Posted on May 10, 2025 by minuteforce
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Linkin Park is on the cover of the June 2025 issue of Pollstar Magazine, a trade publication that focuses on live music. The profile piece on the band is written by music journalist Katherine Turman, and cleverly titled "The New Mettle: Linkin Park’s Incredible Return To Global Stadiums & Arenas". Quite fittingly, it mostly focuses on Linkin Park's touring efforts: the September 5, 2024 launch event which introduced the new band line-up, as well as the subsequent From Zero touring which has taken Linkin Park all over the world to perform live for fans.

The story features quotes from some of the band members, as well as people Linkin Park has worked closely with in planning the world tour, giving insight on some of thought processes influencing the decisions. For example, key figures from Live Nation's concert division explain how the launch show helped the band to gauge demand for more shows:

From the start, “the band and their team approached the return thoughtfully,” says Rick Franks, SVP of Global Touring, Live Nation Concerts. Fans watching the livestream from around the world gave a “real-time insight into the response of the announcement. Based on the data, it was clear there was incredible demand globally, helping us build a 2025 touring plan that felt right-sized for the moment. Sellouts internationally in Mexico, Europe, and several key markets in the U.S. and Canada are proof points of the band’s indelible mark.”
Band member Mike Shinoda also provides perspective on things like Linkin Park turning to WME as their booking agency (the cause of much fan speculation at the time):
“We went over to WME [John Marx, Josh Javor, Rob Markus, Ron Opaleski, Brian Cohen, Jake Wilk and Dvora Englefield] and one of the reasons we did that is because touring is so much more fragmented now,” Shinoda says. “There’s so much information, so everything is so specific to regions and so specific to this venue in this particular area, and this fanbase, and whatever, that you need people who are experts in the little microcosms of those areas.”
The rest of the feature touches briefly on things like the band having to learning new live arrangements of old songs, ticket pricing and distribution strategies, and even the recent change in venue for the Los Angeles show scheduled for September.

If you're interested in this aspect of Linkin Park, the cover story in Pollstar is definitely worth checking out - you can read it here, and find out more about the June 2025 issue on this page. If you're a paying subscriber, you can apparently even look at the data Pollstar has on Linkin Park's touring history (but that profile picture chosen for the band is available for everyone to see).

Source: Pollstar News

 
Posted on May 10, 2025 by Christøffer
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Linkin Park has just wrapped up another leg of arena shows and is now heading into their big festival run for the summer! Until their US arena show in Brooklyn on July 29th, the band will be playing multiple festivals in Europe, while playing sets of arena shows in between.

However, before Linkin Park heads over the Atlantic, they have two festival dates in the United States. These will be their first US festivals since the band's return—though originally this was to be with the ill-fated Sick New World festival in Las Vegas in mid-April, which was cancelled. Instead, the band's US festival comeback will be with Sonic Temple Art & Music Festival, hosted in Columbus, Ohio, and put on by Danny Wimmer Presents, the same promoter/organizer responsible for US rock and metal festivals such as Louder than Life, Aftershock, and Welcome to Rockville. Welcome to Rockville will also be the band's next stop after Sonic Temple, before heading to Germany to perform in München, Bayern (Munich, Bavaria) for the 2025 UEFA Champions League final kickoff at the end of this month.

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The band is headlining day three of the Sonic Temple festival. They will follow previous night headliners Korn and Metallica, the latter of whom will also be playing a second headlining set for the final night of the festival, advertised as "no repeats" from their first set as with the current M72 World Tour. Also of note is that Incubus, slotted to play just before Linkin Park on the main Temple Stage, very recently cancelled their performance for the festival due to an illness in the band. It remains to be seen if this shift will affect Linkin Park's time slot at all.

While this is Linkin Park's first appearance at Sonic Temple, they have performed at the festival's direct predecessor, Rock on the Range, previously. Danny Wimmer Presents replaced Rock on the Range with the new Sonic Temple festival starting in 2019, with a break during the COVID-19 pandemic before returning in 2023. The band performed for the 2015 edition of Rock on the Range while supporting The Hunting Party.

