Linkin Park have announced their first LPU Summit of 2012 and it's set to take place in Camden, New Jersey! The summit will coincide with the Camden, NJ date scheduled for August 17th as part of the upcoming Honda Civic Tour where Linkin Park will be joined by Incubus and MuteMath for a string of dates across North America. Check out a some of the details as posted at lpunderground.com below.
Passes for the Summit will be available to LPU members only starting Saturday, May 19 at 12:00 PM ET only at LPUnderground.com.** Summit passes are FREE for LPU Plus Pass ($60) members as a benefit to your membership. If you have a $25 LPU pass, you can purchase a Summit pass for $50, or purchase a new $60 LPU Plus Pass membership for a free pass. Members will only be able to reserve ONE Summit pass each, if you have friends who want to try to attend they must JOIN LPU to get access to this benefit.
There will be limited passes available for the Summit, and they will sell out FAST. To ensure you have the best opportunity possible to get a pass, make sure you are online prior to the 12:00 PM ET time. Those fans who are able to reserve a pass in their cart have 20 minutes to check out. If they do not do so in time, the passes are dumped back into the pool. Because of this, if you do not immediately see passes available, you can try refreshing the page throughout the next couple of hours. Please only reserve a pass if you are 100% certain you will be able to travel to the Summit and attend.
Details on a pre-Summit events held the day before on August 16th, and a full list of all Summit activities will be announced in the coming weeks.
Check out the LPU-TV episode from the Summit we held in Hamburg, Germany last summer HERE and get excited about our 6th Summit coming to the East Coast!
*Tickets to the Linkin Park show on August 17th NOT included. Tickets to the show not required to attend the summit.
**While supplies last
Is anyone planning to head to Philadelphia for the first LPU Summit of 2012? A number of LPA staff and members are already heading to the show so it would be great to see you there! Let us know in the comments!
Mike recently approached us at the LPA to write a guest blog for his website about the Linkin Park Scavenger Hunt. The article, which features our opinions on the Scavenger Hunt as well as a recap of all that we know so far, can be read on Mike's official blog or at the official Linkin Park website. A big thank you goes out to Mike Shinoda for the opportunity.
Let us know what you think of the article in our comments! A big shout out goes to our followers/LPA members that are featured in the article!
It has been announced via MTV Japan that Linkin Park will be performing at the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards Japan taking place at the Makuhari Messe Event Hall in Chiba, Japan on June 23rd. This will be the first time Linkin Park have ever performed at the MTV VMAJ's and is the second awards show they'll be playing this year following their scheduled performance at the Billboard Music Awards on May 20th in Las Vegas. Linkin Park will be joined by other artists EXILE, JUJU, Miliyah Kato, 2NE1, 2PM, J Soul Brothers and more. The event will begin at 6:30PM in Japan and you can view more details about the event and purchase tickets at MTV Japan.
To support Music For Relief, Linkin Park have placed several tickets and meet and greet passes for the band's upcoming European festival dates, up for auction. You may bid on these tickets, and others by going to the official post over at Music For Relief here: http://www.musicforrelief.org/profil...park-in-europe
Alternatively, here are direct links to the shows that currently are available for auction:
Bid on Pinkpop Festival in Landgraaf, Netherlands May 27th
Bid on Skive Festival in Skive, Denmark May 30th
Bid on Rock am Ring in Nurburgring, Germany June 1
Bid on Rock im Park in Nuremberg, Germany June 3
Please help support Music For Relief, and bid on one of the dates listed above. Proceeds will go to Music For Relief to support great causes around the world.
According to a television spot for TELEHIT (a music video show in Mexico), Linkin Park's latest video for BURN IT DOWN is slated to be premiered on May 17th at 2:00PM local time. Below is the commercial:
A translation of the video (provided courtesy of LPA member Diablorojo) is as follows:
It should be noted that the commercial features absolutely no footage of the Burn It Down video, and that we have had zero confirmation from the band as to the "release date" making this unconfirmed at this point. We are still choosing to report it, as this is the first proposed air date for the BURN IT DOWN video we have so far. If this turns out to be correct, expect a worldwide premier on the same day. We hope to get confirmation soon, and we'll be sure to keep you updated as more information becomes available.
