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Cornerstone®

Winner of THE NEXT BIG THING (U.S.A.)!!!

About Me


Cornerstone - an emerging, ambitious Austrian band, marking the calming influence in between the prevailing Pop-Mainstream and the rebellious riot produced by the revived Britpop movement. With their music, a mixture of Indie-Rock and tuneful Pop-elements, Cornerstone knows how to capture it’s fascinated audience. The foursome created their unmistakable sound, a conglomerate of Anja Schirmer’s passionate singing, Stefan Wachelhofer’s clangour of rock-guitar, Michael Wachelhofer’s melodic bass tunes, as well as Hannah Wachter’s fundamental and dynamic way of playing the drums. Live Cornerstone presents their pure and authentic music, walking the line between dreamily ballads and screeching, impulsive songs with a densed blend of grunge-guitars and drums.
Meanwhile the band has convinced with musically above average live-performances as well as their debut-album "Whatever", which is available in stores since 04/15/2008. By the way: Mastering of the album has been done trough Arnie Acosta, Grammy-Award winner and longtime-Masteringengineer of U2. Milestone in the band’s career is without doubt the year 2007: Appearances at the "Art&Fun Festival" in Carinthia together with Gary Howard (Flying Pickets), and Dave Dee (Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mich & Tich), as well at the "Spirit Of Woodstock Festival" in Mirapuri (Italy), one of the largest open air concerts in Europe, and the airplay and a No. 1 on Radio7. The highlight of this extremely successful year was the signing of a Record-Deal with the American label Renaissance Record. This company has signed some well-known artists, e.g. Asia, members of Manfred Mann and Alan Parsons Project, T'Pau, early recordings of Shania Twain, etc. In 2008 the band is already played on several radiostations in the U.S.A. and wins as a result of their growing recognition the "Next Big Thing - contest hosted by Alternative Addiction (U.S.A.). This might be a quantum leap for the Band- career and makes longing for more...

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/14/2007
Band Website: cornerstone.at.tf
Band Members:

Anja Schirmer -
Vocals, Guitars

Michael Wachelhofer -
Bass, Keyboards, Background Vocals

Stefan Wachelhofer -
Guitars, Vocals

Hannah Wachter -
Drums, Percussion

Management, Booking Austria, Germany:
Marius Sarbu
Wiener Neustadt/NOE, Austria
Contact here

Booking United States:
Ascent Entertainment,
Jeff + John Hollis
Cumming/GA, U.S.A.
Contact here

Booking United Kingdom:
SLW-Promotions,
Sonia Waterfield
Ebbw Vale/Gwent, UK
Contact here

Influences: Beatles, Therapy?, The Police, R.E.M., Toto, K's Choice, Alanis Morrisette
Sounds Like:

WHATEVER (Album)
Release date: 04/15/2008
Buy Album | Download

Record Label: Renaissance Records/
KOCH (U.S.A.)
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New Promotion- partners in UK and U.S.A.

Since a band needs some professional business- partners at a certain stage of their career, Cornerstone determined a collaboration with  Ascent Entertainment (Cumming/GA, U.S.A.) who ta...
Posted by Cornerstone® on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 02:10:00 PST

Victory at the NEXT BIG THING (U.S.A.)!!!

Cornerstone did the incredible: they are the winners of the "Next Big Thing"- Contest, hosted by Alternative Addiction (U.S.A.). In the final they stood up to the band "V" managed by nobody else then&...
Posted by Cornerstone® on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 08:21:00 PST

US-Airplay for Cornerstone!

It's done: the Airplay in the U.S. started! Of course, in a country with around 250 million inhabitants and several thousands of radio stations it is quite difficult to determine where, when and which...
Posted by Cornerstone® on Sun, 04 May 2008 02:13:00 PST

Band portrait in the NOEN!

Once again the NOEN has brought out a big article about the band. It happened to be a pretty positiv article.The author (Alex Becker/NOEN) must like the band quit a lot. | Read more......
Posted by Cornerstone® on Sun, 04 May 2008 02:05:00 PST

New Album "Whatever" out now in stores!


Posted by Cornerstone® on Sat, 03 May 2008 02:04:00 PST

MUSICINCIDER: Article in US-Magazine!

The Musicincider, one of Americas biggest alternative Music-mags, released a fullside article about the band, the album and the members (written by Rikki O./Musicincider). The Band feels quit honored ...
Posted by Cornerstone® on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:49:00 PST

Press: articles, articles, articles...

Because of Cornerstones gig in Wiener Neustadt, the austrian newspapers NOEN and Badener Zeitung decided to publish a full-page-article as well as a detailed Bandportait about Cornerstone; by the way:...
Posted by Cornerstone® on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:21:00 PST

It is springtime....and!

Beeing busy the with the re-record of  their Record  "Whatever", the news about the band have contained for the last months. Although KOCH International arranged the album-relase f...
Posted by Cornerstone® on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:14:00 PST

Grammy-Award winner works with Cornerstone!

The mixdown of the re-record of "Whatever" is finished and will now be mastered in Los Angeles trough Grammy-Award winner Arnie Acosta. Acosta is famous for his work for U2 since 1988, in 2005 he'd wo...
Posted by Cornerstone® on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:53:00 PST

Record-Deal with US-Label!

Rumours have been floating around lately, but now it's real: Cornerstone signed a record-deal with the US-Label Renaissance Records on Sunday, 01st of October 2007. This label - originally specialized...
Posted by Cornerstone® on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 06:04:00 PST