That 2015 performance, which introduced a new full-length setlist, fired off with a "Papercut" opener, followed by the return of "Rebellion." The band also debuted a shortened live version of their second collaboration with electronic producer Steve Aoki, "Darker than Blood." Notably absent was Brad Delson for personal reasons, with his spot filled in by his guitar technician Benjamin Chandler.


"Rebellion" performed at Rock on the Range 2015, featuring Benjamin Chandler filling in for Brad Delson.

Outside of Danny Wimmer festivals, the band hit Columbus many times in their early history, starting in December 2000 as opener support for Papa Roach's Master Bay tour. The band performed in Columbus a total of seven times throughout the Hybrid Theory and Meteora cycles, and then once more in 2008 supporting Minutes to Midnight. At this February 2008 show, Chester performed the full "Given Up" scream for the last time in his tenure with Linkin Park.


Fantastic edit syncing DSP audio of Linkin Park's full 2008 Columbus performance with fan videos.

This past US leg of the From Zero tour has been full of surprises and debuts so far. Over the course of the past six arena dates, the band has debuted the remaining three full-length songs off From Zero. "Cut the Bridge" debuted in full in Tulsa, after its bridge had been used in an extended "Bleed It Out" bridge section in late 2024; "Stained" was played for the first time in Baltimore; and "IGYEIH" was debuted in Raleigh, with Emily performing the bridge from within the crowd, right in the middle of a moshpit.


A recording of the "IGYEIH" debut in Raleigh from the seats; you can see Emily in the crowd a little better!

"Up from the Bottom," the lead promotional track from the upcoming deluxe edition of From Zero, also debuted at the beginning of this arena leg. It has been a setlist staple so far, performed at all six previous dates.


"Up from the Bottom" from Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Other notable additions to the set for this past leg have included a shortened version of the Fort Minor single "Where'd You Go," as well as the addition of several different Mike verses into his solo medley, including Fort Minor's "Petrified," his verse from the Nick Catchdubs remix of "SKIN TO BONE" featured on Recharged, and "Step Up" from the band's 1999 EP. Long-time live staples have also been rotating in and out fluidly, such as "Lying from You," "Points of Authority," "Given Up," and "A Place for My Head."


Hot off the heels of many Linkin Pork tacos, the band delivers a well-cooked "Lying from You" in Austin, Texas.

Tracks off From Zero have also been in rotation, with "Over Each Other," "Stained," and "Good Things Go" all switching places; "Cut the Bridge" swapping with "Lying from You" and "Points of Authority;" and "Casualty" switching with "Given Up," "Keys to the Kingdom," and now "IGYEIH."


The live debut of "Stained" in Baltimore, Maryland.

As this is only the band's second festival date since returning to touring—the first being Soundstorm in Saudi Arabia this past December—it's hard to predict what their setlist at Sonic Temple will look like, especially with all the changes they've made in just under a month. Linkin Park may do something similar to the shortened set for Soundstorm, dropping some of their more mellow or unconventional pieces such as "The Catalyst," "CASTLE OF GLASS," and the Mike and Joe solo segments. They certainly have rehearsed a lot of material they can choose from!

Remaining Shows for this Run:
May 17, 2025: Daytona Beach, FL - Welcome to Rockville

With livestreaming becoming more accessible than ever, fans at home have been able to watch shows on social media via YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram livestreams from attendees. While we are not asking our readers to livestream the show, if anyone reading this finds a stream or is streaming it themselves, let us know so we can tune in with you!

Are you attending Sonic Temple and catching Linkin Park there? Are you attending any other shows this year? If so, have you let people know in the meet-up thread? Come discuss in our forums.

 
Posted on May 9, 2025 by Christøffer
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Linkin Park is back with their next weekly installment of studio footage for LPTV from Zero! This week looks at the punk and thrash-informed "Casualty," which the band debuted live in Arlington, Texas, just before the album release and after a lot of hype in press. All the footage in this episode comes from Mike Shinoda's home studio ("The Stockroom"), ranging from March to July of 2024.


This episode gives us a look at several different aspects of the recording process for "Casualty," including guitar riffs put together by Colin Brittain and Mike Shinoda, some of Joe Hahn's turntable cuts and backspins on the bridge, and Emily Armstrong's frenetic vocals on the choruses and bridge. We also hear Mike mention that the idea to create and record the song came from Brad Delson, who suggested creating something "thrashy," or the "heaviest" thing the band could think of for the album.

