Clamor Music Festival Takes Local Culture Above the Radar

Thousands Expected to Attend Simultaneous Nationwide Celebration of Independent Media and Music

(PRWEB) February 23, 2004--No one could do a music festival quite like Clamor Magazine. In keeping with their mission to create an uproar of many voices, Clamor has partnered with other grassroots media organizations, independent venues and musicians to offer an unprecedented musical selection. The Clamor Music Festival will tour nationwide with simultaneous shows on February 28, 2004. A collaboration of dozens of grassroots media organizations, independent venues, and musicians, the result is over 20 cities, 20 partners, 70 bands, and 1 unforgettable party.

Various styles of music will be represented- including folk, hip hop, rock, punk, soul, funk, and hard core - reflecting the diversity of the participants. The venues will include the Brooklyn hot spot Southpaw, The Austin Zine Library, the Grog Shop in Cleveland, and Angel's Sports Bar in Riverside, CA. Each show will be a unique evening of music; some will include spoken word or other types of performances. All of the bands will be local and from independent or self-published labels; each show will celebrate the respective areas independent media.

The Clamor Music Festival is intended to contrast with and protest against the cookie-cutter monoculture fed to us by corporate music venue and radio station monoliths. The Festival is an innovative approach to an old idea. Unlike other, centralized music festivals controlled by a small clique, the Clamor Music Festival is decentralized and organized locally. Because it's spread out horizontally, many more bands and people can participate. The Festival goes beyond music, uniting a wide range of independent media from across the country.

The speed at which the Clamor Music Festival has grown in such a short amount of time is amazing," said co-organizer Joshua Breitbart - also the chief coordinator of the show in Brooklyn. What started out as an idea to have a dozen simultaneous parties to celebrate Clamors anniversary has grown to include 32 cities with shows organized by Clamor and 53 partners - with over 150 bands and Djs performing," added Clamor founder and co-organizer Jason Kucsma. He added,We expect over 6,000 people to be getting down at the shows across the country. Its certainly a one-of-a-kind event - the first time weve seen anything like this, let alone started it."

For a complete list of locations and participants, log onto http://www.clamormagazine.org/cmf.

About Clamor Magazine

Clamor Magazine's mission is to provide a media outlet that reflects the reality of alternative politics and culture in a format that is accessible to people from a variety of backgrounds. As a participatory magazine, it represents a viable alternative to corporate magazines. Clamor Magazine was started by members of the zine community and has stayed connected to that large pool of writers. By publishing first-time and non-professional writers, it constantly helps new people become the media. In terms of distribution, though, Clamor has the look and feel of a mainstream publication and can be found in Barnes & Nobles as well as independent bookstores and infoshops.

Clamor won Best New Title" in Utne's Independent Press Awards in 2000 and has been nominated for Best Cultural Coverage" in 2001, 2002, and 2003. Its editors were featured in Utne as two of 30 young visionaries under 30" who are changing the future.

Clamor is 68 pages per issue, 8.125 x 10.875 printed on acid-free and chlorine-free paper with soy and vegetable inks. Circulation is over 10,000 per issue with an estimated readership of over 25,000. Distribution is exclusively through Big Top Newsstand Services, which is owned and operated by the Independent Press Association.