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Wednesday, 10 October 2012
Wednesday, 29 August 2012
Lost In The Echo Official Interactive Video
Watch the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oTlSwvZ0C8&feature=channel&list=UL
No member of Linkin Park appears in the band’s new video, but some of your closest friends can get some prime screen time with the simple click of a button.
The video for “Lost in the Echo,” a “personalized film experience” that pulls in images from Facebook to weave your loved ones into its post-apocalyptic storyline, is slated to go live Wednesday at 11 a.m. Pacific on the Lost in the Echo website.
“We’re trying to make it about the story, rather than just pulling in the novelty or the gimmick of these Facebook photos,” said the video’s co-director Jason Nickel in a phone interview with Wired. “We’re trying to tie your personal life into the actual story, so that it’s logical and it seems like it was actually created for you rather than kind of shoehorned in there just because we could do it.”
The atmospheric music video is part of a swelling stream of “interactive” projects that tap Facebook Connect and other datasets to power a new sort of storytelling. By blending personal data with traditional imagery, “Lost in the Echo” seamlessly injects the viewer into the video — with results that are sometimes surprising.
Unlike some previous interactive projects, there’s no tedious uploading or cropping of images — everything takes place in the background once the viewer links their Facebook account to the video.
“We talked about doing a few different interactive ideas, but in the end, we’ve always liked the idea of just having the user click a button and they are off viewing the experience with minimal interaction,” Nickel said.
Nickel and creative partner Jason Zada explored similar territory with their award-winning interactive horror short Take This Lollipop, which used Facebook Connect to make it look like the viewer was being stalked by a sweaty creep wearing a wife-beater. (Zada is currently seeking funding for a Take This Lollipop sequel on Kickstarter.)
For the Linkin Park video, Zada and Nickel worked closely with Mike Shinoda, the rapper/multi-instrumentalist who writes many of the Southern California rap/rock band’s songs. The group wanted a video that would make a personal connection with its 44 million Facebook fans while also augmenting the theme of the latest Linkin Park record, Living Things.
“This album ended up being very much about ‘you’ and ‘me,’” Shinoda told Wired by phone, “so when it came time to think about this video … the idea of doing something that was also very personal and connected to somebody’s memories — you know, the things in people that they’re not letting go, that maybe they’re hung up on or have issues with — to do a video that touched on some of that felt like it fit with the song really well.”
The “Lost in the Echo” video, set to a typically energetic Linkin Park track, shows a young man walking with a briefcase into ruined buildings in a grim future where photographs don’t exist anymore. Once inside, he opens the case, revealing snapshots to various characters. The actors exhibit some rather extreme emotional responses to the images, which come directly from the Facebook accounts of the viewer and the viewer’s friends. The images are essentially composited in real-time using flash, Nickel said, and each play of the video will be slightly different, even if the same viewer is watching.
“It’s basically like special effects that are being done on the fly.”
“It’s basically like special effects that are being done on the fly,” said Zada, who handled the more traditional directing duties on the “Lost in the Echo” shoot.
To pull off the video’s personalized elements, Nickel wrestled with code to effectively pair Zada’s visuals with the data served up Facebook (no data is retained after the personalized video plays).
“There’s no real API for this kind of thing — we just deal with the raw data from Facebook,” Nickel said. “And even though Facebook actually has algorithms built into the backend on their side to show you who your most popular friends are and all that kind of stuff, [the social network] doesn’t open that up for developers. It’s all up to us to kind of just take the raw data and parse through it to figure out, ‘OK, does this person have a photo and are they tagged in here and how many people are tagged in there?’ It’s all stuff that we have to kind of just come up with from scratch.”
Nickels said he spent a lot of time tweaking his algorithms in an effort to pull in appropriate images. There is a margin of error involved, and he said Tuesday that he was still tinkering with face recognition in an effort to fine-tune the results (“There’s a lot of food pics on Facebook, so it is tough to deal with that for sure,” he said.)
“We ran into a lot of pitfalls with what data people had,” Nickel said. “There’s just so many different ways, different logic flows you could go down depending on how many friends they had, if they have a significant other listed, if that person has a photo, how many photos [the viewer is] tagged in, if there’s anything that’s popular on [their] photo list.”
Please encourage everyone to go there, not to video sites like YouTube and Vimeo. Video-site versions you find today will be a.) not approved by the band, and b.) not interactive (so to some degree, those versions will be missing the point).
Help us spread the word by letting everyone know that the only place to experience LOST IN THE ECHO is at lostintheecho.com -mike shinoda
*The video is Flash-based, because it was our best way to make this idea work. It is Facebook connected, and don’t worry: it won’t steal or share anything you don’t want it to. For those without those things: a non-Flash, non-interactive version will be up in a couple days on Linkin Park’s official Youtube page. Click To, Get Lost !!
