volant roving reporter n → Reporter(in) m(f) im Außendienst roving reporter n , going behind-the-scenes to interview fans and artists on the tour. TC will be posting regular road reports at the site, facilitating the karaoke contest and picking up the local flavor from each tour destination. "I'm a proud representative of the seedy underbelly of the Hollywood rock Hollywood Rock was a music festival which took place in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, from 1988 to 1996. The festival was sponsored and organised by the Souza Cruz tobacco company, owners of the Hollywood cigarette brand. and roll scene," TC commented. "I'm looking forward to bringing the underbelly of the Family Values Tour to the online community." The brainchild of KORN, its management company The Firm and Metropolitan Entertainment, the Family Values Tour will launch year number two Sept. 21 in Pittsburgh at the Pittsburgh Civic Center, hitting approximately 30 cities until it concludes Oct. 31 in Biloxi at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum The Mississippi Coast Coliseum is a 9,150-seat multi-purpose arena in Biloxi, Mississippi. It was built in 1977. It hosted WCW Beach Blast 1993 and the Sun Belt Conference men’s basketball tournament in 1992 and 1993. . 1999's line-up of the Sega(R) Dreamcast(TM) and ARTISTdirect Family Values Tour features headliners Limp Bizkit, along with Filter, The Crystal Method, DMX See DMX512. , Method Man & Redman, Primus, System Of A Down and Staind. Staind will open shows from the tour's launch through Oct. 13 in Minneapolis, after which System Of A Down jumps in for the rest of the journey. Primus joins the trek Oct. 13 in Minneapolis taking over for the Crystal Method. Meanwhile, Method Man & Redman will take the DMX slot starting Oct. 19 in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden . Last year's debut of the Family Values Tour was an overwhelming success with 243,000 attendees and revenues of $6.4 million. The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Morning daily newspaper. Established in 1881, it was purchased and incorporated in 1884 by Harrison Gray Otis (1837–1917) under The Times-Mirror Co. (the hyphen was later dropped from the name). touted the tour as "one of the rock spectacles of the year." Performances from the tour resulted in a gold-certified live album still ranking on Billboard's Top 200 albums chart. About ARTISTdirect Network The ARTISTdirect Network is one of the leading music destinations on the Web. The network is comprised of UBL (Universal Business Language) A format for exchanging data from one XML business language to another. Based on ebXML Core Components, UBL is designed to provide a common language that acts as an intermediate vocabulary so that one XML vocabulary can interoperate with .com (the Ultimate Band List), the only music specific search engine; iMusic, the premier music community site on the Web; ARTISTdirect artist-specific commerce sites and channels; and the ARTISTdirect Superstore, a retail center for leading bands and artists. |
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