Update: The video has also been reported to be premiering on German TV station VIVA on May the 21st. If you live in Germany more information can be found at their official website.
Update: We've received some information that this premiere on Telehit is apparently bogus and that the video is not being planned to be released on that date. If anything changes we'll let you know, but for now the video is NOT being planned to be premiered on that day. No word on the May 21st premier as of yet. We'll keep you updated on any developments.
Update: The Telehit premiere has officially been announced as "not happening". Claudio himself took to Twitter to say the video has been delayed.
http://twitter.com/#!/claudiotelehit...50397573931008
Translation from LPA member mark_gianino:
Linkin Park's video release for this Thursday is canceled, due a delay in postproduction of it. This is what the label informed.
The most ambiguous track on LIVING THINGS since the announcement of the track-list has arguably been track eleven, TINFOIL. The song hasn't been mentioned in any of the early preview articles in the past few days and due to its positioning on the album as track eleven, has been largely speculated as an instrumental song. The eleventh track has been a place-holder for instrumental songs on earlier Linkin Park records, namely Hybrid Theory and Meteora with Cure For the Itch and Session, respectively. TINFOIL is also the only track on LIVING THINGS that appeared as a working title during the creation of A Thousand Suns. The confirmation of TINFOIL being an instrumental comes from ARTISTdirect editor Rick Florino, who in response to a fan on Twitter confirmed the illusive TINFOIL will indeed be an "instrumental interlude".
Noisecreep had chance to listen to LIVING THINGS recently. Check out their review below:
Co-produced by Rick Rubin and Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda, the album is a take-no-prisoners, 37-minute blast and blitz of everything that has come to define this powerful band - from the dense, dark, layered vortex of keyboards to the powerful and often soaring choruses.
Clearly, LP remain a band to be reckoned with.
Comprised of 12 tracks, LIVING THINGS kicks off with "LOST IN THE ECHO," and it's clear from the first tease of feedback that the band is in stellar form. The big, dramatic washes of synth, the complex, but strangely accessible syncopated beats and blistering raps create a full-on "Linkin Park comfort level" that no doubt will not just appeal to longtime fans, but generate lots of younger listener buzz as well.
"IN MY REMAINS" features a military drum march as the backbone behind a truly thunderous melody, and as you may have heard, the single, "BURN IT DOWN" is classic Linkin Park - heavy, anthemic and made especially powerful by the California band's trademark wall of sound.
Other standout tracks include the hook-laden "I'LL BE GONE," which also feels like a single, the moody, mercurial "CASTLE OF GLASS," and the wildly intense "VICTIMIZED." This track in particular just scorches - and has an instant-classic feel.
The record overall is relentless - a never-ending assault of thick grooves, sinewy guitars, ethereal soundscapes, and looping rhythms.
One of the album's two ballads (the other being 'POWERLESS'), "UNTIL IT BREAKS," is a nice pause in the action; an evocative piece of melodic electronica that builds and cascades in an even more lush, layered production than the rest of the record. Rubin is clearly the right fit for the band and in particular seems to have worked well with Shinoda in capturing the band's classic sound, while also adding new layers of sonic richness to the mix.
LIVING THINGS clocks in at a brisk 37 minutes, perhaps leaving the listener wanting more - which is rarely a bad thing to do. But there is not one wasted second and it certainly satisfies. Based on Noisecreep's first listen, we are pretty certain this will be one of the most talked about (and played) albums of the summer. Powerful, hypnotic and thoroughly true to form, this is a brilliant, definitive collection that represents an important band at its peak - yet again.
Thank you, Linkin Park.
Mike Shinoda, Chester Bennington and producer Rick Rubin sat down with Rolling Stone to discuss LIVING THINGS. From the Hybrid Theory-esque sound of VICTIMIZED to the Bob Dylan inspired folk sound of ROADS UNTRAVELED, LIVING THINGS is shaping up to be a very diverse album. Read the article below for more details.
ArtistDirect.com editor in cheif Rick Florino got the chance to listen to Linkin Park's fifth studio album LIVING THINGS recently. It's a more than positive preview of the album, where he goes into detail about tracks we knew nothing about, including the "plain fucking sick" VICTIMIZED, the "classic-rock" infused ROADS UNTRAVELED, "tripped out" SKIN TO BONE and the "cinematic closer" POWERLESS. Check out his impressions below!