What do you think of the new episode? Are you looking forward to seeing footage of "Overflow" next week? Come and discuss in our forums.

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Posted on May 8, 2025 by minuteforce
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Linkin Park's first U.S. arena tour of 2025 is coming to its thrilling conclusion tonight in Greenville, South Carolina. The band will be bringing their high-energy headline show to the 15,000-capacity Bon Secours Wellness Arena, with special guest grandson in tow.

Most of the other cities the band has set foot in during this tour leg are places that haven't seen Linkin Park live shows since 2008, if not earlier. However, in this case, Linkin Park has actually never performed in Greenville. The last time the band performed a show in the state of South Carolina - the only time, before tonight - was back in November of 2000, as part of P.O.D.'s Kings of the Game U.S. tour. This show was less than a month after Hybrid Theory's October 2000 release, and shortly after Phoenix rejoined the line-up.

There have been 5 arena headline shows so far leading up to tonight's Greenville show, and a lot has happened in terms of setlist switch-ups and deep cut surprises. The most recent show, at the Lenovo Center in Raleigh, North Carolina on May 6, was no breather moment either. Towards the end of the main set, the band and audience shared a special wholesome moment celebrating Emily Armstrong's birthday, complete with some tasteful fashion accessories ...


... before Linkin Park turned the festivities way up, surprising the crowd with the debut live performance of the From Zero rager "IGYEIH"!


After the second chorus, Armstrong went in close and personal with fans on the floor - really a first since she began performing in Linkin Park - and performed the final section of the song while deep in the mosh pit, the audience members singing along with her.


There are some sticklers here and there who will point out that Linkin Park hasn't truly brought From Zero's intro track to a live setting yet, but, for most fans, this means that every song off the new album has now been performed live, and all during its tour cycle as well. Many have pointed out that this hasn't been happened with any Linkin Park album since 2007's Minutes to Midnight cycle, making it all the more special.

That wasn't all that happened: the band performed "One Step Closer" immediately after debuting "IGYEIH", and were joined on-stage by their special grandson, just as he did at the Baltimore show on May 3. Once again, the New Jersey vocalist traded lines with Mike Shinoda throughout the choruses, and took the lead on the second verse before joining Armstrong for that iconic bridge.


Additional highlights from the Raleigh set include:
  • beloved rotation classics like "Lying From You" and "From the Inside"
  • new staples for this tour leg such as "Up From the Bottom" and "Where'd You Go"
  • From Zero deep cut "Stained" being performed again, fresh off its live debut in Baltimore
  • Shinoda teasing a melody from the Metallica song "One" during the extended "Overflow" intro - just the latest in a line of unexpected song teases here
  • Shinoda delivering a verse from his solo cut "Lift Off" during his "When They Come for Me / Remember the Name" segment - actually from a demo version of the song, no less
  • Linkin Park using the "A Place for My Head" bridge during "Bleed It Out"
The pressure is on, but fans attending tonight's Greenville show can likely expect Linkin Park to be marking the end of this first arena leg with something truly special.

Right after this date, the band will be kicking off a run of festival dates in the U.S. and abroad. First up will be Sonic Temple in Ohio on May 10, followed by Welcome to Rockville in Florida, on May 17, before the band heads to Europe for some more festival dates there all throughout June.

If you're going to tonight's show, or are otherwise excited to find out what happens, come and let us know on our message board!

 
Posted on May 7, 2025 by minuteforce
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A new 22-minute interview video with Linkin Park members Phoenix, Emily Armstrong and Mike Shinoda has been uploaded by Billboard News. Billboard executive Jason Lipshutz chats with the band mainly about the bonus tracks that are appearing on the upcoming deluxe edition of From Zero, releasing in just over a week from now. The musicians explain that these bonus songs were worked on and finished while the band was on tour promoting From Zero in late 2024, something Linkin Park doesn't typically do. Shinoda also mentions that "Up From the Bottom" is the only one of the three that came about entirely post-album.