Linkin Park Transforms
Linkin Park guitarist Brad Delson says the band’s new album, Living Things, came together at lightspeed compared to their previous, much more drawn-out creative efforts.
In an interview for Beat magazine to be published on August 1, Delson told me the band started writing Living Things during a break between tour legs for 2010’s A Thousand Suns, so by the time they’d finished the previous album cycle they had a wealth of ideas to work from. “I think sonically or maybe in terms of song approach this album is very different from A Thousand Suns, and part of that was the inspiration of doing something in contrast to what we’d just done,” Delson said. “That’s what makes the studio so fun. There are no rules.”
Delson said producer Rick Rubin suggested one particular change in the band’s working methods that had a profound difference on the outcome. “One thing that Rick would encourage us to do is to put vocals on it right away. That helps us to know if the content is good. Is this song in its barebones form a good song? Whereas our method of working on our first two albums was almost entirely music-focused first, and then the vocals would go last. People say, ‘Is there a message in the album?’ and it’s like, ‘I don’t know! We don’t even know what we just said! We don’t even know what we just played!’ In fact, we make the songs in such a postmodern way that when it’s time to prepare for our tours we literally have to learn how to perform the songs for the first time.”
Aside from putting together live versions of songs from Living Things, the band is excited about another special event: the impending release of a limited edition Transformers action figure set in collaboration with Hasbro, featuring Soundwave, Lazerbeak, Buzzsaw and Ravage. “I’ve definitely put in a request for at least one of them,” Delson said. “I think I deserve to get at least one of those, don’t you think? I know they’re in very high demand. Those collectibles, especially for people who have a love for avant garde toys and collectibles, it’s just such a creative world.”
Monday, 27 August 2012
WATCH LIVE: The Honda Civic Tour LIVE Featuring Linkin Park and Incubus, Sept 8
Sunday, 26 August 2012
Lost In The Echo Video
In two recent radio interviews from Radio 99.5 Maryland and DC101, Mike Shinoda discussed the customized Honda Civic, upcoming videos from Linkin Park including the interactive LOST IN THE ECHO, VMAs, and Power the World.
In the first video CLICK THIS, Mike details how the upcoming LOST IN THE ECHO video will be an unique video that allows for interactive input from the viewer. He asks for fans to continue to follow the Linkin Park site, twitter, and facebook page for the upcoming announcement of the video.
In the second video CLICK THIS, Mike discusses how, shortly before the first show of the upcoming Honda Civic Tour, the band will be going to the White House to discuss with UN leaders about Power the World. Detailing the reasons behind the band's recent efforts to empower the world with sustainable energy sources, Mike asks for fans to help by donating or signing the pledge in order to spread the word. SIGN THE PLEDGE HERE!!
CLICK THIS to see LOST IN THE ECHO photo.
Saturday, 25 August 2012
Linkin Park: Complicated, interesting, nu again
Southern California-based Linkin Park may be, by the band's own reckoning, at least, the most popular hard rock group of the past 10 years. They began as forerunners of the much-maligned nu-metal movement and have gradually morphed into something more complicated and interesting.
Linkin Park's 2010 album "A Thousand Suns" was a supercharged, politically minded electro-rock album that occasioned many previously unthinkable critical comparisons to Radiohead. Fans were less enamored of the band's new sound; its latest release, "Living Things," is a return to form that can't help but feel the slightest bit like a retreat.
In advance of the band's upcoming show with Incubus (they're co-headliners, and each will play full sets), frontman Chester Bennington called in from — well, he's not exactly sure where he's calling from ("Somewhere in, um, North America?") — to talk about being famous, feeling guilty and that time he met The Cure's Robert Smith. It did not go well.
Friday, 24 August 2012
2012 Linkin Park World Tour Becomes First NWS StormReady® Recognized Concert Tour
(Photo: HERE)
The StormReady program is designed to enhance an organization’s awareness, preparedness, response, recovery, emergency public notification, and public education related to hazardous weather events. In the process it also enhances the overall emergency management plan, increasing the safety of individuals at all levels and phases of significant emergencies and disasters.
In the aftermath of the weather-related tragedies that occurred in Indianapolis and the Netherlands in 2011, Linkin Park Production Manager, Jim Digby, sought consultation from National Weather Service and WeatherOps meteorologists to establish early warning systems and procedures to help ensure the safety of fans, band & crew in the event of severe weather during the current Honda Civic Tour featuring Linkin Park and Incubus.
