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While standing on-stage at the Linkin Park special LPU live event in Los Angeles less than 24 hours ago, Mike Shinoda promised that more details were "just around the corner", regarding the story of the band's newly-unveiled line-up. By the time that live event ended, Linkin Park fans were greeted with a new single called "The Emptiness Machine", a music video for that single, the announcement of a new studio album called "From Zero", and some tour dates for good measure.

A few hours after that, Zane Lowe teased an interview with all six current Linkin Park members, and, now, that interview is available to watch on YouTube.

Presented in partnership with Apple Music, the platform on which "The Zane Lowe Show" is hosted, the hour-long video unsurprisingly sees Zane interviewing Linkin Park founding members Mike Shinoda, Phoenix, Joe Hahn and Brad Delson (who was bizarrely absent during the live show afterwards) along with new additions to the lineup, Emily Armstrong and Colin Brittain.

The program starts out with Shinoda taking Zane through the challenging logistics of staging the special event, and some of the considerations involved in reforming Linkin Park into what we are now seeing. Zane and Shinoda then sit down with the rest of the band for some deeper questions on their emotional experience of building up to Linkin Park's new chapter, complete with new music and ambitious touring plans.

Check out the interview here and tell us what you think on our message board!

After a seven year hiatus, today on September 5th, 2024, Linkin Park returned in a LPU live show event to reveal a new line-up and announce the band are now active again, with both a new album coming out and some tour dates announced in the coming month.

Linkin Park now have new singer Emily Armstrong, a singer who formerly fronted band Dead Sara. She joined existing LP members Mike Shinoda on stage along with other bandmates Joe Hahn and Dave Phoenix Farrell. You can watch the full show below:


Sadly as of today, drummer Rob Bourdon has officially left the band, with Colin Brittain now taking the role in the new line-up.

Brad Delson is also still in the band but didn't play the show today, with Alex Feder covering for him for the debut performance. Rest assured that Brad will be back for the upcoming shows and is featured in the new promo photographs to promote the new era of Linkin Park.

The new Linkin Park have a new album coming out called From Zero, with the first single The Emptiness Machine now available to stream online, with a music video. It's also the only song from the new album that was played at the live show, with a number of Linkin Park hits played for the rest of the hour-plus performance.


Linkin Park have also announced a number of select tour dates that start as early as next week. With the current dates being supported by grandson and scheduled as follows:
Linkin Park have also done some in-depth interviews regarding the new line-up, album and tour dates, which you can read below and are definitely worth taking the time to check out, especially as Mike talks about Rob leaving and so much more.

We're going to miss Rob and hope he's doing what makes him happy. Make sure to discuss this huge landmark return for Linkin Park, the new line-up, From Zero album and more on our forum.

As the 100 hour countdown that enticed the entire fanbase ended, the 00:00:00 time code started glitching and then started counting up instead. This confused all 56 thousand viewers of the livestream, until the counter reached 00:09:05, when it started glitching again. Immediately fans started speculating what it could mean, with the guess that it meant September 5th being the most popular. The glitching repeated at 01:35:00 (95 minutes) and then again at 09:05:00, clearly establishing the pattern.

With fans now settling into the waiting for September 5th, the band today announced that indeed something would indeed happen on September 5th, by tweeting out and updating their website, showing a partially updated LP logo and a message reading:

BE PART OF SOMETHING
SEPTEMBER 5​

Along with this, an email was sent out to members of the bands official fanclub, the LPUnderground, announcing an event on September 5th that they could request tickets for. The message reads:

Only open to Linkin Park Underground members with a valid Passport Plus membership as of August 24, 2024.

Event tickets are limited, not guaranteed, and will be randomly assigned. The event will occur on September 5th
in Los Angeles, CA, between 12:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m.

If selected, the following applies:

• You must be 18 years or older
• You must be able to attend in person
• Do not RSVP if you cannot be in Los Angeles on September 5th
• No +1s allowed
• Event tickets are non-transferable
• Transportation and lodging will not be provided
• Confirmations will be emailed on the evening of Friday, August 30th
• To enter the event, you must 1) show a matching government-issued photo ID that proves you are 18 years or older 2) show a confirmation email. The name on the ID must match the name on the Ticketmaster account.

So what do you think will happen on September 5th? Is this a full blown return of Linkin Park after 7 years? Come and discuss in our forums.

