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After a four-show run on the northeast coast of the United States, Linkin Park continues their packed North American tour leg with two back-to-back shows in Montréal. These will mark their sixth and seventh appearances in Montréal, as well as the first time they've ever played back-to-back nights in the city. This will also mark the band's return to Canada for the first time since their performance at Amnesia Rockfest in 2015. While there have been some local listening party events, as well as shows close to their border, Canadian fans have been waiting patiently for these shows and the band's return to their country!

These two shows also mark the band's first return to Montréal itself in 11 years, having last performed there during the touring cycle for The Hunting Party in 2014. They will be playing at Bell Centre (Centre Bell en français), where they have played several of their past shows in Québec's largest city. While Linkin Park's history in the city isn't too extensive, it does include several memorable performances.

Linkin Park's first show in Montréal was in July 2003, during Metallica's Summer Sanitarium Tour, alongside fellow support acts Limp Bizkit, Deftones, and Mudvayne. That summer performance featured a setlist packed with a mix of the band's most energetic tracks from their recorded material at the time, and they played most of both Hybrid Theory and Meteora. One particular highlight of this touring era also brought to Montréal was the Reanimation track "P5hng Me A*wy," performed in full.

One other rarity from this era that was heard at that Montréal show was "Figure.09," the Meteora deep cut now known (thanks to Meteora|20) to be written as a spiritual successor to "One Step Closer." "Figure.09" brought additional heavy energy for the pit at this show and was a standout among the heavier tracks featured in their Summer Sanitarium sets.


The band took no time returning to Montréal, returning just five months later in January 2004 for a headlining date. While "Figure.09" was not performed, "P5hng Me A*wy" remained, and with a full headlining set the band brought additional songs such as "My December," "It's Goin' Down," and even "Breaking the Habit"—which had just debuted semi-recently in November 2003.


During "Faint" at this show, the band attempted to bring an audience member up to play guitar for the song. After their planned guest couldn't perform, longtime fan Sal (known for the incredible number of shows he has attended since 2000 and featured on a 2024 LPTV), yelled to Chester that he could sing the song, and the band brought him on stage.


With the Minutes to Midnight cycle, Linkin Park brought their North America tour to Montréal in February 2008. One standout moment from this show came when Chester performed the full 17-second scream on "Given Up," something he only did a handful of times throughout his career. Mike also performed a short piano cover of the Cure's "Just like Heaven," a tradition he began at the start of the year, for the final time that night. He also included the first verse of "There They Go" as part of an extended outro to "Points of Authority"—the first time the Fort Minor song had been featured during a Linkin Park show.


Linkin Park's 2011 performance in Montréal brought the A Thousand Suns world tour in full force, complete with the era-classic openers of "The Requiem" and "The Radiance" opening the night before heading into "Faint." The setlist balanced live staples from previous albums such as "No More Sorrow" alongside the band's newest material, incorporating songs such as "Blackout" and "Iridescent" from A Thousand Suns. The night's encore opened with "When They Come for Me," setting the encore's tone with a percussive hip-hop swing that transitioned well into "Papercut," continuing into "New Divide," "Crawling," and finishing out the night with "One Step Closer."


The band returned in 2014 for the Carnivores Tour, bringing their intricate new production to Montréal, with shortened songs, mashups, and custom transitions to represent the band's catalog as much as possible. That night opened with "Guilty All the Same," and included both staples of The Hunting Party like "Rebellion" as well as deep-cut nods to the band's early work such as "With You" or "Runaway"—though the latter was shortened to lead into "Wastelands."


Now, with Montréal's double-header, the band will return to bring their newest material to the City of Saints. Notably, "Faint" and "In the End" have returned to close the encore again, after the band tested switching the main set and encore closers during their second show in Frankfurt. Three of the four past shows have featured this new encore structure, moving "Bleed It Out," "Heavy Is the Crown," and the encore rotation slot to the end of the main set instead.


In Newark, the band continued on with their surprise addition debuted at the second night in Boston: "LIES GREED MISERY" with the new band lineup. This had followed long-standing fan speculation after a tease from Mike about Emily Armstrong's affinity for the song on Discord earlier this year, later followed by a statement that the band didn't intend to perform it. Whether it was intentional misdirection or a change of plans, Boston night two featured the first performance of "LIES GREED MISERY" in over a decade, and the band seems intent on keeping it around by playing it in Newark. It was last seen briefly at the beginning of 2014 in Las Vegas.


With the return of "LIES GREED MISERY," some hope has surfaced for the other song mentioned in that Discord exchange—"Blackout"—coming to the band's setlist. Colin Brittain has also mentioned some deeper cuts he would like to play, such as "QWERTY," "With You," or even "Robot Boy," but the return of "LIES GREED MISERY" has been the first time any of these offhand comments have been substantiated.

It remains to be seen whether "CASTLE OF GLASS" will return after losing its spot to "LIES GREED MISERY." Either way, the band is still continuing to deliver great performances for fans, and Montréal can expect to have two amazing nights of live music!

As livestreaming becomes 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 watch along with you!

Will you be attending the band's show in Montréal? Visit our official LPA Meetup Thread if so and let others know! We'd love for you to send any pictures or videos from the show our way as well @LPAssociation on Instagram and X (Twitter).

Come join the discussion on our forums as 2025's second North American tour leg continues! We will see what surprises Linkin Park has in store!

