What’s Missing?

Just you. We are ready, so please join us for a week of the best music, fun, and fellowship. Tickets are available online until midnight
tonight (Friday) and there will be plenty available at the gate.

You don’t want to miss this!

The generator stages will fire up on Monday. Tuesday will bring us Reignite Day, the Exhibition Tents open on at 6 p.m. and don’t forget the Los Lonely Boys, at the Gallery Stage at 10 p.m.

Be sure to check out the Cornerstone Festival booths located in the Main Exhibition tent and at Main Stage for official Cornerstone t-shirts (printed on EDUN LIVE tees) and, new for this year, tote bags and bandanas.

EDUN LIVE is the sister brand of Edun – a fashion business launched by Ali Hewson and Bono which aims to create sustainable employment in the developing world, principally in sub-Saharan Africa. EDUN LIVE is 100% ‘Made in Africa’, meaning that EDUN LIVE blank tees are made with African cotton and sewn by African workers.

In purchasing an EDUN LIVE tee, you are helping us to create more employment opportunities in sub-Saharan Africa.

Mike’s new solo album, “We All Gonna Face The Rising Sun,” will be released on tour this summer and Michael Miller (www.michaelmillercrusade.com) and Mike Roe have been busy preparing a great show.

Tickets for the house concerts (some limited to 20) will be sold exclusively through PayPal on our websites. You will be provided with the address only after tickets are purchased.  There must be a minimum of 20 tickets sold or that concert will be canceled.

See a Master Class listed? Bring your own acoustic guitar…or just yourself if you don’t play. You will have an opportunity to ask Michael Roe questions about songwriting in an intimate setting and learn some guitar playing secrets. You will also receive a free CD of rare and unreleased tracks as a limited edition souvenir! Register through PayPal. *NOTE* Master Class tickets are sold separately from concert tickets.

Check the following websites for ticketing for most of the concerts and Master Classes through PayPal.

http://michaelroe.com/main.html
LAMConcerts.com
77s.com
michaelroe.com

ALL HOUSE CONCERT TICKETS MUST BE PURCHASED IN ADVANCE AND NO HOUSE CONCERT TICKETS WILL BE SOLD AT THE DOOR. A minimum of 20 tickets must be presold for each show (house concerts and other venues) or that concert will be canceled. Buy early and buy many, to ensure the show will go on!  Buy your tickets now.  You don’t want to lose out!

Cornerstone Festival begins next week.  Michael Roe will also be playing a solo set on Thursday, July 2nd, and with The Lost Dogs on Friday, July 3rd at Cornerstone.

Paste launches Iranicon to support fair elections

Millions of people around the world are showing their support for democracy in Iran by adding some green to their lives. Paste wanted to make this easy and more interesting by enabling users to make an “Iranicon”—an Obamicon-like image using the colors of Iran.

Take your picture with a webcam or upload a photo, choose your message, and submit to the gallery. Show your support on Twitter, Facebook or wherever else you’d like.

“I have relatives in Iran, so this is very personal,” said Paste president Tim Regan-Porter. “But, fundamentally, this is about the right to free and fair elections and the right of citizens to express their views, and that’s something all reasonable people can get behind. Symbolic gestures such as Iranicon may not have a huge impact, but millions around the world want to show their solidarity with those fighting for such fundamental rights and I think it’s important to offer whatever encouragement we can.”

Paste has also added a few new features to its webicon site (webicon is the generic name for these color-manipulated images). Users can use their webicons as their Twitter profile pictures with a single click (coming soon), filter webicons by type (you can see all the Iranicons here), and use a cut-out tool for uploaded photos to makes webicons look better than ever.

Paste launched Obamicon shortly before President Obama’s inauguration in January. The site allowed users to make images of themselves in the style of Shepard Fairey’s iconic “Hope” poster. The site received over a million visitors in its first month, with over 1.25 million webicons created to date. Iranicon is the third official webicon, following “Luvicon” and Obamicon. Paste has also produced webicons for Green for All and the Atlanta Hawks.

Sorry to everyone who came out to see us at Ichthus Festival! In a small city south of Lexington, KY a thunderstorm hit Ichthus Festival with winds over 50 mph. “I was standing in the merch tent and all of a sudden I heard a metal crash, a 30 ft. pole fell onto a merch table and almost hit some people. People started yelling and running, it got kind of chaotic,” said a kilted spectator. “People were yelling to evacuate the tent, lightning was crashing down a hundred feet away, it was a scary moment. We had our merch set up and our cash box open. With everyone running wild and the wind blowing crazy, my first reaction was to secure our merch table. So I yelled ‘Grab the money!’ and got my bagpipes and ran for the van,” said the same kilted spectator.

He said that running to the van was like heading into a sideways tornado filled with little pebbles of ice pricking him everywhere, especially in his face and kilt. “I’m just glad I didn’t go commando.” All the bands at Ichthus Festival were hoping they would be able to play after the storm, but the military had to hold off the grounds and would not let any civilians in, especially any bands. Flatfoot 56 made many attempts to sneak in and take control of the stage. They claim to have tried catapulting themselves, tunneling under the fence, disguising themselves as bushes, cats, and Ronald McDonald, but they were thwarted every single time. “Every attempt was ingenious and would have worked if it hadn’t been for that meddling rain,” claimed Flatfoot 56.

All in all, it was disappointing for everyone. Flatfoot 56 apologizes to everyone who came out to see them. They assured us that they’re developing strategic plans to capture the stage. “We will be victorious and will have our concert, and all will be glorious,” claims Flatfoot 56.

Dates subject to change

Skillet has posted the first single from their new album AWAKE on their MySpace.  You can listen to “Hero” at myspace.com/skilletmusic.  Album pre-orders coming soon.  

http://www.mutemath.com/armistice/

Let the PRE-ORDERS BEGIN!! — FOUR PRE-ORDERS, FOUR SPECIAL DEALS!

Author’s Note:  But I want the original Songs to Burn Your Bridges By AND the vinyl!  P86 coming up big with some sweet pre-orders.  Three songs from the new disc “PICKET FENCE CARTEL” have been posted on MySpace, sounds dark and heavy!  

Here is a taste:

Emery’s New Album Out Now
On 6/2nd, Tooth and Nail veterans, Emery, released their 4th full-length album, … In Shallow Seas We Sail. more…

Bombworks Records Update
Bombworks Records recently began its most aggressive release schedule ever. more…

A Skylight Drive News
A Skylit Drive will premiere their upcoming album, Adelphia, on MySpace Music on 6/6th and 7th. more…

Stars Go Dim Wins Artist Of The Year
Stars Go Dim was announced the winner of Channel One’s “Artist of the Year”. more…

Decyfer Down Thanks You For Your Support
As many of you know, the members of Decyfer Down have come across some life threatening battles in the last month, and with numerous inquiries about such, we thought we would let all of you know about such at the same time. more…

A Plea For Purging Posts New Song
A Plea for Purging have released another song from their record Depravity, the band’s sophomore record released in March. more…

Cornerstone Commercial Contest Entries

To view the entries go here.

To vote for an, simply rate the video. On Monday, June 15 at 12 p.m. CST the video with the highest rating will be chosen as the winner.

The winner will receive a FREE ticket to Cornerstone Festival, have their commercial played on the Main Stage video wall and receive a pass to film on Main Stage during the event!