Recently, rumours have swirled when it comes to whether Linkin Park is returning to the stage, and whether they will have brand-new music in tow to show off. Back in early May, Billboard revealed that the band was apparently searching for a new vocalist, and having talks about festival headline slots for 2025.

Now, the band is throwing some major fuel into that fire: linkinpark.com now has a landing page simply entitled "ø", and it features a YouTube Live embed showing a realtime countdown timer. Twitter and Instagram accounts owned by Linkin Park, plus band members Mike Shinoda, Phoenix and Joe Hahn, have all shared this countdown.

Adding to this, the timer was also shared by Welcome To Rockville, a Florida-based festival, in their Instagram story. This is a clear hint that the band has some involvement in the event, which will take place in mid-May 2025.

The countdown is set to end at Wednesday, Aug 28, at 18:15:06 UTC. Whether other festivals hint at Linkin Park appearances, whether the band teases any new music in the meantime, what the countdown even counts down to, are simply all unknowns right now. Still, this is the clearest indication yet that Linkin Park is looking forward with new live shows, so fans are rightfully excited and eagerly awaiting more updates.

Source: linkinpark.com

A new Billboard article outlines industry whispers that nu-metal icons Linkin Park are looking at returning to the stage as a band in 2025, after being on hiatus as a touring act since 2017.

The post explains that "a potential Linkin Park tour" is on the cards, and that the band are even seeking opportunities to perform headline slots at festivals too, all via their booking agency WME. Curiously, only three of the band members are specifically named as spearheading this effort, leaving fans a mystery as to how this new configuration of Linkin Park will look in full.

Booking agency WME is taking offers for a potential Linkin Park tour along with headlining festival dates featuring Mike Shinoda, Brad Delson and Dave Farrell, the sources say.

The article also cites various anonymous sources "close to the band" that talk about new member(s) being added to the lineup, lending strength to recent rumours along the same lines, but no names have been given out.

One source tells Billboard the band is hoping to find a female vocalist to front the reunited band, matching rumors that have been making the rounds in recent weeks.

This is our only window into Linkin Park's future as a touring entity so far. Given that the band wants to go as far as playing for festival audiences, it's unlikely that they would be wading back into live performance waters without new music in their back pocket ...

Source: Billboard

24 years in the making, Linkin Park's long-awaited and much-hyped singles collection, "Papercuts", is finally available for you stream and listen to! The 20-track compilation consists mostly of the band's most popular tracks (i.e. the band's most-streamed songs on Spotify) which means that even the most casual Linkin Park fan has already overplayed them to death over the past 2-and-a-half decades.

Given the versatility Linkin Park have displayed in their music over the course of their 7 album cycles to date, "Papercuts" is quite varied. Fans who aren't deeply familiar with some of the band's history or never checked out their live shows might be surprised to hear contrasts like "Waiting For The End" next to "Somewhere I Belong", or "New Divide" after "One Step Closer", or just the fact that "Papercut" and "One More Light" are somehow both by the same band.

The compilation also includes deep cut "QWERTY", which is a 2006 demo recording originally released on the 2006 fan club exclusive CD "LP Underground 6" (and later also included on a 2008 compilation called "Songs From The Underground"), and "Friendly Fire", a song idea left off 2017's "One More Light" which was updated by band members Mike Shinoda and Brad Delson exclusively for this release.

For reasons none of us are able to comprehend, nearly all of the songs on this release are edits straight from their respective albums. This creates some strange moments in the sequencing; at the end of "Breaking The Habit", for example, the guitar feedback intended to lead into "From The Inside" on "Meteora" is still included, sudden cut-off and all. Given that these songs were all released as singles, single edits that omit these transitional elements exist but were oddly not chosen for this singles collection.

"Papercuts" tracklist:

1. Crawling
2. Faint
3. Numb / Encore
4. Papercut
5. Breaking The Habit
6. In The End
7. Bleed It Out
8. Somewhere I Belong
9. Waiting For The End
10. CASTLE OF GLASS
11. One More Light
12. BURN IT DOWN
13. What I've Done
14. QWERTY
15. One Step Closer
16. New Divide
17. Leave Out All The Rest
18. Lost
19. Numb
20. Friendly Fire

Accompanying the release of "Papercuts" is a visualiser for "QWERTY" masterminded by visual artist Dimitri Thouzery, that seems to be a throwback to the trippy Windows Media Player or iTunes visualisers which you probably hadn't thought about in years.

