Run To The Border

This IE-er’s favorite local music venues? Metro and House Of Blues. And it has nothing to do with the sound quality, sight lines, or drink prices. They’re both within walking distance of Taco Bell, the perfect boozy, post-show munch house!

Too bad for me, Taco Bell’s Feed The Beat program is providing free food (mmmm . . . Chalupa Baja) to financially strapped young rock bands, not financially strapped young rock journalists who cover them. Last year the fast-food chain introduced Feed The Beat, which gave up-and-coming bands (Pretty In Stereo, Nothing More, and Prospect Hill were among them) free “Fourthmeals” (you’ve seen the commercial, “the late-night meal between dinner and breakfast”) while on tour. Taco Bell are at it again this year, and all your group has to do to for a chance to win a bundle of free tacos is fill out the online submission form. Taco Bell will choose 25 bands who will win a month’s worth of free Fourthmeals ($500 in Taco Bell bucks). And if you’re one of those “won’t sell my soul to an evil corporation” types, consider the company claim they expect nothing (no T-shirts onstage, no vans with the TB logo, no “sponsored by Taco Bell” on your show fliers) in return. Just eat.

To be considered for Feed The Beat, fill out the online form at www.tacobell.com/feedthebeat by August 30th.

– Trevor Fisher

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