The Beatles are the most popular band of all time. Possibly the most successful entertainers of the 20th century, they contributed to music, film, literature, art and fashion has had a continued impact on popular culture and lifestyle for several generations. Their songs and images carrying powerful ideas of love and peace, care and imagination evokes creativity and liberation that has exceeded the rusty Soviet propaganda and helped break down the walls in the minds of millions, making an impact on human history.
Biography of The Beatles
The Beatles are the most popular band of all time. Possibly the most successful entertainers of the 20th century, they contributed to music, film, literature, art and fashion has had a continued impact on popular culture and lifestyle for several generations. Their songs and images carrying powerful ideas of love and peace, care and imagination evokes creativity and liberation that has exceeded the rusty Soviet propaganda and helped break down the walls in the minds of millions, making an impact on human history.
Biography of Linkin Park
After adapting the genre of nu metal and rap metal to a style of radio-friendly yet densely layered Hybrid Theory and Meteora, the band explores other genres in their next album, Minutes to Midnight, which was released in 2007. The album topped the Billboard and the week beginning third best album all year. The group has collaborated with various artists such as rapper Jay-Z album of mash collision course, and many others in Reanimation. Linkin Park has sold over 50 million albums worldwide and won two Grammy Awards.
Band history
Early years (1996–1999)
After spending a considerable time searching for Wakefield's replacement, Xero recruited Arizona vocalist Chester Bennington. Jeff Blue, the vice president of Zomba Music, had referred him to the band in March 1999. Bennington, formerly of Grey Daze, became a standout among applicants because of his unique singing style. The band changed its name from Xero to Hybrid Theory.The newborn vocal chemistry between Shinoda and Bennington helped revive the band, inciting them to work on new material. Also during this time, the band attempted to change its name to Lincoln Park in order to pay homage to the park of the same name in Santa Monica, California. However, the URL domain name for "Lincoln Park" was already taken, prompting the band to modify the spelling of the name to "Linkin Park." However, despite these changes, the band still struggled to sign a record deal. After facing numerous rejections from several major record labels, Linkin Park turned to Jeff Blue for additional help. After failing to catch Warner Bros. Records on three previous reviews, Jeff Blue, now the vice president of Warner Bros. Records, helped the band sign a deal with the company in 1999. The band released its breakthrough album, Hybrid Theory, the following year.
Hybrid Theory (2000–2002)
During this time, Linkin Park received many invitations to perform on many high-profile tours and concerts including Ozzfest, Family Values Tour and KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas.The band also formed its own tour, Projekt Revolution, which featured other notable artists such as, Cypress Hill, Adema, and Snoop Dogg. Within a year’s stretch, Linkin Park had performed at over 320 concerts. The experiences and performances of the precocious band were documented in its first DVD, Frat Party at the Pankake Festival, which debuted in November 2001. Now reunited with former bassist Phoenix, the band began work on a remix album, dubbed Reanimation, which would include works from Hybrid Theory and non-album tracks also. Reanimation debuted on July 30, 2002, featuring the likes of Black Thought, Jonathan Davis, Aaron Lewis, and many others.Reanimation claimed the second spot on the Billboard 200, and sold nearly 270,000 copies during its debut week.
Meteora (2002–2004)
Meteora sold more than 800,000 copies during its first week, and it ranked as the best selling album on the Billboard charts at the time. The album's singles, including "Somewhere I Belong", "Breaking the Habit", "Faint", and "Numb", received significant radio attention. By October 2003, Meteora sold nearly three million copies. The album's success allowed Linkin Park to form another Projekt Revolution, which featured other bands and artists including, Mudvayne, Blindside, and Xzibit. Additionally, Metallica invited Linkin Park to play at the Summer Sanitarium Tour 2003, which included well-known acts such as Limp Bizkit, Mudvayne and Deftones.[31] The band released an album and DVD, entitled Live in Texas, which consisted of audio and video tracks of some of the band's performances in Texas during the tour. In early 2004, Linkin Park started a world tour titled the Meteora World Tour, supporting bands on the tour included Hoobastank, P.O.D. and Story of the Year.
