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Well it said 9pm but traditionally they go on at 9:20 and have for most of their career when headlining in the USA, unless it's a special deal or something. 9:20 is normal. Why do you guys say OSC was shortened? I don't think it was unless there's a video that shows it. The setlist doesn't mention it.

Setlist: http://lplive.net/shows/db/2017/20170519 Setlist pic: https://twitter.com/LPLive/status/865937541802971137 Same as Lima/Santiago. This is the normal headlining set. I would expect to see this across Europe since it has only been performed 3 times so far. Maybe the festival sets open with Catalyst. I think the festivals without time constraints (90 mins like Argentina and Brazil) will get the whole thing.

First USA headlining non festival set since when? The Indianapolis 2015 show? Yes I know it's CBS SPF but shit LP is the only band playing today lol

I think it's booked I mean why would the radio announce it as a contest? And then remove it once we post about it? Is it possible LP can just say that show is "only if we need it"? The album and single are doing very well, I don't see why they wouldn't do it.

Inspired by last night's incredible rendition of One More Light at Jimmy Kimmel Live, dedicated to the late friend of the band Chris Cornell, we wanted to highlight a few other incredible Linkin Park performances. First up, if you haven't seen it, here's the One More Light video from Kimmel. Mike had to say, "Mr @chesterbe poured every ounce of his soul into that performance of "One More Light" tonight on @JimmyKimmelLive for #chriscornell" Next, there is the performance of Leave Out All The Rest/Shadow Of The Day/Iridescent from Beijing 2015, where Linkin Park closed out their first stadium tour of China. This show was performed to over 66,000 people - one of the largest crowds at a headlining show in Linkin Park's career. You can see thousands of people holding up lights and tears in Chester's eyes.... And then there's the live debut of Breaking The Habit in the rain. The song was originally going to be in the LPU Tour 2003 setlist in February, but the song ended up not being debuted until October of that year. Chester in 2003 said that he recorded the vocals for the studio version on Meteora in just one afternoon, but that it was quite difficult because he kept breaking down crying in the studio. What do you think? Do you have any other memorable videos?

I agree. Really great.

https://www.facebook.com/JimmyKimmelLive/videos/10155281495718374/?hc_ref=PAGES_TIMELINE All 6 songs after OML/Heavy.

Setlist: One More Light Heavy -------------- Talking to Myself Battle Symphony Invisible Good Goodbye Numb In The End (not on setlist)

Linkin Park plays their first full show in the United States for One More Light on May 19th, when they head to Las Vegas, NV to The Chelsea @ The Cosmopolitan. They will headline night one of CBS's SPF ("SUN.POOL.FUN") event, which is doubling up as the One More Light Album Release Show as well. The band has not played a full show in the U.S. since November 2015, the very end of the world tour for The Hunting Party. The final show of that year was a private show for Music for Relief, but they did play BlizzCon in Anaheim the week before that as well as Monster Mash in Arizona the week before that. This has been a long time coming and the band surprisingly will also return to Las Vegas later this year to close out leg one of the North American Tour at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. Since our show posts like to not only inform you about the upcoming show, but others in the city in the past as well, here's a little history on LP in LV. Las Vegas had a show by Linkin Park for five consecutive years between 2010 and 2015. The band has played Vegas in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007 x3 (one, two, three), 2008 x2 (one, two and a canceled one), 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 x2 (one, two), and 2015. Most recently, the Las Vegas 2015 performance was for Rock in Rio USA and was Chester's first show back after his injury that canceled the 2015 North American Tour. Linkin Park debuted the rare A Line In The Sand at that show. What a shame the track had so much work put into it to perform it live and it never made it out of 2015's very limited touring. It's not a Vegas preshow post without Timbaland's intro to Bleed It Out from 2007...which now turns ten years old this week. Ouch, we are getting old. Happy Birthday to Minutes To Midnight - and happy birthday to the touring cycle for that record, which we enjoyed covering thoroughly as we grew the LPLive from its baby stages into a full-fledged website. This show in Las Vegas comes in the middle of the One More Light Release Week Promo, what we've dubbed the week of celebration, promo, and events surrounding the release of the new album. On the 16th, Brad, Mike, and Chester performed One More Light (song) for employees of Spotify in New York. Later that night, the full band played its first-ever acoustic show as a surprise set in the NYC subway. On the 18th, LP played Jimmy Kimmel before this Vegas show kicks off. To conclude, the iHeartRadio Theater will be broadcasting another One More Light celebratory show next Monday on the 22nd. For all of the setlists and information, check the 2017 touring page. For this show, we expect to see the full headlining setlist performed. This is the 25 song set debuted in Santiago, Chile earlier this month that was also played in Lima, Peru. It includes Invisible, Waiting For The End, and One More Light. The difference between the festival set (90 mins, so we think MOST of the European festivals will actually get a full setlist and not a shortened 90 min one) and the headlining set also is that the festival one opens with Fallout > The Catalyst whereas headlining, they opt to open with Fallout > Talking To Myself. In terms of new songs, we aren't sure if they will perform more new tracks from the album. They have already debuted six so it wouldn't surprise us if more appear shortly. We might have to wait for rotating setlists though...maybe that happens in Europe but it should for sure happen by the North American Tour in July. As mentioned above, the band has one more show in the U.S. next Monday, which will be webcasted online. No webcast for this one in Vegas, though. And then LP flies to Europe to play their 18 show European Tour. Well we say 18, but they've only announced 17 so far.....aaaaand where's that second London date that "leaked" that they haven't confirmed yet? Hmm.

