01. February 2018
The band wonders about its future six months after the death of Chester Bennington. "I have every intention on continuing with Linkin Park and the guys feel the same. We have a lot of rebuilding to do, and questions to answer, so it'll take time." That was Mike Shinoda, recently, posted via twitter questioned by a follower on the future of band. The reference, of course, is what will be of Linkin Park without the charismatic Chester Bennington, who died suicide last July 20 in Los Angeles.
06. January 2018
With the sudden death of his great friend and band mate Chester Bennington, Linkin Park multi-instrumentalist Mike Shinoda has experienced a difficult 2017. In a new Instagram message, Shinoda looks back on 2017 and ahead to this year. "...It's weird to think back and say: 'Yep, that was unquestionably the worst year of my life,'" Shinoda writes. "We teach our kids: it's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game. If we lose, we focus on our love of playing. We ask ourselves what...
06. January 2018
Linkin Park, Metallica and Twenty One Pilots are among the top-selling rock artists of 2017, according to Nielsen Music's year-end report. The three acts stood tall in a period that showed a further decline for rock music overall, with R&B/hip-hop becoming the most dominant genre in the U.S. You can download the full report from Nielsen Music here, which states that nine of the top 10 "most-consumed songs" for the year were from the R&B and hip-hop genre. Examining music industry trends...
26. September 2017
Korn Brian 'Head' Welch guitarist used his own Instagram profile to publicly thank one another, the Linkin Park for having forgiven him for the frivolous phrases he expressed after Chester Bennington's suicide last July 20.
26. September 2017
Linkin Park have shared some heartfelt footage of Chester Bennington, reflecting on some of the moments in which “Chester made us laugh.” The touching clip features Bennington happily singing a track they’ve titled “Unicorns & Lollipops,” showing the positivity and warmth Bennington brought the band.
18. September 2017
Linkin Park announce a special show in honor of Chester. The one-night-only celebration will take place in Los Angeles at the legendary Hollywood Bowl on Friday, October 27, 2017. The band will be joined by a number of other artists, for an unforgettable night of music to honor the man that touched the lives of so many around the world. Public on-sale starts Friday, September 22nd at 10 am Los Angeles time on Ticketmaster: http://lprk.co/oct27 LP Underground members have access to pre-sale...
13. September 2017
Linkin Park have released a video showing fans from across the world paying tribute to frontman Chester Bennington. The singer died at the age of 41 in July this year, with the new clip showing fans in Peru, Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia, Germany, the US, Greece, Belarus, the Philippines, Kazakhstan, Russia, China, Chile, France and the Netherlands pay their respects to Bennington – showing the global appeal of Bennington and the music of Linkin Park. The band say: “Thank you to our fans from...
10. August 2017
After a looong pause, I write this post cause we must talk and try to thinking about Linkin Park's future but in this days nothing by group has been released yet so until we can think about it might will be. Fans and interested people thinks about Linkin Park's future project: "New vocalist or stop everything? Personally they must continue this project, cause fans love them and Chester love both them and fans (in particular I don't think that he would has wanted talk to stop everything) and...
25. July 2017
Through TMZ and later through other websites we learn that on July 20, 2017, the Linkin Park frontman and vocalist was found dead in his Palos Verdes Estates villa in California. This event, which most fans waited for the group to confirm before confirming the truthfulness of the informant, saw Mike's message on Twitter confirming this shocking news. Journalists have been very quick to associate this death with the singer's past as we know it was predominantly drug, alcohol and even sexual...
19. July 2017
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