4th Annual Rogue Independent Music Festival |
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New Progressive Music from the Southeast |
The
Festival (forth year): |
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Day 1 (Saturday, June 18, 2005) |
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Farpoint |
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DP3 The second band of the day was DP3. Offering up an original blend of musical styles with a unique combination of instruments, DP3 presented the audience with variety of sounds unlike any of the other bands present this year. |
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Brass
Knuckle Surfer This hard hitting trio blasted through a set of wild instrumental space rock reminiscent of an amped up version of the ventures meets King Crimson. |
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Z-Axis Next up was Z-Axis. With a variety of keyboards and heavily effected guitar tones, many of their jam oriented songs could work well as in a movie soundtrack. This year, the band added dance performances and a new slide show to their performance. |
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Land of Chocolate One of the most anticipated sets of the year was that of Land of Chocolate and the lived up to expectations with a blazing set of symphonic rock. |
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IZZ Although there were a lot of people who already knew that IZZ was a great band, even they didn't know that IZZ was going to play their best set ever this weekend at Rogue Fest. Not only did their fans get and extra great show, IZZ converted the rest of the audience to IZZ-Heads as well. |
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The Red Masque Closing out the first night was The Red Masque with what must be one of the band's most unusual sets ever (and that's saying something with these guys!) The band performed unique instrumental versions of many of their songs creating a new and very different sound. |
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Day 2 (Sunday, June 19, 2005) | ||
The Lost Boys Day two started off with the first ever electric performance of this hilarious Renascence influenced troop playing original tunes as well as comedic Shakespearian versions of top 40 favorites. You'd really have to see and hear them to get it, but everyone there had a blast! |
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Cobweb
Strange
Cobweb Strange was the second band to perform on day two. With a new lineup this year, the band's dark, psychedelic prog sound has become jazzier while maintaining the dark tones that they have become know for creating. |
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Unbounded
Sky
Making their sophomore appearance at Rogue Fest, Unbounded Sky delivered yet another amazing set. Performing their upcoming album in its entirety (along with a couple of tracks from their debut album), this band of high school students has once again given hope that this form of music may not be a dying art. |
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Noise Dot Com Another internet favorite Noise Dot Com rocked out in a combination of styles from hard rock to groovy jam tunes throughout the duration of their set pleasing old fans and making new ones along the way. |
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Man
on Fire Closing out the night was the neo-prog group, Man on Fire. Apparently invigorated by the release of their new album, the band rocked out with an ambitious set of material from both the new album as well as some old favorites. |