I am honestly surprised they are going through with this performance today.

It was just a 3 minute segment that aired. https://twitter.com/GMA/status/865224220808142848 Download is in the video section. Release this as the LPU CD lol

Chris's ties to Linkin Park go back to when he opened for the band in Australia in 2007 and the band liked him so much that they invited him to be direct support on Projekt Revolution 2008. On the tour, Chester and Chris started a great friendship that lasted almost a decade. Chris joined Linkin Park for Crawling in the set, but the real gem was Chester lending his vocals to this.... RIP Chris, a true rock legend.

Fallout The Catalyst Talking To Myself No More Sorrow Lost In The Echo When They Come For Me Burn It Down Good Goodbye Castle Of Glass Nobody Can Save Me (replace Battle Symphony ASAP!) New Divide Invisible Waiting For The End Sorry For Now Breaking The Habit One More Light Leave Out All The Rest Heavy What I've Done In The End Faint ----------- Numb Bleed It Out Papercut One Step Closer

After sitting on One More Light, here is what I think about the album. This is the first album I did not preorder from the band since I became a fan well before Meteora because of how shockingly weak Heavy was for me for months. Before I go through the songs, I want to point out that there is guitar all over the album, used in different ways which seems much more up Brad's alley compared to The Hunting Party and Living Things. I like the loud explosive guitar sound by the band but I can understand that gets old to write/play for so long. It’s a semi-new way of using guitar on an album for LP, using it as more of a background accessory instrument instead of a prominent instrument on the songs. We see this on the Sorry For Now breakdown, the Invisible piano ending, before the chorus starts on Halfway Right, the One More Light bridge, etc. It’s actually everywhere. So Brad might have been the most creative on this album actually, just plugging in overall good sounding guitar into the pop songs. A quick run down of it top to bottom… Nobody Can Save Me has some cool MTM-esque lyrics that remind me of Valentine’s Day in a way. Dark lyrics with a poppy beat and the clash between the two is actually good. Chester sounds super “clean”, and I don’t know anyone that can complain about his vocals honestly...it just proves what we already know - that he’s a great singer that can sing in any genre of music. Sadly, the songs are overloaded with clapping samples, excessively sampled drums, and generic pop noises. Good Goodbye is a pre-release song that we know and I think it was a total waste to put two guest rappers on it when Mike could have had three verses to himself. The live verse he does is already better than both of the guest verses to me. Not a fan of the chipmunk on the track. My friend Parth (musician inspired by LP) pointed out to me that Talking To Myself is a song that would have been overplayed hourly by KROQ in 2012...and I agree. The description that it is a “The Killers”-esque song is pretty accurate with the guitar and bass. For this album, Talking To Myself is a highlight. Is it organ samples chopped and thrown together for the intro? So there's “doing pop” and there's “overdoing an attempt at pop”, and Battle Symphony is the latter. It sounds like the biggest attempt at creating a purely top 40 pop song in the band's catalogue and easily is the worst song on the album to me - no comparison. Invisible is the first attempt we hear at Mike singing a song by himself in a few albums. I’m not a big fan of the mid-tempo upbeat-sounding poppy songs in general so Invisible doesn’t go anywhere for me. Two pretty weak songs in a row. One thing interesting about Heavy is after listening to it a million times, I’ve noticed how much stuff is really going on in the instrumental of the song. Where some songs seem instrumentally weak, Heavy actually has a ton of layers in it. I’m not a fan of the track but you can tell they spent some time layering and layering the Shinoda sounds on that one. The biggest highlight on the album is Sorry For Now. If Mike wants to sing on One More Light (album), then a song written to his kids with soaring vocals over quality pop samples is the way to do it. While Invisible is more mid-tempo and Mike’s vocals don’t go anywhere, they really shine on Sorry For Now. The band completely flips the script and lets Chester rap the bridge where before the entire delivery pattern would be switched. Everything from the start to the end of the song is great to me. I’m a big fan of pop that is GOOD - some examples are Backstreet Boys’ Millenium/Black & Blue albums and Taylor Swift’s Speak Now/Red/1989 albums. Everything on Sorry For Now is done like a truly well-written pop song. That breakdown comes out of nowhere, in a great way, and is awesome. And then there’s Brad just throwing guitar over it...I dig it. A+ job. Why the hell couldn’t we get more “oh shit” moments and creative pop songs on this album like Sorry For Now? This song is leagues above the rest on the album. With Halfway Right, we really confirm the vocal melodies become really repetitive as it’s also a pretty forgettable track. The most intimate part of the album is One More Light, which the album is named after. It’s a very natural delivery for Chester and it’s a fantastic acoustic/soft song. To me it is much better song than a comparable stripped down track, The Messenger. For once I think this would be a good slower song live and that comes from someone criticizing all these piano songs and soft songs in the setlist for a decade now. The lyrics and soft approach to the song are both great. With a good chance to finish the album off with a strong closer, the band falls very short with Sharp Edges. LP has released three “epic” closers out of the last four albums - The Little Things Give You Away, Powerless, and A Line in the Sand. A Thousand Suns would be included in that too if the album ended with The Catalyst. Sharp Edges goes nowhere...maybe the album should have ended with the title track. If this song was on Minutes To Midnight instead of In Between I don’t think we’d be complaining, though. The bottom line for me is - music was an obvious afterthought on this album. Did Phoenix, Rob, or Joe write anything *at all* for the album? The problem with pop is that it utilizes such small numbers of people from the band. Overwhelmingly we see a reliance on computer beats and noises, inevitably from the database of “Shinoda sounds” (or the chipmunk gallery). The lyrics are not inherently better than any previous efforts… specifically let’s reference the Minutes To Midnight and A Thousand Suns eras where lyrics were being delivered in their prime. Even the laughable Living Things had good lyrics at points. Most importantly, the melodies get old, fast. This album was an experiment but one they did not necessarily succeed at for a cohesive effort… this makes three albums in a row cohesively weak when home runs, erm, grand slams were hit with MTM and ATS which I consider the prime of the band creatively. Three albums in a row have been full of filler content (remember Until It Breaks, Skin To Bone and Until It’s Gone?). Creative parts of the album like Sorry For Now are minimal and hard to find outside of that song. Imagine if the music had been approached first - we’d see many more creative moments like Sorry For Now and maybe would have ended up with a good pop album. Remember Leave Out All The Rest? That’s a signature pop song (probably the best in the LP catalogue) that would fit into this genre perfectly, and the band nailed it. It’s a bad album but it’s even worse when LP throws their name on it. While Linkin Park is not held down to one genre or style specifically, there are elements missing from One More Light, specifically more rapping from Mike. In the one song where it could be showcased (Good Goodbye), unnecessary and unfitting guests were shoved into the song into what can be called the greatest wasted opportunity of the album. But doesn’t that sum up the album in one sentence? The Good: Sorry For Now, Talking To Myself, Nobody Can Save Me, One More Light The Bad: Battle Symphony, Good Goodbye, Sharp Edges, an attempt at putting chipmunks into a song Recommendations: Drop Battle Symphony from the live show ASAP (which Joe has messed up already 3x) and replace it with Nobody Can Save Me. Final score: 4/10 because I’d keep these 4 songs I enjoy and rewrite the rest of the album. Someone call Ryan Tedder, Max Martin, etc for some pop advice.

