Linkin Park

[Malcolm]

The Pulse of Radio reports: LINKIN PARK announced details last week for the fifth edition of the Projekt Revolution tour, which will get underway on July 16 in Boston. The festival-type trek joins an already crowded summer schedule that features the Warped Tour, the Rockstar Energy Mayhem Tour, most likely some version of Ozzfest, plus stand-alone festivals such as Lollapalooza, Coachella, Rock on the Range and several brand new events. But LINKIN PARK singer Mike Shinoda said in a teleconference with reporters that he wasn't worried about the increased competition. "In any situation where, you know, these tours cross paths, that's a concern on that end, but I mean, if you're a fan of the bands that are playing, you're gonna go to the show, that's how I look at it," he said. "I mean, for me, when I was growing up, going to shows like, you know, Lollapalooza or just going to different tours that bands were playing in town, it wouldn't matter if they were playing days apart. If I liked the band and I could afford the tickets, then I would do that."

As one way of helping fans with ticket costs, LINKIN PARK will "pick up" the service charges for fan club members who order tickets online early. The offer began last week but has been extended.

The band will also continue to offer attendees the chance to buy the Digital Souvenir Package, which features a live audio download of the show, exclusive concert photos and a digital tour program. LINKIN PARK initiated this package on its recently completed winter trek.

ASHES DIVIDE, CHRIS CORNELL and THE BRAVERY will join the headliners on the main stage, while the Revolution Stage will feature ATREYU, HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS, 10 YEARS, ARMOR FOR SLEEP and STREET DRUM CORPS.

As with previous LINKIN PARK tours, one dollar from each ticket sold will go to the group's charity foundation, Music For Relief, to support disaster relief and reduce global warming.

[Shoco]

i think il go and see them this summer in dublin, i seen them in 03 and i was a bit dissapointed with them, they were only a support band that day so il give them the benifit of doubt, im loving the new album and as headliners this time im looking forward to seeing them

[CheapJon]

i'm gonna see them this summer as well, that's in 2 months,

[CheapJon]

i'm gonna see them this summer as well, that's in 2 months,

they cancelled on me due to illness though

[mrlee]

i hate there new single, its so weak and tame. i dont even know how it gets classed as rock in any way shape or form. its just a beat and a bunch of depressing singing.

[metallex78]

I gotta say, I absolutely love their latest album Minutes to Midnight which I only recently discovered.
I know I'm a bit late getting into it, but I've heard most of the singles on the radio which I liked, so I thought I'd finally buy the album, and I'm very impressed. Not one weak track on there at all, and I'm not really much of a fan of rap-rock either. But Minutes To Midnight hasn't left my car cd player for the last few weeks.

I'm just looking back on this thread and people were saying there's only one rock track on the album, but there's plenty of great rock stuff on there, and the laid back stuff is pretty cool too.


I wish I went to see them when they toured Australia last year, Chris Cornell opened for them which would've been great to see too.

[metallex78]

i hate there new single, its so weak and tame. i dont even know how it gets classed as rock in any way shape or form. its just a beat and a bunch of depressing singing.

I love that song!

[mrlee]

it barely rocks at all man. Its really tame, i dont understand why its such a big album when everyone person i speak to who was a fan of them says they dislike it.

[metallex78]

it barely rocks at all man. Its really tame, i dont understand why its such a big album when everyone person i speak to who was a fan of them says they dislike it.

Well, maybe that's just it, I wasn't really a fan of them before.

I thought they were just whiny angst rap-rock, but this album shows more maturity than that.

[PJ]

i hated LP
but i liked this cd..
is cool laid back and chilling
some songs are ok.. but some are very cool

[Mobenrad]

I disagree. Their music is very innovative and original.

[FunkyMonkey]

Sneak Peek: Linkin Park?s ?Transformers? Track, ?New Divide?

Posted 1 hr ago by Daniel in Celebrity, Interviews, Music, Videos

Linkin Park?s ?What I?ve Done? was so crucial to the tone and packaging of TRANSFORMERS, that Michael Bay just couldn?t have made a sequel without tapping the California rapcore champions again. Only this time around, instead of pulling a pre-existing single from an album, Linkin Park have created a brand-new track, exclusively for Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen.

