SingFest 2008

Singfest is back!!!! Still in their infancy stage, Midas Promotions has finally be able to bring back those big acts to perform in this tiny island, which is totally unheard to some bands (Read Lime Magazine in its August Edition when they interview Panic at the Disco. Hint: Jungle,Lion). Okay, basically this music festival is divided into two days, Saturday (01 August 2008) and Sunday (02 August 2008). Based on my opinion, Saturday slots are mostly allocated to those rock bands, while the later slots are mostly located to pop acts.

ACTS FOR SATURDAY

MELANIE SUBONO,3 PM

The unheard act, even in the scale of Indonesia music industry, will be the first to perform in this Singfest. The daughter of Indonesia promoter, Adrie Subono, is curently signed under Pulau Biru Management, founded by Slank

CROWNED KING,3.55 PM

As far as I know, this band performed in Indonesia' yearly rock festival, Soundrenaline 2007. This year,they will also perform in Indonesia as well as Singapore.

DEAREST,4.50 PM

Umm,another band that i never heard of

NEW FOUND GLORY,5.45 PM

The band that I had finally looked forward to see. A so-called pop punk band, they had released 6th album with some hits, such as "Dressed to Kil", "it is not your fault"

MELEE,6.50 PM

LOSTPROPHETS,

8.15 PM

SIMPLE PLAN,

9.20 PM

TRAVIS (HEADLINER) ,

10.30 PM

Linkin Park's Live at Rock am Ring 2007

On my previous post about the cancellation of livestream for Linkin Park's concert at Rock Am Ring, MTV Germany has , at least, shown some of their concerts (small portion, if u know what i meant) [could be MTV Germany paid more?]. They are : No More Sorrow, Numb,Breaking the Habit,Crawling, and Faint. I had managed to download those videos. Contact me if you want them. Thanks

The full setlist is:
01. One Step Closer
02. Lying From You
03. Somewhere I Belong
04. No More Sorrow
05. Papercut
06. Points Of Authority
07. Given Up
08. Don't Stay
09. From The Inside
10. Leave Out All The Rest
11. Numb
12. Pushing Me Away
13. Breaking The Habit
14. In The End
15. Crawling
16. What I've Done
17. The Little Things Give You Away
18. Bleed It Out
19. Faint

Linkin Park's Projekt Revolution

YES!! The Revolution has started!!

Linkin Park has announced Projekt Revolution, starting from July 25th 2007 to September 03rd 2007. Bands that will be in this revolution are

• Linkin Park (US)
• My Chemical Romance (US)
• Taking Back Sunday (US)
• HIM (Finland)
• Placebo (UK)
• Julien-K (US)
• Mindless Self Indulgence (US)
• Saosin (US)
• The Bled (US)
• Styles of Beyond (US)
• Madina Lake (US)

Linkin Park "MTM" hits #1 in US Chart

That's right! Linkin Park manages to hit best-selling debut of the week for 2007, with total sales for 623,000 copies in US alone. According to Billboard.com, it is the highest since the debut by Jay-Z in December 2006. However, it does not achieve what Meteora did (It hit 810,000 copies for the first week of release)

Singapore own Rock's Festival, Baybeat 07

Rock Festivals!!!!
United Status has Ozzfest,Projekt Revolution,Woodstock. United Kingdom has Downlod Festival,Glastonbury. Germany has Rock am Ring/Rock Im Park. Netherland has PinkPop. Japan has Summer Sonic. what Singapore has?

BAYBEAT!!!!!

Who is the main act? Mercury Rev? Mercury who?? nah, don't ask me. They are indie band from US. Well, that's what Singapore can offer for Singapore rock fans. Fortunately, it is free. Otherwise.....

When? 3-5 August 2007
Where? Esplanade
Link? http://www.baybeats.com.sg/

Release of Maroon 5 "It Won't Soon Before Long" with tee-shirt also

Yes!! Maroon 5 Fans can expect the same perk what Linkin Park fans get, but with CHEAPER PRICE. The exclusive premium (CD + Shirt) is sold at HMV with the price of 18.95 dollars, while Linkin Park's costs S$23.95!!!!

Why? Maroon 5 is under Universal Music, while Linkin Park is Warner Music (so, WM sucks the blood of Linkin park fans???). It happened recently that Trent Reznor, frontman of Nine Inch Nails, slammed own record label for selling NIN's latest album, Year Zero, for the price of AU$34.99. In the same store, Avril's latest album is sold for AU$21.99!! Guess what the label said. Following is the excerpt from Trent's statement

"By the way, when I asked a label rep about this his response was: 'It's because we know you have a real core audience that will pay whatever it costs when you put something out - you know, true fans. It's the pop stuff we have to discount to get people to buy.' So... I guess as a reward for being a "true fan" you get ripped off."

Conclusion, Linkin park fans are ripped off just because we are true fans

Enough about this. Here, I attached the tee shirt sample

Front

Back

Rocking News

Garbage's greatest hits "Absolute Garbage" will be released in July. The latest single "Tell Me Where It Hurts" had began airing.

