Linkin Park's MTM Special Edition is finally... available!!!

YES!! You heard it. Linkin Park's Minutes to Midnight "Special Edition" is finally available in Singapore. The price??? 39.95 dollars in HMV, but i got it at cheaper price due to my kiasuism approach.

Just buy it at Gramophone. The original price is 44.95 dollars. As Gramophone is currently having storewide sale (20% discount for CDs, while 15% for DVDs), you can get it at 36 dollars.

Yes, i am a cheapskate kiasu. At least, it saves me 4 dollars by waiting the availability of this CD at Gramophone. HMV had already released it last weekend, but Gramophone only released it yesterday. FYI, I bought it at Gramophone Ngee Ann City. So, don't kill me if you cannot find it at other Gramophone outlets.

Umm, is it worth?? To tell u the truth, only for Linkin Park fans. The DVD itself contains Videos of "Making the album", "What I've done", "The making of What I've done" and plus some goodies,such as toolkit to build Linkin park's website, wallpaper, and etc. If u are not keen on above stuffs, just buy the normal edition.

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/

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 :(

Disneyland in China

CD/DVD Piracy,Copyright violation,imitation,and etc. This what China has been tagged with in regards to their entreprenuer spirit. Ranging from Fake Rolex to medicines. Now, there is another one: Disneyland lookalike!! I wonder what comes next. Btw, is there any cheaper version of F-16 Fighter?

http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=1678

Key at Prison on Ebay?

Prison Pays $6,000 To Change Locks After Keys Sold On eBay

Hoping to keep inmates from an Iowa maximum security prison from finding the keys to their release on an eBay auction, prison authorities were forced to change the locks on one penitentiary.
By Sharon Gaudin, InformationWeek -->May 7, 2007 URL: http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199300072
The key to getting out of Anamosa State Penitentiary actually may be a key -- one or two that prison officials fear may have been sold on eBay.
Prison officials just paid $6,000 to have the outer locks changed in the Iowa maximum security men's prison that houses 1,289 inmates. Fred Scaletta, a spokesman for the Iowa Department of Corrections told InformationWeek that changing the locks was a precautionary measure because they're not sure if the keys sold on the popular online auction site were actually for the prison.
But they certainly could be, so prison officials weren't going to take any chances.
Scaletta explained that a man who used to work as a locksmith for the prison was allowed to work from his home. He retired in 1974 and has since died. When the man's wife died, their estate, including some keys that are thought to be for the prison, went on sale.
No one at the corrections department knew there was anything amiss until an employee pointed the sale out to them and said some keys might be involved.
"They were sold under the pretense that they were actual keys but we don't know," said Scaletta. "We were a little surprised. It's a very, very unusual thing to happen. You hear about assaults and disturbances that become newsworthy. But you don't expect to hear that so-called prison keys are being sold online."
Scaletta said he had never even been on eBay before but he did go up to check out the keys that were being sold. He said they did look like some old prison keys.
He also noted that the prison updates its locks periodically but he wasn't sure if the locks that these keys might have opened had been changed since the '70s or not.
"Was there any threat to security at the institution? It was very, very slim," he added. "I don't think it's uncommon [for convicts] to sell the clothes they wore while they were inmates. It's all just a novelty thing."

Source : http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=199300072