Mike on Cypress Hill's Album

Friday, January 15, 2010

Cypress Hill will release his first album since 2004 Rise Up on April 6th.
The first single from this album, Rise Up featured Tom Morello (from Rage Against the Machine) and he will be featured in another song in the album, Shut 'Em Down. Other rumored artists to be on this album are Slash and Mike, however a Billboard article (from last year) says "...writing and production collaborations with Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello on a track called "Rise Up" and with Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda on another song."

Source: Rolling Stone

Album Update

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Mike has blogged about Linkin Park's progress in the studio writing for their fourth album, its worth a read so head over to www.mikeshinoda.com

Mike's Music Reccommendation / Twitter Page

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Mike has recommended these albums from his itunes:

1 - The Temper Trap - Conditions
2 - Wale - Attention Deficit
3 - Muse - The Resistance
4 - Homeboy Sandman - Actual Factual Pterodactyl
5 - Editors - In This Light and On This Evening

I think the new Muse album is excellent.


He has also updated his twitter page with a new background, check it out here www.twitter.com/m_shinoda

Mike Demo

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Mike posted a new blog, answering fan's questions about his "process" of creating a beat, he even posted a video of him with his MPC*.

Original post:

A few of you have asked about my process when it comes to making beats. I don't really have a "process," but I currently have been doing a lot on my MPC, so I figured I'd throw a little demo together. I tend to try to combine gear to get a cool sound. In this one, all the gear I used was pretty basic and reasonably-priced; simple stuff you can buy at Guitar Center or whatever. Enjoy,

mike

PS: I'm growing my hair out. I know it looks awesome right now. I think it's exactly the same haircut I had in elementary school.

Pretty cool! And nice hair, haha.

*MPC: Music Production Center

Google Music Launch Event

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Mike attended the launch of Google music today which included a Q&A session with Mike, Mos Def, Wendy Nussbaum (UMG),Steve Savoca (Domino Recording),Syd Schwartz (EMI),and Ryan Tedder (OneRepublic). Also they used Dead by Sunrise music so demonstrate how google music will work, pretty cool. 

Found some quotes and pictures below:

Mike Shinoda: We used to be called Hybrid Theory. We settled on Lincoln Park, we went online to see if we could get our URL. We were online early on, changed the name of the band to get URL that would give the fans the most direct link to our fans.

 Asks Mike about how things have changed over time. Mike talks about how Linkin Park had a different name, found the name Lincoln Park but couldn’t get that domain. “We thought, this could be an important thing to have a dot.com of our name.” So we literally changed the name of the band to get the URL that would give us the most direct link to our fans. [and yes, I know he also said this yesterday at the 140 Twitter conference. He mentioned to everyone here he told the story there, too].

RJ asks if they thought about getting non-US domain names for the band, like in France. Mike says thought about that.

Mike from Linkin Park says you’ll be able to see how they make their next album online.

Mike Shinoda: We used to be called Hybrid Theory. We settled on Lincoln Park, we went online to see if we could get our URL. We were online early on, changed the name of the band to get URL that would give the fans the most direct link to our fans.
Q: Did you ever think international? Do you think about the French version of the Linkin Park website?
MS: We’re in the process of doing that right now to create an easier experience for fans in Asia and Europe..

How will this change industry in future? Courtney says Google has lots of queries but hasn’t been leading people to a legit experience. This gives consumer more uniformity. It actually gives the rightsholder more control, a way to make money.

Mike from Linkin Park, “I want as few steps as possible between me and that think I’m looking for, the band … I want to be able to find them amidst the noise.” This is what excites him most about this.

 Some interesting information there, cant wait to see how they're going to show us how they make their music.

More pictures in the gallery

Edit:
According to Amir Dead by Sunrise played at this event as well.

More pictures added to the gallery.

Click to view the entire album.

Read more about the event here.

Gold Guns Girls Remix

Sunday, August 30, 2009

Mike has released his remix of Gold Guns Girls (so perfect for GLXS) by Metric, you can listen to it on his blog here

Shoot First

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Mike Shinoda produced track: "Shoot First" featuring B-Real (of Cypress Hill) and Celph Titled.

Apathy’s upcoming sophomore solo project, Wanna Snuggle?

Connecticut’s world famous rhyme wrecker returns with a warm hug and a deadly snakebite on his sophomore full length album, “Wanna Snuggle?” Apathy, known as lead MC of the indie fan favorite Demigodz clique as well as a member of Jedi Mind Tricks’ Army of the Pharaohs crew, follows up 2006’s well-received Babygrande Records “Eastern Philosophy” debut with a brand new masterpiece of 21 songs. Painstaking lyricism, strangleholding mic presence, high caliber rap flows and upper echelon neck-snapping production round out this release in true Demigodzilla fashion. Some of the highlights include the uptempo “Shoot First”, which is a Mike Shinoda produced track featuring the legendary B-Real (of Cypress Hill) and Celph Titled, as well as a collaboration with J-Live called “This Is The Formula”. Little Brother’s own Phonte makes a cameo on “True Love”, and some soulful hooks are laced across the album courtesy of Chip-Fu (of Fu-Schnickens) and Wu-Tang vocalist Blue Raspberry. Also contributing a major factor to the album is singer Holly Brook, best known for Fort Minor’s chart topping “Where’d You Go” single and video. Fort Minor, Get Busy Committee, Demigodz and AOTP family are definitely in full effect throughout the project, including Ryu (of Styles of Beyond), Motive, Emilio Lopez, King Magnetic, Veze Skante and more. The bulk of production is handled by Apathy himself, who has been building up a production resume producing for Tiye Phoenix, Styles of Beyond, 7L & Esoteric, Eternia, and upcoming albums from Cypress Hill and Edo G.

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In stores October 6, 2009