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|name = Roadside Monument |image = |caption = |background = group_or_band |origin = Seattle, Washington, United States |Instruments = |genre = Math rock, instrumental rock emo |Formed = 1994 |years_active = 1994–1998, 2002–2003 |label = Tooth & Nail |associated_acts= Warlord, Blenderhead, Raft of Dead Monkeys |website = Official site |current_members = Doug Lorig Johnathon Ford Matt Johnson |past_members = Mike Dente Todd Florence Joel Metzger }} Roadside Monument was a math rock band from Seattle, Washington, who were active from 1994–1998 and then again from 2002–2003. HistoryBefore Roadside Monument began, singer Doug Lorig was involved in other bands. During junior high, high school, and college, he performed in the bands Cow Shrapnel, Waterfront, and Sixth Hour, all of which also featured another future Roadside Monument member, bassist Todd Florence. Roadside was signed to Tooth & Nail Records only about four months after they formed in 1994, because they had good fortune in being discovered by Brandon Ebel. They released their Tooth & Nail debut, a 7-inch vinyl EP called My Life Is Green, in 1995. Roadside Monument followed up their debut with their first full length Beside This Brief Hexagonal also in 1996. After the release of this album, complications emerged with keeping the band together due to medical issues and other obligations. After the other members departed, Lorig was left to find Matt Johnson (of Blenderhead) on drums and Johnathan Ford on bass. Lorig, Ford and Johnson became the core of Roadside Monument, and its sole members in all future releases. In 1997, Eight Hours Away from Being a Man was released, along with a pair of split EPs (with Puller and Frodus). Eight Hours Away from Being a Man was the album in which they became a prominent band on the Tooth & Nail roster, gaining popularity in the indie rock, emo and Christian underground music scenes. Roadside Monument broke up after the Cornerstone Festival in 1998, when Ford moved to Chicago, Illinois. They had already written and recorded another album, called I Am the Day of Current Taste, which was released several months after their breakup. In 2002, Ford returned to Seattle, and Roadside Monument reunited as an indie band. The new incarnation of the band played local shows, toured with Pedro the Lion and lasted for about one year, when Johnson decided to end the band again because of an inability to be a part of a full-time touring band. During this short time that the band re-united they created several new songs, including "Zzyzx" which was recorded during a live performance at Cornerstone 2002, and subsequently released via the band's official Web site. Side projectsSince their breakup, Roadside Monument's members have participated in a variety of bands:
Critical responseThroughout their history, Roadside Monument has had several clashes with some Christian bookstore chains, who cited their songs as being "controversial"{{fact|date=December 2012}}. Examples of such songs included "Sperm Ridden Burden" (which Lorig said Ford wrote about seeing a child on a bus who was being raised by a single mother{{fact|date=December 2012}}) and "O.J. Simpson House Auction" (the news on television when Lorig was looking for the title to the song he was working on{{fact|date=December 2012}}). The band members did not mind that their music was not being sold in Christian bookstores, because they preferred to think of themselves as a "band" rather than as a "Christian band"{{fact|date=December 2012}}. In an interview with HM Magazine soon after their breakup, drummer Matt Johnson said, "... I think the problem comes in when you start using the word 'Christian' as an adjective. And when I start hearing talk like that, my first inclination is to run totally in the opposite direction.... It's just a debate that I've been over and over with people so much, that I'm not even sure what to say anymore. It's like, I'm a Christian and I play music, and if that means my band is a 'Christian band', then whatever." Many fans of Roadside Monument like the band because of their creative sound{{fact|date=December 2012}}. They are credited{{by whom|date=December 2012}} as being key contributors to the original emo sub-culture and sound of indie rock which existed in the mid to late nineties. Their songs featured unique structure that was a blatant rejection of the verse/chorus structure followed by many popular songs{{fact|date=December 2012}}. In addition, their unusual guitar parts, abnormal rhythms, and abrupt tempo changes, topped off by Lorig's emotional vocals{{fact|date=December 2012}}, gained them acclaim{{fact|date=December 2012}} and made the band's style almost unable to be labeled{{by whom|date=December 2012}}. Indeed, reviewers of the band would describe them as emo, math rock, or just regular rock{{fact|date=December 2012}}. Current members
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