Among the highlights is a description of the one still-unreleased song "Let You Fade", as covered in Billboard's corresponding article:
[...] “Let You Fade” started off as a not-as-loud song on a demo that just didn’t make the cut before the group pivoted to a piano-and-vocals only arrangement that was transformed into a song that starts off really loud and goes quiet on the bridge. “That piano and vocal thing was the second demo [we recorded during the initial sessions],” Shinoda said. “Of the three it’s probably my favorite.”
When Lipshutz inquires about the possibility of more new songs coming from Linkin Park, the band members explain that, while these songs were completed in the midst of tour dates, they don't plan on continuing that habit. In the meantime, the deluxe edition of From Zero drops on May 16.

The band members are also asked about putting together the tour setlists. As an avid Linkin Park listener, Lipshutz gives a shoutout to the band's fourth album, 2010's A Thousand Suns, while Phoenix explains his view of the collective thought process behind choosing what songs to play and some of the challenges involved in developing and learning the sets.

Other highlights in the interview include Shinoda ranting about having to do dances for TikTok, and describing the joy he got from emotionally manipulating fans with the infamous countdown.

Check out the interview video or read the article covering it!

Source: Billboard / Billboard News on YouTube (via @minusxerø)

 
Posted on May 6, 2025 by Kevin
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Everyone, make sure to wish Emily Armstrong a happy birthday!

Raleigh, North Carolina and Linkin Park don't have a lot of history. Only three times before has the band played in the city, and for only two of those shows do we know what they played. In November 2000, the band played a show in the city for the first time, but we do not know exactly what they played. Raleigh missed out on the large-scale touring the band did for the Hybrid Theory and Meteora cycles, but in 2007, the band finally made their return to the city on that year's Projekt Revolution tour. At Linkin Park's latest performance in Raleigh, we got some nice classic songs that we miss and would like to see make their return to the set these days. Songs like "No More Sorrow", "Wake 2.0", "The Little Things Give You Away", and "Shadow of the Day" would all be welcome returns, and none of them would sound wrong coming from the current lineup of the band.


In 2018, Mike Shinoda stopped by for a show on his Monster Energy Outbreak Tour, first rehearsing eight songs and then playing a full set. The show included favorites from that tour like "When They Come for Me", "Lift Off" with a random rap verse in the bridge, "Crossing a Line", "About You/Over Again/Papercut", and many more. Check out the video below for a good performance of "Crossing a Line".


Baltimore was the latest show the band played, and it was a great one! We got a few surprises in the setlist, starting with "Points of Authority" returning to the live shows for the first time this year. It took the first rotation spot of the night, meaning that it is now rotating with "Lying From You" and "Cut the Bridge" Next in the rotation spots, we come to Mike's solo medley. With Mike on his mission to now rap a different verse at every show over the extended transition, at this show, we got his verse from the Nick Catchdubs remix of "I'll Be Gone" off of RECHARGED. This was the first time that verse had appeared in a Linkin Park show since 2015. For the rotation spot that usually houses either "Over Each Other" or "Good Things Go", we instead got the live debut of "Stained"! This song was one of the only two remaining off of From Zero that hadn't been played live yet, so we're just waiting for "IGYEIH" to be played live as well. For the last rotation spot, we got another performance of the mega live classic "A Place for My Head",


Oh yeah, grandson also came out to help the band out with "One Step Closer". Even though he has been opening for the band for many shows since this album cycle suddenly kicked off in September of last year, he had not appeared on stage with the band for any songs. grandson obviously has history with the song, having done a cover of it back in 2020 for the Hybrid Theory 20th anniversary. You think he'll continue coming out for the song on the rest of this tour?


So we only have three shows left on this leg of the tour after this show, and while we've gotten plenty of surprises the whole year, are there more coming? As stated earlier, from the standard edition of From Zero, "IGYEIH" is the only song left to be played, and if we count the deluxe version of the album, we also have "Unshatter" and "Let You Fade" remaining to see performed live. Is now the time to bring out some of those songs? What about songs that were talked about before the tour started? Songs like "LIES GREED MISERY" "Blackout" and "QWERTY" all had plenty of speculation around them, but they're nowhere to be seen in the current setlists.

So what do you think? Will we get any surprises in the set for Emilys birthday?

