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Linkin Park are currently in the studio working on their fourth album, produced by Rick Rubin. Release due date: June 2010 |
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Mike's latest piece entitled Doodlebrain was displayed at the True Self art show in NY. Future art show are in the works, collaboration with Ron English. |
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Mike's latest appearance was at the Grammys Backstage, soon at the Grammys on Sunday. He was promoting DTD, MFR, the LP Game, etc. |
I found MORE videos! This is a big weekend for LP so expect lots of updates! :D
In the second video, Mike talks about the Linkin Park game for the iPod Touch and iPhone, he said it should be coming in a month or two weeks!
All recent videos here. Watch them here:
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I also found some a promo for Download to Donate Haiti including Mike and Phoenix:
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Also added more pictures from backstage at the Grammys:
I found an interview with Mike from backstage at the Grammys and some pictures and a video! (however you can't hear the audio on the video)
Here's the video:
You really can't hear anything so just see him move, lol.
Here's the audio:
Download here. (where it says download)
I've added some pictures from the interview:
@lpunderground said that Mike and Brad will be online TOMORROW at 10PM PST (12AM CST, 1AM EST).
The tweet:
If you don't get loveline on your radio station (which you can find if your local area streams it here) you can hear it online via KROQ.com OR on iTunes. To steam on iTunes follow these instructions:
1. Open iTunes
2. On the left sidebar under "LIBRARY" click on "Radio"
3. Double click on "Alternative Rock"
4. Scroll down until you see "KROQ"
Note: Do not click on K-Rock or K-Rock2, just KROQ. :)
Can't wait! I think we'll be recording it! :D
Plus, the description on Loveline of Mike's appearance:
Mike Shinoda - from Linkin Park
January 28 2010
Mike Shinoda is a musician, record producer, and artist from Agoura Hills, California. He is best known as the rapper, songwriter, keyboardist, vocalist and rhythm guitarist of rock band Linkin Park, and as a solo rapper in his side-project, Fort Minor. Linkin Park was formed in 1996 and achieved mainstream success in 2000 with its debut album, Hybrid Theory. The band has sold over 50 million albums worldwide and won two Grammy Awards. Mike Shinoda also provides artwork, production and mixing for both groups. A week after tragedy hit Haiti in the form of a massive earthquake, Linkin Park stepped forward to help the country's struggling residents with Download to Donate for Haiti, an ambitious project featuring new music from some of the industry's top musicians.
Found another interview with Mike about Download to Donate, anyone who hasnt already please download the album, add the widget to your own pages or pass it around, and please please donate.
Grammy-winning band Linkin Park is joining the ranks of celebrities on a mission to support relief efforts in Haiti; they've released a charity album thrown together with lightning speed. We spoke to Linkin Park member Mike Shinoda about Download to Donate, a compilation of unreleased songs from artists like Peter Gabriel, Alanis Morissette and the Dave Matthews Band. Shinoda tells PopEater exclusively, "I saw the images on the news, and I knew that Music for Relief had to do something. Our organization was started for the purpose of providing relief to people who had been hit by natural disaster. We started it after the tsunami in South Asia in 2005, and when we heard about the earthquake in Haiti, it was obvious to my band mates and me that we had a responsibility to do something."
Linkin Park - and their charity organization Music For Relief - channeled their energy into creating a widget with free, downloadable music. "We put it in yours hands to donate," Shinoda says. "You can donate a dollar, you can donate a thousand dollars, you can donate a hundred thousand dollars." Check out the widget below and the rest of our interview after the jump.
Linkin Park's own contribution to the project is a song called 'Not Alone,' a track they created from start to finish in less than two days. "I wish I could say we did the entire thing, from start to finished mix, in 24 hours. But that'd be fibbing," Shinoda says. "We actually had the bed of music and the melody in place. Once we picked the song, the lyrics came easily. It was a rough demo that was unfinished, and we finished it - the guys all said that it felt almost like fate that the song had never been finished. Once we decided that we were going to do this Donate to Download project and we needed to contribute a new song, Chester [Bennington] and I started working on lyrics. The lyrics just flowed out and they came really easily. We shot emails back and forth - 'hey, what do you think about this line? what do you think about that line?' - and within a day, we had the lyrics to the song."
