Steve Aoki will share a new song today at 2:00pm PST featuring both Mike Shinoda and Lights! The song will feature on Aoki's new album, Neon Future IV.
The Grey Daze remake album "Amends" has leaked. Official street date was pushed back to 26th June due to obvious current world events.
Grey Daze are working on a new album which will feature Chester Bennington’s vocals once more! Here we go! https://www.nme.com/news/music/grey...-unreleased-chester-bennington-vocals-2918968
LPLive says One More Light reached 1 billion streams on Spotify. That’s 4 albums reaching that mark now! Pretty cool that people can check on Linkin Park’s domination out there.
Don't know if people saw this but REACT posted a new video with Mike Shinoda where Mike reacts live to people reacting to his work and talks to them. Some of the reactors from the previous FBE video were in this.
Today is when Download airs their Reloaded TV special on Sky arts. Don’t know if they’ll show more of LP’s set than whats already out there, but if someone can watch Sky Arts, I’m dying to know.
From the Linkin Park subreddit. From metalsucks.net: https://www.metalsucks.net/2021/06/...-streamed-heavy-album-of-all-time-on-spotify/ The most recent Stream N’ Destroy newsletter, which arrived last Friday (April 28), highlights some all-time streaming figures, including those on the world’s largest audio streaming platform, Spotify. This list of albums was hand-assembled by Downey to include only metal, punk and hard rock bands, and only studio albums are eligible; no live records, compilations, greatest hits packages, box sets, 7” EPs, demos, or any other configurations are considered. Have a look at the first 30 entries of the chart below. Spotify’s 150 Most-Streamed Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish) Albums Linkin Park, Hybrid Theory (2000) 2.67 billion streams Nirvana, Nevermind (1991) 2.62 billion streams Guns N’ Roses, Appetite for Destruction (1987) 2.4B Red Hot Chili Peppers, Californication (1999) 2.2B Queen, A Night at the Opera (1975) 2.1B Linkin Park, Meteora (2003) 2.08B Metallica, Metallica (1991) 2.04B Panic! At The Disco, Pray for the Wicked (2018) 1.9B AC/DC, Back in Black (1980) 1.88B Panic! At The Disco, Death of a Bachelor (2016) 1.81B System Of A Down, Toxicity (2001) 1.76B My Chemical Romance, The Black Parade (2006) 1.75B Fall Out Boy, American Beauty/American Psycho (2015) 1.71B Red Hot Chili Peppers, Stadium Arcadium (2006) 1.71B Pink Floyd, The Wall (1979) 1.69B Bon Jovi, Slippery When Wet (1986) 1.61B Queen, The Game (1980) 1.52B Green Day, American Idiot (2004) 1.48B Queen, Jazz (1978) 1.43B Red Hot Chili Peppers, By the Way (2002) 1.37B Blink-182, Enema of the State (1999) 1.34B Journey, Escape (1981) 1.29B Red Hot Chili Peppers, Blood Sugar Sex Magik (1991) 1.29B Linkin Park, Minutes to Midnight (2007) 1.25B Queen, News of the World (1977) 1.25B Fall Out Boy, Save Rock and Roll (2013) 1.23B Green Day, Dookie (1994) 1.21B Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon (1973) 1.19B Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin IV (1971) 1.18B Pearl Jam, Ten (1991) 1.18B To think LP achieved this without any hollywood movies to promote them. LP is just really THAT great.
Of all those bands, LP the only one that has that crossover appeal on lock. But very few rock bands had that authentic respect for hip hop the way LP did.
Mike was on BBC1 with Jack Saunders on Monday https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0022xm8 Just after the 1 hour mark
https://www.reddit.com/r/LinkinPark/comments/1g91du4/from_zero_listening_party_london/ From Zero listening party in London, 17 days before album release
Linkin Park to give "an exclusive live (performance)" on Friday, 1st November , for the NRJ music awards. https://x.com/nrjhitmusiconly/status/1851588043783754147?s=46&t=ziem3zPOeApgtoqCLsiTzQ Will be shown on TV channel TF1, one the the biggest channels in France.
Brazilian rock band Ego Kill Talent will be the opener for the São Paulo shows. Looks like they're local to the city and have two studio albums under their belt.