Charitable rockers Linkin Park

Charitable rockers Linkin Park have embarked on a charity auction to raise money for the survivors of the recent cyclone in Bangladesh.

The band's charity, Music For Relief, has enlisted the help of fellow musicians Avril Lavigne and Deftones to donate items to be sold in aid of the survivors of the 15 November (07) tragedy on eBay. All proceeds from the auctions will go to humanitarian organisation CARE.

Last month (Nov07), the band spearheaded a charity auction of autographed items and VIP concert tickets to raise money for the victims of the recent California wildfires. They also pledged $50,000 (£25,000) to funds for firefighters and fire victims, respectively.

rap-rock band Linkin Park

six years together, the musicians in the rap-rock band Linkin Park have written song after song about angst, rage and self-reliance. So perhaps it is not hard to imagine their shock at being asked by the Warner Music Group, their record company, to play a gig at the New York Stock Exchange to celebrate Warner's planned $750 million initial public stock offering.

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Chester Bennington of Linkin Park, which wants out of its record contract with the Warner Music Group.

The request, members of the band say, galvanized their anger at the corporation, which has cut roughly $250 million in costs as part of a reorganization before its offering, mainly with layoffs and consolidation. The group says concerns that the public offering would reward investors while shortchanging the company and its artists led the band to ask to be released from its record contract last week.

The invitation to play at the stock exchange "just exemplifies how out of touch the ownership of the Warner Music Group is with our band," said Brad Delson, the group's guitarist and primary spokesman, in his first interview since the Grammy-winning band issued its demand in a written statement that criticized the company. "It doesn't make any sense to us why we would play a show at the New York Stock Exchange. I don't know what was going through their minds."

Linkin Park, which Edgar Bronfman Jr., the chairman of Warner Music, has described as "the biggest rock band in the world," says it is researching how it might legally sever its contract with Warner, which calls for the band to deliver four more albums. The band has released two full-length albums and three additional recordings through Warner, selling an estimated 17.9 million copies in the United States alone, according to Nielsen SoundScan. But the musicians say cutbacks at Warner have hurt the company's ability to market future Linkin Park recordings.

Warner, whose roster of artists includes Green Day, matchbox twenty and Metallica, said in a statement that while it respected Linkin Park, the band's statements "are in contradiction to those of their representatives, whose demands for unreasonably large sums of money have also been accompanied by threats to disparage the company publicly." It added that, "while Warner Music regrets these unfortunate negotiating tactics," it continues to support Linkin Park's career growth.

Mr. Delson, in a telephone interview on Friday, characterized Linkin Park's stand as one of principle, not profit. The soon-to-be publicly traded company "is bad news and that's why we don't want to stick around and see what happens," Mr. Delson said. "There is no negotiation taking place," he added. "We want off the Warner Music Group."

Asked if a large advance from the company might diminish his concerns, Mr. Delson said, "unfortunately, we're past that point."

It is unclear whether the band has any workable legal strategies for exiting the company. In previous public showdowns, artists like Beck, the Dixie Chicks and Luther Vandross have sued to end their contracts only to back down in exchange for multimillion-dollar advances.

The Linkin Park dispute has boiled over at a sensitive moment for the company. Warner, the smallest of the world's four major music conglomerates, is expected to sell shares as early as this week and hopes to raise $750 million or more. The band has said this would generate a "windfall" for Warner's owners, who have earmarked only $7 million of the proceeds for the company's general operations.

Mr. Bronfman led a team of private-equity firms, including Thomas H. Lee Partners, to buy Warner Music from Time Warner last year for about $2.6 billion. The new management reorganized the company to lift profits, and along the way trimmed salaries and laid off more than 1,000 employees.

When the stock offering is complete, Warner Music's public-offering documents say, the company plans to pay Mr. Bronfman and the other owners - who have already recouped their initial cash investment - a total of about $200 million in management fees and special dividends

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Linkin Park lyrics is all about giving you the lyrics, pictures, and news from the popular band, Linkin Park. The success this band has had is amazing. With the release of Hybrid Theory, Linkin Park has quickly become the favorite band of many people. After Reanimation and Meteora, the band is still running strong.

