Local Band Competes in Worldwide Online Voting Contest

A band with local roots recently won a regional contest.

neXusROCK was named the winner of the HardRock Rising Battle of the Bands in San Francisco and is part of a global voting contest, according to a Union City Patch announcement. 

Voting ends Wednesday, May 1.

The band, which now plays out of Oakland, has roots to Union City and has been together for 10 years. 

Here's more information about neXusROCK from nexusrock.com

neXusROCK is a band from Oakland, CA with roots in Union City, CA.  For over 10 years, the group has evolved and grown together musically, professionally, and above all as friends. In 2007 neXusROCK released their 1st full length compilation album featuring clients and artists from Nexus Audio Studio, run by drummer and owner Chris Paxton and founded by the band in 2005 when they strived to find a place to record themselves. Throughout the rise of Nexus Audio Studio, the band has invested and enjoyed the benefits of recording their own album WRITTEN, RECORDEDand MIXED completely by the band led by engineer Chris Paxton. Mastered by Mike Wells in Los Angeles, CA The group's original name "neXus" came from Amyx watching the David Letterman show in high school, as Letterman said he "had a nexus with the audience". Amyx looked up the word in the dictionary and it described "a connection, or central hub". As the studio and the band began to grow their own identities, the studio was dubbed Nexus Audio Studio, and the band simply added "Rock" to land on neXusROCK.

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