Linkin Park Releases New Song Through Mobile Game App

Linkin Park is about to release a new song titled “Blackbird” in a very new creative way. The band will release the song through its mobile game application “Linkin Park 8-Bit Rebellion!”

“Linkin Park 8-Bit Rebellion!” is an action-adventure game in which the goal is to retrieve stolen Linkin Park music. The thieves are called Pixxelkorp, an evil HD empire. Missions take players through different districts which are based on each members of the band.

Linkin Park’s new song “Linkin Park 8-Bit Rebellion!” will be unlocked upon completion of all missions. “In The End”, “New Divide”, and “Crawling” will also feature in the game, it is the first time that a band releases a new song through a mobile game!

“Linkin Park 8-Bit Rebellion!”will be available soon on the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad through the iTunes App Store.

Linkin Park Creates Charity Album For Haiti

Linkin Park put their Haiti charity album within less than a week. The album includes one unreleased track from the band and two other produced by Mike Shinoda. Other tracks on the album include Dave Matthews Band, the All-American Rejects, Peter Gabriel, Slash, Alanis Morissette, and more.

The album is titled "Download To Donate" and can be found on Linkin Park's non-profit site Music For Relief.

"Just last Monday, I was saying how I would like to start directing more of Music For Relief’s attention to Haiti and developing some sustainable housing,” says Linkin Park bassist David “Phoenix” Farrell. “Then the earthquake happened Tuesday, and we really started scrambling to figure out a way that we could garner as much support from the music community as we could to hopefully raise a ton of money for the cause.”

“It’s a very low cost charity,” he says.”For this, 100% of the money Music For Relief raises is going to a couple of different charities: the UN Foundation and Habitat for Humanity. And Dave Matthews Band brought their BAMA Works relief effort into the mix as well. 100% of what we raise is going towards those different efforts.”

New Linkin Park Album Coming Soon

Linkin Park is working on their new album now that Chester Bennington's side project "Dead By Sunrise" is finished and nearing its October 13th release.

The band would like to get to a sound simillar to "Hybrid Theory", but different. The hit single "New Divide" is in no way an indication as to what the new album will sound like.

Here's what Mike Shinoda has to say about the untitled new album:

"We mentally want to get back to [2000's "Hybrid Theory"] not because we want to sound like [that], because I don't think we do," Shinoda says of the forthcoming Linkin Park album, which they aim to release in the first half of 2010. "But we want to make this record a record with identity, hopefully not one you've heard before. One you can listen to and say, 'That's brand new... It's definitely Linkin Park, but it's definitely different.'"

Linkin Park - iPhone Application

Linkin Park will soon be launching their own iPhone App/Game for all the Linkin Park Fans. The deal has been signed between Warner Bros Records and Artificial Life to create series of iPhone applications dedicated to Linkin Park. We can expect An App that will move around keeping up with the bands activites,community,music..etc. The Menu may have buttons such as Home-band-Fans-Shop-Community etc..

Linkin Park Cancels Asian Tour

Linkin Park's lead singer Chester Bennington has sustained a back injury, and is restricted to travel or do any physical activites. The band's Asia tour has therefore been canceled.

Tickets for the following venues will be refunded at point of purchase:

Oct. 12 - Shanghai, China - Shanghai Stadium
Oct. 15 - Wuhan, China - Xinhua Stadium
Oct. 17 - Taipei, Taiwan - Taipei Soccer Stadium
Oct. 19 - Beijing, China - Beijing Workers Stadium
Oct. 21 - Macau, China Cotai Arena - The Venetian

The concerts were fundraisers for victims of this year's China earthquakes in the Sichuan province.

Generous donations from concert promoter Emma Ticketmaster and Linkin Park, funds will still be contributed to the band’s nonprofit organization, Music for Relief, and matched by the World Bank.

New Linkin Park Album!

Linkin Park, which released its “Minutes To Midnight” after 4 years long break since its “Meteora” in 2003, is planning to release its next album in 2009 and has already started working on a few songs. Sources say that the band doesn’t want to repeat the gap of 4 years again and is wishing to be as consistent as possible.

Mike Shinoda was quoted saying: "Actually I’ve been doing a couple of studio dates out on the road, which is new for me," and that "I did a date when we were touring in Germany, one date in Prague, a bunch of dates in New York, and I’m excited about that. It’s been very cool for us. So long story short, we’ve been putting in a lot of work and hopefully we could have a new record out next year."

The band was committed to their “Projekt Revolution tour”, until August 24 and will now concentrate on their next album.

Linkin Park Covers Guns N' Roses

Linkin Park covered Sweet Child O' Mine from the Guns N' Roses during a show at Alpine Valley last Saturday night. The band came out with fake blond wigs and did an ok job. Surely Guns N' Roses won't be impressed by this cover, however Linkin Park fans will love it and possibly see the humor in it.

New Linkin Park Video - "Leave Out All The Rest"

“Leave Out All the Rest” is the third track and the fifth and final single from Linkin Park’s third studio album, Minutes to Midnight. Even before the song was confirmed as an official single, due to radioplay, the song had achieved a U.S. chart position. On the album, the song segues into “Bleed It Out”.

“Leave Out All the Rest” was one of the names considered for the title of the album along with “In Triumph & Tragedy”, “Triumph in Tragedy”, “In Cold Blood”, “Linkin Park”, “All the Rest”, “Almanac”, “Dictionary”, “Argue. Agree”, “Ascend”, “WTF”, “WTF Is Wrong With Me?”, as well as others, according to the Minutes to Midnight DVD.

Announcement As a Single:
In a Kerrang review/interview of the band, and the album, vocalist Chester Bennington had this say about “Leave Out All the Rest”, “We knew this was going to be a single from the very beginning, so we worked really hard on making sure it had great lyrics. I’m singing ‘Pretending someone else can save me from myself’ during it because it’s supposed to feel like an apology letter, as though I’m moving on but I want people to remember the good things and not the bad things. A lot of the song is about humility.” Mike Shinoda has also stated that Rick Rubin (producer for Minutes to Midnight) said “This sounds like a massive single” and according to Shinoda, was the first to realize the song’s potential as a single.

According to an interview with Mike Shinoda by MTV, “Leave Out All the Rest” will be the next single..

About the Music video:
In an interview with MTV, Mike said that the video, directed by bandmate Joe Hahn, will take place in a futuristic, sci-fi influenced setting, and will depict what the daily life of the band’s members would be like if they lived in outer space. The band lives in a rundown, artificial habitat that’s making its way across the galaxy. At first, they are seen passing the time performing mundane tasks, but then gravity is lost onboard the vessel, sending the members floating about. The video features no performance footage. The video has respectively been influenced by the British movie Sunshine, borrowing imgery and a similar concept.

Joe said:
“We’re explorers in space, just like when we go on tour. We’re leaving our home life behind, and I guess it kind of ties into ‘Leave Out All the Rest’, in that we have to leave things behind in order to do something better. ” (source:

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