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ABOUT ROCKWiRED MAGAZiNE
http://www.rockwired.com/patback.jpgROCKWiRED founder BRiAN LUSH in the presence of rock legends PAT BENATAR and NEiL GiRALDO
ROCKWIRED.COM was launched on New Years Eve of 2004 as a means of promoting the weekly internet radio show ROCKWIRED LIVE (which LUSH produced and hosted from January 2005 to April 2009). As a means of attracting listeners, LUSH turned the website into a forum where artists could discuss their life and work. This forum became known as the ROCKWIRED ON-LINE EXCLUSIVE and after being billed as such, LUSH noticed something curious. “The number of people who came to ROCKWIRED.COM for the printed interviews was exponentially larger than the number of people that tuned in for the weekly broadcast.” says LUSH. “The website was launched as a satellite for the radio show and eventually the show became the satellite for the website. I never saw that coming.”

Despite a Bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing and not Journalism, LUSH still had a wealth of journalistic understanding to make something like ROCKWIRED happen. He credits music journalists such as VICTOR BOCKRIS and LIZ DERRINGER as inspirations. “It was those two that made the job look cool.” says LUSH. “Those guys interviewed the artists that I grew up idolizing and they did it by simply talking to them like they were people. That always seemed like such an interesting approach to me.”

For the past five years, ROCKWIRED.COM has boasted a one-of-a-kind, online musical reportage. Not only has the independently published venture gained international notoriety, but it has also given LUSH some of the best conversation of his life. “I guess that is why anyone would really want to do something like this. No one really thinks about how hard a good conversation is to come by and with ROCKWIRED I feel blessed.”

Since 2007, ROCKWIRED.COM has hosted the annual ROCKWIRED READER'S POLL AWARDS which celebrate the top artists to be featured on ROCKWIRED.COM and ROCKWIRED LIVE . The annual event attracts voters and music fans from around the globe and in turn cements ROCKWIRED as an exciting forum for artists to speak openly and honestly about their work. "It's kind of like Christmas for me." says LUSH "For a moment, ROCKWIRED gets to step out of it's bubble and do something fun, and it's always a blast to see listeners and fans participate."

Free of any limits that would be put on him by Top Forty Radio or conventional “music” magazines, BRIAN LUSH feels "tremendously rewarded" by the experience and has no plans of stopping anytime soon.

What keeps him going? The artists themselves.

"Every artist that comes to ROCKWIRED comes from a different place, not just in terms of genre but in terms of who they are as people - real individuals. You never know what's going to happen next."
OUR STAFF

http://www.rockwired.com/brian.JPG BRiAN LUSH (FOUNDER, EDiTOR-iN-CHiEF)
BRIAN LUSH holds a BA in Creative Writing from the UNiVERSITY OF NEW MEXiCO. He established ROCKWIRED on New Years of 2004 and hasn’t looked back since. From January 2005 to March 2009, LUSH was the host of the weekly internet radio show ROCKWiRED LiVE. He produced the program for the AMERiCAN RADIO NETWORK. As the editor-in-chief for ROCKWiRED MAGAZiNE, LUSH is hands-on when it comes to interviewing and building a lasting rapport with the artists that come ROCKWiRED’s way. As a youngster, BRIAN LUSH had no idea what kind of seed was being planted by reading magazines such as HIT PARADE, HIGH TIMES, SPIN, REQUEST (remember that one?) and even ROLLING STONE. “Those were the days before the internet and being a rock journalist looked like the coolest job imaginable.” says LUSH “But reading these magazines had me imagining that one day I’d be the artist giving all of the clever answers to some poor guy with a tape recorder. Well, life has a way of surprising you. Now, I’m the poor guy with the tape recorder and asking all of the questions.”
CONTACT BRiAN LUSH AT: djlush@rockwired.com


http://www.rockwired.com/layli.jpgLAYLi LONG SOLDiER (ASST. EDiTOR, JOURNALiST)
LAYLI LONG SOLDIER holds a BFA in creative writing from the INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN ARTS. She is a two-time recipient of the TRUMAN CAPOTE CREATIVE WRITING FELLOWSHIP. She is also a recipient of the 2009 NAROPA UNIVERSITY POETRY SCHOLARSHIP. She has served as editor-in-chief for “NATIVE LANGUAGE NETWORK” and other publications for the INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE INSTITUTE in Santa Fe, NM. In addition to her background in writing, she is lead guitarist and vocalist for M=WATER. She is a writer and assistant editor for the online music journal ROCKWIRED MAGAZINE. Her first chapbook of poetry is titled, ‘CHROMOSOMORY’ (Q Ave Press, 2009). 

CONTACT LAYLi LONG SOLDiER AT: layli@rockwired.com

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