Meteora earned the band multiple awards and honors. The band won MTV's awards for Best Rock Video ("Somewhere I Belong") and the Viewer's Choice Award ("Breaking the Habit"). Linkin Park also received significant recognition during the 2004 Radio Music Awards, winning the Artist of the Year and Song of the Year ("Numb") awards. Although Meteora was not nearly as successful as Hybrid Theory, it was the third best selling album in America during 2003.The band spent the first few months of 2004 touring around the world, first with the third Projekt Revolution tour, and later several European concerts.
Side projects (2004–2006)
Following Meteora's success, the band postponed working on a new studio album for the next few years. Instead, Linkin Park continued to tour and work on many side projects. Bennington appeared on DJ Lethal’s "State of the Art" and other work with Dead by Sunrise, while Shinoda did work with Depeche Mode. In 2004, the band began to work with Jay-Z to produce another remix album, entitled Collision Course. The album, which featured intermixed lyrics and background tracks from both artists' previous albums, debuted in November 2004. Shinoda also formed a new band, Fort Minor, as a side project. With the aid of Jay-Z, Fort Minor released its debut album, The Rising Tied, to critical acclaim. At the same time, the band's relationship with Warner Bros. Records was deteriorating rapidly on account of several trust and financial issues. After months of feuding, the band finally negotiated a deal in December 2005.Linkin Park also participated in numerous charitable events. Linkin Park helped raise money to benefit victims of Hurricane Charley in 2004 and later hurricane Katrina in 2005.The band donated $75,000 to the Special Operations Warrior Foundation in March 2004. They also helped relief efforts for the 2004 tsunami victims by staging several charity concerts and setting up an additional fund called "Music for Relief". Most notably, however, the band participated at Live 8, a series of charitable benefit concerts set up to raise global awareness. Alongside Jay-Z, the band performed on Live 8's stage in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to a global audience.The band would later be reunited with Jay-Z at the Grammy Award Ceremony 2006, during which they performed "Numb/Encore", en route to winning a Grammy for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration. They would later go on to play at the 2006 Summer Sonic music festival, which was hosted by Metallica, in Japan.
Minutes to Midnight (2006–2008)
The album's first single, "What I've Done" was released on April 2, and premiered on MTV and Fuse within the same week. The single was acclaimed by listeners, becoming the top-ranked song on the Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks and Mainstream Rock Tracks charts. The song is also used in soundtrack for the 2007 action film, Transformers. Later in the year, the band won the "Favorite Alternative Artist" in the American Music Awards. The band also saw success with singles such as "Bleed It Out", "Shadow of the Day", "Given Up", and "Leave Out All the Rest", which were released throughout 2007 and early 2008. The band also collaborated with Busta Rhymes on his single "We Made It", which was released on April 29.
Linkin Park's touring and live shows have, among other things, included a performance at Live Earth Japan on July 7, 2007. and headlining Download Festival in Donington Park, England and Edgefest in Downsview Park, Toronto, Canada. The band completed touring on its fourth Projekt Revolution tour before taking up an Arena tour around the United Kingdom, visiting Nottingham, Sheffield and Manchester, before finishing on a double night at the O2 arena in London. Bennington stated that Linkin Park plans to release a follow-up album to Minutes to Midnight.However, he stated the band will first embark on a United States tour to gather inspiration for the album. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Bennington said that the band had already begun writing new material for the album, and Shinoda too stated that the album could well be released in late 2009. Mike Shinoda also announced a live CD/DVD entitled "Road to Revolution: Live at Milton Keynes", which is a live video recording from the Projekt Revolution gig at the Milton Keynes Bowl the 29th June 2008, which was officially released on the 24th November, 2008.