After this show, the band heads down south to Greenville, South Carolina on May 8, with just another three shows left before taking a couple of weeks to rest up for a crazy busy summer.

Remaining shows:
May 8, 2025:
Greenville, SC
May 10, 2025: Columbus OH - Sonic Temple
May 17, 2025: Daytona Beach, FL - Welcome To Rockville


With the advancement of technology making livestreaming easier than ever, fans at home have been able to watch shows on YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram, experiencing the show alongside those attending in person. While we're not asking our readers to livestream the show, if anyone reading this finds a stream or is streaming it themselves, let us know so we can watch along with you.

Are you going to this show? Are you attending any shows this year? If so, have you let people know in the meet-up thread? Come discuss in our forums

SETLIST FROM RALEIGH:

ACT 1 (Inception Intro B)


01. Somewhere I Belong
02. Lying From You
03. Crawling
04. New Divide
- Short Moscow Intro
05. The Emptiness Machine

ACT 2 (Creation Intro B)


06. The Catalyst - Shortened (No third chorus; no breakdown)
07. BURN IT DOWN
08. Up From the Bottom
09. Where'd You Go
10. Waiting for the End
11. CASTLE OF GLASS
12. Two Faced
13. Joe Solo
- with Colin
14. Mike Solo Medley - 'When They Come for Me', 'Lift Off demo verse' & 'Remember the Name' Mashup; With Colin
15. IGYEIH
16. One Step Closer
- 2024 Intro & Outro

ACT 3 (
Collapse Transition)


17. Lost - Hybrid Version
18. Stained
19. What I've Done

ACT 4 (
Kintsugi Transition)


20. Overflow
21. Numb
- Numb/Encore Intro
22. In the End
23. Faint
- Extended Outro

ACT 5: Encore (
Resolution Intro B)


24. Papercut - Extended Intro
25. From the Inside
26. Heavy Is the Crown
27. Bleed It Out
- Extended bridge w/ A Place for My Head v1; Extended outro

 
Posted on May 3, 2025 by minuteforce
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Linkin Park makes a grand return to Baltimore, Maryland tonight with a stop at the CFG Bank Arena as part of their 2025 U.S. tour promoting From Zero, with grandson as opener.

This is another city that the band hasn't played in for a very long time. The state of Maryland has only seen four Linkin Park shows to date. Two of those performances have been in Baltimore, the first of which was a show on December 2, 2000 at a bar venue called Fletcher's. This was one of several North American headline shows the band played to close out the year 2000, after spending most of November playing support on P.O.D.'s Kings of the Game U.S. tour.

Linkin Park did not return to Baltimore again until 2008, with a show at 1st Mariner Arena. This was part of a North American run in February that year in support of the 2007 album Minutes to Midnight. The band's rotating setlists varied quite wildly during this tour cycle, and this particular show opened with "No More Sorrow" and "Don't Stay", the latter rarely appearing so early in the set during this time. Other highlights include the appearance of Minutes to Midnight deep cuts "Valentine's Day" and "The Little Things Give You Away", and Mike Shinoda delivering a verse from "Petrified" over the extended "Points of Authority" intro. For most of the 2008 tour legs, "One Step Closer" typically either closed the main set or kicked off the final encore, as was the case in Baltimore:


Tonight's show in Baltimore will be the fourth on this 2025 U.S. leg, and Linkin Park has delivered quite a few surprises throughout the first three, rotating a variety of songs in and out of the set. Most recently, Grand Rapids, MI saw the first performance of Hunting Party fan-favourite "Keys to the Kingdom" on this tour leg - a total contrast to the "When They Come for Me / Remember the Name" medley preceding it, and also only the second time "Keys" has been performed all year.


Other fresh additions for this tour leg include "Cut the Bridge", recent single "Up From the Bottom", and the Fort Minor song "Where'd You Go", still being performed as a lead-in to "Waiting for the End" - apparently, Emily Armstrong's requests can be quite compelling.


