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If you can't see the experimentation on Meteora that started leading them away from their Hybrid Theory sound, you fail. Easier to Run, Nobody's Listening, Breaking The Habit, etc. In interviews they said Meteora was the first step they took to getting out of the nu-metal sound. Yeah a good number of songs on that CD sound like that but it's not even close to a carbon-copy of Hybrid Theory and I don't see how you could argue that.

Just making this clear, the exclusive is released by us in the end regardless of how each website does in the contest - just putting the exclusive out there to spread awareness of LIVING THINGS!

Possibly! Not confirming nor denying but I'm closer to denying the facts of what you claim it is

As you already know, LIVING THINGS, Linkin Park's next album, comes out June 26 and we're all really excited about it. We were approached by LP management to promote LIVING THINGS and to get fans psyched for it and to preorder the album. We, along with a few other great LP fansites, are launching a friendly promotion "contest" - LP fans working together to get LIVING THINGS a solid number of preorders before the album comes out. http://lplive.net/livingthings If you preorder LIVING THINGS from us HERE, you will enable yourself to possibly win some prizes, such as a pair of tickets to the upcoming Honda Civic Tour this summer featuring Linkin Park, Incubus and MUTEMATH. Along with this, we have decided to get fans excited for it by releasing a new exclusive with it after a certain number of preorders have been reached via the fansite links! Check out the video below! More details soon so keep checking back! EDIT: Just making this clear, the exclusive is released by us in the end regardless of how each website does in the contest - just putting the exclusive out there to spread awareness of LIVING THINGS!

Na there's one with A.06 (Extended), Step Up and some others.

Missing that shitty Reanimation with "bonus tracks" I bought on eBay in like 2004 that tricked me. Had like A.06 (Extended) and some other songs.

Where the hell are Rob, Joe and Phoenix? lmao

It really sounds to me like he's lipsynching at the beginning versus singing live. I know it's a vocoder effect (or supposed to look like it) but the effects on it match up too perfectly to the album version IMO. Thoughts?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zne4o7JNulU After watching this, I'm 100% sure the beginning of Fallout has the studio vocals playing over it. Mike is indeed singing but his live vocals don't come in (aka aren't turned up) until halfway through. The beginning is for sure a prerecording played over the PA. Almost a lipsynch since his mic is turned down. No way the beginning of Fallout is live vocals though.

Lots! Thanks for your submissions. So far we have...3 shows I think, lol

Here's a video recently uploaded on YouTube by Remo Percussion that features an interview with Rob and live footage of him drumming on 'Papercut' from the last show of the North American tour for A Thousand Suns in Houston (show page here). The interview seems old because he says "we recently put out a DVD called "Live At Milton Keynes"" so I guess that part is from several years ago but obviously the 'Papercut' video is from last March. Enjoy!

Yeah bring it!

Agreed. Also thought about this a week ago...seems likely to me. LP continuing the trilogy. Sounds possible!