Everyone knows about the Hybrid Theory CD but not a lot of people know about LP's old stuff. If you haven't heard the song "Carousel," you're missing out. Their first album is called Hybrid Theory EP. It only contains 6 tracks:

• And One
• Step Up
• Part Of Me
• High Voltage
• Carousel
• Technique

Linkin Park Biography

Linkin Park Biography

Linkin Park (formed 1996)

Linkin Park is an American nu-metal band that has won two Grammy awards and sold over fifty million albums worldwide.

Linkin Park: The Formation

Linkin Park was originally formed by Mike Shinoda, Brad Delson and Rob Bourdon, who all knew each other from high school in California. After graduation, Joe Hahn, Dave 'Phoenix' Farrell and Mark Wakefield joined the band. At the time, the band was known as Xero.

Xero recorded their demos in Shinoda's bedroom but failure to secure a record deal caused tensions in the band. Mark Wakefield (the vocalist at the time) and Dave Farrell both left the band.

Chester Bennington was drafted in as Wakefield's replacement. He was formerly the singer for Grey Daze and his distinctive vocal style stood out. The band changed their name to Hybrid Theory for a short time but the addition of Bennington to the band brought a new chemistry and they changed names again to Linkin Park: a homage to Lincoln Park, in Santa Monica.

Although a record deal remained elusive for some time, they eventually signed to Warner Bros. in 1999.

Linkin Park: Commercial Breakthrough

The band's debut album, Hybrid Theory was released in 2000 and was representative of the last five years of the band's work. The album sold over 4.8 million copies in its first year and was the highest-selling album of 2001.

Hybrid Theory was also nominated for three Grammy Awards: Best New Artist, Best Rock Album and Best Hard Rock Performance (for 'Crawling'). They won the latter category.

Around this time, Linkin Park performed at a number of high profile events, such as 'Ozzfest, the Family Values tour and their own 'Projekt Revolution', which featured such luminaries as Cypress Hill and Snoop Dogg.

Dave Farrell re-joined the band and they began working on a follow-up album. Reanimation was a remix album that featured tracks from Hybrid Theory and featured Black Thought and Aaron Lewis, among others. The album went to number two in the Billboard 200.

Linkin Park began to write new material whilst completing their extensive promotional tour schedule. They spent some of their free time recording in the studio they had in their tour bus. The resulting album, Meteora was released in 2003 and went to number one in the US album charts. More than 800,000 copies were sold in its first week.

The band undertook another Projekt Revolution, this time with Mudvayne, Blindside and Xzibit. The band was invited by Metallica to play on the Summer Sanitarium Tour, along with Limp Bizkit and the Deftones.

A DVD entitled Live In Texas showcased some of their live performances from the tour.

Following Meteora's commercial success, the band took a brief hiatus. Shinoda worked with Depeche Mode and formed Fort Minor as a side project. Bennington also worked with DJ Lethal and Dead By Sunrise.

Another remix album surfaced, this time produced by Jay-Z and was entitled Collision Course.

Producer Rick Rubin was chosen to work on their next studio album; the release of which was delayed until 2007. Minutes to Midnight was 14 months in the making and sold over 600,000 copies in its first week on sale. It also went to number one on the Billboard 200 album charts.

The band headlined the Download festival in England as well as undertaking their fourth Projekt Revolution tour and embarking on a UK arena tour that culminated in two nights at the O2 Arena in London

Linkin Park Announces Projekt:Revolution 2008

Commencing July 16th 2008, and coming to a close on August 24th, 2008, Linkin Park have announced the dates for the 2008 Projekt:Revolutuion tour.

The acts for this years tour will include Chris Cornell, The Bravery and Ashes Divide on the main stage; with Atreyu, 10 Years, Hawthorne Heights, Armor For Sleep and Street Drum Corps occupying the Revolution stage. The tour dates are as follows:

Jul 16 Boston, MA Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts
Jul 18 Pittsburgh, PA Post-Gazette Pavilion
Jul 19 Camden, NJ Susquehanna Bank Center
Jul 20 Hartford, CT New England Dodge Music Center
Jul 22 New York, NY Nikon at Jones Beach Theater
Jul 23 Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Arts Center
Jul 25 Raleigh, NC Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion at Walnut Creek
Jul 26 Virginia Beach, VA Verizon Wireless Virginia Beach Amphitheater
Jul 27 Washington, DC Nissan Pavilion
Jul 30 Charlotte, NC Charlotte Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
Aug 1 West Palm Beach, FL Cruzan Amphitheatre
Aug 2 Tampa, FL Ford Amphitheatre
Aug 3 Atlanta, GA Lakewood Amphitheatre
Aug 7 Phoenix, AZ Cricket Wireless Pavilion
Aug 9 San Francisco, CA Shoreline Amphitheatre at Mountain View
Aug 10 Irvine, CA Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
Aug 12 Denver, CO Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre
Aug 15 Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Music Center
Aug 16 Chicago, IL Alpine Valley Music Theatre
Aug 17 Indianaplis, IN Verizon Wireless Music Center Indianapolis
Aug 19 Cleveland, OH Blossom Music Center
Aug 21 St. Louis, MO Verizon Wireless Amphitheater St. Louis
Aug 23 Dallas, TX Superpages.com Center
Aug 24 Houston, TX Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion

The guys have also announced for new European shows to take place before the tour:

June 17 Velodrom, Brno, Czech Republic
June 18 Stadhalle, Graz, Austria
June 22 RDS Arena, Dublin, Ireland
June 25 Terra Vibe Park, Athens, Greece

Minutes to Midnight Rumour

I really believe that the person who wrote this article obviously wasn't at the concert and is just BSing this whole thing. All the bands did great. The songs by HIM were not all about vampires if you actually listened. My chemical Romance gave a great performance not because of the pyro but because they had great stage presence.
As for Linkin Park they didn't need a band to hype everyone up. They could have been the only band performing and still been as great. They played a mix of all the old stuff plus their new stuff and it never got boring. My feet were killing me(i was in the pit) and i loved the show so much i stood for linkin park the WHOLE TIME!They were no less than amazing and made a great show.
If you're going to write articles about concerts at least know what your saying and about the music. Minutes to Midnight is their cd not the track.

Linkin Park Vs My Chemical Romance

This guy is quite funny. I went to the concert in Ohio, and yeah, MCR did get alot of people screaming.....teenage girls that is....half the people that were there for MCR wasn't because of their music, it's because they are inlove with the lead singer....I've seen LP 4 times and they get better and better everytime, and believe me, the crowd was alot louder for MCR but thats just because girls scream louder. Oh and the whole popular-record sales thing? Yeah they did sell most of their records in the last decade....but that doesn't erase the fact that they sold 630,000 records int he first week. So I'm guessing LP is still pretty popular.

Linkin Park will be playing two shows in China

Linkin Park will be playing two shows in China in October: October 12th at the Shanghai Stadium, and October 19th at the Beijing Workers Stadium.

Source: www.linkinpark.com

In other news, Mike Shinoda recently stated in an interview that Linkin Park is already writing material for their follow-up to Minutes to Midnight, and has been recording demos during off-days from touring. He goes on to state that a new album sometime in 2009 is a possibility. Obviously it's still incredibly early to predict what will happen, but this could potentially be exciting news

BEST ROCK VIDEO Linkin Park

Linkin Park's "Shadow of the Day", directed by Joseph Hahn, has been nominated for an MTV Video Music Award for the Best Rock Video category. The nominees are as follows:

BEST ROCK VIDEO

"Beat It" - Fall Out Boy
"The Pretender" - Foo Fighters
"Shadow of the Day" - Linkin Park
"crushcrushcrush" - Paramore
"Psychosocial" - Slipknot

Be sure to tune in on Sunday, September 7th at 9:00pm ET to see if Linkin Park takes home a VMA!

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TRANSFORMERS MOVIE SOUNDTRACK


Michael Bay’s live action take on the classic Transformers series is set to be one of the biggest blockbusters of the summer. The film’s accompanying soundtrack will be released in the UK on July 16th on Warner Bros. Records.

Linkin Park’s What I’ve Done accompanies the film’s closing credits whilst Before It’s Too Late by The Goo Goo Dolls also features prominently throughout. Other highlights include tracks from Smashing Pumpkins, HIM and Taking Back Sunday.