Shinoda has also been keeping fans on their toes with things like spontaneously delivering rap verses from LP and Fort Minor songs like "UNTIL IT BREAKS" and "Petrified" (returning again!), referencing other artists' songs during the extended "Overflow" intro, and now also prompting drummer Colin Brittain to switch the drumming style for the "Numb / Encore" intro every night. In addition, a fringe theory has been spreading among some Linkin Park fans, suggesting that Emily has secretly been singing "toothpaste / caught in the Lidl" during performances of "Two Faced" ...

Following the live debuts of "Cut the Bridge" and "Up From the Bottom", there's now the possibility that more of the band's newer songs will be brought into the live sets, including the recent single "Unshatter" and From Zero deep cuts such as "IGYEIH" - that's obviously not even mentioning Linkin Park's rich catalog of pre-From Zero songs which this new line-up hasn't attempted to play live yet.

If you're going to this show, or just breathlessly waiting to watch a recording of it because you won't be there, come and let us know on our message board!

 
Posted on May 3, 2025 by minuteforce
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Phoenix and Emily Armstrong have been running point so far when it comes to promoting Linkin Park's 2025 U.S. shows in interviews, but their fellow band member Mike Shinoda is taking his turn now with a pair of interviews being released today. Funnily enough, both are for programs or radio stations which Phoenix and Armstrong also made appearances on in early April.

The first a chat with DC101 host Mike Jones, which immediately kicks off with Jones asking about the now-infamous Linkin Shark, a highlight of the U.S. tour's opening night in Austin, Texas.



Throughout this interview, Shinoda also touches on the changes Linkin Park experienced in their journey towards announcing a big return to music in 2024. He explains Brad Delson's current role in the band, and also gives a mention to former band member Rob Bourdon, along with talking about new members Emily Armstrong and Colin Brittain (and even touring guitarist Alex Feder) filling in the gaps and infusing Linkin Park with fresh new energy. The conversation ends on a light-hearted note with Shinoda going in-depth about his hands-on experience with Nintendo's highly-anticipated hybrid console, the Switch 2.

Second is an interview on 98 Rock Baltimore's afternoon program Kirk and Marianne, where hosts Kirk McEwen and Marianne Sierk, respectively, speak to Shinoda ahead of Linkin Park's imminent May 3 show at the CFG Bank Arena in Baltimore.


During this conversation, Shinoda talks about the process of Emily Armstrong becoming an official member of Linkin Park, and the unusual challenge of connecting a changed line-up with a deep existing catalog of music. He also reflects on the success of From Zero lead single "The Emptiness Machine", and casually reveals that he used to participate in (and win) rap battles on the Internet.

Check out both these interviews and, if you can find Shinoda's old rap battle posts, please stop by our message board and tell us where!

Source: Mike Jones on YouTube / 98 Rock Baltimore on YouTube

 
Posted on May 2, 2025 by Kevin
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It's time for our weekly LPTV: From Zero episode! This week we're looking at the making of for the third single off of From Zero, 'Over Each Other'. There is a lot of vocal recording in this episode, but we start off looking at the song with a brief clip from December 2022. Mike, Dave, and Joe are listening to a early version of the song with vocals by Mike and a different sounding instrumental in Mikes home studio, before we flash forward to the Eastwest Studios in February 2024 where we spend most of the episode in the vocal booth with Emily. We then finally fast forward to June 2024 where Brad is providing notes on the song back in Mike's home studio. Check out the episode below.


What do you think of the new episode? Are you looking forward to seeing the episode for 'Casualty' next week? Come and discuss in our forums.

Source: Linkin Park YouTube

 
Posted on May 1, 2025 by Kevin
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Time for another show where Linkin Park hasn't played a show in the city for a really long time! Tonight, the band will be playing at the Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

The last time the band played a show in Grand Rapids was on November 21, 2001, making it 23 and a half years ago that the city got a show. Like with many shows from the band's earliest years, not much is known in terms of setlist or anything special that happened, so there's not really anything to talk about there. A show was scheduled to take place on February 4, 2015 but had to be cancelled because Chester Bennington broke his leg on the Hunting Party tour.

Thankfully though, for us to have something to talk about, the band has played other shows in Michigan, so let's talk about some of those! Michigan has fortunately gotten some professionally-filmed shows, including the 2003 MTV $2 Bill show in Detroit on the Meteora cycle, and the 2007 Projekt Revolution show in Clarkston that was filmed/streamed online by MySpace.