1. Sorry For Now 2. Talking To Myself 3. Nobody Can Save Me

One More Light is officially out worldwide! What do you think of the album? Favorite songs?

Ethan is there to record it and mix it for Good Morning America I think. But maybe LP will release the songs too. May 18th it will be broadcasted. Probably not the full thing. But we will see.

That was awesome. ITE unplanned. I'd totally like to see that as the LPU CD as a change of style for once. They have never played those songs full band acoustic, maybe ITE once in like 2001. Sounded great.

I don't disagree with what you're saying about how they're being used, I disagree with you saying the band isn't using guitars for the new music. I don't like the reliance on Shinoda beats either.

Fans have just reported to us that Linkin Park has just started playing a surprise show at Grand Central Station in New York City tonight! This is the secret Good Morning America performance that was hinted at several days ago. As of now, we don't have a date that it will air but it should be on television either tomorrow, Thursday, or Friday for the album promo. Luckily, we have staff at the event - you can watch the broadcast on our Facebook page. SETLIST: 01. Heavy (Stripped Down) 02. Burn It Down (Stripped Down) 03. Crawling (Piano Version) 04. What I've Done (Stripped Down) 05. In The End (Stripped Down) **Done by request from the crowd chanting for the song The band has not promoted the new album at all in New York until now, but they do have a Good Morning America performance scheduled for August. This performance is coming just as the South American Tour ended in Brazil on Saturday, May 13th, but the band will be in Los Angeles on May 18th for Jimmy Kimmel Live. 2017 tour dates here.

There are a lot of guitars on the new album.

Jane Says https://www.instagram.com/p/BUKFOU3jkjk/?taken-at=771806745

Works for me. https://www.instagram.com/p/BUKbQ8xFjn-/?taken-at=262628543 One More Light (song)

Today, Linkin Park stopped by Spotify's HQ in New York City to do a Q&A about their recording process for the new album and to perform for employees. It looks like 'One More Light' (song) was the only track performed.