While this is by no means confirmed, it appears Linkin Park will be headlining the 2010 edition of the UK's Reading and Leeds Festival next to arena rockers Green Day and the recently reunited Blink-182. This news comes on the back of a leaked image on Facebook dipicting the entire lineup of the Reading leg of the festival where the band are apparently scheduled to headline Friday 27th August. You can view the image below:
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If this is indeed true, it would also mean the band would headline the Leeds leg on either the Saturday (28th) or Sunday (29th). Once again we must stress that this info could potentially be false but with strong rumours circulating through the music community that this is indeed the true lineup, there is every possbility that Linkin Park will return to the famous UK festival in 2010.
While this is not exactly "news", we felt it would be important to notify fans of a new post made by Mike on his blog that details the differences between buying Download To Donate For Haiti on iTunes vs. through Music For Relief. Quoting from the post itself:
"Yep, Download To Donate is available on iTunes. A majority of the of the proceeds on iTunes still go to Haiti. We all would have preferred for 100% to go, but they refused to waive their fee…it was a tough call, but getting the word out to the iTunes fan base won in the end.
Therefore, the simple answer is this: for those of you who donate on http://musicforrelief.org/, 100% of your donation goes to Haiti. For those who donate on iTunes, it’s not 100%. If this isn’t ideal for you, feel free to comment on the iTunes page and let Apple know!!!"
Quite a few news posts have been reported to us by our valued members. Here is a round up of all the news stories of the past week:
Linkin Park Releases Over 100 Professional Live Recordings for Download
Over 100 professional recordings of LP Archives: Official Tour Bootlegs are now available for download exclusively for members of the LP Underground, Linkin Park's official fan club! During this exclusive 2 week promotional period, LPU members will additionally receive a 25% discount on their purchase!
"We originally decided that it would be cool to let our fans buy a recording of the show they just attended," says Rob Bourdon. "Once we saw the positive response to that, we figured it would be even better to make all of the shows available to anyone who would like to download them. We wanted to make the highest quality recordings available to all of our fans."
If you're already an LPU member, login to LPUnderground.com to see how you can access LP Archives: Official Tour Bootlegs!
Source: www.linkinpark.com
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Mike Shinoda Posts Another Behind The Scenes Video From The Studio
In a recent blog post, Mike Shinoda has posted a video of Linkin Park messing around in the studio and having some fun amongst themselves. While no new information/music is heard, it is still worth a watch and can be found on Mike's official blog here.
Source: www.mikeshinoda.com
Thanks to Jacob Undead and Make It Cool for the news!
Great Britian's Olympic Figure Skating team of John and Sinead Kerr today used the Reanimation remix of 'Crawling' as the backround music for their choreography at the Vancouver Winter Olympics. While this may be deemed as small news, it was certainly interesting to see some presence of Linkin Park at the Olympics! You can check out the video below:
Please keep in mind that this is not the video from tonight, but from a practice run of the performance. We are actively hunting down the actual performance itself and will let you know when we have the footage.
Mike has recently uploaded media to his new SoundCloud account for his blog, and has posted all of his instrumental tracks he scored for the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards online. If you have yet to hear them, check them out at his SoundCloud Account. You can also listen to the Mixtapes Mike uploaded to his blog there, along with Not Alone and other tracks he worked on from the Download for Haiti album.
*EDIT* Mp3s are now up on the site thanks to DigitalRosh! You can find them under our downloads section. They have been zipped for your convenience.
Linkin Park have released a brand new instrumental track as part of their new promotion deal with Monster Energy. The track, which is entitled ''Brad's Yo'', can be accessed by signing up to the MonsterEnergy.com promotion where the track will be available for download.
Also on offer is:
- An exclusive recording of ''Bleed It Out'' from the Transformers 2: Revenge Of The Fallen premier
- A downloadable Chester Bennington wallpaper
- A downloadable Hybrid Theory screensaver
If that wasn't enough, there's also a chance to enter for a signed Fender guitar and the chance to meet the band at a future show! There also appears to be room on the site for more media to be added for download (more songs perhaps?). Head on over to Monster Energy to sign up and grab yourselves some cool stuff!
In an effort to spread more awareness about the 'Download To Donate For Haiti' program, Linkin Park have released a music video for 'Not Alone'. The video features graphic representation of the henious devistation in Haiti caused by the recent earthquake which is reported to have taken the lives of more than 200,000 Haitian people. You can check out the video here.
In a recent Tweet via his official Twitter, Chester shared his perspective on the new Linkin Park record towards a fan.
"I myself. Promise that the new LP is f***ing insane. Complex. Heavy without metal. Strong hiphop. Mix HT and M2M. Melodic"
This should be taken with a grain of salt, but if the album is anything like he describes, this should be a really exciting insight to what we can expect from the new Linkin Park album.
In response to several fan comments on his blog, Mike Shinoda cleared the air about the decision to release the album in late 2010, along with some insight into the current recording process:
"I appreciate your concern. I have two comments, to help give you some insight into our process. First, we don’t know when the album is coming out; we are recording constantly and doing everything we can to make a great record (ready for release in 2010). We have some new, special ideas for this release, and those ideas have delayed it slightly–but not into 2011.
Secondly, I said we’d “release music more often,” not “albums”…between the DBS record, “New Divide,” “Not Alone,” the tracks I’ve done with other artists (Metric, Lupe, Kenna, Cypress Hill, Apathy, etc.), the iPhone game and song, and any other unforeseen things that might happen before the album release, I think we’ve proven that statement to be very true."
In a recent interview with MTV at their recent appearance at the grammys, Mike Shinoda has confirmed that the 4th Linkin Park album will be out towards the end of the year:
"Toward the end of the year, we're going to have a new record out...It's produced by myself and Rick Rubin."
The band, who lost out to AC/DC in the 'best hard rock performance' category at the grammys, have promised their most unique and diverse album yet. Stay tuned to the new and improved Linkin Park Association for more updates on the new album!
After months of hard work, The Linkin Park Association is proud to present LPA 4.0. Read about the many changes we've made to make the site better for you.
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Read and/or listen to our exclusive interview with bassist David "Phoenix" Farrell, featuring a shoutout to the site from Dave himself.
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Download The Rosewood Fall's discography, hosted by permission of Jim Roach (former bandmate of Dave in The Snax) exclusively on LPAssociation.com.
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- Mike Jamming With The Roots
- Mike's iGoogle Theme
- The Linkin Park Association Version 4.0 Is Here!
- Download: Mike and Brad on Loveline 1/29
- Mike To Guest On Loveline Tomorrow
- 8-Bit Rebellion Pushed Back
- New LinkinPark.com Is Live
- Hope For Haiti: Watch Now
- Video: Mike Shinoda and Enrique Iglesias On Larry King Live
- Video: Mike, Brad & Chester Talk Music For Relief
