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Mike Shinoda has played a private show at Mercedes-Benz USA Headquarters in Atlanta, GA on February 6th. The short set featured an special remix of “In The End” with vocals by audience members Farina and Dave Silva. Check our show page for more information. Mike has announced two shows at Hangar 11 in Tel Aviv, Israel on March 25th and March 26th. Linkin Park performed only once in Israel, in 2010, making this Mike’s second time ever in the country. It looks like the Post Traumatic Tour is coming to an end after those shows as Mike told Access Online the tour has already served its purpose. Read the interview here. Strife Magazine is giving away tickets for Mike’s show in Amsterdam on March 21st. Access their Twitter page to know how to win.

Back in 2017, Grey Daze announced they would be playing a reunion show at the Marquee Theatre in Tempe, Arizona on September 23th with their new line-up consisting of: Chester Bennington, Sean Dowdell, Mace Beyers, Jason Barnes and Christin Davis. Besides the show, the band had entered the studio with producer Sylvia Massy with plans for a reworked edition of their sophomore album ...No Sun Today. Chester unfortunately passed away before they could finish it. Starting in early 2018, the band has given continuity to the project at the Salt Mine Studios and NRG Recording Studios with a number of special guests giving their input, including Ryan Shuck (Julien-K), Marcos Curiel (P.O.D.), Jaime Bennington (Chester’s son), Chris Traynor (Bush), Lucas D'Angelo (Betraying The Martyrs), Esjay Jones, Brian “Head” Welch and James "Munky" Shaffer (Korn). Now the plans are for reinterpretations of both of Grey Daze’s studio albums, modernizing the music for the current market, and a documentary in tribute to Chester and his work with the band. Check out a brief video about the band’s history here (more to come!): In other news, as part of their Too Young To Die series, ARTE (Franco-German television network) will air Chester Bennington – A Voice of Pain, a 50-minute documentary about Chester’s life and music featuring interviews with fans, friends and family members. Tune in on March 1st at 9:50 PM CET to watch it. Source: Rolling Stone Update (22/02): Due to legal issues, the broadcast of the documentary has been cancelled.

“Cross Off,” Chester Bennington’s first posthumous single, has put him back on rock charts. The track, recorded for Lamb of God's Mark Morton solo album, debuted at No. 18 on the chart dated January 19th, with 2,000 downloads and 209,000 U.S. streams over the tracking week. Source: Billboard Linkin Park’s axeman, Brad Delson, has worked on Allan Rayman’s new album Harry Hard-On which was released on November 16, 2018. The album was produced by Andrew Dawson (additional producer on One More Light album), who co-wrote the track “Crush” with Rayman and Delson. Listen to the song below: Thanks to lhcluiz for the heads up! Last month Joe Hahn was in India shooting a documentary hosted by Kai Stuht, setting up portrait photography, working with dress-makers and doing street photography. Watch his interview with Red FM India below: Source: Times Of India In case you haven’t seen it yet, Joe has recently directed a video for Steve Aoki’s collaboration with BTS, “Waste It On Me.” Watch it here.