In fact, all of the best, brightest, and most brilliant elements of the group's sound have been siphoned into this offering and then expanded upon. Not only does the album live up to the promise set forth by the incendiary first single "BURN IT DOWN", it exceeds every expectation—and then some.
Let's get this out of the way right now. This is Linkin Park's best record and a landmark for rock as a whole. On June 26 the band's faithful and music fans as a whole will get one incredible ride.
LIVING THINGS comes to life with a blip of cackling feedback on "LOST IN THE ECHO". Soon, everything is subsumed by earth-shaking beats from drummer Rob Bourdon and airy synth sorcery by Joe Hahn. Brad Delson's guitars gut the swell as Mike Shinoda launches into an airtight verse beginning with the words, "You were that foundation". Chester Bennington sounds potently pristine during the stadium-size refrain, locking into an impenetrable harmony with Shinoda. They remain the most intriguing duo in music at large, and their interplay here is utterly mind-blowing. A cybernetic frenzy sizzles during a scratched out bridge before Bennington echoes, "This time I finally let you go". Phoenix's bass rumbles throughout the landscape, and suddenly you're plunged into a world ruled by these six individuals.
A torrent of scratching fuels massive danceable percussion on "IN MY REMAINS" as Bennington's divine delivery entwines with shimmering electronics. Military drums punctuate the song's mid-section as Shinoda elegantly croons a haunting harmony over piano announcing, "Like an army falling one by one".
"BURN IT DOWN" is already a timeless anthem in its own right, boasting that inescapable and irresistible refrain. Shinoda sounds like he's rapping from another universe on the skittering and staggering "LIES GREED MISERY". A majestic 21st century bitch slap, it's glitched-out, pissed-off hard rock.
Subtle handclaps bounce with the keyboards during the beginning of "I'LL BE GONE" before another instantly incisive hook. It's a firestarter with more snappy riffing from Delson. There's a folk elegance to the spacey "CASTLE OF GLASS", evincing some of Shinoda and Bennington's most poetic lyrics to date—"I'm only a crack in this castle of glass." The band manages to harness that indie vulnerability moments before their heaviest track ever "VICTIMIZED".
They've never done anything this bruising and brutal. Thrash paranoia steamrolls with tribal drums before a throat-slashing scream on the hook. It's vicious, violent, and vibrant. This unexpected drop is just plain fucking sick. You can practically envision festival crowds tearing up the ground to this one.
"ROADS UNTRAVELED" nods to classic rock, but it's unlike anything you've ever heard, especially once that big distortion hits. There's a glimmer of electro spunk to "SKIN TO BONE" before everything gets all tripped out on the refrain—another welcome surprise. On the other end of the spectrum, "UNTIL IT BREAKS" stands out as the band's most poignant ballad ever.
Everything culminates on the cinematic closer "POWERLESS". It has the heft of a John Williams score and the power of any of Linkin Park's best output.
Not only is Living Things one of the best albums of the decade, it's a new classic. Once again, Linkin Park raise the bar. This is a hybrid like you've never heard and won't again—until their next album.
A new episode of LPTV has been released showing how some of the artwork was made for the upcoming LIVING THINGS album. This video showcases the state of the art 3D rendering technique the band went through at Gentle Giant Studios in February. The artwork is mostly created by designers Ghost Town Media and you may already recognise this process being used on the LIVING THINGS album cover and the BURN IT DOWN lyrics video. Check out the video below to see how exactly the capturing process works.
Join in and follow the progress of the ambitious worldwide scavenger hunt for Linkin Park's upcoming album, LIVING THINGS.
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Watch an instructional video on our new tour page. Courtesy of Schen!
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Keaton Hashimoto and The LPA have teamed up to create the first ever full-length Linkin Park fan created game! DOWNLOAD NOW!
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Linkin Park's music gets remixed and re-interpreted by Keaton Hashimoto in Glorious 8-Bit Splendor! Check it out here, exclusively on LPAssociation.com
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We sat down with NoBraiN to discuss him, his music, his submission, and his experiences working with Linkin Park.
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