The track in question, ?New Divide,? is the official theme of Transformers 2, so if you?ve seen the trailer, you?ve already heard the new screamer (?give me reeeason!?). But you?re about to hear a whole lot more of it. That?s because Joe Hahn, Linkin Park?s resident turntablist and video director, is getting ready to drop his wild, cinematic vision of the new single.

Until it surfaces (any day now!), watch Joe in action on the set of ?New Divide,? setting up motion blurs, delivering enormous guns to the prop shop, cranking the smoke machines to full blast and generally ?going against the flow.? Find out exactly what all that means in the clip below, an exclusive MTV peek behind the scenes of the ?New Divide? video. Drop by Linkin Park?s website for more details on the music video and on Transformers 2!

Video: http://buzzworthy.mtv.com/2009/06/09/sneak-peek-linkin-parks-transformers-track-new-divide/

Stream of song: http://linkinpark.com/

[FunkyMonkey]

LINKIN PARK: 'New Divide' Video Released - June 12, 2009

The music video for LINKIN PARK's "New Divide" can be viewed below. The much-buzzed-about companion clip to the band's Alternative Airplay chart-topping single was shot on a soundstage at Paramount Studios in Hollywood with LINKIN PARK DJ/award-winning video director Joe Hahn at the helm.

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=121844

[FunkyMonkey]

Here is video of Linkin Park performing on Jimmy Kimmel Live on June 23rd...

Linkin Park Performs "New Divide"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tdQ9QzomjU&feature=channel_page

Linkin Park Performs "What I've Done"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcQ4Ip0zTPY

[mrlee]

lol they are calling themselves rapcore now?

only one band is worthy of that title.

Rage Against The Machine.

[FunkyMonkey]

From the Tuborg GreenFest show in St. Petersburg Russia on July 26

Interview with Chester:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXu22JsmMkE

"Hands Held High"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yoe2xOFyMw

"New Divide"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5s5KY-BJCw

"In The End"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVBO1kGVdCQ

[FunkyMonkey]

Dead By Sunrise - Album Trailer

http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=21591889&blogId=503109781

[FunkyMonkey]

August 16, 2009 - Sunday

Dead By Sunrise

New Song Posted!

We have posted our new song "Crawl Back In" on our MySpace page! Check it out now! The song will be available on iTunes on Tuesday!

http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=379966608&blogId=505827134

[FunkyMonkey]

Mike Shinoda and Chester Bennington were interviewed by KROQ at the Epicenter Festival on August 22, 2009 in Pomona.

Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWSOLoZEQMc

Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94Z0ddhDqoA

[FunkyMonkey]

Dead By Sunrise

You know the voice. With Linkin Park, that voice has shared stages with Paul McCartney, Jay-Z, Alice In Chains, the Doors, Perry Farrell. It?s won four American Music Awards, four MTV Video Music Awards, and two Grammy?s, and headlined stadiums around the world. Right now it is the driving musical force behind the theme song to the biggest movie of the year, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. And it is a voice that is loved and revered by fans around the world. Yeah, you know the voice of Chester Bennington.

And now, stepping outside of Linkin Park on Out Of Ashes, the first album from his new project, Dead By Sunrise ? Bennington, Ryan Shuck and Amir Derakh, formerly of Orgy and current Julien-K members, Brandon Belsky, Elias Andra, and Anthony ?FU? Valcic -- Bennington gives fans a revealing look at the man behind the voice. ? It was just me writing the lyrics this time around, so I was very straight to the point, very forward, and very personal with the lyrics for this record,? Bennington says of his first endeavor outside Linkin Park. ?I got to the point where I thought, ?Okay, it?s time to be real.??

Just how real surprised even Bennington. ??Let Down? was about the experience of getting divorced,? he says. ?I know who I am, that I?m a romantic person, and that I like being in love. I don?t want to repeat the same things that happened to me in my previous relationship in the next one.?

In fact, both the band and album?s moniker came from Bennington?s unbridled honesty on the project. ?It came out of wondering, literally, whether I was going to make it to tomorrow,? Bennington says about the band?s name. ?There have been moments where I wasn?t so sure, but thankfully I have. The album title, Out Of Ashes, is another literal statement, like I burnt down that house and I?ve rebuilt a new one.?