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With only three shows left this year, we were beginning to worry that there wouldn't be another show for awhile... but the wait just got a lot shorter! Dropping a big announcement today, Mike Shinoda (with Dan Mayo, Matt Harris, and the rest of the crew) confirms that the Post Traumatic Tour will be returning to Europe in 2019! The sixteen show tour will be hitting the following stops in Europe: 2019.03.02 Berlin, Germany - Columbiahalle 2019.03.03 Bremen, Germany - Pier 2 2019.03.05 Hannover, Germany - Swiss Life Halle 2019.03.06 Oberhausen, Germany - Turbinenhalle Oberhausen 2019.03.08 Hamburg, Germany - Sporthalle 2019.03.09 Paris, France - Zenith 2019.03.10 London, England - Roundhouse 2019.03.12 Budapest, Hungary - Budapest Arena 2019.03.14 Milan, Italy - Fabrique 2019.03.15 Padova, Italy - Gran Teatro Geox 2019.03.17 Zurich, Switzerland - Halle 622 2019.03.18 Munich, Germany - Zenith 2019.03.19 Prague, Czech Republic - Forum Karlin 2019.03.21 Amsterdam, Netherlands - AFAS Live 2019.03.22 Ludwigsburg Germany - MHPArena 2019.03.23 Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Luxexpo That's a pretty HUGE tour! Mike's previous European Tour this year took him to a couple countries hitting mostly festival. Europe's about to get the full treatment, seven shows in Germany (reminiscent of the 2014 Hunting Party Tour), TWO in Italy for the first time ever, and Mike's first performance EVER in Luxembourg. Following massive shows at Reading and Leeds in 2017, Mike will return to the intimate Roundhouse in London for the first time since Linkin Park's show there on July 4, 2011. The tour will kick off at the exact venue that Linkin Park's 2001 European headlining tour kicked off at... Berlin's Columbiahalle. Who's gonna buy tickets? Onsale times and sale times for both general and LPU are as follows (so get your wallets ready!): LPU Pre-Sale: Tuesday (11/27/18) @ 9am UK/10am CET Public On-Sale: Friday (11/30/18) @ 9am UK/10am CET For full coverage of the tour and all the latest Mike Shinoda and Linkin Park news, be sure to hit us up on social media! Follow us on Twitter and Facebook for the latest updates, and join the LPLive Discord for discussion with fans around the world! Subscribe to our LPLive Archive YouTube Channel that is loaded with hours of rare content from the Linkin Park world - including videos from this past tour. Check out the rest of Mike Shinoda's touring schedule here. With this tour announcement, we will be launching our 2019 Mike Shinoda page as well.

Big news! Now we know what Mike has been working on. Mike Shinoda will be releasing a 2 LP color vinyl for Post Traumatic that includes a 10" vinyl of two brand new songs. The release date is set for December 7th, and the price is $44.98. 1. Prove You Wrong 2. What The Words Meant Preorder here.

Following our report on November 6th of Mike working on new music this tour and possibly jamming new tunes at soundcheck, our friends at LPA have caught a nice update.... Around the Detroit show on the Post Traumatic Tour, Mike stopped in at Royal House Recording in Detroit, Michigan to work on new music. Joining him were "Motown Horns" and also Walter White on trumpet. Find more photos of the session here. Whatever is going on... new music seems to be on the horizon. Exciting!

As Mike Shinoda's North American Tour wraps up this week with shows in the northeast USA, fans may be disappointed to only see a few holiday radio shows on the schedule for after this tour. However, no worry, as we have learned that the Post Traumatic Tour will continue in 2019. During a recent livestream on Instagram, Mike's multi-instrumentalist bandmate Matt Harris (ha... funny to introduce someone of Mike's that way when that's always how Mike himself is introduced) confirmed that Mike has him booked up in 2019 with touring. Dylan from LPLive actually is who popped the question to him, so thanks to Dylan for that. There is new music being worked on right now, both with Mike solo and Mike with other artists, so 2019 looks to be very promising. With how well the Post Traumatic Tour is going, it would not surprise us if it took another lap around the planet... Europe and South America specifically, but we'd love a second North American Tour next year if the time allows for it. Mike is having a blast on this tour and the fans undoubtedly are very appreciative of being able to see such an intimate, emotional show. Where would you like to see Mike take the tour in 2019? A European headlining tour? Some South American dates? A visit to Australia? Opening for someone big in the USA next summer? Check out Mike's tour dates for 2018 here including the rest of the North American Tour and the upcoming holiday radio shows as well as all past setlists here.

LPLive member "skyzlmt" made us aware of something interesting... "Just as a note, There seemed to be some excessive filming for IOU last night in Chicago. Could be some live usage later in the future for it..." Indeed, while Mike does have a crew member filming and/or taking photos during the show, this is a lot more intense than we've seen on any song during this tour. He's all over the stage during 'I.O.U.' which makes us think the footage could be for something more... like a new music video. Check it out: So far, 'I.O.U.', a fan favorite, is one of the remaining Post Traumatic songs to not have a music video. Mike said he would likely make videos for all of the songs on the album, so we will have to wait and see if 'I.O.U.' gets that treatment!