Upcoming Shows:
Aug. 08, 2025: Toronto, ON
Aug. 11, 2025: Chicago, IL
Aug. 14, 2025: Detroit, MI
Aug. 16, 2025: Philadelphia, PA
Aug. 19, 2025: Pittsburgh, PA
Aug. 21, 2025: Nashville, TN

Ben Young, one of Linkin Park's guitar techs, has appeared on This Is DeLaCruz, a YouTube series hosted by former live audio engineer Nick DeLaCruz which focuses on the crew members that help to make live tours possible. Having worked in the music industry for over two decades now, Young speaks in the interview about how he first ended up becoming a guitar tech, how he came to work for Linkin Park, and some highlights from the road. He also goes over some of the gear involved in his side of the Linkin Park shows, and, of course, the guitars.

After years of providing engineering assistance during studio sessions, Young first began working with Linkin Park officially in 2014, becoming Brad Delson's guitar tech during the Hunting Party touring cycle. That wasn't all he ended up doing for the band during this period, as Delson had to miss three festival shows - two in Brazil in late 2014 due to illness, and the 2015 edition of Rock on the Range in Columbus, OH due to the birth of a child in his family - and Young filled in for him on-stage, impressively taking on both performer and tech roles for those dates. As he tells in the interview, he had fortunately learned all those guitar parts in advance (at Delson's urging) and, thus, was prepared for the challenge.


Following the Hunting Party run, Young continued to work with Linkin Park in the studio and on tour, remaining a guitar tech for the One More Light tour legs before the band was forced to cancel their world tour plans in 2017. Years later, when Linkin Park began preparing for new live performances ahead of their 2024 From Zero launch, Young was brought back on-board as Alex Feder's guitar tech. During the years between, he formed and fronted a band called Knifes alongside other tour crew members, something he felt emboldened to do after successfully performing for massive crowds with Linkin Park.

This interview with Ben Young on the DeLaCruz channel follows an interview with Jim Ebdon, Linkin Park's front-of-house engineer, posted at the start of July.

Source: This Is DeLaCruz on YouTube

Several teasers have been spotted by fans throughout Australia in the past day, fueling speculation of Linkin Park's return to touring in Oceania. These teasers all feature the same black backdrop with a website link, stylized as "BEPARTOFSOMETH.ING," in reference to the lyrics of "The Emptiness Machine" off From Zero. The link leads to a form to sign up for updates from the band.

Fans have noted the lack of Oceania dates on the band's schedule for 2024 and 2025, as well as the announced dates for 2026. These teasers, somewhat reminiscent of the billboards that popped up across the world prior to the announcement of the band's 2025 touring schedule, seem to suggest they will finally be returning to Australia at the very least. Linkin Park has not performed in the country since 2013, with their performances at Soundwave, a music festival that used to be held across several cities in Australia from 2004 to 2015.

These teasers also come not far ahead of the lineup announcement for the Good Things festival in Australia. Good Things is another Australian multi-site festival, held in early December, and will be hosted in Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane—two of which have seen these teasers appear so far. It seems likely these may be related and Linkin Park could appear at the festival, extending their 2025 touring schedule even further than the current latest date at Mexico City's Corona Capital to perform at Good Things in December.

Will this be the momentous return of the band to Australia? Could New Zealand also see a visit from the band as they did in 2013 with Soundwave? Come discuss on our forums!

Linkin Park has just posted a proshot recording of 'The Emptiness Machine' from their historic show earlier this summer at Wembley Stadium. You can watch the performance below.

What do you think of the performance? Will we get more recordings from this show? Come and discuss in our forums.

Source: Linkin Park YouTube

Tonight, Linkin Park is performing at the Prudential Center, an indoor arena in the city of Newark, NJ with a capacity of around 16,000. This is the fourth date for 2025's North American tour leg, with the band having just played two nights in a row at TD Garden in Boston, MA, marking the first time they've done that with headlining shows in North America. Linkin Park will once again see support from alt-rock act PVRIS, who has opened for the band on all three previous dates on this leg, including the pair of shows in Lynn Gunn's home state of Massachusetts.

Linkin Park has never performed in Newark before, but fans who have kept up with the band's tour dates throughout their career will know that they have performed extensively in the state of New Jersey over the years. The list of the band's previous shows there - there have been 18 in total - reaches all the way back to the year 2000. On December 3, 2000, months after the Hybrid Theory release, the band performed a show at a club called Birch Hill Nite Club located in the township of Old Bridge. This was one of several live events for the band from late November and early December, situated right between wrapping up a U.S. run with P.O.D. on their Kings of the Game tour and getting back on the road in December to be support for Papa Roach's Master Bay tour. Setlist details for shows around this time have never been uncovered.

In July of 2001, Linkin Park performed in Camden, NJ for the first time as part of the 2001 Ozzfest line-up, making stops at a theater venue called Tweeter Center (nowadays known as the Freedom Mortgage Pavilion) twice within that month on the same festival run: first on July 9, and, then, coming back on July 21. At this point in their career, Linkin Park was fairly low on the bill, and their setlist for the first show simply consisted of 9 songs from Hybrid Theory, opening with "With You" and closing with the one-two punch of "A Place for My Head" and "One Step Closer". For the second time around, while we could reasonably assume they played the exact same set, no reliable confirmation exists.

