Machine Shop Recordings, a joint venture with Warner Brothers Records, specializes in discovering and supporting career artists. By working with each artist to build and sustain a fanbase from the ground up, Machine Shop Recordings has defined a uniquely artist-driven niche within the music industry.
2/25/08
/ LINKIN PARK TO HELP BUILD HOMES IN HURRICANE AFFECTED NEW ORLEANS AREA WITH MUSIC FOR RELIEF AND HOLLYWOOD FOR HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
Los Angeles, CA (February 26, 2008) – On Wednesday, February 27th, mega-platinum Grammy-winning rock band Linkin Park will take a break from their current tour in support of new album MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT and travel to New Orleans to help families displaced by Hurricane Katrina. Following Tuesday night's show at the Sommet Center in Nashville, the band—vocalist Chester Bennington, drummer Rob Bourdon, guitarist Brad Delson, DJ Joe Hahn, bassist Dave "Phoenix" Farrell and vocalist Mike Shinoda—will head to an undisclosed location in an area affected by Katrina where, alongside opening act Coheed and Cambria, they'll join volunteers from Music for Relief, and Habitat homeowner families from New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity to build homes in the damaged Gulf Coast area.
"There is still so much work to be done on the Gulf Coast following the devastation of hurricane Katrina," said bassist Dave "Phoenix" Farrell "Linkin Park is proud to be a part of the rebuilding process."
The announcement comes six months after Linkin Park's nonprofit organization, Music For Relief, initiated a partnership with Hollywood for Habitat For Humanity to fund and build homes in hurricane ravaged areas. New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity was chosen to be the beneficiary of these funds, with multiple families benefitting as a result of Music for Relief's extraordinary efforts. Music For Relief raised the monies for these homes through an innovative multi-platform campaign including donations, merchandise sales, ticket auctions and other activities online and onsite during Linkin Park's Projekt Revolution tour. The organization will continue to raise funds through the current Linkin Park arena tour at the Music for Relief booth on site for each date, as part of their ongoing relationship with Hollywood for Habitat for Humanity.
Additionally, Linkin Park will be bringing a fan and their guest to assist in the build. The fan, Adrian Mulloy, is the winner of the band's "What I've Done" sweepstakes, which required entrants to submit a video, less than two minutes in length, explaining what he/she has done to make the world a better place. In his video, Adrian expressed a strong belief that people must rise to the challenge and help one another in disaster situations. He has helped others in his home town in Wisconsin and would like to personally lend a hand to families recovering from hurricane Katrina.
Founded by members of Linkin Park, Music For Relief is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization dedicated to providing aid to victims of natural disasters and the prevention of such disasters. Since its inception in 2005, Music for Relief has raised over $2.5 million for the victims of the tsunami tragedy in Southeast Asia and hurricanes Katrina and Rita. MFR has organized a benefit concert featuring multi-platinum artists & numerous celebrity guests, sent musicians and volunteers to Southeast Asia and the U.S. Gulf Coast to help rebuild and donate supplies to people in need, and planted over 488,000 trees to help reduce global warming. For more information, visit www.musicforrelief.org
Hollywood for Habitat for Humanity is an entertainment industry partnership with Habitat for Humanity. Founded by Screenwriter/Director Randall Wallace (Braveheart, We Were Soldiers), Hollywood for Habitat for Humanity supports Habitat for Humanity's goal of ending poverty housing worldwide and making poverty housing a matter of conscience and action. Participants support the mission through donations, volunteer hours and advocacy. Hollywood for Habitat's partner affiliate, Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles helps connect industry volunteers to opportunities locally and around the globe. Actors, screenwriters, agents, directors, producers, musicians, and label executives are among the thousands of volunteers who have helped build homes for people in need, in the United States and around the world.
Friday April 25th SOB will be at Alumni Arena @ University of Buffalo
3435 Main Street, Buffalo, New York 14214
Ticket info coming soon! Posted by devon
2/07/08
/ SOB SHOWS ANNOUNCED
Get tickets HERE
$1 from every pre-sold ticket will benefit homeless youth!