Shinoda believes technology will help organizations like his accomplish things that the 'We Are the World's of yesterday couldn't achieve. "This project, I feel like it's a game-changing moment in terms of music charity, made possible by the technology of today," he explains. "Only a few years ago, you wouldn't have been able to get a song done as quickly as these songs can be done now. Only a few years ago, you wouldn't have been able to spread the word about a widget like this, because you wouldn't have had Facebook and Twitter - you wouldn't even have had widgets. The point is that right now, we're able to do this for the first time in history, and we really hope that we can get it right, and raise a lot of money and awareness for the people in Haiti who need it."
"We intend to do multiple releases of music; in fact a new song by Lupe Fiasco that I produced [just went up]. We're adding more songs as we go ... artists are hearing about it and they're calling our management company and saying 'Can I participate, can I donate a song?' And the answer is yes."
Shinoda is counting on Linkin Park fans to do the right thing with the free tunes. "You can go at any time and donate," he says. "If you feel like you've donated enough, then just download the songs. If you feel like you didn't donate anything and you listen to the songs and feel guilty - come back and donate!"
He adds, "The money's going to some great organizations. 100% of the money goes directly to the efforts in Haiti. We're working with the UN Foundation, Habitat For Humanity and Dave Matthews Band's Bama Works' Haitian Relief Effort. In broad strokes, the goal for Music For Relief is to provide immediate and long-term recovery, with focuses on clean water and shelter."
A new LPTV episode has been added to linkinpark.com from Mike's studio of the guys working on Not Alone, witness them name the track!
Mike was just on CNN's Larry King Live, he posted a video from backstage, view here:
Download here.
As far as the actual video that aired on Larry King Live, I don't have, but we'll get it shortly!
EDIT: You can also now download/stream "Heroes" by Peter Gabriel on MusicForRelief.org, this was featured on Larry King Live after Mike and Enrique. :)
EDIT2: lpassociation.com uploaded the actual video on Larry King Live! Hopefully a better one will arise but for now this will suffice, go and watch it:
The piece came out great. Two notes:
1.) Although I was joking around about Enrique being late, we actually weren’t waiting around very long. Blame the satellite :)
2.) Although I was told Christine Emerson Reed was an actress…now I’m not so sure. I think she was a Santa Monica City councilwoman. Here’s our park:
http://gocitykids.parentsconnect.com/attraction/christine-emerson-reed-park-1150-lincoln-boulevard-santa-monica-ca-90403-us
Mike posted the lyrics of Not Alone from the Download to Donate to Haiti, read here:
I break down / fear is sinking in
The cold comes / racing through my skin
Searching for / a way to get to you
through the storm
you
go / giving up your home
go / leaving all you’ve known
You are not alone
With arms up / stretched into the sky
With eyes like / echoes in the night
Hiding from / the hell that you’ve been through
Silent one
you
go / giving up your home
go / leaving all you’ve known
you
go / giving up your home
go / leaving all you’ve known
You are not alone
you
go / giving up your home
go / leaving all you’ve known
you
go / giving up your home
go / you are not unknown
You are not alone
You are not unknown
You are not alone
On behalf of the Mike Shinoda Clan, I would like to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROB! I hope you have a great day! 
LOS ANGELES — Barely a week after tragedy hit Haiti in the form of a massive earthquake, Linkin Park have stepped forward to help the country's struggling residents with Download to Donate for Haiti, an ambitious project featuring new music from some of the industry's top musicians. On Tuesday (January 19), we caught up with Mike Shinoda, who is currently working overtime to turn his musical talents into much-needed relief.
"Download to Donate has come together very, very quickly," Shinoda explained of the project, featuring brand-new music that can now be downloaded in exchange for a donation to Haiti relief efforts. "It was an idea as of Thursday — and as of right now, we have nine songs up."
