Sometime around late 2001, P.O.D. burst on the scene and songs like “Youth of the Nation” and “Alive” got pretty heavy radio-airplay and songs like “Boom” were played over and over on PA’s at football games. Before that, P.O.D. had already become a fixture at Cornerstone Festival for years. In 2004, the band played Main [...]
Some time in the mid 90′s, ska music became the IT thing. Ska bands started to appear out of nowhere… and they all pretty much sounded like copies of The Mighty Mighty Bosstones. As the fad started to fade, Five Iron Frenzy continued to stick around, tinkering with their sound and mixing their lyrics with [...]
I had never heard of Ghoti Hook, but apparently they must have been a big deal, because on the last night of Cornerstone 2002, they were the only band playing at the end of the festival in the midnight slot. They had played at Cornerstone regularly, but this was to be their last show before [...]
Earlier in this series I shared a video by The Crucified at their final show at Cornerstone 1995. A few of the members of that band reformed as the band Stavesacre and became a yearly fixture at Cornerstone Festival. At 2002, Stavesacre made it to the Main Stage and absolutely killed it. The show was [...]
In an earlier post, I shared a video appearance of Larry Norman at one of the very first Cornerstone festivals. Today’s post has a video from Norman’s final appearance at Cornerstone Festival. In 2001, Larry Norman surprised everyone during Randy Stonehill’s show at the Gallery stage by coming onto the stage and singing “Good News” [...]