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Yes, we've been here 10 Years!

September 2008 marked the 10th year that RoughEdge.com has been online. In September of 1998, we made the move from a weekly column in the Ventura County Reporter to the big ol' Internet. A lot has happened in those ten years, not all of it good. But we wouldn't trade it for anything.

And we've grown a lot since that little six column inch news feature in the local paper. Not only do we now have literally thousands of CD reviews now, but we also have several online radio shows, including Rough Edge Radio, Rough Edge Classic and, our latest, Rough Edge: The Podcast. And those are just the Rough Edge shows. Rough Edge Studios also produces The Backseat Mogul Show and The Friday Shot Day Show, and all of these shows can be heard live each week on ErrorFM.com and many are also available via podcast. For more information, just click on the highlighted links.

Once again, I want to humbly thank our entire staff. Special thanks, as always, go to our East Coast Editor Christopher J. Kelter, Senior Staff Writer Steve "Snidermann" Snider, Metal Mark (visit Mark's blog at http://www.metalmark.blogspot.com) and the very prolific and talented Mike SOS (check out Mike's band at www.sosnyc.com) and Jeff Rogers (read Jeff's other work at www.associatedcontent.com). And thanks also to Spudbeast and Ray Van Horn Jr, both great writers who simply don't do enough work for us.

 

The 10th Anniversary of RoughEdge.com is also the 4th Anniversary of our first Internet radio show: Rough Edge Radio. Rough Edge Radio is a hard rock / heavy metal / punk rock Internet radio show that broadcasts live each Tuesday night at 6:00 PM Pacific with a repeat on Thursday at the same time. Please join us each week at www.roughedgeradio.com or through our internet broadcast station, ErrorFM.com. And, again as I mentioned earlier, please check out our other Rough Edge Productions, listed below, the schedule for which you can find over at http://www.ErrorFM.com:
Rough Edge Classic
Rough Edge: The Podcast
The Backseat Mogul Show
The Friday Shot Day Show

Of course, most of all, we thank you, the readers, for visiting Rough Edge often enough to make all of our work worthwhile. We often say we do this for the love of the music and, while that's true, we know we wouldn't be doing it if it weren't for you. If there's ever anything we can do for you, please just let us know.

R. Scott Bolton
Editor

 

Our contests are painfully easy to enter. Just enter your name in the box for the contest you'd like to enter (yes, you can enter them all) and click Submit. Your e-mail address will be placed in our old, tattered leather hat and, once a month or so, we'll pull out a batch of e-mail addresses and - if luck is with you - you'll be a winner! (Don't worry, we hate spam as much as you - we won't share your name and address with anybody without giving you the chance to opt out. Some of the record companies insist on gathering e-mail if you opt in to receive more information). By the way, winners will be notified by e-mail so make sure your e-mail address is valid. 

The long-awaited new CD from Queensryche, "American Soldier," is now at your favorite record store and, Queensryche fans are giving this CD a big thumbs up. In celebration of the new release, Rough Edge is offering a Queensryche prize package including an "American Soldier" t-shirt, an "American Soldier" patch and a copy of the CD itself. Pretty awesome, no? Just enter your e-mail address in the spot below and click Submit. If your name is drawn, the prize package is yours! In the meantime, check out http://www.queensryche.com/ for more info. 

 

 

The Great Kat is one of the world's fastest shredders. Don't believe me? Then check out her website at http://www.greatkat.com for some examples. Once you've seen her in action (and once you've read our reviews of The Great Kat's CDs and DVDs here on Rough Edge), you know you're going to need some Great Kat for you music collection. Why not start here, with her brand new DVD release, "Beethoven's Guitar Shred." All you have to do is enter your e-mail address in the box below, click Submit and wait for an e-mail from us telling you that your name was drawn from our tattered leather hat. Oh, and did I mention that our copies are autographed by the Great one herself?

 

 

"Red Right Return," the new CD by JANUS, is gathering rave reviews across the web (including one here by Snidermann) and this is your chance to hear it for yourself. Enter your e-mail in the box below and three lucky winners will be drawn to win a copy of the band's CD. The band has requested the e-mail addresses of all who enter so they can keep you informed. For more information, check out http://www.myspace.com/janusband or, to see the band's video for "If You Were Me," visit RoughEdgeTV (http://www.roughedgetv.com).

 

 

Again, let us thank you for reading RoughEdge.com. We're thrilled to still be going strong after so many years and we're delighted to see you coming back for more. As always, if you see something you really like (or really don't like) let me know personally at rsb@roughedge.com. I promise to give your suggestions the utmost consideration, even if they suck. 

And don't forget to visit our other sponsors and friends:

JEFF GAITHER GRAPHIX: Jeff is the great rock'n'roll artist who created our new Rough Edge guitarsaw and our new Rough Ed. To read our interview with Jeff, click here, or click here to visit his website - but leave your sanity at home where it will be safe.


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Again, thanks to everyone for reading RoughEdge.com. Keep it Rough!

R. Scott Bolton
Publisher/Editor


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