Shinoda plans to add more tracks in the upcoming days — each from a major act who donated their track in response to the January 12 earthquake. "We ask that you donate, but you don't have to — if all you can afford is to spread the word, embed the widget, share it on Facebook, Twitter, whatever, then that will be good enough," explained the rapper/songwriter/guitarist for Linkin Park, whose new track "Not Alone" is offered alongside contributions from Peter Gabriel, Alanis Morissette, Dave Matthews Band and more. "We're hoping to raise a lot of money for a lot of people who need it in Haiti.
"We had a demo [for 'Not Alone'] — the music was laid out, we had done the song a little while ago ... we just never used it because we never thought it was done," Shinoda remembered of the origins of their track. "[After the tragedy in Haiti], we listened to the demo again, essentially scrapped all the words, rewrote the words ... when you've got that idea and emotional charge in you and you put that in the lyrics, for me it does make better lyrics." Those lyrics include, "I break down/ Fear is sinking in/ The cold comes/ Racing through my skin/ Searching for a way to get to you/ Through the storm you go, giving up your home/ Go, leaving all you've known/ You are not alone."
"There's an authenticity and a passion that you can hear in Chester's voice on this track; we literally wrote [the new lyrics] via e-mail, before he had flown out from Arizona to L.A. [to record them]," Shinoda said.
Part of the remarkable speed behind their reaction to Haiti, Shinoda added, can be attributed to a philanthropic groundwork the band has had in place for a half-decade. "We started our organization, Music for Relief, back in 2005 after the tsunami in South Asia," he explained. "Music for Relief's goal is to provide relief, funds and awareness in the wake of natural disasters ... this is the first time that the technology has been available to do something like this; just a few years ago, it wouldn't be possible for artists to turn around songs so quickly, in a matter of days."
Shinoda hopes fans will keep their ears — and their hearts — open for more, as he plans to upload additional tracks in the days to come.
"By the way, I should say that Music for Relief [donates] 100 percent of the funds," he added. "We're just a conduit; everybody's working for free and everybody's working hard."
The Lupe Fiasco track Resurrection that Mike mixed and produced has been added to the Download To Donate album, those who have already downloaded the album will receive an email to download the track without having to re-download the album.
Don't forget to make a donation once you've downloaded the album.
Also Mike's appearance on Larry King has been postponed until tomorrow 6pm PST, 9pm EST.
Linkin Park posted a new video on Facebook, view here:
Download here.
@lpunderground posted this:
For me (central US time), it'll be on at 8PM Please check your local listings here.
I just set my DVR to record it. :)
EDIT: Mike posted about it:
I will be on CNN’s “Larry King Live” TONIGHT, Tuesday, January 19 to talk about Music for Relief’s DOWNLOAD TO DONATE album and relief efforts in Haiti. Tune in to hear more about the project.
From mikeshinoda.com
On January 12, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti. Hundreds of thousands are feared dead, many of whom are children. Millions more are in need of medical attention, shelter, clothes and food just to make it through the days ahead. It will take years to rebuild homes and communities. My Linkin Park bandmates and I are deeply saddened by the situation and–with the help of an amazing list of talented artists all working in partnership with Music for Relief–want to aid the Haitian people.
Music for Relief has brought together an incredible album of artists who have all generously donated original songs to support the Haiti relief effort. Artists include: ALANIS MORISSETTE, THE ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS, DAVE MATTHEWS BAND, ENRIQUE IGLESIAS, HOOBASTANK, KENNA, LINKIN PARK, LUPE FIASCO, PETER GABRIEL AND SLASH.
I was a part of three of the songs. One is a BRAND NEW LINKIN PARK SONG called “Not Alone.” The second is by LUPE FIASCO and KENNA called “Resurrection.” The third is a track that KENNA and I did a while back but was never released, called “Never Let Me Down.”
Now, we need your help: you can join in support of the immediate relief and long-term recovery process in Haiti by downloading songs at WWW.MUSICFORRELIEF.ORG and making a donation in any amount. And don’t forget to EMBED THE WIDGET on your Facebook or MySpace page, your blog, or your website…wherever you can spread the word. Every little bit helps.
VISIT WWW.MUSICFORRELIEF.ORG TO DOWNLOAD TO DONATE
Funds raised through the program will support the United Nation’s rapid disaster response efforts through the UN Foundation, long-term rebuilding of sustainable homes with Habitat for Humanity, and Dave Matthew’s Band’s BAMA Works Haitian Relief effort. 100% of funds received will go directly to the Haiti efforts.