“It is vital to have an emergency preparedness plan in place when dealing with large venue events,” says Rick Smith, Warning Coordination Meteorologist with the National Weather Service Norman Forecast Office. “Receiving the StormReady designation illustrates the concert tour’s proactive approach to weather-related hazards and we have confidence that this accomplishment will establish a trend in the industry as a whole.”
WDT’s WeatherOps team directly supports touring artists, venue managers and production companies, varying the information disseminated based upon precise weather triggers and the specific needs of each client. Forecasts and alerts are provided to key personnel via internet, SMS, mobile apps, mobile push alerts and direct phone access to a Meteorologist 24/7. WeatherOps boasts the highest resolution weather models in the industry, backed by a staff of 75, of which 35 hold Masters to PhD level credentials.
About Linkin Park
LINKIN PARK is a Grammy-Award-winning, multi-platinum alternative rock band comprised of lead vocalist, Chester Bennington, drummer/percussionist, Rob Bourdon, guitarist Brad Delson, bassist Dave ‘Phoenix’ Farrell, DJ, programmer Joe Hahn and Mike Shinoda – lead vocals, keyboards, guitar. The band has sold over 50 million albums worldwide, and is the biggest band on Facebook – with over 43 million fans and counting. In the span of time since 2000, when Linkin Park debuted on the Billboard 200 – no other artist has had more top 10 singles on the Alternative chart and, with the release of their latest album, LIVING THINGS (Machine Shop Recordings /Warner Bros), which reached #1 in over 20 countries, no other band has achieved more #1 albums this century. In 2005, Linkin Park founded Music For Relief, a 501 © (3) non-profit organization that has raised over 5 million dollars for victims of natural disasters and environmental projects. www.linkinpark.com
About Weather Decision Technologies® (WDT)
Founded in 2000, Weather Decision Technologies is a high technology leader in the weather industry, providing life-safety applications and weather decision support services and systems to our partners and customers. WDT’s iMap® services provide dynamic, web-based and mobile interactive mapping solutions for the world’s leading local media companies. WDT maintains operational offices in Norman, Oklahoma, and Atlanta, Georgia. Corporate websites: www.wdtinc.com and www.weatherops.com.
Wednesday, 22 August 2012
Linkin Park in New Zealand confirmed!
Linkin Park has updated its tour dates with the addition of concerts in New Zealand and Australia next year from February to March. The 21st of February marks Linkin Park's return to New Zealand at the Vextor Arena in Auckland. Then the band will head to the Soundwave Festival in Australia. Tickets for Auckland go on sale September 7th. More information will be coming soon.
"Linkin Park will be heading to New Zealand and Australia in February and March. On February 21, they'll be playing at Vector Arena in Auckland, New Zealand. They'll then head to Australia for Soundwave Festival. Tickets for Soundwave are on sale now HERE. Tickets for the Auckland show go on sale September 7, with LPU members getting access to pre-sale tickets before that. More information coming soon. Join the LP Underground HERE."
-Linkin Park.
Tuesday, 21 August 2012
Metal band Korn Live in Delhi, 5 Sep,India
Monday, 20 August 2012
08.19.12 - Atlanta, GA
After a massively successful Summit this past Thursday and Friday followed with a performance in Camden, NJ, Linkin Park is set to perform again tonight in Atlanta, GA at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater. This will be the band's first appearance at the Amphitheater in Georgia.
For the Honda Civic Tour, the band has revealed three separate setlists: Sets A, B, and C. The current schedule for the rotating setlist is in a CC AA BB format. As the 6th show of the tour, the band is set to perform Setlist B again tonight. IN MY REMAINS has not been performed on stage since the band's Uncasville, CT concert. Will the song be a rare act seen only with Setlist C or will IN MY REMAINS find itself included in more sets on future dates? The band has also been replacing Crawling from the setlists with When They Come For Me on recent dates. Tonight marked the continued dominance of When They Come For Me in the setlists.