In October 2008 Shinoda revealed on his blog that he, Phoenix and Hahn had begun working on two song ideas at Hahn's home, with studio recording to begin in earnest soon. In 2008, Bennington announced that Linkin Park's fourth studio release will be a concept album. The band has not released many specific details about the album. In an interview with MTV in November 2008, Bennington stated, "It sounds a little daunting to me, so, I think my confidence level will drop, but when it was presented to us by this friend of ours, we liked the idea. It was an inspiring idea, and it was something we could relate a lot of the things we like to write about to". He also added that the band planned to begin recording in December for a six-week session. The album was expected in mid 2009, but in late March, Mike Shinoda wrote on his blog saying "We're hoping to have Chester's Dead By Sunrise album out this fall, and the new LP album out early next year."
In December 2008, Digidesign gave the band the opportunity to preview the new Pro Tools 8 software. The experiment resulted in an instrumental song called "Lockjaw" performed by Shinoda and Bourdon.
In April 2009, Shinoda revealed on his blog that Linkin Park will be working on the score for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen with successful film composer Hans Zimmer. On May 7, it was further confirmed that the song recorded for the film is titled "New Divide," and was released as a single on May 18. The music video for "New Divide" was released on June 12, 2009 and was directed by Hahn. On June 22, 2009, the band played a short set after the premiere of the movie. The concert took play on the street in Westwood Village
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In May 2009, Linkin Park announced that they were working on their fourth album which will be released in 2010, with the aim for it to be "genre-busting." Shinoda also stated recently in an interview with IGN that the new album will have in comparison to Minutes to Midnight a bigger "thread of consistency" and will also be more experimental and "hopefully more cutting-edge". Additionally Bennington confirmed that Rick Rubin will return to produce the new album.
On January 19, 2010, Linkin Park released a new song entitled "Not Alone" as part of a compilation from Music For Relief in support of the Haiti Earthquake crisis. On February 10, 2010, Linkin Park released the official music video for the song on their homepage.
The band has produced a video game titled 8-Bit Rebellion!, released April 26, 2010, for the iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad. The game includes a new song, "Blackbirds", which is unlocked when the player completes the game. Mike Shinoda has also stated that the game will be regularly updated with new content over time
- Current members
- Chester Bennington – vocals,rhythm guitar (since 1999)
- Rob Bourdon – drums, percussion (since 1996)
- Brad Delson – lead guitar (since 1996)
- David "Phoenix" Farrell – bass, backing vocals (1996–1998, 1999, since 2001)
- Mr. Hahn – turntables, programming, samples (since 1996)
- Mike Shinoda – vocals, rapping, rhythm guitar, keyboard, samples, backing vocals, (since 1996)
- Former members
- Mark Wakefield - lead vocals (1996–1998)
TOP 10 Unique Computer Mouse
Along with the development of science and technology, any type of growth of the mouse. Well, below are images of 10 unique mouse, you've probably never seen before.