Later in 2001, on October 24, Linkin Park played in East Rutherford, NJ at the Continental Airlines Arena (these days known as Meadowlands Arena) as part of the Korn's annual Family Values Tour, with Stone Temple Pilots in the headline slot. For this show, "Forgotten" was cut from the setlist, something which was a rarity at that particular point in time but which would happen more and more throughout the remainder of the Hybrid Theory touring cycle. Aside from that change, the band kept to the same setlist they had used throughout the rest of the tour, "With You" being the opening song and "Crawling" and "One Step Closer" being paired at the end. For "One Step Closer", Linkin Park was joined on-stage by Aaron Lewis, frontman of the band Staind, another act on the Family Values Tour line-up. This happened a handful of times throughout the tour, including the show prior in Albany, NY.


On July 8, 2003, Linkin Park returned to East Rutherford to play a set at Giants Stadium (now MetLife Stadium) as part of Metallica's Summer Sanitarium tour. This event also doubled as the 2003 edition of Dysfunctional Family Picnic, an on-and-off yearly live rock show put on by the NY-based radio station WXRK 92.3, also known as K-Rock, similar to KROQ's Weenie Roast. Linkin Park performed the same setlist throughout the entire Summer Sanitarium run, largely identical to the 2003 Projekt Revolution festival tour earlier in the year but with some of the Meteora deep cuts swapped out. It featured highlights such as:

• "Figure.09" and "Numb", both newer songs which had only been played once prior to this tour leg;
• an arrangement of "With You" featuring elements from the Reanimation version;
• a extended intro for "By Myself" which the band used throughout 2003;
• "P5hing Me A*wy", a Reanimation highlight which had its live debut a few months prior on 2003's Projekt Revolution festival tour, and;
• an extended bridge for "One Step Closer" featuring the bridge verse originally performed by Jonathan Davis as a guest on the Reanimation version, something the band did throughout the entire Meteora tour cycle.

Linkin Park documented this festival setlist by filming shows on the Summer Sanitarium tour for two live releases: the 2003 CD/DVD package Live in Texas, and the Veterans Stadium 2003 DVD, eventually included in the Super Deluxe Box Set edition of the Meteora anniversary re-release in 2023

On July 30, 2004, as part of the 2004 Projekt Revolution festival tour, the band took their show to Holmdel, NJ for the first time and performed at PNC Bank Arts Center, an 17,500-capacity amphitheater venue. Staples of the 2004 festival sets included:

• extended intros for various songs, including more guitar-driven ones for "Don't Stay", "Somewhere I Belong" and "Numb";
• Reanimation-derived arrangements or intros for "Points of Authority", "With You", "Crawling" and "One Step Closer",
• a hip-hop medley featuring sections of "Step Up", "Nobody's Listening" and "It's Goin' Down";
• an extended outro for "Figure.09" to transition into "From the Inside" debuted on the tour (nicknamed "Blood, Anger, Suffering" by fans), and;
• a cover of the song "Wish" from Nine Inch Nails' 1992 EP Broken towards the end of the set, which Linkin Park did for the first time during an international festival tour earlier in the year.

The July 30 Holmdel show, which featured all of these, still ended up being distinct from the Mansfield, MA right before it thanks entirely to a surprise appearance by Jay-Z, who Linkin Park had been in the studio with just weeks prior to record their collaborative EP Collision Course. To accommodate this, "Lying From You" and "Faint" were removed to shorten the main set; Jay-Z then came out during the encore segment, which was lengthened by two songs when he and Linkin Park performed "Dirt off Your Shoulder / Lying From You" and "Big Pimpin' / Papercut", before the band closed out their show with "One Step Closer".

A few days later, on on the same tour leg, Linkin Park returned to Tweeter Center in Camden, playing the unaltered version of the 2004 festival set. During "Faint" at this show, the band invited a fan on-stage to play Brad Delson's guitar part, something which didn't happen on any other dates during the tour leg. With Korn being part of the Projekt Revolution line-up for 2004, Jonathan Davis also joined Linkin Park on-stage during show closer "One Step Closer" to sing on the bridge, something which happened throughout the tour, with the Holmdel show being a rare exception. Video of the real-time footage from the performance shown on screens at the event (for the audience), with an audio feed from the show, was taken from a circulating DVD and leaked online in May 2011 by Linkin Park Live.


During the Minutes to Midnight promotional cycle, on May 6, Linkin Park performed in the parking lot of Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ, as part of a multi-day festival event called The Bamboozle for which they were billed as a headline act. This set featured new extended intros for "Somewhere I Belong", "Papercut" and "Points of Authority" (the latter debuted at this show), and also featured existing staples from this point in the touring cycle like the extended intro for "What I've Done" derived from the keyboard interlude heard on the album, the piano-based version of "Pushing Me Away", and a new extended ending for "Faint" to finish the encore segment with. "Runaway" was also featured in this setlist, the one and only time it appeared during the Minutes to Midnight tour cycle; after this, it was kept off setlists until the LIVING THINGS cycle in 2012.


