PAUL GREEN'S SCHOOL OF ROCK Goes Hollywood

Los Angeles Campus to Open in February

Month-long Celebration Begins With Pair of School of Rock All-Stars Concerts

* January 20 @ Knitting Factory *

* January 21 @ Winter NAMM/John Lennon Tour Bus * 'Paul Green is
letting his students in on a secret of life beyond school: Even stuff
that looks easy is hard to do well ... I'd hand out DVDs of ROCK
SCHOOL to everyone in the country with a teaching degree, and dare
them to match this

level of commitment.'

- Ken Tucker, NPR's 'Fresh Air'

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Having already attracted the
adoration of Hollywood on the big screen and concert stage, the
notorious PAUL GREEN SCHOOL OF ROCK is finally going Hollywood for
good with the February opening of its Los Angeles campus.

The West Coast launch firmly roots the PAUL GREEN SCHOOL OF ROCK in
the music industry's top two markets -- New York and LA.

To celebrate this milestone school opening -- and kick off a year of
accelerated expansion around the country -- the internationally
acclaimed SCHOOL OF ROCK ALL-STARS will land in Los Angeles this month
to perform special concerts at the Knitting Factory in Hollywood (Jan.
20) 7 PM and the NAMM Convention in Anaheim at the John Lennon
Educational Tour Bus (Jan. 21) at 1 PM with special guest Mike
Keneally. The SCHOOL OF ROCK ALL-STARS also will be the star
attraction at a private party for Harman Music Group executives
worldwide at NAMM, the nation's largest music convention. They have an
appearance slated at 9 am on Friday on the Mark & Brian Show on KLOS.

"Some of the most important contributions in rock music has come out
of LA, so the Hollywood/Los Angeles area is the next logical step for
us," says Green. "Our shows have always been so successful when our
students perform in LA and we will now have a permanent West Coast
address which is just great."

As such, Green vows to offer a steady influx of special guest star
instructors, seminars and teachers with "tons" of music business
experience at the LA School of Rock. The LA branch manager will be
Carl Restivo, a recent touring member of Extreme, whose long list of
credits includes collaborations with Wyclef Jean, Patti LaBelle, Buju
Banton and Kurupt. Restivo was most recently an instructor at the New
York School of Rock. Two successful industry veterans have joined the
SOR team. Lisa Roy, newly named Vice President on the School of Rock's
Board of Directors, is based in LA. She has previously consulted for
the GRAMMY(R) telecast and was Talent Producer for Music Player
Network, Producer for Guitar Player Magazine's Guitar Hero Concert and
Contributing Editor for EQ and Pro Sound News.

Atop the School of Rock management team is newly named CEO Matt Ross.
Ross is formerly Senior Vice President of Sales at Clear Channel Radio
where he also developed New York's Q104.3 into the country's top
Classic Rock radio station. Together with Roy, they will align with
Green to use the LA campus as a base of operations while the School of
Rock's Southern California expansion extends "up through the Valley
and down to San Diego."

The SCHOOL OF ROCK ALL-STARS arrive in Los Angeles fresh from their
year-ending "Gone for Holidays" tour of the East and Midwest, in which
veteran and newly rising all-star students (ages 9-17) from all seven
East Coast school branches brought the "gift of rock" to capacity
crowds of all ages with the greatest classic rock hits from Zeppelin
to Zappa. Celebrating the fall DVD release of the internationally
acclaimed feature documentary, ROCK SCHOOL, the SCHOOL OF ROCK
ALL-STARS played live on the nationally syndicated Mancow morning
radio show and on the Fox TV morning shows in Cleveland and Chicago.
The tour also attracted significant press attention from major media
outlets everywhere the kids played, including the New Yorker, Village
Voice, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Chicago Reader, Time Out Chicago,
Providence Journal, Burlington Free Press, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,
Pittsburgh City Paper, Cleveland Free Times and Columbus Dispatch.

THE PAUL GREEN SCHOOL OF ROCK -- the apparent inspiration for the Jack
Black full-length hit comedy, School of Rock -- was founded in
Philadelphia, PA in 1998, and is the original performance-based,
interactive music school. The company presently operates 12 schools in
major markets across the United States and is in the process of a
large-scale development plan throughout the U.S. and abroad. To date,
its students have played over 350 concerts to more than 100,000 people
at legendary venues around the world. The primary goal is to foster a
new generation of incredible musicians by exposing the students to
classic rock amid a stimulating, interactive school environment. For
more information, please visit www.SchoolofRock.com.

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