Linkin Park

[FunkyMonkey]

A new song by Dead By Sunrise "My Suffering" is available for streaming and download here:

http://www.zshare.net/audio/6571032331bf4dae/

http://www.myspace.com/deadbysunrise

[FunkyMonkey]

A couple of things on Chester Benningtons Dead By Sunrise...

Dead by Sunrise 'Let Down' -- Song Premiere

Posted 14 minutes ago

http://www.noisecreep.com/2009/10/02/dead-by-sunrise-let-down-song-premiere/

October 1, 2009

Dead By Sunrise to Perform on Jimmy Kimmel Live

[Baby Firefly]

I love the guys of Julien-K but why they are covorting with one of the most lamest frontmen of the 21st century is beyond me.

[FunkyMonkey]

Chester Bennington: 'Now I Can Write About Anything I Want'

Oct. 3 2009

You cover plenty of personal topics in Dead By Sunrise?s lyrics, including your divorce and alcohol addition. How difficult was it to talk about those subjects, and was there one song that might have been particularly difficult to write?

I think going through it was difficult, but I?m pretty good at writing about stuff. Once I came out with being abused as a child, a lot of those doors opened for me. Now I can write about anything I want. Nobody knew about it until that day. My parents were going, ?What?? It was like, ?Okay, if I can write about that, I can pretty much write about anything.? I would say that I wasn?t writing songs about my particular problems while I was going through them during this record. I was writing songs about falling in love, and I was kind of skating around the subject a little bit.

After I went through all of that, that?s when I started writing very clear and very forward songs about what I went through. ?Crawl Back In? talks about relapsing and how hard that is. ?Condemned? is about that love affair with feeling like shit. It was very strange for me because these ideas just started coming. I don?t know if I could have done it if I had was in the middle of it. I try not to change things that much in my songs. If it comes to me, then it comes to me. If it doesn?t, then I?ll wait a couple of days. After that, I?ll just let it go. It?s not worth it.

Linkin Park?s next record isn?t slated for release until 2010, but can you give us some idea of what we?ll be hearing? I read a quote from Mike Shinoda stating that the album will be ?genre-busting.?

Mike, with that comment, every interview I?ve done they?ve asked me specifically about that quote! Thanks, Mike! From my perspective, I agree with him. The longer Linkin Park is around, the more difficult it is to find a place that we fit in best. Are we a pop band? Are we an alternative rock group? Are we a modern rock act? Are we a metal group? Or are we something else? Nobody knows what the hell is going on with us anymore, and I think that?s something that will propel us into being a better band in the future. I think it sets us apart.

I do believe this record is definitely going to help make that more difficult for people to understand. In terms of how it sounds, we?ve got 40 songs. A handful of them are amazing. A dozen or so are really good, and the rest could have potential. The ones that are pretty amazing and the ones that everyone is pretty much like, ?As long as the lyrics are great, the song is a masterpiece? ? they are really fucking good. It?s kind of nuts. From my perspective when I hear them, I can?t believe that I?m in this band. I can?t believe this is the stuff that I?m a part of making. I?m sharing the same stage as some of the most talented people in the world and have one of the best producers in the history of music. We?re making groundbreaking stuff, and it?s very strange to be part of that.

Continue reading here: http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/interviews/interviews/chester_bennington_now_i_can_write_about_anything_i_want.html

[FunkyMonkey]

Dead By Sunrise will perform on the Late Show With David Letterman on Tue. Oct 13th at 11:30 PM.

[FunkyMonkey]

Interview with Chester Bennington: Dead By Sunrise Thrive In The Moonlight

October 13, 2009

The record is so well rounded; you really get something new from it with each listen.  The sense of darkness and deep disappear is immediately striking, but there?s also the pure rock elements, the anger, a few great love songs, and acceptance. What contributed to that, were the songs written over a long stretch of time and so you had all these emotions to draw from?

The record was written over a long period of time, because when we started the record it was late 2005 or mid-2005, so I  started writing  it then and we worked  till end of the year. Then I started working on Minutes To Midnight. So I took the next three years off basically from working on the record [Out Of Ashes]. After that, I started picking it back up again after we finished touring for  Minutes To Midnight.

I had a bunch of new songs, I wrote other new songs in the process of recording with Howard Benson. So there are phases of writing in different periods over the last four years. A lot had happened in that time, you can imagine, a lot of things have happened to yourself in four years, so there?s plenty of stuff to draw from. Some of these songs are about when I met my wife and fell in love with her. That?s where the love songs come from. At the same time, I was having tough times in the middle of a long, drawn out divorce that was draining and pretty much put me on a downward spiral just because it was so?there was so much going on during that period of time, that you get songs like ?My Suffering? and ?Condemned,? and the heavier, darker stuff was all derived from the phases of that experiences.  But yeah, there was a lot going on.