Now is the time we are starting to collect tickets and other items for our 2012 show pages! We are looking for pictures of your tickets to LP shows (including festivals) along with show promo posters. Our 2011 page was pretty successful with our ticket/poster campaign, except Asia I guess, but take a look here. Just a heads up if you're worried about anything - we will not post any tickets until AFTER the show. The show pages do not go live until the show is over and done with, and we can edit your name off of your ticket (if it includes it) if you wish. Just let us know! But yes, we are looking for M&G confirmations, LPU confirmations/tickets (LA and Berlin) and everything else you could imagine. Festival tickets, wristbands, promotions for LP shows/festivals (including online images) - everything. If you're seeing LP this summer and you'd like to contribute, then send your images to: pics at lplive dot net. Please note scans are best if possible. You are also welcome to reply to this thread with your images but if you would like to be secure then just send us an email! For a good example of what your submission will look like on the site, check out the Jakarta 2011 show page. Remember, LPLive is for the fans, by the fans so featuring your user-submitted content on our pages is one way we keep the site interactive with fans! Thanks! EDIT: We still need scans for these shows: 26.05.2012 Lisboa, PT, Parque da Bela Vista - Rock In Rio 27.05.2012 Landgraaf, NL, Megaland - Pinkpop 30.05.2012 Skive, DK, Strandtangen v/Skive Lystbådehavn - Skive Festival 01.06.2012 Adenau, RP, Nürburgring - Rock am Ring 02.06.2012 Köln, NW Germany, LANXESS arena - TV total Autoball EM 2012 03.06.2012 Nürnberg, BY, Volkspark Dutzendteich - Rock im Park 05.06.2012 Berlin, BE, Admiralspalast - Telekom Street Gigs 06.06.2012 Bucharest, RO, Romexpo 08.06.2012 Nickelsdorf, AT, Pannonia Fields II - NovaRock 09.06.2012 Warsaw, PL, Pepsi Arena - Orange Warsaw Festival 10.06.2012 Moscow, RU, Tushino Airfield - Maxidrom 12.06.2012 Odesa, UA, Stadion Chernomorets - Prostorock 14.06.2012 St. Petersburg, RU, Petersburg Sports and Concert Complex

Merged into the main post man, thanks!

But what Mike said was bullshit in reality...they use sampled vocals live and backing tracks for the A Thousand Suns songs...Mike knows that lol. Dave isn't a dumbass. He said that I think at Live 8 time though (2005) so he would be inaccurate then I think but now it's applicable. Foo basically doesn't use anything except what they have on stage; Dave likes "pure balls to the wall rock" lmao

Mike from Incubus and Mike Shinoda did a live chat with Rolling Stone today. Here are a few of the many things that they mentioned today. These are the highlights: Concerning the band: - Living Things has a lot of rap on it. - Fort Minor is not currently dead - Mike is just using the energy he'd put into that for the LP albums. - LP management suggested hip hop beat makers and electronic producers for the band during the beginning of the Living Things recording sessions, but Mike decided LP does better when they create their own music. - Remixes for Living Things that fans subscribed to will be electronic, hip hop, industrial and dubstep. They will continue until they run out of them. - No art shows planned for Mike. Concerning the live show: - The band will play "1-2" new songs during the European Tour this summer, while a good portion of Living Things will be played starting with the Honda Civic Tour. - Shinoda discussed one story where when they were rotating setlists and he got mixed up with 'One Step Closer' and 'In The End', so he was in the crowd getting them hyped up and looked back and the rest of the band was already off of the stage for the encore break. - He said Phoenix smashes guitars well but talked about when Brad tried once (gingerly) and Chester had to take it from him and smash it instead. - He mentioned Dave Grohl's thoughts on the band using backing tracks and vocal tracks during shows and called it "bullshit", saying they "have never done that". Did anyone attend the chat?

