SLASH Announces Judges For First-Ever ‘Slashathon’

Slash will be joined by Bram Cohen (chief scientist and founder of BitTorrent) and Robert Scoble (first employee at Microsoft, creator of Hackathons, Rackspace) onsite in Austin to judge the Slashathon. Also, a major entrepreneur in the world of tech will make a surprise guest appearance. The Grand Prize includes a Gibson guitar autographed by Slash, $1,000 dollars and the opportunity to have Slash use the winning hack with the release of his new album, coming out in late 2014.
Register for the Slashathon at: www.slashathon.com. *SXSW badges are not required to participate.
Slashathon
Wednesday, March 12
@ Capitol Factory, Austin
8:30 a.m.: Registration
9:00 a.m.: API presentations
10:00 a.m.: Hacking begins
1:30 p.m.: Lunch
7:00 p.m.: Presentations
8:30: Awards
A pioneer in blending tech and music, Slash launched his first two music apps “Slash360” and “Slash AmpliTube”, to promote the “Apocalyptic Love” album (2012) featuring his band MYLES KENNEDY AND THE CONSPIRATORS. The critically acclaimed album “Apocalyptic Love” earned Slash his two first-ever No. 1 rock radio hits — “You’re A Lie” and “Standing In The Sun” — and stormed onto The Billboard 200 chart at No. 4, marking the top rock debut for that week. Last year, Slash also partnered with the Swedish company Rovio — creator of the popular mobile game Angry Birds — to create a theme song for the “Angry Birds Space”.
Slash and his band are currently in the studio working on a new album, to be released in the fall of 2014.