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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've uploaded more pictures to the Grammy 2010 album:
Mike attended The Roots Annual Jam Session yesterday and he uploaded a video:
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And thanks so much to Parker from the ChatBox that told me about these pictures!
Unfortunately they're not very good pictures...they're kinda small. Hopefully better images will be uploaded, anyway, enjoy these:
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:
As per usual Loveline have taken a photo and video of Dr Drew with his guests. Here they are:
Mike was at some backstage at the Grammys event yesterday, I found a few pics, but if anyone finds them in a better quality or videos please send them in.
Not often one of the guys get photographed by the paparazzi, anywho, heres Mike (and Anna holding Otis behind him) shopping a Kitson, in January. Thanks to Phoenx-Farrell.org for the picture.
Nickelback have hedged forward again in Fuse's Grammy Polldown we only have a few days left so go vote for LP's What I've Done here!
Also Mike blogged this picture of him in his studio hard at work writing the new album.
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."
Mike posted some new pictures of himself and Chester at Mike's home studio along with his new blogpost:
Our buddy Fiore grabbed some quick photos from the studio the other day. In between working on vocals, we did a "welcome video" for the new lp.com (beta testing now), and took a very handsome photo for Chester's international Visa, so he can go play some Dead By Sunrise shows in Japan..
This tweet from Cheapshot caught my eye
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I found some photos from the Crunchie Awards.
I added 17 pictures:
Thanks to Abby for sending this great picture in of Mike and Church, I've added it to the gallery , click it to see.
From mikeshinoda.com:
New in the VIDEOS section. Looks like Brad has relinquished all "instrument duties" in favor of a much more exciting responsibility in our band: ProTools editor.
mike
PS, did you guys see this photo from the Chi Cheng / Deftones benefit show? Just added:
36 photos have been added to the gallery, some great live shots from over the years, enjoy!
It never ends...I've found more pictures from the Blog Expo!
They're the last pictures in the album.
Enjoy!
Hybrid1988, an LPU member, has graciously posted some pictures from the Wiltern interview and also took some pictures from show that night, March 24, 2003!
Hope everyone recognizes that date. :)
From the show:
I know we dont usually post about Mikes blog but I wanted to make sure you all saw this one
I've been gone for a minute, with the holidays and everything. Funny--I came back and there are some buggy things going on with mikeshinoda.com's comments, RSS, and backend. Sorry if it's messing things up for you--I'm working on some fixes soon.
Among other things, I got a Nord Electro 3 for Christmas. I can't wait to start using it...we're moving on from the last batch of songs (5) to a new batch. I don't know what songs will be in the new batch. We have about 15 contenders, with some brand new gems that I worked on with Chester and Brad. The first LP studio meeting of 2010 is next Monday, so we'll vote on it then.
On another note, I hope you're getting your New Year's Eve plans together. I never really make plans, and I end up doing whatever comes up, last minute. Sometimes it works out, sometimes not...but once again, I have no idea what I'll be up to.
BTW, here's a better clip of the Medvedev interview. I know I was late on it. I forgot to post it because I was drunk on egg nog.
http://rt.com/Top_News/2009-12-24/medvedev-books-music-holidays.html
As promised, the pictures I found a while back from the MSDC|SURU Shoe Signing Event I've uploaded and added it to the gallery.
