{"id":21710,"date":"2017-02-02T10:37:52","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T15:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/?p=21710"},"modified":"2017-02-02T10:37:52","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T15:37:52","slug":"orlando-overdrive-nerd-music-showcase-announced-with-performer-voting-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/orlando-overdrive-nerd-music-showcase-announced-with-performer-voting-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando Overdrive \u201cNerd Music\u201d Showcase Announced, With Performer Voting Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21711\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/OOFull.jpg\" alt=\"OOFull\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/OOFull.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/OOFull-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/OOFull-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/OOFull-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">ORLANDO, Fla., February 1 st 2017 &#8212; On Saturday, April 22 nd 2017, the best of Orlando\u2019s nerd music<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">community of video game bands, remixers, chiptune artists, nerdcore emcees, and geek rockers take the<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">stage for the second annual Orlando Overdrive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Orlando Overdrive, spun off from Ongaku Overdrive to shine the spotlight on Orlando\u2019s best and<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">nerdiest musicians, ended up being a remarkable success in its first outing, featuring Random<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Encounter, Marc with a C, Eye Q, NESkimos, Boy Without Batteries, Quartz Relic, Sci-Fried, and Benjamin<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Briggs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This year, the lineup will be chosen by the fans. A poll is open at <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/OrlandoOverdrive2017\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/OrlandoOverdrive2017<\/a> until<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">February 13 th . There are seventeen acts to vote for and the nine with the most votes will be selected to<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">play at Orlando Overdrive 2017.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The candidates represent a wide range of geek-influenced music, featuring Benjamin Briggs, BFunk20XX,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Boy Without Batteries, dj-Jo, EyeQ, Geekapella, Jackson Parodi, Mag.Lo, MagiTek, Marc with a C, Milk<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Carton Superstars, Quartz Relic, NESkimos, O_Super, Sci-Fried, Shammers, and Under Polaris.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cBeing a longtime resident of Orlando and a big fan of our \u2018nerd\u2019 music community, I wanted to put on<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">an event that showcased our city\u2019s own performers,\u201d said Kent Ward, the organizer of Orlando<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Overdrive. \u201cI hope this event ends up giving Orlando nerd music a huge boost and opens up doors for<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">our acts to do amazing things in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Orlando Overdrive will take place at BackBooth, located at 37 W. Pine Street, Orlando, FL 32801. The<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">event is all ages and tickets start at $10. For performer announcements and other updates, visit<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">www.ongakuoverdrive.com and follow @OngakuOverdrive on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ORLANDO, Fla., February 1 st 2017 &#8212; On Saturday, April 22 nd 2017, the best of Orlando\u2019s nerd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21713,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21710\/revisions\/21713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}