Live is better!And live again to play in front of the public on the stage of the Florentine clubs, the young artists who will compete for the 34th edition of the Rock Contest, the national competition open to all musical genres.There will be many new proposals and 15,000 euros the total amount of the prizes that will allow the winners to enhance their artistic project and grow professionally, with studio recordings and video clips, promotion, photo shoots, tour organization and more.The 30 soloists / bands, selected from more than 600 members, will compete in five preliminaries and two online semi-finals, from 24 October to 24 November.The first selection on 24 October at the Combo Social Club;the second on the 26th at the Glue Alternative Concept Space;the third on November 2nd at the Combo Social Club;the fourth on November 4 at the Glue Alternative Concept Space, where the fifth will also take place on November 8 and the first semifinal on November 17;the second semifinal will be on November 24 at the Combo Social Club. On Saturday, December 3, the final at the Viper Theater, where Emma Nolde, discovered in the 2019 edition, will be a special guest, who will present Dormi, her second album.The evenings will be recorded by live videos on the web channels (website, Facebook page and YouTube channel) of Controradio and Rock Contest, starting at 9.30pm."There is a universe of sounds that the media often fail to intercept - said the artistic director of the Rock Contest Giuseppe Barone - many musicians who are not there to be squeezed between the followers of the trap and the Måneskin, very young musicians who they want and urgent to be known and represented, they want to confront a real audience to test their compositions, the Rock Contest wants to fill that void giving voice to the most innovative and daring productions, helping them to become professional ».The magnificent thirty are: Androgynus (Grosseto / Rome), Asa's Mezzanine (Siena), Blue Lotus Wine (Florence), Bohème (Milan), Bram Stalker (Rieti / Chieti), Calliope (Livorno), Edible Cannibals (Trento), Caterina (Bologna), Cinus (Lucca), DOA - Death Of Autotune (Brescia / Bergamo), Dino Flange (Brescia), Forgotten Dream (Cremona), Giuliomaria (Florence), Hitch Von Cassen & The Dreamers (Chieti / Pescara), Lamante (Vicenza), Le Pietre Dei Giganti (Florence), Lonely Blue (Turin), Marte (Genoa), Martini Police (Lecco), Mundial (Lecce), Nobody (Rome / Genoa / London), O: odal (Florence), Orthopédie (Florence), Ossa di Cane (Siena), Pitoni (Rome), Riccardo Morandini (Bologna), The Black Armadillos (Genoa), Una (Lucca), Wake up in the Cosmos (Arezzo), Wicked Expectation (Turin).The first place will receive the Rock Contest Prize of 3,000 euros;on the second five days of recording with Andrea Ciacchini at the Sam Recording Studio, one of the most prestigious and qualified studios in Italy.Among the many awards, the novelty of the Publiacqua Award, for the song that best expresses the themes of sustainability, inclusion and equality.And then the Italia Music Export Award, which will be awarded to the music project that will demonstrate the greatest potential for export to foreign markets.A free consultation session with the experts of Italia Music Export will be held for the winning group or soloist.Furthermore, two of the finalists of the Rock Contest 2022, chosen by the Rockit editorial staff, will receive the Rockit PRO Award, with the subscription of a year to the homonymous service of the music magazine, which offers numerous opportunities to emerging artists, which will also be activated for the winner of this edition of the Contest.