SETLIST:
1. A Place For My Head (w/ Intro)
2. Given Up
3. New Divide
4. Somewhere I Belong (w/ Intro)
5. Empty Spaces/When They Come For Me
6. VICTIMIZED/QWERTY
7. With You
8. LIES GREED MISERY
9. Points of Authority
10. Waiting For The End (UIB Intro and ext. outro)
11. Breaking The Habit
12. The Medley: LOATR/SOTD/Iridescent
13. The Catalyst
14. LOST IN THE ECHO (w/ intro)
15. Numb (Numb/Encore Outro)
16. What I've Done (ext. intro)
17. BURN IT DOWN
18. In The End
19. Bleed It Out (Sabotage Bridge)
---------- Encore Break
20. TINFOIL (Intro)
21. Faint
22. Lying From You/Papercut (Mash Up)
23. One Step Closer
Sunday, 19 August 2012
Linkin Park Australia Tour Dates
Feb 23, 2013
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Brisbane, Australia, Soundwave Festival 2013
Feb 24, 2013
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Sydney, Australia, Soundwave Festival 2013
Mar 1, 2013
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Melbourne, Australia, Soundwave Festival 2013
Mar 2, 2013
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Adelaide, Australia, Soundwave Festival 2013
Mar 4, 2013
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Perth, Australia, Soundwave Festival 2013
LPTV: European Tour Part 4
Saturday, 18 August 2012
Thursday, 16 August 2012
EarthSpark teams up with Linkin Park to bring light to Haitian Midwives
Linkin Park - 15th Aug 12 - Wantagh, NY
SETLIST:
TINFOIL
Faint (Ext. Outro)
Papercut
Given Up (Ext. Outro w/ Extra Note)
With You (2012 Intro)
Somewhere I Belong (2012 Intro)
New Divide
VICTIMIZED/QWERTY
Lying From You
LIES GREED MISERY
Points of Authority
Waiting for the End (Apaches Intro, Wall of Noise Outro)
Breaking the Habit
Leave Out All The Rest/Shadow of the Day/Iridescent
The Catalyst
LOST IN THE ECHO (Ext. Intro)
Numb (Numb/Encore Tease Outro)
What I've Done
One Step Closer
----Encore---
BURN IT DOWN
In The End
Bleed It Out (w/ Sabotage)
Tuesday, 14 August 2012
FULL SHOW - Linkin Park Honda Civic Tour, August 11th 2012, Bristow, VA
Linkin Park - Honda Civic Tour
Setlist :
00:00:00 - 0:03:24 . With You
02. Faint (Extended Outro)
03. Given Up
04. VICTIMIZED w/ Qwerty + Lying From You + Papercut (mashup)
05. Somewhere I Belong
06. New Divide
07. IN MY REMAINS
08. Empty Spaces
09. When They Come For Me
10. Waiting For The End (Until It Breaks Intro, Extended Outro)
11. Breaking The Habit
12. Leave Out All The Rest / Shadow Of The Day / Iridescent (Ballad Medley)
13. The Catalyst
14. BURN IT DOWN
15. In The End
16. Numb (Jay Z reference w/ Mike asking "Do you want an encore?")
17. Bleed It Out (Sabotage 'Beastie Boys' Bridge)
18. LOST IN THE ECHO
19. What I've Done
20. One Step Closer (Extended Outro)
10 Unheard Demos for LPU12. INTERVIEW(Mike)
Mike arrived to the chat a little early due to a time zone mix up and answered some fan questions. Check out a summary below:
• LP sketch songs with rough vocals that sometimes have no words, then slowly turn the made up words into real words.
• He thinks the visual/video for LOST IN THE ECHO will be ready this month.
• Mike would like to create music for “what Netflix calls "Dark Independent" and "Mind Bending Thriller" David Fincher / Christopher Nolan, etc”
• Mike is currently putting together the next LPU album, with 10 never-before-heard Linkin Park demos!
• Mike said “we talked about releasing accapellas and instrumentals for LIVING THINGS, actually.”
• Mike scored some levels for the upcoming Medal Of Honor Warfighter game.
He later returned to Twitter for the joint interview with Paul Van Dyk. Check out his answers below!
• Mike has never danced to Paul Van Dyk’s music in Spain at 6am.
• LP played shows with Die Antwoord on tour last year. Mike thinks they were incredible.
• When asked the question “Whats the weirdest thing you have got from a fan?” Mike responded with “their baby. I gave it back though.”
• He has never met Paul Van Dyk in person.
• When asked about what instruments Mike would like to play, he replied “I'd love to be good at the drums. I play a little, but I'm terrible!”
• Mike would “probably not” be a judge in a TV singing show if he was offered the job
• “When would you consider the defining moment where you first realized you were successful?” Mike replied “when I could get free music gear directly from the company.”
• Mike and Paul Van Dyk both prefer SONY 7506 headphones
• Wall E is his favourite cartoon movie.
• When asked about his role in Linkin Park, he said “I'm probably most focused on songwriting & producing. I play piano better than guitar, & rap better than sing.”
• His favorite anime films are Akira, Ghost In The Shell, and Princess Mononoke
Monday, 13 August 2012
Linkin Park Today - Mansfield, MA
Since the start of the recent Honda Civic Tour, Linkin Park has neglected to play LIES GREED MISERY, which had been a popular act from the recent European Summer Tour. Regardless, the previous two shows have involved a new setlist containing a new string opening inspired by Game of Thrones and LIVING THINGS leading track LOST IN THE ECHO, IN MY REMAINS, and VICTIMIZED.





