I personally love Brent Becker’s designs and ideas for corps and bands, even if they never see a stadium light…

A friend of mine shot me a link to deviantart where Becker hosts his self titled “Salon de Refuses”.

Becker works for Stanbury Uniforms, where most of his ideas tend to get the budget fire hose (still wonderful work) but it’s nice to see he can still go wild on his own time.

Scoot on over to his gallery and see this amazing artists gift to the marching arts.

FYI that’s not an actual Regiment uniform, just a rejected idea from his gallery.

Carolina Crown has just released a major overhaul to their corps website and I have to say it is REALLY nice!

Dubbed “CrownWEB 4.0″ the website has an improved look, links to their store and marchinghead.com and many new additions.

Head on over and take a look! – CrownWeb 4.0

Rumor has it that Madison Scouts will be adopting a new uniform again this year. I have seen numerous notes around describing the uniform and it almost exactly fits the description of this shot from Stanbury Uniforms.

I personally like this one very much, it reaches back to their roots as Boy Scouts, and should look really nice on the field.

UPDATE: Madison has posted a gallery of Photos following their ‘Madisonic’ show, to show off their new diggs…

Well folks, it’s a mere 5 days until the official first show of the season! Lined up opening day, in World Class:

Blue Devils, Santa Clara Vanguard, Phantom Regiment, Carolina Crown, The Cavaliers, Colts, Blue Stars, Madison Scouts, Pacific Crest, Glassmen, The Cadets, Bluecoats, Boston Crusaders, Crossmen, Troopers, Pioneer, and Mandarins.

Competing in Open Class:

Blue Devils B, Blue Devils C, Vanguard Cadets, Racine Scouts, Colt Cadets, Mystikal, Gold, Impulse, Velvet Knights, and Incognito.

This should be a fun year, we have several newcomers (Incognito and Legends) as well as old favorites.

Check in on Monday the 22nd to see how your favorite corps performed. Also, if you’re looking to get the inside track on your favorite corps, check out DCI.org as well as your corps website to sign up for their Fan Network!

via DCI.org:

The Seattle Cascades will remain in the Northwest for the 2008 season, choosing not to embark on the broader national Drum Corps International Summer Tour as a member of the World Class. The corps has decided instead to field an exhibition unit, providing a regionally-focused drum corps experience for returning and new members rather than withdrawing from the entire season.

Staff is using this season to get back on their feet and hope to be back to full strength for 2009 World Class competition.

Good luck guys!

I have been using the current set of corps icons for close to 4 years now, adding more as needed to the collection. With the help of a friend from DeviantArt.com by the ‘name’ of ToffeeNut, we have new and improved graphics for the chart icons.

They’re the same overall size of our old set but lack the inset look and bevel making them appear larger.

Here is a side by side look so you can see the difference.

Both World and Open class corp icons will receive this mini makeover within the coming week.