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Right now is when offers are being made for European 2025 summer headliners. If there is news on this front, we should hear in the late fall or early winter.

Unfortunately it will probably make the most sense after ATS20 to then work on more Hybrid Theory stuff. LT, THP, and OML may not get box sets. Or maybe they will get smaller, toned-down ones.

You have to wonder how much Papercuts impacted the decision to not do a Collision Course celebration. Two big archive releases in one year? Unlikely. But one...? It'll always be a "what if."

Hopping on to seed today.

It seems like all are correct versions except the What I've Done intro now, right? Yes it's a mix of album/single but for example some of the album versions ARE the singles versions.

Looks like Post Traumatic will be reissued with both bonus tracks on the vinyl, on three versions: -Black -Orange -Zoetrope

Watch the video interview. He is very disengaged in the interview and is like, texting on his phone, doing other stuff, not looking at the camera, etc. This is why he's trying to deny (lie) that he even mentioned it or said anything in the first place. It was super casual and he may not have even remembered it was being recorded on video, who knows. he makes a super off-the-wall comment about it when saying he loves LP but he probably thought the interviewer wasn't going to quote him on that. It wasn't ever like he was trying to break some news or something by having an inside scoop, he's just like "best wishes to them, love them, heard they are going the female singer route and hope it works out for them." It's less of "hi I am Jay and here is groundbreaking news" and more of a casual random comment when saying he likes LP and didn't mean to cause a huge ruckus with it. He seemed not super engaged in that interview at all.

Their former agent was with AGI. Arfin was who did LP and isn't with them any longer. This claim by Billboard is out of left field for the public, but is verifiable, which lends to more credibility in their article. They are sticking by their writer Dave on this and his sources. What happens next will give more context to this article. If there is a big LP announcement on the horizon, this could have even been leaked by a PR machine at the label or band to control the narrative that is in the press and to drum up 2025 offers. Who really knows - not us, at least yet. Ha.

That's really it. They are fielding show offers and there's no reason to doubt the legitimacy of that, but there isn't more to it other than they see a need to have a new show agent. Which is honestly very surprising considering they had the same guy 2000-2018 before this and Mike was with him too. So, they see some sort of need to change it up. Beyond that, let's see.

It says Linkin Park is with a new agent, that's pretty significant news.

Chester sounds incredible on In the Darkness and Walking in Circles. In the Darkness is really something. A+. They cut the talking between the songs where Chester was introducing them... that part is unfortunate and doesn't make much sense unless they were out of space on the vinyl or something?

1. Red and black splatter vinyl. Favorite of the bunch.

Linkin Park has released a limited edition clear glass vinyl, limited to 1,000 copies, for preorder on the Linkin Park Underground. The vinyl features both "QWERTY" and "Friendly Fire" along with good artwork, and comes in at a reasonably low price ($19).

Noticed immediately the audio transition you mention. That's because it's a normal soundboard then Ethan properly mixed QWERTY live for LPU 6 and that's what they use for the song. It's not a big difference, it's noticeable but not bad. But he likely hasn't mixed the entire show - probably just the select songs. QWERTY, PMA, BTH, RME for LPU 6, then FTI and Faint for the WID single. That's like half the show though lol. Would love a full digital release of that full show audio mixed by him one day. Whatever they want to give us. The "problem" with the Meteora tour is that there are just too many epic shows and tours. They could do a completely different box set for Meteora 21 or Meteora 30 lol, and still not cover all the shows. It's unknown if they even filmed a PR 2003 show or recorded one in audio (although audio is pretty likely). They still have Detroit 2003, Reading 2003, San Diego 2004, Rock am Ring 2004, and others they could put out down the road. Definitely want a Meteora arena show from early 2004 one day. PR 2003 would be cool too.

The video is really cool - glad they included the fan coming on stage. Would love to see the full show!

They DEFINITELY know the fans want this show badly, because they included all of the most-haves / most requested things in all of the box sets (PR 2002, "thoughts that take away my pride", She Couldn't, Pictureboard, PR 2004 show, etc). It'll happen when the timing is right.

The instrumental for QWERTY is really good. Wow - it hits hard. Would be awesome. Imagine a surprise next week and they just put the entire show up for preorder? "We heard you liked QWERTY and Tokyo 2006. The full show is up for preorder now." with a vinyl and DVD release. Phew.

QWERTY studio, QWERTY live, QWERTY instrumental - what a great time to release something like this as a CD single or something. Physical format. Cassette would be funny. Very cool that the live version is getting its own day of recognition. Hopefully one step closer to the full Summer Sonic Tokyo show being released for MTM 20.

How can anyone dislike tribute bands at face value? Even active bands have them - Hardwired follows Metallica on tour and plays around their shows, the night before, etc for example. Even Metallica brings in tribute bands for their 2 show weekends they've been doing lately, around official events. Of course LP would have tribute bands. The band has not played a show in nearly 7 years and LP is one of the biggest bands in our lifetime - there is a big want to see that music live. In the End and Hybrid Theory (PT) are doing a great job with setlists and shows. People have a great time at those shows, people who got to see LP and who never got to see LP. It's just to celebrate the music. There's no harm in any of that. The HT band's setlists are really something, that show they have from the arena on YouTube is quite cool. They even play Lost. I'd see that band for sure if they came near me - have seen In the End several times. LP is on social media and browses it, they've seen these bands multiple times online.

There seems to be bigger issues at play here, most notably that the masters for Waiting for the End and Iridescent got swapped out in 2012 and the wrong versions are literally everywhere. Just like Shadow of the Day, No Roads Left, and Across the Line were. That is going to take some sorting out.

Linkin Park has announced on social media that they will be releasing the fan-favorite "QWERTY" (live in Tokyo, Japan 2006) video on YouTube officially for the first time ever. The audio of the song was leaked online in 2006 and then included in the LP Underground 6 CD, but the video has not been officially released until now. It does appear that "QWERTY" (live) will appear on streaming with an audio release as well, judging by what the band has posted on YouTube for audio credits for the video. LPLive posted a video rip of the song airing on TV in Japan, in 2009, after a very lengthy search to track down the song - this was the culmination of quite an effort to get the video and is the commonly seen video online. The release by the band could be slightly better quality, straight from the master tapes of the show, as well as slightly longer with the Japanese fan at the beginning introducing the song. Linkin Park's show at Summer Sonic Tokyo 2006 remains one of the biggest sought-after concert releases for the band one day, following big releases by the band for Hybrid Theory 20 specifically with a Projekt Revolution 2002 proshot show, as well as an arsenal of shows for Meteora 20 that feature incredible live versions of songs. Tokyo contains the Xero track Reading My Eyes, QWERTY, and much more.

Stores are posting their Record Store Day lists. Some don't have this release at all and others have just a few copies. This release is going to go really quickly, to no one's surprise. Hopefully this incentives the label to keep putting more DBS out.

It seems the most likely chance for this show to be released is the MTM 20 box set. And that is still a few years away. There's really no celebration coming up that would warrant this show coming out besides that.

Someone that is extremely in touch with this mastering situation with LP songs (current and old, like HTEP) is Mike himself. He can really speak to the details on this. Not sure how we'd get this to him but he can really answer your question because he's so involved in this stuff.