DOWNLOAD. LISTEN. DONATE. SPREAD THE WORD. BRING HOPE.
LPUnderground's Twitter (@lpunderground) posted these pictures:
http://twitpic.com/y4ij1 - Mike hard at work with @MusicForRelief and @HabitatAli!(HabitatAli is Habitat for Humanity, btw)
A 7.0 earthquake recently struck Haiti, leaving an estimated 45-50 thousand people dead and another 3 million homeless or injured. Please help out in any or all of the following ways:
• Text RELIEF to 90999 to make a $5 donation via the MFR mobile campaign
• Donate to MFR online via paypal, HERE
• Use Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, and email to spread the word
You and two guests will put your hardhats on, pick up your hammers and spend the day building a house with members of Linkin Park! Together, you will help build the MUSIC FOR RELIEF / HABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREEN HOME alongside the partner homeowner family as you build a safe and decent, energy efficient home for a deserving family in need. If you are unable to bid in the auction (or even if you are!), please visit www.musicforrelief.org to support this program.
No building experience is necessary! Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles will provide safety training, hardhats, all necessary tools, trained crew leaders and everything else you may need! 100% of the proceeds from this auction and all donations raised through www.musicforrelief.org/habitat go directly to fund THE MUSIC FOR RELIEF / HABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREEN HOME.
This package also includes the limited edition Linkin Park Minutes To Midnight book signed by all band members!
Today is your last chance to buy raffle tickets to "Win a unique piece of the Glorious Excess (Dies) art show"
Deadline is 11AM EST (10AM CST, 9AM MST, 8AM PST).
Drawing is today* as well! GOOD LUCK TO ALL WHO BOUGHT RAFFLE TICKETS! (and to those, just about to buy some? haha)
Buy raffle tickets here.
Ends in 2 hours!
Also, next week there will be a chat with Rob, exclusively for LPUers! (I retweeted it some time ago but just posting about it now, sorry for those who didn't know yet!)
*I accidentally put tomorrow it's TODAY I made this post yesterday, sorry.
Music For Relief has posted this:
Airwalk.com is donating up to $10,000 to charity and they are letting YOU choose where each dollar is donated. Visit airwalk.com/doingyourpart and tell Airwalk to donate $1 in your name to Music for Relief then tell a friend, this costs you nothing and will help MFR continue to support disaster relief and reduce global warming. Thank you for your support!It's simple, plus it's free! All you gotta do is provide your name and email address.
As a thanks for helping them support Music for Relief, Linkin Park is offering a limited-edition, autographed Rock Band 2 for Wii to one lucky member who successfully invites at least 8 friends to join them on SocialVibe by 11:59pm on December 17. You'll be automatically entered to win as soon as you've reached 8 invites, so get started!
Music For Relief posted some pictures of Mike and Anna:
Text keyword HOUSE to 90999 or visit www.musicforrelief.org/habitat to make a $5 donation to the Music for Relief Habitat for Humanity Green Home.
Find more videos like this on Music For Relief
Download here.
Make a $5 donation to help build a sustainable, environmentally friendly for a family in need!
Don't forget to click the MFR SocialVibe widget on the right. All it takes is one click!
I found this article that Phoenix of Linkin Park will compete in Best Buy Fantasy Football Challenge:
Interested? Click here.
Football fans will go head-to-head with American rock band, Linkin Park, in week six of the Best Buy Online Fantasy
Best Buy, the nation’s leading consumer electronics retailer, has announced that American rock band, Linkin Park, will be the celebrity participant in week six of the Best Buy Weekly Fantasy Football Challenge.
Since the band’s formation in 1996, Linkin Park has sold over 50 million albums and has won two Grammy Awards. In 2003, MTV2 named Linkin Park the sixth greatest band of the music video era and the third best of the new millennium behind Oasis and Coldplay.
The Best Buy Fantasy Football Challenge offers football fans a chance to compete against a celebrity lineup to win prizes totaling more than $100K over the 17 week football season.
