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The Q&A items that have been out of stock since 2020 are back up in the LP store: The PR2002 shirt, the guitar pick set in the tin box, and the vinyl slipmat. The slipmat is one of the best they have done. Ordered all of it to have - missed it the first time around. This was the last thing Rob participated in with the band so it's good to have them - something we did not know at the time in 2020.

Linkin Park's 2026 Australia and New Zealand Tour wraps up in Sydney and Auckland. Joe hunts for jokes at the fan pop-up in Sydney, the band celebrates his birthday on stage, and Mike makes sure some records are never broken.

We were ghosted. So, this seems very unlikely at this point.

He talks about auditioning to Smashing Pumpkins and their fans hated him. Check the last 10 mins about LP. He's a good speaker!

Linkin Park's 2026 From Zero World Tour heads down under, starting in Brisbane and Melbourne. The band visits the Australia Zoo and Mike meets his new favorite DJ.

Trent and Atticus are brilliant. The NIN x Boys Noize Coachella show is one of the most fascinating live performances I've ever seen. A pinnacle live NIN moment. They'd be so good with Mike.

There are a lot of producers it would be nice to see work with LP. Steve Lillywhite is a name that comes to mind.

New podcast that is quite lengthy, featuring Colin! In this episode Toby sits down with songwriter/producer/musician Colin Brittain! He chats about moving to Cali to work with John Feldman, Linkin Park, family, drums, his early bands, producing albums, meeting Mike Shinoda and working with Linkin Park, having a Grammy nominated album, surfing, favorite places to play, producers, practicing gratitude, positivity, what's next with Linkin Park and more! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/one-life-one-chance-with-toby-morse/id1449669906

New interview with Colin!

The Let Down from the Katrina benefit is acoustic of course but is the same style demo Chester recorded at Ryan's studio that they used in this demo in the video. It would be nice to hear both on the release.

They really messed up on Primo. But, LT is all condensed songs - it reallyy doesn't make sense to throw Primo in the middle of it. It's an ATS-style jam. What a fork in the road to encounter... you have a 6 minute song but everything else on the album is short and you didn't pick the song for the previous album. But it's a great song, so what do you do? I'd probably vote to put it on LT as it is, and it'd be a big stand out track. Similarly if you did that, you could have had the long Tinfoil/Powerless track too. "It was a really old demo, TINFOIL is the intro of it, and it turned into this epic 6 minute long thing." Glad we got the song... imagine if there are more songs like Primo sitting on the shelf. Re: Let You Fade. The original demo sounds pretty....lackluster. They really got this right with the final version which kicks ass on the deluxe edition. Let You Fade is a banger. The acoustic one does sound interesting and would be nice to hear one day but in this case they hit a home run on the song. It's similar to a Messenger-style ATS ending (still think Symphonies of Light Reprise would have been cool after Messenger, in the same realm).

Take a look at the LPTV for "Let You Fade" and check out all of the various versions the song went through before the band settled on the final!

Really have always felt that way too. They are very authentic/genuine. Could listen to them talk about Chester and DBS all day, they are always so nice to fans and extremely respectful. Just total class. And have always wanted more music to come out.

When they say four songs, this is before UFTB was created from scratch It is October 2024 in this for the "batch of four songs." UFTB LPTV says December 2024 for "the new song." So they wrote after Brad and Mike talked, a brand new song. The other 2 songs besides Unshatter and Let You Fade are unknown, but they could be Counting Stars and/or Breathing Underwater. Aren't those literally the only other 2 we know from the From Zero era? There must be a ton of songs we have no clue about.

Julien-K (Ryan, Amir, Fu, Galen) recently decided to celebrate Chester's birthday by doing something they have wanted to do for a long time - do a deep dive into a Dead By Sunrise song in ProTools. This is something they have mentioned previously that they wanted to do but weren't sure what the right timing or platform was. Fortunately, their Patreon ended up being perfect and they streamed a Zoom call with their Patreon members, took questions from fans, and spoke for over an hour and a half about the song. In this behind-the-scenes look at the song, they pull up the very first Let Down recording they made. This was the song that started the project for them.... the true very beginning of it all. As the story goes which a lot of you are already familiar with - Chester recorded acoustic guitar and vocals for the song and then gave it to Julien-K who pretty much overnight created a full demo, which is what they show on Patreon. It has elements in the demo that didn't make the final version (the break before the bridge), fun electronic elements, even a Led Zeppelin nod on the drums, and some really cool parts. Chester's original acoustic guitar plus Amir's 12 string guitar both make appearances in the demo. Watch along as they tell the story of Dead By Sunrise, go deep into the song, and show us a glimpse at a fully-unreleased version of Let Down! And good news for those who are interested... they say they want to do this for more songs. Information-wise, this is the most info on Dead By Sunrise in one sitting in a VERY long time and we're excited to watch this over and over to help formulate the song page and pick up these tiny bits in the song that we may have not noticed originally. Of note in the middle of the stream, Amir mentions that there will be a 2027 Dead By Sunrise Rarities release for Record Store Day. He mentions unreleased Chester song seeds from 2005 that were never developed, the 20 Eyes cover, and other rare tracks. He and Fu have been working on compiling songs to go through for this release for years, and it sounds like the reception from fans about the Out of Ashes anniversary release was quite positive, which included the acoustic live songs. A big thank you to Ryan, Amir, Fu, and Galen for putting this together for fans!