For YouTube Premium subscribers, Linkin Park's channel also uploaded a "behind the song" documentary directed and edited by the band's longtime videographer Mark Fiore. This video features narration by Phoenix explaining the history of "QWERTY", along with footage such as the band trying it out in rehearsals ahead of the 2006 live festival shows where it would debut.

In addition, most of the music videos made for the songs in the singles collection have been given 4K upgrades on YouTube and other video platforms. Some of these videos ("Leave Out All The Rest" and "What I've Done" specifically) are from an era before "high-definition" altogether. As we've experienced with previous 4K upgrades of Linkin Park's older music videos, these new versions allow us to see things which were never meant to be viewed with this level of detail ...


"Papercuts" is available for streaming on digital platforms like Spotify and Apple Music. You can also check out a dizzying array of physical formats and bundles available on Linkin Park's official store.

Have you checked out "Papercuts"? Tell us what you think!

Hello, and welcome to LPA Investigates. Today we delve into the baffling case of Rob Bourdon, the esteemed drummer of the iconic band, Linkin Park. Since his last public appearance in 2020 to promote the Hybrid Theory 20 boxset, Bourdon has been conspicuously absent from interviews or promotional features, leaving fans scratching their heads.

Websites such as LinkinPedia have requested information regarding his whereabouts and even Mike Shinoda himself has expressed doubts as to Bourdon’s location. As fans continue to pour over leads and evidence, theories abound regarding Bourdon's whereabouts. Some speculate that he embarked on a solitary journey, seeking solace in the depths of nature, while others suggest more creepier possibilities, including alien abduction.

The disappearance of someone of Rob Bourdon's stature is certainly unprecedented. In our quest to discover the whereabouts of Bourdon, LPA explored all avenues, from the plausible to the far-fetched. Even Robert Stack, himself resurrected from the dead, had no earthly idea on where Bourdon is.

Our investigative journey into the disappearance of Rob Bourdon took us to unexpected places, but none more peculiar than a remote spiritual commune nestled in the desert. And what we found there may shock you.

Here, amidst the sand dunes and cacti, we uncovered a truly bizarre revelation: Rob Bourdon has been living his life as a toaster.


Gobsmacked by our discovery, we tried our best to make sense of this development. But what astonished us more is the reaction of the commune's residents. Rather than fear the musician turned toaster, they've embraced Bourdon's transformation as a divine occurrence.

“When I first saw Rob, er, the Holy Toaster, I knew it was a sign from the universe. He's here to guide us to enlightenment, one perfectly toasted slice at a time." - Commune Member 1

"We've started a new religion around the Holy Toaster. We call it 'Crispianity.' - Commune Member 2

Yes, you heard that right, Crispianity. Followers of this peculiar faith believe that Bourdon's metamorphosis into a toaster holds profound spiritual significance, and they gather daily to pay homage to their newfound deity.

As we spent the day among the Crispians, we left this visit to the desert feeling more confused than ever before. Despite our lingering questions, one thing became abundantly clear: Rob makes one hell of a buttered toast.

After our journey we reached out to Mike Shinoda who emailed back the following response. "Crazy. This makes a lot of sense. I've never seen a toaster and Rob Bourdon in the room at the same time. -m"

And in an unexpected turn of events, Rob Bourdon himself, or should we say, the Holy Toaster, has agreed to grant us his first interview in many years. Despite his initial reluctance, Bourdon, in his toaster form, has decided to break his silence and shed light on the mysteries surrounding his transformation.

Watch our exclusive interview here!

Thank you for tuning in and may your bread always be perfectly toasted. Goodnight.

Things move quick in the world of Linkin Park these days, just days after getting the first snippet of Friendly Fire this Monday, we now have the full song and a music video to boot. The song's lyrics speak on interpersonal conflicts when nobody remembers why they ever began, with key lyrics like "What are we fighting for?"

Tell me the words I've forgotten
What we were fighting for
Staring right into the darkness
Through an empty open door

Friendly Fire was written, recorded and mixed by the band in the process of making their 2017 album One More Light, and was ultimately left off that album with the intention of releasing it at a later point. Jon Green, who contributed writing and instrumentation to Battle Symphony and Nobody Can Save Me, is credited with writing and production alongside band members Mike Shinoda and Brad Delson on this song. Alongside Green in co-producer roles are Andrew Dawson and Purity Ring's Corin Roddick (finally putting an end to the mystery of whether or not he was involved with the One More Light sessions).

