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MtM had two, Shinoda and Rubin. My ideal combination would be MS/Gilmore with Rubin as exec.. xD

Or Shinoda/Gilmore/Rubin.

not really news worthy, but nice trivia xD

He has got to put Linkin Park as priority. That is the biggest part of his income, a feat he cannot get with Dead by Sunrise.

With the recent release of the fan club-only rarities compilation LPU9: Demos and a Grammy nomination for best Hard Rock Performance for "What I've Done," from their live album, Revolution: Live at Milton Keynes, the decade is drawing to a close nicely for Linkin Park.

Which is to say the '00s are ending as positively as they began for the California sextet, whose 2000 debut, Hybrid Theory, ranked as the seventh-best selling album of the decade. "It's been an absolutely unbelievable ten years," says Mike Shinoda, the band's resident rapper and sonic mastermind. "But I'm even more excited to find out what the future has to offer."

The near-future will see the release of an as-yet-untitled new Linkin Park album and, hopefully, some other guerilla-style goodies. Speaking on the phone from his home in L.A., Shinoda filled us in on the band's recent projects, what to expect from the new album, and his own holiday plans.

Did going back and listening to your demos for the LPU9 album reveal anything to you about the way the band works?

So we've got all this stuff on hard drives that we occasionally reference for ideas, but as time went on we realized that we like making new sounds more than listening to our old ones. So we decided that if we weren't going to mine this older material, we should put it out.

Excellent. Now what about my original question? Anything to that?

[Laughs] Yeah! Sorry I went off on a bit of a tangent there. You definitely pick stuff up when you go back and listen to older material. There were situations, for example, when I listened to the demos and realized that I loved playing with my MPC sampler -- it had a sound that I liked a lot that the samplers I was using on the new record didn't have. So I ended up using that again.

Tell us about the new album.

Well, Rick Rubin is producing it. I'd say we're about halfway done. I'm really happy with what we have so far. We're having a ton of fun in the studio. We really want to do something special and unique for the next record -- we want to redefine the band. I feel like on Hybrid Theory we wanted to introduce ourselves to the world with a certain sound. Then on [2003's] Meteora we were trying to show that we weren't a fluke and we could do the sound that made us successful a second time. By the time we got to [2007's] Minutes to Midnight, we wanted to break down that sound and go outside its confines. Now that we've done that, we feel like we can do anything.

Can you describe any of the songs?

That would be really hard for me to do. I have a tough time doing that. But I can say that it sounds brand new. The thing is, there are so many different ways to make music these days with virtual instruments, software applications, physical instruments, and computer programs. Then when you get in the position of being able to use almost any of it -- that's what we did on Minutes to Midnight . We wanted to play with as many instruments and sounds as we could. But on the new record, now that we have a sense of everything that's available to us, we can reel it in a bit and focus on just the things that we like, which so far is turning out to mean music that is more beat-driven and has a keyboard and drum machine kind of feel.

Have you picked a name for it yet?

Way too early for that.

Did Chester's going off and working with [solo project] Dead By Sunrise have any residual affect on how he's now contributing to Linkin Park?

That's a good question. I related to where Chester was at when he was making the Dead By Sunrise record. I went through the same thing with [shinoda's side-project] Fort Minor. He had songs that he had to get out of his system; songs that the rest of the guys in Linkin Park couldn't necessarily get behind. Not because they wouldn't like them, but because they aren't right for a Linkin Park record. I think for both of us, working outside the band made us feel like we could focus better when we eventually came back.

Aside from the album, what do you guys have planned for the future?

We really wanted to start a phase in our career where we could release music more often rather than have to wait to put out a new album every four years. The demo album is sort of representative of that. But we also wrote "New Divide" for the Transformers movie. Chester put out his Dead By Sunrise record. We're working on the new album, so things are already moving along nicely. We're really trying hard to give fans the opportunity to hear new material from us more often. It's just a matter of finding the right outlets. Hopefully, those outlets aren't always in the form of albums.