Later in the year, Linkin Park once again put together an edition of their Projekt Revolution summer tour and included returns to Tweeter Center in Camden, NJ on August 25 and PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, NJ on August 29. By this point, the band had fully embraced preparing several setlists and rotating them night-to-night. The Camden show on August 25 saw a new setlist which opened with "No More Sorrow", typically indicating Set B from that tour's usual setlists, but the band threw in "Don't Stay" (with its "Foreword" intro), and apparently removed "QWERTY" as a result. New additions to the setlist at this point included:

• a lengthy extended intro for "No More Sorrow" used whenever it was the first song up;
• Mike Shinoda picking out new rap verses to deliver over the extended instrumental intro for "Points of Authority" - for this Camden show, he performed one from the Fort Minor single "Petrified";
• "Shadow of the Day", which saw its live debut at the beginning of the 2007 Projekt Revolution tour;
• an extended intro for "The Little Things Give You Away";
• a new arrangement of the Hybrid Theory instrumental cut "Cure for the Itch", performed solo by Mr. Hahn as part of the encore segment;
• "Bleed It Out" and "Faint" becoming closing songs, depending on the setlist.

A few shows later, on August 29, Holmdel saw a similar setlist to the Camden show, but with many of the songs moved around; this setlist would return sporadically throughout the rest of the tour with slight differences. Recordings from this show appeared on a couple of 2007 releases from the band: "Bleed It Out" was included on the Shadow of the Day single CD, while "Crawling" and "Faint" later appeared on the fan-club exclusive LP Underground 7.

The two New Jersey cities would again both appear on the itinerary in 2008 for that year's edition of Projekt Revolution, with a show in Camden at Susquehanna Bank Center in Camden on July 19 and (once again) PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel days later on July 23. These two shows had largely-identical setlists, and differences from the 2007 festival sets include:

• Street Drum Corps playing one of two intros to introduce Linkin Park, depending on which of the band's songs was starting off the set ("No More Sorrow", the first song in both of these NJ sets, was preceded by an intro labelled "Train/Tailpipe");
• a extended intros for "Lying From You" and "Wake", both of which the band began using during the mid-2008 European tour;
• a brief extended ending for "Given Up" which the band introduced at the beginning of 2008;
• "Points of Authority" now being outfitted with a new extended outro, with a Motown-style rhythm over which Shinoda would deliver a rap verse from his Fort Minor deep cut "There They Go";
• "Crawling" getting an extended intro with elements from the Reanimation version, "KRWLNG", over which Shinoda would rap the opening verse from "Hands Held High" (which was otherwise not performed on this tour) and Chris Cornell joining Linkin Park on-stage to sing from the song's second verse and on;
• an extended ending for "One Step Closer" - much like with "Bleed It Out" and "Faint", the band has continued to iterate on this since and still performs it now;
• Busta Rhymes, with his backing vocalist Spliff Star and Ashes Divide touring band member Adam Monroe (on keyboard) joining Linkin Park on-stage to perform "We Made It" - Busta Rhymes was only briefly part of 2008's Projekt Revolution, and the July 23 Holmdel show was the final performance of the song on the tour;
• Street Drum Corps returning to add some extra drums during the bridge and outro of "Bleed It Out".

There were also other differences like the full-band version of "Pushing Me Away" making a return, alternating with the piano version depending on the setlist. The Camden set saw the encore segment start with "Cure for the Itch", the only song in the set which was not later performed Holmdel.


In 2012, Linkin Park embarked on the Honda Civic Tour with Incubus and Mutemath, their first U.S. run following the release of LIVING THINGS. This included a stop in Camden, NJ where the band again performed at Susquehanna Bank Center on August 17. The show was preceded by the sixth LPU Summit; among other things, the band members treated attendees to intimate acoustic renditions of "The Messenger" and "In My Remains":


The show itself featured a setlist which appeared to combine a couple of versions of the festival sets the band had been touring throughout Europe with earlier in the year. It opened with "A Place for My Head" and "Given Up" as usual, but deviated from there, with "Runaway" and "From the Inside" both removed and replaced by "When They Come for Me". "TINFOIL" and "Faint" opened up the encore segment, followed by a "Lying from You" and "Papercut" medley which the band debuted at this show, and marking the first time "Lying from You" was included in an encore since the 2004 Holmdel, NJ show. Other than that, there were some things which carried over from previous 2012 tour legs:

• a new intro for "Somewhere I Belong";
• an extended intro for "Waiting for the End" which featured a rap verse from "UNTIL IT BREAKS";
• a ballad medley which comprised "Leave Out All the Rest", "Shadow of the Day" and "Iridescent";
• an extended intro for "LOST IN THE ECHO";
• "Numb" now sporting a new intro and outro drawn from "Numb / Encore", and;
• the band covering Beastie Boys' "Sabotage" as part of the extended bridge for "Bleed It Out".

Nearly exactly two years later, on August 15, 2014 Linkin Park would return to New Jersey for the Carnivores Tour, playing at Susquehanna Bank Center in Camden on August 15 and PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel on August 18. Similar to the Honda Civic run in 2012, the Carnivores dates were Linkin Park's first U.S. shows coming after the release of their 2014 album The Hunting Party. For both of these shows, the band came armed with an altered version of their European festival setlist, having added in "Rebellion" and "Final Masquerade" at the start of the tour leg, shortening "Until It's Gone" and removing the shortened arrangement of "A LIGHT THAT NEVER COMES".

This period of the band's live shows is largely-defined by various songs being performed with shortened arrangements, such as "Papercut", "With You", "LOST IN THE ECHO", "New Divide", and more; additionally, instrumental passages from "Blackout" and "Robot Boy" were used as interludes to introduce other songs.


