THE FUTURE OF MUSIC IS HERE!

The world's first crowd sourced rock band.

 

A next-generation socially-intelligent Internet series, Nebula™ ushers audiences backstage as four musicians, independently chosen from thousands of applicants across the country, come together as a crowd sourced rock band ready to tour! 

 

Each episode takes on new challenges, from the songwriting process, to auditions of individual musicians, to dealing with group dynamics, and finally live performance. Along the way musician and songwriting contestants are coached and judged by connected viewers, and a panel of music industry veterans.

On our journey from possibly thousands of applicants to the final members of the group, the musicians will study their craft with our panel of professionals, and learn to work together towards a common dream of musical stardom. Connected viewers get to interact online with our show in new and exciting ways.

Join us for the premiere season - AND the ones to follow - as we dip into different genres and launch a NEW band, enjoying the creativity and drama as our contestants give their all for a shot at musical greatness.

SONGWRITERS: SIGNUP NOW!

Follow the birth of the next big thing as the Nebula series brings together far-flung protostars to ignite a fusion reaction. 

Only on Nebula™, viewers get an unprecedented vantage point to observe the genesis and development of a real band, and also directly participate in the group’s formation.

Searching the entire United States to find new talent, Nebula™ taps into the resources (songwriters, drummers, bassists, guitarists, and vocalists) currently underserved by the typical singer/dancer oriented talent vehicles, and desiring to be part of a working band. After a simplified online registration process, the contestants’ virtual auditions will be judged by audiences at home! Then a rigorous screening process involving both ordinary viewers - and a panel of industry professionals will together determine the winning participants. The ongoing dramatic hook unfolds each episode as our hopeful stars compete to join the band, build their skills, overcome fears and learn to play with one another!

 

Nebula™ seeks to discover, cultivate, and promote emerging musical talent under the guiding ideal that the most successful groups will always be greater than the sum of their parts. Following that philosophy, the project focuses on the active creation of bands -- introducing the proper elements to spark that ever-elusive chemistry and ignite a reaction to rattle the charts. So often, talented musicians fail to meet like-minded and equally-skilled peers for reasons of geography or dumb luck. At essence, Nebula™ supplies the ‘helping hand’ once left to fate through which guitarists could find their rhythm section - or songwriters gain their voice.

 

Although the first season will concern itself with the traditional pop/rock combo, the Nebula™ model is seamlessly adaptable to different genres -  including (but not limited to) hip-hop, electronica, country, metal, roots, and world music. Given the incredible diversity of modern markets and style-mashing trends, the project strives from the outset to appeal to the widest possible demographic in clear acknowledgement of the wide-ranging tastes of current entertainment consumers.

 

By syncing with social media empowered voting, viewers forge their own emotional investment and buy into each episodes’ underlying nuts-and-bolts decisions that can literally make or break a young band! With the nascent group’s direction quite literally “in their hands”, the audience has little choice but to examine intra-band dynamics and select a participant that seems like the best possible fit. This process presents to the audience an enormous potential for ongoing interest - and continued support of the project above and beyond the personal cachet of an individual talent!

 

Nebula™ offers candidates five possible roles:

• Songwriter
• Drummer
• Bassist
• Guitarist
• Vocalist

 

and is divided into four phases:

• Online Auditions | Songwriters   
• Online Auditions | Musicians
• Live Competition
• Band Development

 

Round 1 begins for songwriters on July 30th.
Register and try out for the show with a simple soundfile submission, then tell your friends to vote for you! 

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Phase 1: Online Auditions | Songwriters 

8 separate rounds of auditions will create 8 winning songwriters!

• Songwriters can submit SOUNDFILES into one or more of the songwriter audition rounds.
• After a round begins, the public will have a period of time to vote.
• 3 esteemed judges will select the winner of each round from the top three highest voted songs.
• The winning songwriter in each of the eight rounds will move on to the live competition!

 

Songwriters: Round 1	Start Date	End Date	Fee
Regular Submission	August 16th, 2017	August 30th, 2017	$20
Late Submission	August 31st, 2017	September 29th, 2017	$30

 

Key Dates: Round 1
August 16th, 2017:  Call for Entries opens
September 16th, 2017: Final Call for Entries closes
October 1st, 2017: The round 1 winner is announced.

*Note: Songwriter rounds 2 thru 8 start (& end) dates to be announced.

You may also choose to enter into more than one song round or you may choose to enter more than one song per song round...no problem, simply pay the fee per each song submission. If work is entered in multiple song rounds, you have multiple chances of winning...but you can only win once!