XM has decided to drop The Torch from its line-up, although it will still be heard online. This is a great and unique station. PLease sign the petition.
http://www.petitiononline.com/xmtorch/

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002274302

Hello from the Cornerstone Festival office! Things are really busy around here as we are right in the middle of putting together our 2006 program. Our deadline is March 31st and if you are on our mailing list you can expect to get your copy around mid-April.

If you would like to join our mailing list, go here to sign up.

There is a lot to tell you, so please read on!

Ticket Prices Go Up April 1st
Ticket prices are the lowest they will ever be. Order your tickets today and save!

Main Stage Lineup Confirmed
This year’s Main Stage lineup is more diverse and better than ever before. We will also be showing Midnight Movies Wednesday - Friday. Also, the up-to-date lineup for the entire festival has been posted.

[Wednesday]
As Cities Burn
The Chariot
As I Lay Dying
Underoath
Midnight Movie - The Mission

[Thursday]
New Band Showcase Grand Prize Winner
mewithoutYou
Copeland
Anberlin
David Crowder Band
Midnight Movie - The Hiding Place

[Friday]
Krystal Meyers
MxPx
Relient K
Midnight Movie - The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe

[Saturday]
Flyleaf
Day of Fire
Project 86
Pillar
P.O.D.
Cornerstone on MySpace
Check our MySpace page at: myspace.com/cornerstonefestivalrocks, be our friend, and watch the 2006 Promo video.

New Band Showcase Semi-Finalists Announced Tuesday
The voting for the New Band Showcase Semi-Finalists starts Tuesday, March 27th. Check back then to cast your vote for who you want to see at Cornerstone!

Burning Brush Art Submissions
It is now time to think about submitting art for the 2006 Cornerstone Festival gallery. Deadline for submissions is May 15, 2006. Open to all artists. We are looking for original works in painting, print making, photography, textile, drawing, sculpture, or ceramics. To learn more on how you can submit art for 2006 or for info on Burning Brush go to our website.

Want to bring a RV to Cornerstone?
Thinking about bringing a RV this year? We still have some spots available with electrical and water hookups, but the remaining spots are going quick, so act fast!

Thrice
Read a review of Thrice’s Vheissu brought to you by our exclusive partnership with HM Magazine, the hard music authority.

Cornerstone 2007 Survey
We are discussing the possibility of moving the dates of Cornerstone 2007. Fill out the survey and let us know what you think!

The Tooth & Nail Tour Digital Sampler
Tooth & Nail Records and purevolume.com have teamed up to offer listeners the exclusive Tooth & Nail Tour Digital Sampler. Download over 20 free songs from Tooth & Nail artists for free! Hurry, this offer is only good until June 1st, so check it out right here and start downloading!

Further Seems Forever’s farewell release, Hope This Finds You Well, is is in stores everywhere now! MSN Music is giving you the exclusive opportunity to stream the entire record online including all 15 album tracks plus additional rare, b-sides, and unreleased tracks. Hurry the listening party is only available for a limited time. Go here to listen to the album.

T Bone Burnett to Release First New Album in 14 Years The True False Identity in Stores and Online May 16
Thursday March 23, 6:00 am ET
Twenty Twenty - The Essential T Bone Burnett 40 Song Career Retrospective Set For Simultaneous Release

NEW YORK, March 23 /PRNewswire/ — T Bone Burnett will emerge from a 14-year hiatus as a recording artist to release The True False Identity — a collection of entirely new songs written and produced by T Bone — on May 16 on DMZ/Columbia Records. That same day, Legacy Recordings will release the 40-song, 2-disk Twenty Twenty - The Essential T Bone Burnett, the first-ever career retrospective from this quintessential American songwriter and musician.

The DualDisc version of The True False Identity features vidiosyncrasy, a 20-minute film created exclusively for this release. Directed by Jesse Dylan, vidiosyncrasy captures T Bone in a special solo performance of songs and spoken word.

Sme people don’t think the Warriors can get P.O.D. on Top 40 radio. Warriors always rise to the occasion, because they support the boys in all things!!! We dominated TRL, currently #1 on MTV2 T-Minus Rock as well as #1 on Christian Rock Radio, now to take over all radio and make sure that “Goodbye For Now” is playing everywhere possible. With so many things going on with P.O.D. and so many doors being opened this is one area that the Warriors really need to focus on so that we can help P.O.D. take over radio. The stations listed are Rock and Top 40 format please request on both.

To get the song played we must all be calling and emailing requests, please be polite when calling. Don’t call the same station over and over, bugging or annoying a station will only get them angry and insure that they won’t play the song. Call in requests will be taken more seriously so please remember to call throughout the day and daily. Let all your friends know to call in as well. Multiple requests per station, from a variety of people is the best way to get the stations playing “Goodbye For Now”. Lets do this Warriors!!!!

Michael Pritzl writes:
As some of you know, we have been on tour with John Davis this past week. The shows have not been going as good as we have hoped. our booking agency has made arrangements at most of these concerts for us to receive some of the monies that come in from the door.

Normally we support our ministry from guarantees versus a split of these monies that come in from people coming to the show.

When you have a guarantee it encourages the promoter to actually promote and let people know that there is a show, and it also ensures that the promoter does his/her part to get people out to the concerts.

When there is no guarantee, the promoter is likely to do nothing, because they are not held to any sort of financial responsibility. That is pretty much what has happened this past week. The promoters have not done any promotion outside of their venues and have had hardly anyone out at the shows.