11 years on from that, tonight's show in Newark is the fourth date of Linkin Park's 2025 North American leg of the From Zero World Tour. The band most recently did two sold-out nights in a row at TD Garden in Boston, MA, and it seems they put some meaningful effort in to make them both distinct from one another. The first show, on July 31, featured crowd favourite "Cut the Bridge" (after a fake-out with the "New Divide" extended intro, of course) and "Lying from You" early on; later surprises included "Given Up" and "Good Things Go", both in the latter half of the main set, and, finally, "A Place for My Head" during the encore segment.


Not content with just doing that again, Linkin Park's second night in Boston on August 1 featured some curveballs, starting with "Points of Authority" making its first appearance on this tour leg. A few songs later, PVRIS' Lynn Gunn surprised the audience, coming up onto the stage to after the first chorus of "BURN IT DOWN", and taking the lead on the second verse.


Throughout the rest of the set, From Zero cuts "IGYEIH", "Stained" and "Let You Fade" also appeared, all songs which had not appeared in the previous two shows in the tour leg, helping to further differentiate the two Boston shows.


Right in the middle of it all, of course, Linkin Park brazenly performed LIVING THINGS deep-cut "LIES GREED MISERY", a song long-requested not just by fervent Linkin Park fans but also members of the band. "LIES GREED MISERY" is the first LIVING THINGS song to be newly-added into a setlist this cycle since "LOST IN THE ECHO" was performed during the very first From Zero tour date. This iteration of Linkin Park has performed precious few songs from the album. After wasting no time establishing "BURN IT DOWN" and "CASTLE OF GLASS" upon announcing their return last year, they then brought out "LOST IN THE ECHO" during the very first From Zero tour date, and played it fairly regularly during the rest of 2024. While the former two songs have largely stayed on as staples, 2025 has not seen a single performance of "LOST IN THE ECHO" so far.


Linkin Park then proceeded to further shock the world by performing "Heavy Is the Crown" and "Bleed It Out" to close out the main set instead of saving them for the encore segment like usual, and finishing out the show with "In the End" and "Faint" instead. The message is clear: there is simply no telling what the band will do next when they play in Newark tonight.

Some fans will nonetheless be keenly watching to see if "LIES GREED MISERY" is performed again, while others are hoping for "Keys to the Kingdom" to make a return. Some are even still holding out hope that From Zero B-side "Unshatter" will finally see its live debut. With PVRIS still the support act for several more tour dates, there is a good chance Lynn Gunn might take the stage to sing with Linkin Park again, though that may have been a one-time thing for a home state show.

Aside from that, Linkin Park has established quite the arsenal of songs to use from just these past three setlists alone, with newer staples like "The Emptiness Machine", "Two Faced", "Up From the Bottom", and other From Zero songs still continuing to become major show highlights right alongside reliable longtime hits like "BURN IT DOWN" and "One Step Closer".

Following tonight's Newark show, Linkin Park will Canada, playing two back-to-back dates at Centre Bell in Montreal, QC on August 5 and August 6, before a third and final Canadian stop in Toronto, ON on August 8.

In the meantime, if you're going to tonight's show in Newark, NJ, let us know!

Upcoming Shows:
Aug. 03, 2025: Newark, NJ
Aug. 05, 2025: Montréal, QC
Aug. 06, 2025: Montréal, QC
Aug. 08, 2025: Toronto, ON
Aug. 11, 2025: Chicago, IL
Aug. 14, 2025: Detroit, MI
Aug. 16, 2025: Philadelphia, PA
Aug. 19, 2025: Pittsburgh, PA

In the year 2000 Linkin Park headed over to Boston for their first performance in the city, and we have no idea what they played since there is no known setlist for this show. All we know is that this performance was one of the three in a row where the band for a radio stations event, so we can guess that the band performed a similar set as the other two shows, but we don't know so maybe they just played one song. But we do have a recording of the show that took place two days afterwards.


For the bands second performance in Boston, we at least know part of what they played. Just a few months after their latest performance, in April of 2001, Linkin Park returned to the city of Boston, and for all we know they performed a five song set consisting of 'With You', 'By Myself', 'Forgotten', 'Crawling', and 'One Step Closer'. It's safe to assume they played more songs, but these are all that are known to have been played.

It then took nine years, nine months and twelve days for the next Boston performance by Linkin Park. It was during their 2011 A Thousand Suns tour that the band finally returned, having skipped this city for other Massachusetts locations on both the Meteora and Minutes to Midnight tours, and we finally have a full setlist of a performance in Boston! Attendees at this show got to see some great performances of not just songs like 'When They Come for Me', 'Jornada del Muerto', 'Waiting for the End', 'Burning in the Skies', 'Fallout', 'The Catalyst', 'Wisdom, Justice, And Love', and 'Iridescent' off of the new album, but also a shorter lived song, 'No More Sorrow'. Songs that were a mainstay in the set at the time are still mainstays, songs like 'In the End', 'Numb', 'Papercut', 'What I've Done', 'Faint', 'One Step Closer', and 'Bleed It Out'. There's both a good audience recording of the set, and a officialy released DSP, but unfortunately, no one has combined them... yet. So you can pick what to listen to/watch here below.


When Mike Shinoda started playing solo shows in 2018, Boston was one of his last stops for the tour that year. To close out the show, Mike, Dan, and Matt were joined on stage by members of the opening act 'Don Broco', to play 'A Place for My Head' for the first time on the tour. This would become a frequent occurrence at the shows going forward, with Mike, Dan, and Matt being joined by a guest at random shows to play the song. Thankfully, there exists footage we can watch of this first occurrence, released by Mike on Instagram. Watch it here below.



