Claremont native Tyler Anthony and his metal group Dissonance are competing in Danny Wimmer Presents’ “Battle for the Big Stage,” a national music contest that streams on Twitch TV every Sunday, with unsigned bands competing for a chance to play the 2026 Welcome to Rockville Festival in Daytona Beach, Florida.

The weekly event, part of “That Space Zebra Show,” features hosts Bobby Schubenski, Josh Balz, and Jake Miller. Fans listen to music clips and vote on which bands advance to the next round of the competition.

“We’re still waiting on info from That Space Zebra Show … for when the competition will move into the next bracket,” wrote the band’s manager (and Tyler’s mother) Elizabeth Anthony in an email Monday. “We watched the livestream yesterday and they mentioned that there will be at least two to three more weekends of open submissions. So if that’s true then the earliest that Dissonance could possibly be voted on again would be sometime in December.”

Tyler, who now lives in Spokane, Washington, attended Sycamore Elementary School and Claremont Community School of Music. He began drumming at age 5 under the guidance of Homero Chavez, and trained at DrumSync Academy and California School of the Arts – San Gabriel Valley. Earlier this year he was named a top 40 finalist in Zildjian’s global “Young Drummer of the Year” competition.

Dissonance includes Tyler, a sophomore at Lewis and Clark High School in Spokane, Ross Nair, and Whitman Fadeley. The band’s debut album, “Beneath,” will be released November 28.

“We’re only sophomores still in high school,” Tyler wrote in an email. “We’re 15 years old. Actually, Whit our bass player just turned 16. We don’t even have jobs yet, but we’ve got heart and the drive to win. Most of these other bands are light-years ahead of us in age, with jobs, money, and some even have well produced music videos. We don’t have any of that right now, but we know the energy that we bring to our performances and ultimately our music — that will speak for itself.”

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