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Soundtrack:

* 2000s
* 1990s

1. Transformers (2007) (performer: "What I've Done")
... aka Transformers: The IMAX Experience (USA: IMAX version)
2. Miami Vice (2006) (performer: "Numb/Encore")
... aka Miami Vice (Germany)
3. The Work of Director Mark Romanek (2005) (V) (performer: "Faint")
4. "The Sopranos" (1 episode, 2004)
- In Camelot (2004) TV episode (performer: "Session")
5. Rock Bottom: From Hell to Redemption (2004) (performer: "Somewhere I Belong")
6. Riding Giants (2004) (writer: "Don't Stay", "Cure the Itch") (performer: "Don't Stay", "Cure the Itch")
... aka Riding Giants (France)
7. S.W.A.T. (2003) (performer: "Figure.09")
8. The Matrix Reloaded (2003) (writer: "Session") (performer: "Session") (producer: "Session")
... aka The Matrix Reloaded: The IMAX Experience (USA: IMAX version (promotional title))
9. Legends of Wrestling 2 (2002) (VG) (performer: "Head strong")
10. "ER" (1 episode, 2002)
- On the Beach (2002) TV episode (performer: "One Step Closer")
11. The One (2001) (performer: "Papercut")
... aka Jet Li's The One (UK)
12. Valentine (2001) (performer: "Pushing Me Away")
13. Dracula 2000 (2000) ("One Step Closer")
... aka Dracula 2001 (UK)
... aka Wes Craven Presents Dracula 2000 (USA: complete title)
14. "Roswell" (1 episode, 2000)
... aka Roswell High (UK) (USA: working title)
- Meet the Dupes (2000) TV episode (performer: "With You")
15. Little Nicky (2000) (writer: "Points of Authority") (performer: "Points of Authority")

16. "Batman Beyond" (1 episode, 1999)
... aka Batman of the Future (Europe: English title) (UK)
- Dead Man's Hand (1999) TV episode (performer: "Points of Authority" (2000))

Actor:

1. Guitar Hero World Tour (2008) (VG) (announced) .... Musical Guest

Director:

1. The Making of 'Meteora' (2003) (V)

Self:

* 2000s
* 1980s

1. MTV Europe Music Awards 2007 (2007) (TV) .... Themselves - Winners
2. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (2007) (VG) .... Themselves - Musical Guest
3. MTV VMA Pre Show Royale (2007) (TV) .... Themselves
4. MTV Video Music Awards 2007 (2007) (TV) .... Themselves
5. Live Earth (2007) (TV) .... Herself
... aka Live Earth 7.7.07 (International: English title: poster title)
... aka Live Earth Alert (Netherlands: festival title)
... aka Live Earth: The Concerts for a Climate in Crisis (International: English title)
... aka SOS: The Movement for a Climate in Crisis (International: English title: poster title)
6. "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" .... Themselves (1 episode, 2007)
- Episode dated 19 May 2007 (2007) TV episode .... Themselves
7. "Saturday Night Live" .... Themselves - Musical Guest (1 episode, 2007)
... aka NBC's Saturday Night (USA: first season title)
... aka SNL (USA: informal title)
... aka SNL 25 (USA: alternative title)
... aka Saturday Night (USA: second season title)
... aka Saturday Night Live '80 (USA: sixth season title)
... aka The Best of Saturday Night Live (USA: rerun title)
- Molly Shannon/Linkin Park (2007) TV episode .... Themselves - Musical Guest
8. "Best Hit USA" .... Themselves (1 episode, 2007)
- Episode dated 8 May 2007 (2007) TV episode .... Themselves
9. "TV total" .... Themselves (1 episode, 2007)
- Episode dated 30 April 2007 (2007) TV episode .... Themselves
10. "AOL Sessions" (1 episode, 2007)
- Linkin Park (2007) TV episode
11. The Work of Director Mark Romanek (2005) (V) .... Themselves (segment "Faint")
12. Live 8: A Worldwide Concert Event Presented by Nokia (2005) (TV) .... Themselves
13. Live 8 (2005) (TV) .... Themselves
14. MTV Europe Music Awards 2004 (2004) (TV) .... Themselves - Winners
15. MTV Ultimate Mash-Ups: Jay Z vs. Linkin Park (2004) (TV) .... Themselves
16. 2004 Radio Music Awards (2004) (TV) .... Themselves
17. "Rockpalast" .... Themselves (1 episode, 2004)
- Episode dated 6 June 2004 (2004) TV episode .... Themselves
18. 2003 Radio Music Awards (2003) (TV) .... Themselves
19. "The New Tom Green Show" .... Himself (1 episode, 2003)
- Episode dated 1 July 2003 (2003) TV episode .... Himself
20. "Making the Video" (1 episode, 2003)
- Somewhere I Belong (2003) TV episode
21. MTV Video Music Awards 2002 (2002) (TV) .... Themselves
... aka VMAs 2002 (USA: short title)
22. MTV Video Music Awards 2001 (2001) (TV) .... Themselves - Performers
23. "Live at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame" (2001) TV series .... Themselves - Performers
24. "Gonna Meet a Rock Star" (2001) TV series .... Themselves

