Clint Hale

A  traveling summer music festival has two primary goals: satisfy audiences with a diverse lineup of bands and make money. Over the years, the Family Values Tour has managed to do both. In addition to remaining a financially viable institution, Family Values has often showcased some of the best and brightest — or least the most popular — bands and musicians spanning an array of genres. And with this year's Family Values Tour — headlined by Korn and featuring Evanescence — slated for Sunday, Aug. 19, now seems like a good time to display some of the diversity Family Values has featured for much of the past decade.
 

EVANESCENCE
Genre: Gothic, piano-driven pop-rock
Year on Family Values: 2007
What they bring to Family Values: In lead singer Amy Lee, some girl power, as well as the 35-and-over adult contemporary radio crowd.
What lies ahead: More than likely, millions more records sold and, if Lee's difficult history is any indication, several more booted bandmates.

ICE CUBE
Genre: Rap
Year on Family Values: 1998
What he brought to Family Values: Street cred.
Where he is now: Exhausting all that built-up street cred with family flicks like “Are We Done Yet?”

KORN
Genre: Hard rock
Years on Family Values: 1998, 2006-2007
What they brought to Family Values: Family Values. After all, the tour — founded in 1998 — was their idea in the first place.
Where they are now: Headlining the event for the second-straight year, sadly without two of their founding members — guitarist Brian “Head” Welch (who found religion and left the band in 2005) and drummer David Silveria (on hiatus).

LINKIN PARK
Genre: Rap-rock
Year on Family Values: 2001
What they brought to Family Values: On a 2001 bill littered with hard rock and metal, a little rhythm.
Where they are now: Headlining their own musically diverse summer tour — Projekt Revolution.

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