Here we are! The last video in my series of Cornerstone videos from years past. That means the festival is just around the corner. Anberline has been a regular at the festival (though, sadly, absent from the lineup this year) for 6 or 7 years now and they’ve moved from the tent stages to a [...]
Flatfoot 56 has combined the elements of punk music from artists like The Pogues and Dropkick Murphys and added a little local Chicago influence. The band has become wildly popular at Cornerstone festival with fun live shows. In the past years at Cornerstone, the band has had a toga party on stage, dressed in Chicago [...]
One week to go! After going to Cornerstone Festival for many years, there’s a cycle of life for bands at the festival. Some bands come to the festival and just stay, returning year after year as regulars. Some bands come once or twice, exploding on the scene and then fading away just as fast. Then [...]
(You knew I wasn’t going to get through a whole series on bands at Cornerstone Festival without mentioning Over the Rhine, right?) Over the Rhine played their first show on the new band stage when Cornerstone first moved out to the farm on Bushnell, Illinois and they’ve played almost every year since. The band has [...]
There’s no other way to describe mewithoutyou other than to say they are an acquired taste. At first, the songs just seem like rambling yelling over some pretty rocking grooves, but as the listener digs deeper the layers start to unfold and things start to make a little more sense. Their live show is always [...]