Yeah, because an outsider looking in on you could say, ?Oh, Chester is in Linkin Park, and he has Club Tattoo, his life must be a dream.? So the depths of despair on the record are shocking.

My life is a dream, but unfortunately, I am an asshole sometimes. I can be very selfish or my perspectives can be off, but there were a lot of really stressful things that happening over that period of time. Like waking up one day and having a lot of money and a big house, and a year later, not having a single dime and living in a seven square foot apartment in Santa Monica.

Continue reading: http://www.theaquarian.com/2009/10/13/interview-chester-bennington-dead-by-sunrise-thrive-in-the-moonlight/

[FunkyMonkey]

Dead By Sunrise on David Letterman Oct. 13th...

"Crawl Back In"

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

[FunkyMonkey]

Oct 26 2009 5:28 PM EDT

Linkin Park Album Will Be 'Grandiose Insanity,' Chester Bennington Says

Frontman thinks their next record could be out by June.

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1624814/20091026/linkin_park.jhtml
http://www.mtv.com/videos/news/449679/linkin-parks-chester-bennington-on-their-new-album.jhtml

[FunkyMonkey]

Dead By Sunrise have posted the video premiere of their song "Let Down" on MySpace here:

http://www.myspace.com/deadbysunrise

[FunkyMonkey]

Chester Bennington's 'Ink, Not Mink' Ad/Video

http://www.peta2.com/outthere/o-chesterbennington.asp?c=p23907

[FunkyMonkey]

Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda Talks New Album

Spin Interview

By David Marchese on December 22, 2009

Tell us about the new album.

Well, Rick Rubin is producing it. I'd say we're about halfway done. I'm really happy with what we have so far. We're having a ton of fun in the studio. We really want to do something special and unique for the next record -- we want to redefine the band. I feel like on Hybrid Theory we wanted to introduce ourselves to the world with a certain sound. Then on [2003's] Meteora we were trying to show that we weren't a fluke and we could do the sound that made us successful a second time. By the time we got to [2007's] Minutes to Midnight, we wanted to break down that sound and go outside its confines. Now that we've done that, we feel like we can do anything.

Can you describe any of the songs?

That would be really hard for me to do. I have a tough time doing that. But I can say that it sounds brand new. The thing is, there are so many different ways to make music these days with virtual instruments, software applications, physical instruments, and computer programs. Then when you get in the position of being able to use almost any of it -- that's what we did on Minutes to Midnight . We wanted to play with as many instruments and sounds as we could. But on the new record, now that we have a sense of everything that's available to us, we can reel it in a bit and focus on just the things that we like, which so far is turning out to mean music that is more beat-driven and has a keyboard and drum machine kind of feel.

continue here: http://www.spin.com/articles/linkin-parks-mike-shinoda-talks-new-album

[CheapJon]

I hope it's better then crappy minutes to midnight

[metallex78]

I hope it's better then crappy minutes to midnight

I consider Minutes To Midnight to be their best album so far.

[FunkyMonkey]

TV Guide interviewed Linkin Park at the Grammys last night:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr6TFQmrqVM

[FunkyMonkey]

New LPTV Episode

MARCH 24, 2010

LPTV checks in with Chester Bennington and Dead By Sunrise during their Japanese tour on the new episode!

Video: http://www.cbennington.com/2010/03/new-lptv-episode.html

[FunkyMonkey]

Here is the track listing and cover art for the new Linkin Park album "A Thousand Suns" due out on September 14th.

"A THOUSAND SUNS" TRACK LISTING
1. The Requiem
2. The Radiance
3. Burning In The Skies
4. Empty Spaces
5. When They Come For Me
6. Robot Boy
7. Jornada Del Muerto
8. Waiting For The End
9. Blackout
10. Wretches And Kings
11. Wisdom, Justice, And Love
12. Iridescent
13. Fallout
14. The Catalyst
15. The Messenger

Cover:

http://www.linkinpark.com/profiles/blogs/album-cover-revealed

[FunkyMonkey]

Check out a preview of "The Catalyst", which goes to radio stations in one week.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsRQQR6GHAE

[svdv22]

I know it's only a few seconds of preview - but what's so "genre-busting" about this?

[CheapJon]

Check out a preview of "The Catalyst", which goes to radio stations in one week.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsRQQR6GHAE

this can be good, at least the beat sounds promising

[FunkyMonkey]

Linkin Park's new single "The Catalyst" is available for streaming on their MySpace page and at iTunes:

http://www.myspace.com/linkinpark