Since we don’t know what to do, we are hoping that some of you might find some time to help us to promote these shows.

If you are in any of these areas  you could help:
3.23 (Thr) Wilmington, OH @ Joe’s Java
3.24 (Fri) Mt. Vernon, OH @ The Escape Zone
3.25 (Sat) Madison, WI @ The Annex
3.26 (Sun) Chicago, IL @ The Beat Kitchen
3.28 (Tues) Cedar Rapids, IA @ CSPS
3.29 (Wed) Kansas City, MO @ The Hurricane
3.30 (Thr) Springfield, MO @ Nu Brew Coffee House
3.31 (Fri) St. Louis, MO @ Old Roxana Theater
4.2 (Sun) Memphis, TN @ Hitone

ways you could help:
-placing flyers in stores, churches, college groups, home groups, high school groups.
we have a flyer available at our homepage:
www.thevioletburning.com
scroll down and look where it says “street team”
print that flyer, it is a pdf file.
you can print out some of these or make copies and bring them to churches, high school groups, college groups, home groups, stores, coffee shops in the area, that would be great.
-you could make announcements at your churches, or call some churches in your area that you know enjoy great music and ask if you can make an announcement promoting the show in your area.
-you could perhaps call some friends and invite them along with you to come out to the shows.
-message boards, my space, and email is good as well. but, first hand invitations tend to be the best.

mostly, you can pray for the violet burning and john davis and his team.

Check out the the new action at: www.myspace.com/joyelectric
Listen to the NEW songs we have up, check out NEW live pictures and a NEW photo from the upcoming 2006 JE album!
Catch them on tour before Ronnie locks himself in the studio to record the new album!

March 23rd, 2006
The Lime Spider
Akron, OH.
Doors at 6pm. All ages
W/ Travelogue and Trillit
www.thelimespider.com
March 24, 2006

Grove City College
Grove City, PA
Doors at 7:30
http://wsaj.com/
March 25, 2006

The Underground
Cincinnati, OH.
w/ Travelogue
www.theUG.com
March 27, 2006

California Baptist University
8432 Magnolia Ave.
Riverside, CA 92504
(951)343-4425
www.calbaptist.edu
show begins at 7:30pm
For more information: check the ’shows’ link at joyelectric.com

Presale tickets are available Monday for the following Dashboard Confessional shows:

April 6 - Fairfield, CT @ Alumni Hall/Fairfield University Presale starts Monday, March 20, 2006 at 10 AM local time

April 27 - Erie, PA @ Hammermill Center/Gannon University (SOLO ACOUSTIC) Presale starts Monday, March 20, 2006 at 10 AM local time

Click here to purchase tickets: http://dashboard.ducatking.com

Buying tickets through our special presale saves you a few bucks on service charges!

For a full list of Dashboard Confessional tour dates, check out http://www.dashboardconfessional.com

Hello Choir buddies -
I know we just emailed an update recently, but we had some server problems and wanted to be sure you had information on our upcoming live shows. You can find the confirmed dates below. We hope to add more shows in the days to come. Visit our website for updates.

Visit our messageboard too, where you can interact with other Choir pals and members of the band. Here’s an excerpt on one thread about the story behind the songs from Steve Hindalong.

I wrote How I Wish I knew about my daughter, Emily (wide eyed wonder girl). She was fourteen (She’s 16 now) and really depressed much of the time. She’s always been the melancholy sort, but was particularly down at that time. Marc came over one morning to write. Our plan was to come up with something for Caedmon’s Call or Sonic Flood but when Marc started playing that melodic picky guitar part (That’s Marc playing the acoustic on the album) I immediately began singing “When I see you falling…” with Emily in mind. Marc and I have written many songs together that I love — but I think How I Wish I Knew is my favorite. It’s the only song that wasn’t written specifically for the new album within a 3 week period.
By the way, Emily was just awarded a full scholarship to Simon’s Rock college in Massachusetts, a school for high achieving kids who will skip their last 2 years of high school and go straight to college early! We’re quite proud of her academic success…but mostly I care that she finds peace, love and joy — which can be elusive.
- Steve Hindalong

You can hear this song right now on our MySpace.com player at www.myspace.com/thechoirspace. It’s also on the new CD of course. If you haven’t taken the time to order your copy of our newest yet, please think about getting it now. Your support is appreciated and helps us to continue The Choir. Visit our online store at http://www.thechoir.net/store and grab O How The Mighty Have Fallen soon!

More web updates to come after we get past these next batch of shows. Please check in with us anytime.
Thanks for listening,
The Choir

Date: 3.24 (Fri)
City, State: St. Louis, MO
March, 24 2006 at Old Roxana Theater/Nazarene Comm Ctr.
(Route 111 5 miles morth of 270), Roxana, IL 62084
Cost:
Tickets will be available in advance at $8 and will also be available at the door for $10.
Here is the link for advance tickets http://www.itickets.com/events/142052.htm or more info call 618-254-4026

April will be an ep explosion ! New eps from Kissing Cousins “EP2″, Calico Sunset “Blue Balloon”, and Map “San Francisco in the 90’s” are all coming April 11th. Be sure to check out the new Map feature at www.velvetbluemusic.com Gary Murray of LN will be recording his first solo record, and will for the first time be doing some touring (there’s a couple of dates in the shows section already). In fact all the bands are playing a lot of shows, so go see them ! Silver Cities are writing songs for their debut full length and Kissing Cousins have already started to record EP3 !