What's going on with you for the holidays? Any big plans?

Usually I spend my holidays with my family. My parents still treat Christmas like I'm thirteen years old. It's super traditional. I write out a Christmas list beforehand, we eat turkey and drink hot cider. It's pretty funny.

What'd you put on your Christmas list?

That part's pretty tough! I can't ask my parents to buy me a mixing board or a Neve console. So I end up asking for a nice sweater. That's more their speed.

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I'd honestly be very surprised if there are any more DBS tour dates after this tour is over. By March, the LP album should be getting pretty close to finished, and that'll be when they need Chester the most, for vocal tracking.

Can be done from distance aswell, but I think that he's gonna do that in NRG/Mansion.

I'm going to Melkweg, Amsterdam!

Updated main post.

Can you tell me the source of these words, please?

http://www.billboard.com/features/artist-o...004053061.story

Along with the Grammy nomination, they're also eligible to be nominated for the Academy Awards' Best Song Category:

 

http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/2009/20091216.html

 

"And the Oscar goes to... Linkin Park!"

nice find!

Billboard's Readers' Poll: Albums of the Decade

01. Michael Jackson - Invincible

02. Lady GaGa - The Fame

03. Britney Spears - Blackout

04. Taylor Swift - Taylor Swift

05. Taylor Swift - Fearless

06. Adam Lambert - For Your Entertainment

07. Ashley Tisdale - Guilty Pleasure

08. Britney Spears - Circus

09. Green Day - American Idiot

10. Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory

Artist of the Decade

19: Linkin Park

With six cooks in their rock 'n' roll kitchen, you'd think that the members of Linkin Park would have difficulties forging ahead in the same creative direction. But the method to their multi-platinum madness, which has earned them five Top 5 albums on the Billboard 200 this decade, is to just go with the flow. "I find that over-planning a creative project usually means you're gonna screw it up," said Chester Bennington told us in 2009. "When a song comes, I'll write it. When a song comes to Mike [shinoda], he'll put [it] down. We just kind of roll with it spontaneously."

Best of 2000s: Billboard 200

11. Linkin Park - Hybrd Theory

36. Linkin Park - Meteora

43. Josh Groban - Closer (with a cover of My December on the limited edition)

154. Linkin Park - Minutes to Midnight

Best of 2000s: Rock Songs

02. Linkin Park - In the End

13. Linkin Park - Faint

22. Linkin Park - Numb

33. Linkin Park - Somewhere I Belong

43. Linkin Park - One Step Closer

45. Linkin Park - Crawling

77. Linkin Park - What I've Done

84. Linkin Park - Breaking the Habit

Best of 2000s: Rock Song Artists

01. Linkin Park

Best of 2000s: Alternative Artists

01. Linkin Park

Best of 2000s: Alternative Songs

02. Linkin Park - In the End

08. Linkin Park - Faint

15. Linkin Park - Numb

24. Linkin Park - Somewhere I Belong

Hot Rock Songs (2009)

03. Linkin Park - New Divide

Top Soundtrack Albums (2009)

01. Twilight (with Leave Out All the Rest)

11. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (with New Divide)

Hot Digital Songs (2009)

42. Linkin Park - New Divide

Hot Alternative Songs (2009)

06. Linkin Park - New Divide

Canadian Hot 100 (2009)

51. Linkin Park - New Divide

let's hope it's the final single. cool artwork though

What about Mike?

http://www.listology.com/list/1001-albums-...st-hear-you-die Hybrid Theory is here!!!

That's a list from the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.

Yeah, didn't you say the chorus's in GMYN are falsetto, then at the last chorus he sings normaly? or visa-versa?

He does sing falsetto on GMYN, but he doesn't sing falsetto with Linkin Park.

I'd like to know on which song Mike sings the lowest and on which one the highest, dito with Chester.