Detroit 2003


Clarkston 2007

But let's focus on the latest show the band played in Michigan, which was a show in Clarkston in 2014, when they were out on the Carnivores tour for The Hunting Party. Let's take a quick look at "Given Up" from that show.


Huh, I guess Erynn Halvorson has been doing this for a while?!

Three years after that show took place, Linkin Park had a show scheduled in Clarkston again, but, due to the passing of Chester Bennington, the entire tour obviously had to be cancelled. Mike Shinoda did, however, stop by Michigan the next year when he visited Detroit on his Monster Energy Outbreak Tour during the Post Traumatic cycle.


Alright, brief history lesson = done! Let's talk about the previous show in Tulsa, Oklahoma!

For the first show in Tulsa, Oklahoma in almost 25 years, the band pulled off a total banger! How about pulling out a new song in the second spot on the setlist?! That's right, for the second show in a row, the band pulled out another live debut, this time being the full version of "Cut the Bridge"! Previously, the song's bridge verse was featured over the bridge on "Bleed It Out", but, now, we finally get the full song. Check it out below:


For his solo medley, Mike brought out the second verse for When They Come for Me. This is the first time in MANY years that the second verse of the song has shown up live in a Linkin Park show (yes, it was performed on the Post Traumatic and 2015 Fort Minor tours. I know. I said Linkin Park.) - the last time was the last time the band performed the full song, all the way back on January 10, 2014.


The band played "Good Things Go". That's all that needs to be said about that in order to justify posting a video of it.


For the third rotation spot in the setlist (the previous two were 'Cut the Bridge' and 'Good Things Go'), the band pulled out 'From the Inside' again. This song was rotated in, replacing 'A Place for My Head' from the previous show in Austin, Texas.


And, for the last video of this post, let's take a look at 'Heavy Is the Crown', where Emily pulled out the full scream on the bridge for the first time. Earlier, she either shortened the scream or split it into two shorter ones, like what Chester used to do on the 'Given Up' bridge.


If you don't want to just check out the specific special moments mentioned above, here's a full recording of the show to enjoy.


After this show, the band continues the tour with a stop in Baltimore, Maryland on May 3, with another four shows left before taking a couple of weeks to rest up for a crazy busy summer.

Remaining shows:
May 3, 2025:
Baltimore, MD
May 6, 2025: Raleigh, NC
May 8, 2025: Greenville, SC
May 10, 2025: Columbus OH - Sonic Temple
May 17, 2025: Daytona Beach, FL - Welcome To Rockville

With the advancement of technology making livestreaming easier than ever, fans at home have been able to watch shows on YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram, experiencing the show alongside those attending in person. While we're not asking our readers to livestream the show, if anyone reading this finds a stream or is streaming it themselves, let us know so we can watch along with you.

Are you going to this show? Are you attending any shows this year? If so, have you let people know in the meet-up thread? Come discuss in our forums

SETLIST FROM GRAND RAPIDS:

ACT 1 (Inception Intro C)


01. Somewhere I Belong
02. Cut the Bridge
03. Crawling
04. New Divide
- Short Moscow Intro
05. The Emptiness Machine

ACT 2 (Creation Intro C)


06. The Catalyst - Shortened (No third chorus; no breakdown)
07. BURN IT DOWN
08. Up From the Bottom
09. Where'd You Go
10. Waiting for the End
11. CASTLE OF GLASS
12. Two Faced
13. Joe Solo
- with Colin
14. Mike Solo Medley - 'When They Come for Me', ''Petrified, & 'Remember the Name' Mashup; With Colin
15. Keys to the Kingdom
16. One Step Closer
- 2024 Intro & Outro

ACT 3 (
Collapse Transition)


17. Lost - Hybrid Version
18. Over Each Other
19. What I've Done

ACT 4 (
Kintsugi Transition)


20. Overflow
21. Numb
- Numb/Encore Intro
22. In the End
23. Faint
- Extended Outro

ACT 5: Encore (
Resolution Intro C)


24. Papercut - Extended Intro
25. From the Inside
26. Heavy Is the Crown
27. Bleed It Out
- Extended bridge w/ Reading My Eyes v1; Extended outro