Puddle of Mud will release latest album, "Living on Borrowed Time" , after four years of their last release "Life of Display". Will they be able to achieve the same success of what they had for "Come Clean" (sold for three million copies in US)? Check out the first single "Famous"

Finally, my favorite band, Smashing Pumpkins, finally release their highly anticipated album "Zeitgiest" (German for Spirit of the Age) on July 10th 2007. Originally slated for July 7th (7/7/7), they finally bowed out to move release date to TUESDAY. Check out their single "Tarantula". Unfortunately, James Iha is no longer part of SP :(

Linkin Park - Minutes to One Million!

As reported by Blabbermouth, 550,000 copies of Linkin Park's latest album "Minutes to Midnight" has been sold in US for the past few days !! That means they have achieved GOLD status (in US, GOLD denotes 500K copies have been sold, PLATINUM denotes 1 million copies, while DIAMOND denotes 10 million copies). What is the bet this time? 6 or 7 million copies?

Their first album, Hybrid Theory, has been sold for 10 million copies (DIAMOND)
Their second album, Meteora, has been sold for 6 million copies (6XPLATINUM)

Linkin Park Tee Shirt... Sucks!

Still remember the HMV Exclusive Premium Package for Linkin Park CD? Yeah, it costs 23.95 dollars for the CD with tee shirt. As the shirt was not available on last Monday, I could only hope that it was gonna be as good as the previous one, Meteora (which I got for free - as in no additional charge). To my surprise, the shirt only comes with two size, M and L. For M, the size is even bigger than M size for Linkin park Underground shirt (fans club). I meant, Singaporea's definition of M is bigger than US? Wow! Super Size Singapore!

Secondly, the quality of shirt sucks!! For five dollars, I guess that I can go to Indonesia, find a better quality of cotton and print the same logo as shown below. Warner Music Singapore totally rips me off!!!!

Rocking News

Upcoming releases

May 22nd 2007 : Maroon 5 - It Won't Be Soon Before Long

May 22nd 2007 : The Used - Lies for the Liars

May 22nd 2007 : The Bravery - The Sun and The Moon

Delay (Always)

Gun N Roses' long waited Chinese Democracy.

All Rock On to... Oldies

Never Too Old to Learn, Never Too Young to Rock! Despite being rock fan for almost a decade, I never listen to those godfathers of Rock. It's time for me to look at those rockers who had influenced my idols. They are

Ramones - Godfather of Punk Rock
The Sex Pistols - English Godfather of Punk Rock
Jimi Hendrix - Godfather of Guitarist
Pink Floyd - Godfather of Psychedelic Rock
AC/DC,Deep Purple,Led Zeppelin,Black Sabbath - Godfather of Heavy Metal
Metallica,Megadeth,Slayer - Godfather of Trash Metal
Neil Young,Nirvana,Pearl Jam,Soundgarden - Godfather of Grunge

So far, I had listened to The Sex Pistols "Never Mind the Bollock". To my surprise, they just released one studio album only.

Minutes to Midnight is available now

Linkin Park Fans out there, Minutes to Midnight had been OFFFICIALLY released in this Merlion's Island. If you would like to have some freebies (i would not call it freebies, since the price of each CD is different according to item that you will be receiving ** remind of me Offset Package **), buy it from HMV. The exclusive Premiums are

1) CD + T-shirt -> S$ 23.95
2) CD + Poster -> S$ 18.95
3) CD + Wristband -> S$18.95
NOTE : You can only claim the shirt on Wednesday, 16 May 2007.

Until now, there is no news of Special Edition of MTM. How it differs from the normal edition? Special Edition includes hard bound book with Linen-wrapped cover with embossing on front. It also includes Music Video Interactive (MVI) DVD that contains following
1) Downloadable MP3s for all 12 tracks
2) What I've Done" video
3) The Making Of "What I've Done"
4 ) The Making of Minutes To Midnight Documentary
4) "What I've Done" ringtone
5) Photo gallery
6) Booklet in PDF, Wallpaper,screensavers, lyrics and more



The HMV Staff only made me happier for only one hour, when I was told that Special Edition was already available in HMV!! I quickly move my butt out from office to Heeren. Arriving there, I was looking around the aboveshown cover type but did not find one. I asked the staff. He showed the normal and said "This is the special edition. It comes with T-shirt". WTF! Well, I am a forgiven citizen. I told him that this is a normal edition with extra "freebies". I told him that special edition has DVD and the type of CD is bound book. He was thinking for a while, trying to draw his imagination based on what i had described. I just said "it looks like U2's Special Edition". He just smiled and said "That one, we don't have. Maybe have to wait". Grrr!!1

To Warner Music Singapore, kindly explain why normal and special edition cannot be released on the same day. I must compare you with Europe and US counterparts, since this country has tried best to improve through benchmarking with better ones. In fact, Europe had decided to release the album earlier than official release date.

Linkin Park "What Have I Done" CD Single is available now!

Linkin Park latest single, "What Have I Done", is finally available in Singapore shore on CD Single Format. You can check them at HMV Orchard or Citylink. There are two versions of this single
Version 1 : It has following songs
1. What I've Done
2. Faint (Live in Japan)
Version 2 : It has following songs
1. What I've Done
2. Faint (Live in Japan)
3. From the Inside (live in Japan)

Both versions are sold for S$9.95. Judged by the same price, the stupidest fans will choose version 2. Having checked the price in HMV.co.uk, the first version is sold for £1.99 while the second version is sold for £2.99. There, the selling price in HMV UK does make sense!