Brooklyn got to host Linkin Park for the first show back on tour, having taken about two weeks off after their massive Europe tour, and the band kept with their tried and tested setlist once again. With the biggest change being that they moved the usual encore into the main set, with the normal last songs of the main set to end the encore section. So the set now ends with 'Papercut', 'In the End', and the last song being 'Faint'. This was also done for the second show in Frankfurt, changing the set around from the night before. If this stays for the rest of the tour or not, we'll just have to wait and see. Is this a change that you like, or do you prefer the way it has been done for the majority of the tour. Mike also seemed to be on a Biggie Smalls kick for the night, not only wasn't 'Hypnotize' played before the band took the stage, for Mikes solo medley he rapped the third verse of 'UNTIL IT BREAKS', which references Biggie, he even rapped a verse from 'Notorious Thugs' over the bridge of 'Bleed It Out' instead of a Linkin Park/Fort Minor verse! Safe to say that Mike is a fan.


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 watch along with you!

Will you be attending either of the band's shows in Boston? Visit our official LPA Meetup Thread if so and let others know! We'd love for you to send any pictures or videos from the show our way as well @LPAssociation on Instagram and X (Twitter). Whether you're attending or not, come and discuss the show in our forums.

Upcoming Shows:
Aug. 03, 2025: Newark, NJ
Aug. 05, 2025: Montréal, QC
Aug. 06, 2025: Montréal, QC
Aug. 08, 2025: Toronto, ON
Aug. 11, 2025: Chicago, IL
Aug. 14, 2025: Detroit, MI

SETLIST NIGHT ONE:

- ACT 1 (Inception Intro B) -
01: Somewhere I Belong
02: Crawling
03: Cut the Bridge - Short Moscow intro
04: Lying from You
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 - Shortened (intro, first verse, and first chorus only)
10: Waiting for the End - 2024 intro
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: Given Up
16: One Step Closer - 2024 intro & outro

- ACT 3 (Collapse Transition) -
17: Lost - Hybrid version
18: Good Things Go
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 A)
24: Papercut - Extended intro
25: A Place for My Head
26: Heavy Is the Crown
27: Bleed It Out - Extended bridge with "There They Go" verse 1; extended outro

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SETLIST NIGHT TWO:

- ACT 1 (Inception Intro C) -
01: Somewhere I Belong
02: Points of Authority
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 - with Lynn Gunn from Pvris
08: Up From the Bottom
09: Where'd You Go - Shortened (intro, first verse, and first chorus only)
10: Waiting for the End - 2024 intro
11: LIES GREED MISERY
12: Two Faced
13: Joe Solo - With Colin
14: Mike Solo Medley - "When They Come for Me," "UNTIL IT BREAKS" verse 3, & "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: Let You Fade
23: Heavy Is the Crown
24: Bleed It Out - Extended bridge with "Reading My Eyes" verse 1; extended outro

- ACT 5 - Encore (Resolution Intro A) -
25: Papercut - Extended intro
26: In The End
27: Faint - Extended outro

After just two and a half weeks, Linkin Park is ready to kick off the next leg of the From Zero World Tour! The second North American leg begins with a return to Brooklyn's Barclays Center, less than a year after the band's last visit to the New York City borough, shortly after announcing their return and new lineup. This upcoming stop follows a festival-heavy summer European leg that included landmark moments performing to the band's biggest headlining crowds to date at Berlin's Olympiastadion, London's Wembley Stadium, and Paris's Stade de France. It's hard to believe that the next tour leg is already upon us—the band really has not let up this year!

After the relentless European leg, Linkin Park is keeping the momentum going with 25 shows across the United States and Canada in less than two months. Most of these shows will be only two days apart, meaning for most dates the band will have just one off day between touring dates. They are certainly going all-in on their touring for this newest era of the band, and they don't seem to be tiring of it at all.

Although the band just recently played in Brooklyn last year, this upcoming date will be only their second-ever show in the borough. In 2015, the band was slated to perform at Barclays Center on the canceled winter leg of The Hunting Party tour, but that tour was cut short due to Chester Bennington’s broken ankle, with the cancellations including the Brooklyn date. Fans had to wait nearly a decade before the band finally made it to Barclays in 2024, and the band delivered for New York fans that night!


At the previous Brooklyn date, the band's set only included "The Emptiness Machine" from the then-upcoming From Zero, as "Heavy Is the Crown" would make its live debut six days later in Hamburg, Germany. Instead, the band relied on their extensive repertoire to fill out the show, playing live staples such as "Papercut," "Lying from You," and "Points of Authority" that night. Also featured was "Keys to the Kingdom," for its second-ever live performance after debuting at the band's first headlining date in seven years, five nights prior in Los Angeles.


The band also brought out fan-favorite "A Place for My Head" for their 2024 Brooklyn date, playing it for the first time with the new Linkin Park lineup. As a pit staple, the song electrified the crowd, including members of fellow fan website LPLive, who were in attendance at the show.


While appearances in Brooklyn are limited, Linkin Park has a long history with the whole of New York City. From early Roseland Ballroom gigs in 2000 and 2001, to the LP Underground Tour in 2003, to full arena shows at Madison Square Garden in 2008 and 2011, the city has hosted many major moments in the band's history. This also includes the band's private performance at the Apple Store in Manhattan's SoHo neighborhood, which was released as an iTunes exclusive in 2008.