The production on Friendly Fire actually puts it neatly alongside those aforementioned Jon Green songs on One More Light, with a big emphasis on the halftime stomp of both live and programmed drum sounds. The rhythm is bolstered with thick bass stabs, while spacious guitar and synth textures round out the instrumentation. At the center, of course, is Chester Bennington's dynamic vocal performance; we hear his low register in the verses, bringing to mind songs like Halfway Right, but, from there, it builds up to an earworm of a refrain, "It's just friendly fire", after the second chorus.

The video is directed and edited by the bands long time videographer Mark Fiore, who has directed a few of the band's music videos in the past, like Given Up. He also co-directed the One More Light video alongside Joe Hahn. Fiore typically works with footage he gets of the band in the studio and on tour. Fittingly, the video for Friendly Fire consists of in-studio material and live footage edited together. You can watch it here:

So it turns out that the teasing the band did on social media the last few weeks wasn't just for a fun goof, they were teasing the release of their career-spanning greatest hits album, Papercuts! The album collects some of the bands biggest hits from 2020 to 2023, and throws in the the new song Friendly Fire with the fan favourite QWERTY as well. In a statement to Consequence of Sound, Brad Delson had this to say:

“Friendly Fire’ was always one of our favorite songs from the One More Light sessions. Something about it wasn’t quite right so as close as it got to the finish line, we chose to set it aside for later. When we started looking for an unreleased track to include on our greatest hits collection, I was blown away by the power of the song, the power of the storytelling, the power of the vocal, the sonic landscape and I actually thought that it was closer than maybe we had realized at the time.”

Delson continued, “We got together to work on it and connect some of the missing pieces that for whatever reason hadn’t revealed themselves during the recording of One More Light. I can’t wait for people to hear it. It’s such a beautiful, compelling, heartbreaking, hopeful story and it really resonates with me today.”

In addition to the statement from Brad, Billboard.com also got a statement from Mike Shinoda:

“In the making of each Linkin Park album, I want to love and believe in each individual song completely,” says Mike Shinoda. “I hope that if any one track is heard on its own in the world, it is something I can feel proud of, and something that takes root inside the listener and becomes part of the energy that connects us.

“Curating the tracks for Papercuts was a joy,” Shinoda continues. “Each song in this collection is both a singular moment on our timeline and an evolving story that is as much ours as it is yours. From our first release ‘One Step Closer’ to the brand-new ‘Friendly Fire,’ this tracklist spans all our chapters so far. Thank you for being a part of our journey. We hope you enjoy Papercuts.”

The pre-order for Papercuts is now live on papercuts.linkinpark.com and it comes out on April 12th. You can get the album in a few different variations:

Papercuts is the first singles collection from innovative musical force Linkin Park. The career-spanning 20-track album compiles 18 essential anthems, plus the never-before-released track “Friendly Fire” recorded during the 2017 sessions for their seventh album One More Light and fan-favorite rarity “QWERTY.”

Linkin Park were inspired to thoughtfully curate Papercuts by their fans’ passionate reception of the 20th Anniversary Editions of Hybrid Theory in 2020 and Meteora last year. That enthusiasm led to this comprehensive retrospective of the band’s journey so far in the span of one album.

Tracklist:

1. Crawling
2. Faint
3. Numb/Encore
4. Papercut
5. Breaking The Habit
6. In The End
7. Bleed It Out
8. Somewhere I Belong
9. Waiting For The End
10. Castle Of Glass
11. One More Light
12. Burn It Down
13. What I’ve Done
14. QWERTY
15. One Step Closer
16. New Divide
17. Leave Out All The Rest
18. Lost
19. Numb
20. Friendly Fire

What do you think of the music video for Friendly Fire? Will you pick up Papercuts? Come and discuss in our forums.

Sources: Linkin Park YouTube, Linkin Park Store, Consequence of Sound, Billboard.com

After a week of teasing something green on their social media profiles, Linkin Park has now released a snippet of a previously unreleased song from their One More Light studio sessions. The song is called "Friendly Fire" and you can check out the snippet here below.

What do you think of the snippet? What do you think it is the band has been teasing? Come and discuss in our forums.