25. "Rage" .... Themselves (1 episode)
- Linkin Park Guest Program Rage (????) TV episode .... Themselves

Archive Footage:

1. MTV Europe Music Awards 2003 (2003) (TV) .... Themselves

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MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT,

Rupanya Linkin Park menenpati janji. Dimana sebelumnya mereka berkoar-koar akan membuat album ketiga mereka sebagai bentuk nu-metal yang lain dari pada lainnya. Benar saja MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT, album baru grup band asal Los Angeles ini merentangkan ketreativitas baru, sebuah karya yang belum pernah ditelurkan sebelumnya.

Album studio ketiga Linkin Park ini benar-benar nu-metal abis. Dilengkapi dengan beat electronic dan bagian-bagin kecil lain yang menyatukan tembang In Pieces. Sedang tembang Bleed It Out membuat pendengarnya ikut bergetar liar seiring irama.

Band ini membuat belokan dengan emosi lewat irama mall-punk bernuansa balada di tembang Leave Out All the Rest. Belum lagi buaian irama gitar di tembang Given Up dan No More Sorrow. Sedikit rap dari MC berserta co-producer Mike Shinoda di Hands Held High, memberikan tamparan pada George Bush lewat syairnya.

Meski vocalis band ini, Chester Bennington mencoba mendalam dengan melodi berbeda, dia terdengar lebih seperti menyuarakan kemarahan monotonnya. Chester melepaskan kemarahannya dalam hal cinta lewat tembang Valentine's Day. Begitu pula kemarahan tentang respon pemerintah pada bencana Badai Katrina di tahun 2005 dalam tembang The Little Things Give You Away.

Akhirnya, seperti keseluruhan saat-saat paling menarik di MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT, semuanya tak lepas dari tangan-tangan produser lagu yang luar biasa hebat, Rick Rubin, yang telah membantu menghasilkan dan memoles album baru Linkin Park ini hingga tercipta irama terbaik.

Linkin Park Video What i've done

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Linkin Park adalah grup musik beraliran nu metal yang berasal dari Aguora Hills, California, di Amerika Serikat. Mereka sempat beberapa kali berganti nama, antara lain Xero, Hybrid Theory, hingga nama Linkin Park sampai sekarang. Nama "Linkin Park" sendiri merupakan plesetan dari nama sebuah taman di Los Angeles, Lincoln Park.

Sebelum Chester Bennington menjadi vokalis Linkin Park, Mark Wakefield lebih dulu menjadi vokalisnya. Namun, ia keluar dari Linkin Park – saat itu menggunakan nama Hybrid Theory – untuk menjadi manajer grup musik Taproot. Bassis Dave Farrell alias "Phoenix" juga pernah keluar sebentar dari Linkin Park untuk mengikuti tur bersama band lamanya, Tasty Snax. Sedangkan 4 personil lainnya – Brad Delson, Mike Shinoda, Joe Hahn, dan Rob Bourdon – selalu bertahan di Linkin Park sejak awal pembentukannya.

Linkin Park telah merilis 3 album studio, yaitu Hybrid Theory, Meteora, dan Minutes to Midnight. Linkin Park juga merilis album Live in Texas, Reanimation, dan Collision Course, serta Hybrid Theory EP. Linkin Park sukses dalam mempopulerkan lagu-lagunya seperti Crawling, In the End, Numb, Somewhere I Belong, dan What I've Done. Secara total, album-album Linkin Park telah terjual sebanyak 50 juta keping.