FYI for anybody wondering "wait, I thought Hybrid Theory had sold 10 million+ copies and got a Diamond award from the RIAA?" RIAA certifies albums based on copies shipped, not copies sold. Plus, not every copy of an album sold goes through the Nielsen Soundscan system (although most do), so the RIAA's number is always going to be higher than what's actually been sold, and the Soundscan number is always going to be slightly lower.

You read my mind. Thanks for the info.

waaay overrated, sure they are the most influential band ever but i cant stand their music. I think most people follow them blindly simply because everyone else loves them and because they were so influential, not because of the music.

 

HT is the best selling debut album of the new millennium and like the second/third best ever.

 

edit* here is worldwide:

1. 1 (The Beatles)= 30 Million

 

2. Come Away With Me (Nora Jones)= 25 Million

 

3. Hybrid Theory (Linking Park)= 24 Million

 

4. The Marshall Mathers LP (Eminem)= 21 Million

 

5. Confessions (Usher)= 19 Million

 

6. The Eminem Show (Eminem)= 19 Million

 

7. Oops!...I Did it Again(Britney Spears)= 18 Million

 

8. No Strings Attached (N'Sync)= 17 Million

 

9. Let Go (Avril Lavigne)= 17 Million

 

10. Fallen (Evanescence)= 15 Million

Can you mention your source?

The top-selling albums of the decade, according to Nielsen SoundScan:

1. The Beatles, One, 11,499,000 units sold

2. 'NSYNC, No Strings Attached, 11,112,000 units sold

3. Norah Jones, Come Away With Me, 10, 546,000 units sold

4. Eminem, The Marshall Mathers LP, 10,204,000 units sold

5. Eminem, The Eminem Show, 9,799,000 units sold

6. Usher, Confessions, 9,712,000 units sold

7. Linkin Park, Hybrid Theory, 9,663,000 units sold

8. Creed, Human Clay, 9,491,000 units sold

9. Britney Spears, Oops! ... I Did It Again, 9,185,000 units sold

10. Nelly, Country Grammar, 8,461,000 units sold

Source here.

19 Fort Minor feat. Holly Brook

WHERE'D YOU GO

It's a good thing Mike Shinoda has Linkin Park to fall back on. Fort Minor, his musical side project, started big, reaching No. 2 with "Where'd You Go" in June 2006. Fans have been asking the same question since then; the band's next biggest hit, "Remember the Name," peaked at No. 66. three months later.

http://www.billboard.com/#/features/one-hi...004051219.story

The topic's title made me happy because it likes like they made a song called "non-existant". That was not funny.

It was confirmed along time ago that it was just a rumor. Phoenix was asked about it during an LPU chat.

But you can't take Phoenix seriously. For example, his false info on Minutes when the album was in the making.

Thanks harakiri but they're temporary unavailible.

He had to do the project, to let all his inner anger and frustration out. Now he has done that, close this chapter and move on with Linkin Park. And it's funny that The Rising Tied was a great album and it isn't sure that the project will have a second album, while OOA wasn't better than TRT but is getting a sequel.

The timing was indeed bad, and I agree with Preston.

Thanks Astat.

May I mention this:

Best Compilation Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media

(Award to the Artist(s) and/or Producer(s) of a majority of the tracks on the album, or to the individual(s) actively responsible for the concept and musical direction and for the selection of artists, songs and producers, as applicable.)

•Cadillac Records

(Various Artists)

[Music World Music/Columbia]

•Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds

(Various Artists)

[A Band Apart/Warner Bros.]

•Slumdog Millionaire

(Various Artists)

[N.E.E.T./Interscope Records]

•True Blood

(Various Artists)

[Elektra]

•Twilight

(Various Artists)

[summit Ent./Chop Shop/Atlantic]

Leave Out All the Rest is also on the soundtrack.

i laughed very hard. i mean, come on! new divide was the only single release of the band (and a studio recording) and what i've done, not even a hard rock song ánd in its live version, is nominated?

A full DBS tour? I like the band, but a full tour would take months which could've be used to record the LP album. So, the new album will be released in the second half of 10, most likely October/November? With the single late August/September.

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