''Rock on Request'' was an American daily

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publication owned by

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devoted to

music criticism ''The Oxford Companion to Music'' defines music criticism as "the intellectual activity of formulating judgments on the value and degree of excellence of individual works of music, or whole groups or genres". In this sense, it is a branch of mus ...

and commentary, music news, and artist interviews. Its focus was on

rock music Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as " rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles in the mid-1960s and later, particularly in the United States an ...

. The webzine was created in Holly Springs,

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on May 20, 2007 by the music journalist Christina Avina, which had previously worked for

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. The webzine featured the latest news, interviews, record reviews, live shows, as well competitions. It held a yearly awards called the Rock on Request Awards, which were disestablished in 2010. The webzine later established a Battle of the Bands.

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