Courtesy of HitFix: "After a little deliberation, Shinoda decided that he wanted us to hear the album’s first four songs in order since they set the tone of the album: “You’re going to go on a little journey... There’s a very specific vibe,” he said. Then he picked two other tracks that seemed to best represent some of the experimentation the band tried in the studio. Album opener, “Lost In the Echo” starts big and stays big, instead of LP’s tried-and-true pattern of beginning quietly then exploding into cacophony. Shinoda raps from the start , then vocalist Chester Bennington comes in, his vocals surrounded by echo on the propulsive track. The song signals, as Shinoda pointed out at the end, that as much as the band was looking forward, it also took some of its cues from the ‘80s. Lyrically, the theme the pervades the song-- and the album--is a sense of disillusion and disappointment. “These promised are broken, defeated. Each word gets lost in the echo,” Bennington sings. On second tune “In My Remains,” Bennington sings of fear and pain over an electronic, aggressive, full sonic landscape; discordant and clangy. It shifts to a precise, military rat-a-tat as Bennington sings “Like an Army falling, one by one.” He repeats the phrase as the tension builds and Rob Bourdon’s drumming propels everything into lockstep. “In My Remains” We won’t spend too much time on “Burn It Down,” since that’s the first single that you’re already hearing for yourself. But let’s just say that we can’t wait to hear some dance remixes on that song. The next track, “Lies, Greed & Misery,” was the most innovative and captivating we heard of the six. Opening with Shinoda rapping over percolating synths and stutter steps, the song sounds like Linkin Park crossed with Skrillex crossed with M.I.A. A jagged, fuzzy keyboard bridge gives way to Bennington chanting “You Did It To Yourself,” before he starts screaming the line over and over in a hypnotic frenzy. “Until It Breaks” starts with Shinoda rapping over a swaggering beat, surrounded by beats coming at him from all angles. The song shifts into a Kanye West-like rap thump into real instruments—strings, keys—under Bennington’s vocal as he prays for the “strength of the rising sun.” The ambient sonics grew louder and stronger as the voices succumbed to the machines. Along with “Lies,” “Castle Of Glass” felt like the biggest game-changer. Over an almost alternative country melody, Bennington sings “Take me down to the river bank... wash the poison off my skin...show me how to be whole again.” It’s one of the most straight forward tunes that the band has done with a traditional song structure. Bennington and Shinoda sing together as their voices, and desperation, rise, “I’m on a crack in this castle of glass.”" Excited yet? EDIT: Even more track descriptions courtesy of LPL member Xero21! He says: "Found this one on tumblr." Review from: GoldenMixtape. "Only half a dozen were shared with eight people in the room the music was created in. “LOST IN THE ECHO” and “IN MY REMAINS” both had incredible build ups that lead the listener to an explosion of a relay of lyrics that seemed to showcase opposing ideas. One declared “I won’t back up. I won’t back down” while the other succumbed to “wash away the worst of me.” Next came the single “BURN IT DOWN” and my nominees for future singles, “LIES GREED MISERY” and “UNTIL IT BREAKS.” Everyone was tapping along to the single as it was familiar, but it was the other two I wanted to be played maybe one or two times more. “LIES GREED MISERY” started off with an indie rock vibe but then as the hip hop sound LP’s synonymous for hit, they hit hard. Mike said earlier that they never wanted to fall into the niche market critics put their first two albums in, but I felt this track was a progressive look back at where they started and where they are now. Where the pissed motif in their earlier work was like an out of control teen, the anger displayed in “LIES GREED MISERY” is a mad adult who channels their anger into art. As “UNTIL IT BREAKS” started, I thought how fitting we’re remembering 20 years since the LA Riots this week. This song reminded me of a time where rap was about something and not so called “bling bling.” The construction of the song made it sound as if it were escaping from a police radio at times. The 90′s feel is definitely something to highlight and celebrate on this portion of LIVING THINGS. Let’s hope more of that’s on the rest of the record. Much of the record was expected and then “CASTLE OF GLASS” ended our session. Looking over my scribbled text, I can make out “Americana” and “Bayou.” Think of it as what you love about LP and throw in a pinch of folk. With Chester’s horror movie past, we might hear this one in a spooky scene soon. As it played I could imagine youths terrified and running to the pace of the song as “…take me down to the river bend” filtered through their doom; it gave off an eerie feel."

Maaaaybe. Tickets are will call only so that really stops a lot of people from reselling them.

Pretty fucking badass they're inviting LPU members for free to this. LP treats their fanclub well, I will say that. Plus the pre-world tour show in LA. Wonder where the actual CD release show will be.

Do you remember what they played at that 2007 show? The setlist from Jimmy Kimmel 2007 is the only (?) unconfirmed setlist we have from after 2004 I believe. http://lplive.net/shows/20070518.php

European tour after the US tour w/ some UK shows.

Coming, doubtful on MFR for this one. My gf won tickets to this last week on Project.

$99, holy shit. You'd think there'd be a discount for LPU members or something, lol