Doors at 8:30 pm
Saturday March 22nd At The Venue
Salt Lake City, UT
Doors at 8:00 pm
more to come...
Posted by msr
1/30/08
/ LAST CHANCE: LP VIP MFR TICKET AUCTION
Friday February 15th at Crash Mansion
1024 S. Grand Ave., Los Angeles, CA
Get tickets Coming Soon!
Posted by msr
1/30/08
/ LAST CHANCE: LP VIP MFR TICKET AUCTION
Last chance to bid! Auction ends January 31st at 4:00 pm.
Music for Relief is auctioning VIP ticket packages for the upcoming Linkin Park 2008 U.S. Winter Tour with all proceeds going to MFR to help rebuild the Gulf Coast.
Package includes:
2 tickets to the concert
Autograph signing with Linkin Park
PRIVATE meet and greet with two members of LP
1 Linkin Park T-Shirt
Auction is live so click
here to place your bid now at Ebay! Posted by msr
12/21/07
/ HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM MSR
Wishing you a very happy holiday from Machine Shop Recordings.
Get ready for a new release from Styles of Beyond in ’08…Rocket Surgery is coming!
12/17/07
/ UPDATE FROM STYLES OF BEYOND
Whats up SOB Solja's!!?
Here's a quick little update for ya. Even though things have been frustrating for us the past couple months - trying to clear up these samples, and perfecting our upcoming album "Rocket Surgery", believe it or not some good things have happened. First, thanks to Mike Shinoda and his amazing production, our song "Second II None" has become a staple in the licensing world. We were very fortunate to get it placed on the Transformers movie, even if it was only for 1.6 seconds. Now, we have it in the trailer of what looks like could be the biggest comedy of 2008. It's the new Adam Sandler movie "You Don't Mess With Zohan" which should be coming out around June. You can check out the trailer at the link below, and "Second 2 None" (or "S2N" for all you internet savvy heads) is sandwiched in there about half way through. Here's the link:
Also, our favorite producers, drinkers, and cigarette smokers, Cheapshot & Vin Skully have been hired to score an upcoming A&E television show currently titled "LA Gang Unit." They just completed the pilot which will air in April 2008. Picture "Cops" on Acid...or "The First 48" on crack...or "Dog the Bounty Hunter" on PCP (minus the rascist phone messages)...or "Dallas SWAT" on heroin...or "Grey's Anatomy" on coffee...wait, that last one doesn't work, but you get the idea! Anyhoot, the show looks sick and the music they created is even sicker...so keep your eyes on the boob-tube for more info. Here's a little industry blurb about it if you'd like to get a little taste:
Along with all this, we're still putting the finishing touches on the album...and just tried out a new song with our old pal Sixx-John. It's coming together very nicely. Thanks for reading. Have a very safe and dudical holiday season! See you in 2008!
-Styles of Beyond
Posted by msr
11/13/07
/ UPDATE FROM STYLES OF BEYOND
Whattup SOB Heads!
Sorry for the delay on keeping everyone updated. We should've wrote a blog after we returned from Linkin Park's Projekt Revolution tour, but we hit the studio hard upon our return. In short, the tour was fun, extremely drunk times, but performing on the second stage early in the day with hangovers and being the only hip-hop group on a festival tour was new for us and a bit unexpected. Thanks to everyone who made it out, and for all those who received the Razor Tag Mix CD, we hope you like it and aren't using them as beer-coasters!