Feeling freed by being able to write about his real problems and real life, Bennington holds nothing back in exposing his demons. His pain is documented on songs like ?Let Down? and the hard-hitting ?Inside Of Me,? where he confesses, ?What the hell is wrong with me/This isn't who I'm supposed to be.?

But nowhere is that torment more apparent than on the explosive lead single, ?Crawl Back In,? where Bennington shares his doubts and his struggles with addiction. ?It?s a song about feeling as if I don?t have my own identity and, at the same time, feeling like you wish you were never born,? he says. ?That song came out of the despair you feel being addicted to something.?

Bennington delves deeper into his addiction in ?My Suffering,? in which he sings, ?I?ve seen the devil in a smile/I?ve found salvation in a vile/My happy ending exists only in my dreams.?

Unlike many artists, Bennington has no problems sharing the demons and struggles he?s gone through. ?I don?t have a problem with people knowing that I had a drinking problem,? he says. ?This is just who I am, this is what I write about, this is what I do. Most of my work has been a reflection of what I?ve gone through in one way or another. My life was falling apart, so I wrote about getting divorced, and diving very hard into alcohol and drugs throughout the process.?

That can be felt musically as well.  Throughout the 12-song collection, DBS move skillfully between the kind of explosive rockers Bennington is known for, such as the opening ?Fire? and the frenetic energy of ?My Suffering,? and some surprisingly tender moments, like the beautifully melodic, mid-tempo ?Let Down? and the rhythmically hypnotic ?Walking In Circles.?

As he says, a new house was built. And out of his pain, Bennington found new love, which is celebrated on both ?Give Me Your Name,? a song he wrote about asking his wife to marry him, and ?Into The Darkness,? which he describes as ?about the act of making love with someone you feel deep love for.?

Those insights into Bennington the romantic are what you usually hear in his work with Linkin Park. ?I think the sexiness and real open frankness of those songs are a departure from Linkin Park would?ve done,? he says.

While Bennington is very proud of Out Of Ashes, he wants the millions of LP fans around the world to understand Dead By Sunrise is just another vehicle for Bennington, not a replacement. ?Everyone in Linkin Park is supportive of me on this,? he says. ?We?re all very close and honest with each other. If those guys had any concerns about whether this was going to hurt the band or keep us from making a great record, they would?ve told me and this record wouldn?t be coming out. Even if the record was finished I?d wait until the right time to do it.?

That is not just talk. This project actually began as a Bennington solo album in 2005 while LP was on hiatus. After a short break though, LP went right into the studio to record the chart-topping Minutes To Midnight, putting Dead By Sunrise on hiatus for three years -- 18 months of recording and 18 months of touring. Out Of Ashes has been four years in the making on and off, a lengthy journey that has left room for plenty of twists and turns, the first of which came in the morphing from a solo album into a band.

Bennington explains how Dead by Sunrise was born. ?I?m really good friends with both Ryan and Amir,? he says. ?Orgy had just separated, so I asked them to help me produce these songs I had written. We started working on them and one night, those guys called me up and said, ?Hey, would you mind if of messed around with one of these tracks and see what we can do cause we have some ideas and we think it?d be really cool?? I said, ?I give you guys free reign to do whatever you want with tracks; bring it.? In doing so they started playing back some stuff and the style of the songs and twists and turns they?d taken on the music really blew me away.?

The next step in the evolution of Out of Ashes came three years later, when Howard Benson (My Chemical Romance, P.O.D., Papa Roach), was brought in to produce the album. ?It felt as if we had been working on it for so long, even though the actual time on the record was eight or nine months,? Bennington says. ?Howard brought a new enthusiasm and energy to the process that we had kind of lost because it was hard to get back the momentum sometimes.?

Benson also brought a sense of daring to DBS. ?Once we started working on the vocals it was a whole new ballgame. It was like, ?We?re gonna show people what you can do with your voice,?? Bennington recalls.

While it may have been a long time in the making, the winding path proved to be worth the trek, both for fans who get new insight into one of rock?s top voices, and Bennington himself. ?I feel a real sense of achievement,? he says of Dead by Sunrise. ?because something original, meaningful, and viable has sprouted out of this experience. And it?s not just a side project. I feel like I?ve created a band with a new sound. That is a huge accomplishment and I?m really proud of it.?