New York has also seen a few exclusive live debuts through special album release shows. In 2007, the band debuted "Bleed It Out" at Webster Hall at an exclusive AOL-sponsored performance ahead of the release of Minutes to Midnight. Three years later, they performed a release show for A Thousand Suns at the Best Buy Theater at Times Square, debuting "The Requiem," "The Radiance," "Wretches and Kings," "Jornada del Muerto," and "Fallout" in live format.


Including Brooklyn, the band has played full-length shows in New York City proper 11 times prior to this upcoming date, from 2000 through 2010 and returning in 2024. During the LIVING THINGS and The Hunting Party tour cycles, however, the band did not perform in New York City at all, but still played surrounding areas part of the greater New York Metropolitan Area, such as Wantagh on Long Island or Holmdel, New Jersey.


Linkin Park has also played for several American television and media programs based out of New York. Among these are the MTV Awards in 2001, where they performed "One Step Closer" with the X-Ecutioners, and their 2017 promotional performance at Grand Central Terminal for Good Morning America, where they performed a five-song set of their singles in a stripped-down format.


The band now makes their second New York City return in Brooklyn hot off the heels of an especially strong run of shows in Europe. Linkin Park closed their summer leg in Europe with a massive crowd at Stade de France, standing alongside Wembley Stadium and Olympiastadion as incredible performances at some of the continent's largest venues.


Along the way, the band continued to tweak their set, rotating several songs. "Waiting for the End" was removed once in Czechia at Rock for People, but immediately restored after many fans expressed disappointment. Additionally, "New Divide" saw frequent cuts, with Linkin Park often putting "Cut the Bridge" in its place.


"Let You Fade" stayed strong throughout the beginning portion of the band's run in Europe, consistently appearing in the encore until the band's performance at Hellfest in France, where "A Place for My Head" took its place. The band began rotating the two songs heavily at that point, signaling a possible end to the former's place as a consistent encore staple.


With their last few shows, the band also started making some unexpected changes to shake things up for European crowds. On their first night in Frankfurt, "Keys to the Kingdom" appeared for the first time on the Europe leg, and on the second night, the band switched their closers between the main set and encore. "A Place for My Head," "Heavy Is the Crown," and "Bleed It Out" closed the main set while "Papercut," "In the End," and "Faint" closed the encore.


On their final night in Paris, the band moved songs across their main set as well, performing both "Stained" and "Over Each Other," with the former taking the normal place of "Up from the Bottom" in the setlist. "Up from the Bottom" was instead performed in Act 1, with "New Divide" dropped from the setlist yet again.


What changes, if any, the band might make for this upcoming leg are anyone's guess. "Unshatter" has not been played across the two tour legs since it was released, and given that the band has mentioned that it represents the very early album process, it's unclear if they plan to place much emphasis on the song. Fans attending the Brooklyn show can likely expect to see much of the same structure we have seen this year, with a strong emphasis on material from the band's latest album. The band's last time in North America in the spring brought the live debut of all the remaining songs off From Zero, the first time since Minutes to Midnight where the full album has been played live. With "Keys to the Kingdom" only appearing once on the previous tour leg, the odds do not look great for material from The Hunting Party or One More Light still.


This North American run is Linkin Park's second-to-last leg, before closing out their headlining schedule in South America (which has seen some rerouting from what was announced) and performing at Mexico City's Corona Capital festival. After Brooklyn, the band heads to Boston for back-to-back dates before returning to the greater New York area to perform in Newark, and then continuing on for their first Canada performances since 2015. With such great performances and momentum coming out of Europe, Brooklyn will undoubtedly be a great opening act for this next run of shows, as Linkin Park continues on their biggest tour in over a decade.

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 watch along with you!

Will you be attending the band's show in Brooklyn? Visit our official LPA Meetup Thread if so and let others know! We'd love for you to send any pictures or videos from the show our way as well @LPAssociation on Instagram and X (Twitter).

Come join the discussion on our forums as we gear up for this North American run!

Upcoming Shows:
Jul. 31, 2025: Boston, MA
Aug. 01, 2025: Boston, MA
Aug. 03, 2025: Newark, NJ
Aug. 05, 2025: Montréal, QC
Aug. 06, 2025: Montréal, QC
Aug. 08, 2025: Toronto, ON
Aug. 11, 2025: Chicago, IL
Aug. 14, 2025: Detroit, MI

Linkin Park has uploaded their newest LPTV episode, their sixth installment covering their 2025 From Zero world tour. The episode picks up with the band's huge performance at Berlin's Olympiastadion, continues on to Hellfest in France, I-Days in Milan, and ends with the band's headlining date in Arnhem in the Netherlands.

Also included is some footage from the band's pop-up collaboration with Milan pizzeria Da Zero, with the band tasting some of the pizza and signing autographs for fans. Brad Delson also appears multiple times throughout the episode in Milan, accompanying the band as they accept a Gold Album award for sales in Italy and encouraging his bandmates from backstage at I-Days.

With this LPTV episode ending before their performance at Wembley Stadium, the band will likely be releasing one or two more episodes dedicated to their Europe run. The band's second North American tour leg, however, will be starting in just a few days! Come discuss this episode and more on our forums!

Source: Linkin Park on YouTube

U.S. music trade publication Music Connection has put out a new Linkin Park profile piece titled "Linkin Park: Back From Zero". The cover story comes from the magazine's associate editor Ruby Risch, who spoke to the band in the wake of their massive show at the Olympiastadion in Berlin in June earlier this year - at the time, the biggest headline show Linkin Park had ever played. Throughout the piece, the band members reflect on their journey from a hiatus back to being an active recording and touring act.