Source: Linkin Park Twitter

Last week, Shinoda gave us versions of "Already Over" and "In My Head" optimised to soundtrack gaming sessions; this time, he's delivering us new remixes geared for your sweaty cardio workouts, once again in collaboration with the German soundscape wizards at Endel Sound. The resulting mixtape-style listening experience, "Already Over / In My Head (Endel Workout Soundscape)" consists of 15 tracks with 43 minutes of music, starting from soft and relaxing numbers and building up to more intense arrangements.

The music contains plenty of distorted ambient elements and stretched-out vocal cuts, coated with heavy amounts of reverb and layered over deep bass, which adds up to an ominous, trippy atmosphere that permeates the entire album. The overall sampling approach heard here could be compared to the aesthetics of modern-day phonk or mid-2010s "cloud rap", both of which draw heavily from the 90s Memphis hip-hop scene and trailblazing producers like DJ Smokey and DJ Screw.

Meanwhile, all the drums parts are house-influenced four-to-the-floor rhythms at different tempos, instead of more relaxed trip-hop rhythms on the previous Shinoda x Endel collaboration, which makes for the most obvious difference between the two.

The tracklist comprises a "Warm Up" suite with 4 versions of "In My Head", a "Light Cardio" section with 4 remixes of the "Fort Minor Mix" version of "Already Over", and, lastly, 7 remixes of the original "Already Over" divided into 3 suites: "Cardio", "Intense Cardio" and "Cool Down".

1. In My Head - Endel Warm Up 1 (Workout Soundscape) [2:07]
   
2. In My Head - Endel Warm Up 2 (Workout Soundscape) [2:06]
   
3. In My Head - Endel Warm Up 3 (Workout Soundscape) [3:38]
   
4. In My Head - Endel Warm Up 4 (Workout Soundscape) [3:54]
   
5. Already Over - Endel Light Cardio 1 (Fort Minor Mix)(Workout Soundscape) [2:23]
   
6. Already Over - Endel Light Cardio 2 (Fort Minor Mix)(Workout Soundscape) [2:29]
   
7. Already Over - Endel Light Cardio 3 (Fort Minor Mix)(Workout Soundscape) [3:31]
   
8. Already Over - Endel Light Cardio 4 (Fort Minor Mix)(Workout Soundscape) [2:53]
   
9. Already Over - Endel Cardio 1 (Workout Soundscape) [3:00]
   
10. Already Over - Endel Cardio 2 (Workout Soundscape) [3:12]
    
11. Already Over - Endel Cardio 3 (Workout Soundscape) [4:07]
    
12. Already Over - Endel Intense Cardio 1 (Workout Soundscape) [2:35]
    
13. Already Over - Endel Intense Cardio 2 (Workout Soundscape) [2:51]
    
14. Already Over - Endel Cool Down 1 (Workout Soundscape) [2:25]
    
15. Already Over - Endel Cool Down 2 (Workout Soundscape) [2:08]

The first couple of tracks are soft, drumless ambient takes on "In My Head", combining swirling synth drones and vocal snippets with generous amounts of reverb. A soft guitar rhythm seeps in towards the end of "Warm Up 2".

"Warm Up 3" begins with the sudden introduction of a kick rhythm and a bassline from the original song; this arrangement continues to build with the introduction of piano chords, cymbal crashes and other rhythm elements; this build continues in "Warm Up 4", which brings in more guitar parts, vocal samples and synth parts. At about the midpoint in this track, the arrangement reaches its climax and begins to wind down over the rest of its 4-minute length.

The "Cardio" section is the first 3 closing sections which are all remixes of "Already Over". This suite is primarily built on a house four-to-the-floor rhythm paired with the original song's pre-chorus bassline. A synth pad and vocal elements from "Already Over" appear over the top, and the song's synth arp appears around the midpoint of "Cardio 2" for what could almost be mistaken for a rave-friendly build-up, but the track breaks down from there instead of delivering any sort of drop. Towards the end of "Cardio 2", the pre-chorus bassline is traded for the verses' four-note bass guitar part, which remains the bassline throughout all of "Cardio 3".
Things get a little bit faster during the "Intense Cardio" section - we once again have a house rhythm going on, with the verse bassline again, but it's faster now, bringing us more in the vicinity of the original "Already Over" tempo. The vocal samples here aren't so obscured and distant but some of them are distinctly off-beat, giving these tracks a slightly more chaotic feel. Some rhythm guitar appears towards the end of "Intense Cardio 2" as the arrangement builds to a climax and closes out.

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