Fort Minor..

This is the official press release that tells you all about FM. Enjoy :) Also... there was a rumor going around that the video for the recently released 'Believe Me' was out, but it turns out that it was only released in Singapore and Malaysia. I found on the FM boards, however, a copy of the video, a pretty good quality video too. If you have realplayer You can download and watch it here: http://forums.fortminor.com/showthread.php?t=6075.

FORT MINOR PRESS RELEASE

Mike Shinoda will release his much anticipated hip hop side project under the name, Fort Minor, on November 22nd on Linkin Park's label Machine Shop Recordings / Warner Bros. Records. The album entitled The Rising Tied is executive produced by Jay-Z and features collaborations with a variety of well-known artists including Black Thought, Linkin Park's Joe Hahn and new Machine Shop artists Styles of Beyond and Holly Brook. The album is produced by Shinoda, who not only wrote every track, but played nearly every instrument as well."The Fort Minor record is all about getting back to basics in hip hop, both sonically and for me personally," shared Shinoda. "And working with Jay-Z again has been phenomenal. We can't wait for people to hear the final product."

Currently the club 12" "Petrified"/"Remember the Name" is being shipped to club and mix show DJ's nationwide. Both tracks will be available for download starting October 4th online.
Shinoda is half the vocal firepower of the multi-platinum, Grammy-winning band Linkin Park, trading diaphragmatic diatribes with singer Chester Bennington and infusing the searing alternative rock with equally intense hip-hop.

Fort Minor is a wholly unique, unadulterated hip hop album, owing as much to Shinoda's polished lyricism as his musical adeptness. The variety of themes, styles and moods he creates make this side project likely to do much more than simply satisfy existing Linkin Park fans; it threatens to expose Shinoda as a rap devotee who is as at home in hip hop as he is in the cross-genre hybrid of Linkin Park.

Multiple Grammy Award-winning group Linkin Park has sold over 35 million records worldwide in just five years. Their first album, Hybrid Theory, has been certified platinum 18 times, and their second album, Meteora, ten times. In collaboration with Jay-Z they also released six tracks on a groundbreaking EP, Collision Course, which garnered rave reviews. They plan to release their next album in Spring 2006. In addition, Linkin Park established Music For Relief with the Red Cross in January 2005 to help aid victims of world catastrophes, the first being the Tsunami in Southeast Asia. For more information on Linkin Park, Fort Minor and Music For Relief, please log on to www.linkinpark.com, www.fortminor.com, or www.musicforrelief.org.

this made me laugh. it's just genius.. lol.

http://www.gecdsb.on.ca/d&g/astro/music/galaxy.mp3

Just a lovely FM pic I found on the boards...

Make sure you check out their tracks, Petrified, Remember the Name, and Believe Me.

And make sure you check out the new video for the song, "Petrified", which kicks ass... lol seriously it's awesome :

http://www.bandbuilder.com/fort_minor_producer/index.php?ref_code=D74479

Also... if you haven't already seen it they have a new song called "Believe Me" which features Mike SINGING, which is awesome because he doesn't usually have himself sing in stuff by Linkin Park. So check it out...

Fort Minor Street Team

Okay, I was just accepted into the Official Fort Minor Street Team, aka the FM Militia. This means that I'll be getting access to the members only site, fmstreetteam.com, and I'll be getting my promo material in the mail, so I can sport a Fort Minor t shirt all the time.. lol. I know Fort Minor would love you guys to check out their site, so go on... clicky on my FM links. Join the street team.

The album comes out November 22.

I've updated the site quite a bit, adding some links and some music and some other stuff. now it doesn't look quite as boring... lol.

i've been in kind of a bad mood for the past week or so just because i think that the world is just so fucked up right now.. and that the people in charge always seem to be lacking certain skills needed to *cough* RUN A COUNTRY! i just don't understand how we can get by with such mediocre standards of the people who are at the pentagon and the white house. i mean, look at the hurricane katrina disaster. it strikes me odd that we are soo sloow on the uptake as far as goes helping survivors and all that, when we have had hurricanes before and we have dealt with major losses before. Helllooo, this is not a new thing! The song i've put on my page is really relevant to all of this too, i hope anyone that comes to this site realizes this fact.

And of course, there's a list of tons of things that have been pissing me off recently. this is just the topic that's bounded to the top of the heap.

It's all I can do sometimes from just screaming at people. I don't understand when this world became so lazy and incompetent... it's aggravating, to say the least.

I'll stop ranting and complaining I suppose... bye.

yeah, definitely top of the heap annoyances.

yeah, this stuff kinda topped things off for me today.

http://media.putfile.com/Kanye-West-at-the-Hurricane-Katrina-tele

isn't that just the most insane thing in the world? it took A LOT of guts for Kanye West to say that stuff, especially with an image to protect (he has an album coming out soon), and i think it was pretty inappropriate for him to bring up such a topic when they were trying to raise money for the people down there; no, that wasn't necessarily a smart move. But i agree on where he is coming from. I find it sad that he will lose respect for voicing his beliefs, if they are wrong or not doesn't matter. I'm neither here nor there with Bush; then again, that's how i felt about kerry. i just kinda listened to what both had to say and decided that you know what? they're both just politicians and it doesn't matter who gets office really. it'll be what it'll be.

oh yeah, and look at the picture above that I found off the fort minor forums (there's a few discussions about hurricane Katrina and relief efforts). If you look at both articles, the one featuring a black man in the water says that he "walks through chest deep water after LOOTING a grocery store in New Orleans" while the one with two white people says "Two residents wade through chest deep water after FINDING bread and soda from a local grocery store". Am i the only one who sees something a little wrong with this?

as i type this i can see that both articles are from different sources, true; but don't you think that the same sources have printed many more stories just like them? I think it's just so infuriating that such discrimination is being surfaced at a time like this. i mean a hurricane DID just hit our country hard, didn't it? The south is pretty much UNDERWATER, isnt it? don't you think we should just pull together and forget all that bs for a while and focus on our main prerogatives instead of discriminating against people? yeah, there is a big looting problem going on right now and yes, it's not a good thing for that to be happening in a time of crisis. but i still think that it's wrong for articles like ths to be printed.

Ackness... if i keep worrying like this i'm going to give myself a migraine. Maybe i shouldn't worry about it so much, because all this ranting and raving i'm doing won't do anything for anyone. well, there's no where else to rant about it without anyone else (well, there are those of you that leave comments) to come back at me if i say something that might be stupid.

i gotta go... it's past midnight.

bye.

Two tracks from Fort Minor!

The banner is a link for songs from The Rising Tied by Fort Minor, due out November 22 this year. I can't decide which one is better.

also, school starts in less than a week! I'm a little anxious. but mostly because i'm afraid i'm going to get lost... Kamiak is HUGE.

An edited pic of Chester Bennington... isn't it luvly? I'm experimenting with picasa. great fun. 

Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day!!! 

Linkin Park audio samples...

Hey all...

I have a link now listed for a great site with a whole bunch of Linkin Park songs that aren't on their main releases. They rock... I recommend anything from Hybrid Theory EP and any of their miscellaneous stuff. I'm listening to The Morning After right now, and it rox.

Anywayz....

I am so flipping bored right now. I was supposed to go the mall today, but my mother decided it was a nice day outside today and wanted to work in the yard so all chance of being able to go are now gone... ackness.

it's annoying as hell.

ttyl, i suppose.