Anyhow, we've sorta been on a never-ending run of bad luck lately. We truly thought that we were done with our forthcoming album "Rocket Surgery", but we got hit really hard with the business end of things, which we've never really had to deal with before - mainly sample clearances. The album was supposed to drop in June '07 origjnally, then it got pushed to September '07, and with the last denial of a very important sample, it now looks like March of 2008...and even that can still change. However, one thing we can assure you is that we're one group that would never short-change our fans. We take a long time to complete albums (check our track record - "2000 Fold" 1998, "Megadef" 2003), but it's only because we want to make sure that every song is a classic...and even as this album evolves with new songs, the album continues to get better and better. We've mentioned collaborations we've done in the past, but because of the drama a lot of those songs got cut...so this time around we're not going to mention who's gonna be on "Rocket Surgery", but it's sure to be hot. Also, we have a lot of amazing footage from tour that we've finally converted and waiting for some editing to be done so we can throw that shit on Youtube!
We thank you for being so patient with us, and always feel free to message us here on Myspace if you have any questions. We get lots of mail but we do our best to reply to everyone we can. I guess the last bit of excitement that's going on with us is that one of our old songs got picked up to be featured in the trailer of the upcoming movie "Hitman". Hope you like it. Thanks again for sticking with us, and we'll try and keep the updates coming!
-SOB
Posted by msr
11/13/07
/ SUPPORT SOUTHERN CA WILDFIRE VICTIMS
Support the victims of the Southern CA Wildfires! Music for
Relief and Unite the United have launched a HUGE eBay auction
including autographed stuff from Linkin Park, Madonna, Green
Day, Avenged Sevenfold, as well as VIP ticket packages. With
over 60 items you can find signed instruments and collectables,
concert tickets and other memorabilia to raise funds and awareness
for victims of the fires. To view and bid on all auction items,
please visit www.musicforrelief.org
and click on the wildfire auction banner or go to www.ebay.com/CAwildfires
Proceeds will be divided to address the immediate needs of the victims and long-term needs of the environment. Auction earnings will be donated to the California Community Foundation’s Southern California Wildfire Relief Fund (www.calfund.org) to aid victims in intermediate and long-term recovery needs with a particular focus on needy populations, and those in need of affordable housing. Proceeds will also go to American Forests’ California Wildfire ReLeaf Fund (www.americanforests.org) to reforest affected areas.
**For every registered vote, a donation will be made to Music For Relief by SodaHead.com**
Posted by msr
04/19/07
/ ROCKET SURGERY That's right! The eagerly anticipated forthcoming Styles Of Beyond album will be called Rocket Surgery. Find out what the guys have been up to as well as the genius behind the album title at the official MySpace blog.
Posted by msr
01/08/07
/ UPDATE FROM STYLES OF BEYOND Check out the new SOB update on MySpace
Head over to the SOB MySpace page for the latest on what the guys have been up to:
We want to thank everybody that supported us this year. We had an amazing year with the whole Fort Minor project and working on our own album - which will be released sometime next year on Machine Shop Recordings.
10/30/06
/ FM MOBILE MAILING LIST AVAILABLE NOW Sign up for the Fort Minor mobile
mailing list to get the latest news and updates sent directly
to your mobile phone. To join visit Fort Minor’s Myspace page
www.myspace.com/fortminor standard text messaging rates may
apply. Posted by msr
10/30/06
/ “REMEMBER THE NAME” LIVE VIDEO When the new "Remember The
Name" live video. It's a glimpse of Fort Minor on the road,
including on stage and behind-the-scenes footage. Click HERE to watch now, while you’re there make
sure to subscribe to the Fort Minor you tube channel and join
the Remember The Name group. Posted by msr
10/30/06
/ FORT MINOR /FUSE REMEMBER THE NAME CONTEST Calling all athletes, sports fans, and talented people! What will make the world REMEMBER YOUR NAME? Enter the Fort Minor / Fuse "Highlight Reel" Video contest. If you've got a huge dunk, grand slam, skate trick, martial arts knockout or other spectacular sports / action moment caught on tape, submit it. The winners will all be included in a Fort Minor video for the song "Remember The Name." Simply host your video online, and submit the direct URL of where your video is located. The deadline to submit your video is Sunday, November 5th at 11:59pm PST.