For every point by which participants beat the celebrity, they are granted one entry into the weekly prize drawing. Sweepstakes prizes include a 50” Plasma TV, a laptop computer, an Xbox 360 console, a portable satellite TV and much more.
Furthermore, the team roster with the highest point total for a single week over the entire game period will receive the High Point Contest grand prize valued at over $5,000.
To compete against Linkin Park in Week 6 of the Best Buy Online Fantasy Football Challenge, visit www.BestBuyFantasy.com
Linkin Park's non-profit organization Music for Relief is partnering with Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles (HFH GLA) to fund and build an environmentally-friendly, energy efficient home in partnership with a deserving family in need. The interactive campaign is located at MusicforRelief.org/Habitat and kicks off with video clips recorded by Linkin Park, encouraging supporters to give $5 or more, acknowledging that no donation is too big or too small. As supporters make donations they will be able to equate how much they give to various parts of the home; illustrating that $5 is not always just $5, it can also be equivalent to a box of nails. The site also allows donors to give gifts on behalf of others, watch the house progress in real time as they donate and leave messages on the blog.
“Music for Relief has an ongoing partnership with Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles, and one of our common goals is to provide safe and decent housing in an environmentally friendly way,” said Dave “Phoenix” Farrell of Linkin Park. “If everyone reading this contributes just $5 to the newest Music for Relief/HFH GLA program, you will make it possible for deserving families in Los Angeles to move from substandard housing into energy efficient new homes.”
The house will be built to USGBC LEED specification, and will encompass many green building elements in construction and design, while supporting Habitat for Humanity’s mission of making simple, decent housing a matter of conscience and action. As founders of Music for Relief, Linkin Park aims to bring the music community together to create positive change. To do this they are uniting artists, music industry professionals and fans to build a Green home in Los Angeles as an example of how individuals can work together to promote sustainability and change lives. Music for Relief has been partnering with Habitat for Humanity since its inception, following the 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia.
“We are so excited to be launching such a unique online giving program with Music for Relief,” says Erin Rank, President/CEO, HFH GLA. “Linkin Park truly cares about helping others and we continue to be inspired by everything they do in support of our efforts. Perhaps more remarkable than their support, is how they have mobilized their fans to help change the lives of so many deserving families around the world.”
During the 2007 Projekt Revolution Tour, Music for Relief ran a multi-tiered campaign to raise funds to rebuild gulf coast regions affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and multiple homes were funded in New Orleans as a result. Linkin Park also offered fans the opportunity to win a chance to build the houses alongside them, when they took a brief detour from their winter tour to get their hands dirty building one of the houses that the project funded. Music for Relief has sponsored several green builds in partnership with Habitat for Humanity and continues to support disaster relief efforts, both domestically and internationally.
Mike's blogged about a few projects MFR has got going on.
For those in LA you can help plant trees to reforest a damaged park
"Please join Music For Relief and Tree People October 17th as we work together to plant trees in Stenton Ranch Park in Sylmar, CA. In 2008 Sylmar saw two fires that burned over 35,000 acres and displaced some 50,000 people. Between 9am and 12 pm we will reforest the park with 30 trees that will provide shade, oxygen and revitalize a beautiful landscape. Take part in this rewarding experience! Register on the Tree People website by following the link http://www.treepeople.org/million-trees-la-park-planting-0 and filling out the registration form. If you have any questions, please email Megan at megan@musicforrelief.org."
But also, for those elsewhere in the world who can help, an 8.0 magnitude earthquake was followed by a series of tsunamis, affecting the Pacific islands of Samoa, Tonga and America Samoa. Pago-Pago the capitol of American Samoa was badly damaged. The death toll is currently at 146, with hundreds missing. Sixty villages have been completely destroyed. The Red Cross is reporting 15,000 people affected, with 3,000 homeless. In addition, a 7.6 magnitude earthquake hit the island of Sumatra on Wednesday followed by a 6.6 magnitude quake on Thursday causing severe damage and it is estimated that 1100 people ere killed. Accurate information on the number of people affected or displaced by the disaster is not yet available as the search and rescue effort is still underway, but it is known that in Padang alone, at least 500 homes are caved in, hospitals, schools and other buildings have collapsed.