As exemplified by that Berlin show, and other shows the band has played this year, the meticulous From Zero album and touring cycle has seen them reach new heights of success, but Mike Shinoda reveals that he and his bandmates were initially riddled with doubt:

Shinoda, Delson, Joe Hahn, and Dave "Phoenix" Farrell didn’t rush a rebound. They didn’t even know if one was coming. “There were so many weeks and months where it was like, ‘Well, this is doomed; it's just not going to happen. I don't see how we're ever going to solve all the things that are wrong with trying to get back out on the road,’” Shinoda says. “We’re going to have to find a singer, and nobody's going to be able to live up to that, even if they were good, it's going to be too much pressure, the fans aren't going to accept it. No one's going to like it… That sounds like a recipe for disaster.”

There was no master plan, no dramatic Pinterest vision board. Just small steps, instinctive choices, and one hell of a willingness to leap into the unknown. The question was never how to move forward; it was if they even could. So, they didn’t think about the whole mountain. Just the next foothold. “Having a band with the history that we did—that we have—and having it effectively fall to pieces, and then picking it all up and trying again, was—is—so difficult,” Shinoda says.

One of the newer additions to the line-up, Colin Brittain, also offers up his perspective on Linkin Park's return:

But joining the band wasn’t just about drumming. It was about synergy. Even as a fan, Brittain told Shinoda, “We need a giant like Linkin Park. That's so important throughout the generations, to really come back and, you know, lead the way for people, because it's one of the only bands that I could think of that has this kind of a visceral, emotional impact on so many people around the world. So it was something really important to me, even as a fan, not as a band member.”

The band members also touch on the way audiences at the band's live shows have shown as much fervor for newer songs as they have for older staple songs:

“When we cut into ‘Faint’ or ‘Casualty’ or ‘Emptiness Machine’ or ‘Up From The Bottom,’ people know every word, and it's just as loud as the old songs. And then you're seeing mosh pits and people just really having an emotional connection to the song… it’s a cathartic experience,” Brittain says. Many of those songs “didn't exist one second ago,” Delson adds, “[and] that is like magic.” Having tracks off From Zero already punching with the same weight, volume, and connection of old anthems confirms that the band hasn’t strayed from what defines them, only reaffirms that their “chemistry is super, super rare.”

Read the rest of the Music Connection piece here.

Source: Music Connection

Music publication SPIN has published the cover story for its July 2025 edition, a profile on Linkin Park titled "Linkin Park: From a Whisper to a Scream" written by Steve Appleford. The story features quotes from the band members, apparently interviewed in the midst of the U.S. tour leg during in May earlier this year, where they talk about the careful process of resurfacing as a recording and touring act, and the apprehension of making a return to music with such high stakes:

“There were definitely moments where I was like, ‘Oh my God, I hope this works.’ My stomach was in knots,” says Shinoda, bearded and relaxed, hours before a show in North Carolina. Linkin Park’s first rehearsals for any tour were traditionally “rocky” and “a mess,” he says, as band members labored to reconnect with the songs. With Armstrong and Brittain now stepping in, he could only imagine things being more difficult, and admits, “It was really jarring.”

“Thankfully, we never had any moments where personality-wise it got rocky,” he adds. “That was really telling. As we rehearsed, the stress was high and everybody really knew there was so much on the line. Everybody wanted it to work so badly, so even when we were fumbling our way through songs for the first time or trying to figure out parts, everybody was really committed and patting each other on the back, and trying really hard.”

Brad Delson also speaks briefly on becoming part of the From Zero recording process, and, thus, part of the band again:

While Shinoda, Phoenix, and Hahn had begun working on music for a potential new Linkin Park project in 2019, Delson says the bulk of his work on From Zero happened the first six months of 2024. “I was going to Mike’s house almost every day for months last year,” he says.

“And once we had a deadline, we made this bold decision as a group to build the launch show, to build the stage, to book arenas, to book stadiums—all before anyone had heard a lick of music. So it was a very risky thing to do. And we had incredible deadlines that all could have gone awry. We were miraculously able to keep Emily’s identity a secret, which built even more tension into the launch.”

Most notable, perhaps, is Emily Armstrong talking about getting back into the studio with her cohorts in Dead Sara, reassuring fans that she will still be making time for the band in the midst of Linkin Park's grueling schedule:

[Armstrong] remains connected to Dead Sara, established in 2005. Various members of Linkin Park have had other meaningful projects over the years, and Emily’s band will likely reconvene before it’s time to make the next Linkin Park record.

“I never went anywhere,” she says. “Those are my friends and we were in the studio the other day just kicking around some ideas and stuff. Nothing is set—like, no plans. They understand.”

You can read the rest of the cover story here.

Appleford has covered or interviewed Linkin Park several times throughout his journalism career, examples being a 2008 Mike Shinoda interview in the midst of the Minutes to Midnight tour cycle for Rolling Stone, a 2010 interview during the lead-up to A Thousand Suns for Los Angeles Times, and a selection of highlights from 2017's Hollywood Bowl show for Revolver Magazine. A little more recently, for Los Angeles Times again, Appleford reviewed the band's September 2024 headline show in Los Angeles.

Source: SPIN via @Qwerty19

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