Roll Laptops Digital Future Concept
Gadgets increasingly advanced technological world, especially laptops. There are many cool and unique designs are offered for future laptops, but there is one laptop of the future concept Bener-two exceptional and a unique concept designed by the digital roll-Hua Hao laptop (laptop models roll). Digital Roll Laptops can be said as "the next generation of laptop designs,"
Body Left-Handed Bass Guitar, Trans Black
Blaze Ignites NAMM 2010 with New Guitar Models
Specifications:
Bound Alder Body
Maple Neck with Ebony/Rosewood/Maple Fingerboard options
Mother of Pearl Inlay (Abalone on Maple Fingerboards…)
24 5/8” Scale Length
24 Fret Two Octave Neck
Chrome Hardware & Screws
Medium Jumbo Frets
Dual Action / Stainless Steel Truss Rod
HipShot Contour String-thru Bridge
Graph Tech Ghost System Saddles With Acousti-phonic Pre-amp (optional, add $300)
DMT BlazeBucker Bridge Pickup / DMT SCVH Neck Pickup
Grover Tuners
Deluxe Buddy Blaze Hard Shell Case Included
Handmade, Signed And Dated By Buddy Blaze in Kailua Kona, Hawai’i USA
MSRP $2549.00 Street $1999.00
A unique, optional upgrade for this new model is the Graph Tech Ghost System saddles with the Acousti-phonic pre-amp plus Quick-Switch. The Acousti-Phonic adds realistic, acoustic sound to the electric guitar without altering your magnetic pickups. You can use magnetic and acoustic sounds one at a time, or blended together for an enhanced electric effect. Learn more about it at http://www.graphtech.com
Buddy Blaze Fine Stringed Instruments will be displaying at booth #1260 during the NAMM show January 14 though17. In addition to the ALII Series Makani, the booth exhibit will include other handcrafted instruments by Buddy Blaze and new models in multiple and more competitive price points. To learn more about the new line and Buddy Blaze Fine Stringed Instruments, visit them online at www.buddyblaze.com. To schedule a time to view these new models during the show, please call 818-620-6445.
World's Smallest Desktop PC
This tiny super PC specifications:
300 mhz atomic
64MB of SDRAM
external video connector
supports 1280 x 1024 resolution.
Flash memory card slot
USB port
Ethernet
serial port.
New Nokia N900
Similar but different, so it seems an appropriate phrase to describe this one incident. A glimpse of mobile devices because these are coarse Cool N900 eye was practically almost similar to the Nokia N900. Cool phone N900 Perhaps this is the best clones Nokia N900 mobile phone today.
When explored further, Cool N900 mobile phone is shared a similarity with the features that brought the Nokia N900. As for this similarity can be seen as equally equipped with 3.2 inch touch screen size, camera and sliding QWERTY keyboard. And even had the same UI look like the S60.
In addition, kloningan phone is also equipped with FM tuner, TV tuner, dual SIM slot, and function of the playback media. Regarding the market value, this N900 Cool phone for 750 CNY appreciated or about 1.1 million rupiah.
Smart Robot PALRO
This PALRO robot height is only 39 cm only. To be able to carry out instructions, the robot has been inculcated with a set of computer systems and is bundled with a 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor speed, memory 1 GB of RAM, 4 GB of flash memory, 3 megapixel camera and can be connected directly with a network of Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g / n. In addition the robot is also powered by lithium ion batteries.
At the action stage in public for the first time, without embarrassment this robot gives hello and introduce himself. This robot is voiced by Japanese dialect like a young Japanese girl. Slowly but surely, the robot PALRO walked on stage with both legs. When the robot sees you, he was even able to take your photos at the same time, then send it in email form. How did he do it? Sure you can because this robot is connected to the hotspot at that time.
If you feel bored, just intruction this robot to entertain your heart by dancing to the music. Dance is also quite agile. Or maybe you want to act like a Sumo robot, the robot PALRO will gladly do it for you. If in one place more than one robot PALRO, then this smart robots that can communicate wirelessly. Well yes robot extravaganza this intelligent!
Fujisoft party reportedly plans to market this smart robot to the public in March 2010. Well if you are very interested once wanted to make PALRO as your faithful friend, would you be prepared to also bring home robot is the price of $ 3,300 or about 33 million rupiah.
New Netbook Fujitsu Lifebook MH330
Official price is unknown but there are already sold in Singapore at a price of USD 500 or close to four million dollars.
Here's the specs Netbook LifeBook MH330:
* 10.1 "1024 x 600 display (400:1 contrast ratio)
* Atom N450 processor
* 1GB RAM
* 250GB HDD
* GMA 3150 graphics
* 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi
* Bluetooth V2.1
* 3x USB, VGA, cared reader
* Spill resistant keyboard
* Windows 7 Starter
* 3 Cell battery
* 1.1 kg
* 18.5mm - thickness 5.24