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0 Interview with Chester Bennington on Triple M

It was announced yesterday that Linkin Park will be playing at theSoundwave 2013 Festival in Australia, here's an interview with Chester Bennington on Triple M below.

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0 Linkin Park SiriusXM Town Hall concert report

Loudwire has a report on the Q&A session with Linkin Park on SiriusXM last night. The show will air on Octane, channel 37, on Tuesday, August 14 at 9:00 pm ET and will be rebroadcast throughout the week. Update: Added a couple more pics from Noisecreep.

Linkin Park Talk Longevity + Memorable Touring During Los Angeles ‘Town Hall’ Session

Linkin Park gave a few select fans a glimpse behind the curtain Monday (Aug. 7) in Los Angeles, taking part in a performance and ‘Town Hall’ session hosted by Sirius/XM ‘Liquid Metal’ DJ Jose Mangin.

A number of contest winners and Sirius/XM listeners were allowed to visit the group’s San Fernando Valley rehearsal space. Once there, they took part in the question and answer session, followed by a few photo opportunities, and eventually made way for the band to perform a blistering 11-song set where those in attendance could almost reach out to the group.

The questions ranged from the inspiration behind their ‘Living Things‘ album (Mike Shinoda stated that it was a way to bridge the gap between their beginning sound and their most recent records), to their travel arrangements (up to 25 members of their extended family are on tour and they don’t all live together). Linkin Park also hit on Brad Delson’s plans to sing after appearing vocally for the first time on a record (Delson: “If you stick around, I’ll do it later, but like really later. Like you have to move in.” Shinoda: “It’s so late he’s going on after Guns N’ Roses.”) and their continued relationship to the ‘Transformers’ movies (Delson joking: “People might not know this but we actually own the franchise, so we just put ourselves in and it’s been really lucrative, so thanks for buying the movie tickets.”)

When quizzed about the secret of making the band last without any defections, Chester Bennington told the crowd, “I think the thing that works for us is that we all have the same goal which is to work hard and make the best music we can, and we always, often times as people do, we don’t see things in the same way, we kind of have always been pretty respectful in terms of how we communicate to each other, so we can disagree, but we don’t really argue or fight very often.”

Bassist Dave “Phoenix” Farrell, added, “You have to have the right set of guys who function together well creatively, but who are also willing to put in the work. As silly as it sounds, it’s not easy to do what we do. There’s that mentality that it’s the easiest job in the world. It is the best job in the world, but it’s definitely not the easiest. The biggest part of that is just putting the time and energy on it to be on the same page.”

The band also addressed some of their favorite tours, with Chester Bennington taking the more reflective approach to the question, explaining, “It’s a fun life. Sometimes you just sit back and think, ‘How is this possible? Who are we to have done what we’ve done and do what we get to do?’ It’s a really great life that you guys allow us to have, so I think the touring moment is every time we’re on tour.”

Speaking of which, Linkin Park will spend the remaining dates of the summer with Incubus as part of the Honda Civic Tour (which kicks off Aug. 11 in Bristow, Va.). Bennington added, “I’m really looking forward to touring with Incubus this summer. That’s gonna be awesome.” When quizzed for a favorite album, the vocalist kept it diplomatic, stating, “I’m afraid if I say it, then Brandon [Boyd] will be like, ‘Dude, why’d you say that?’ I don’t know if I have a favorite record. There are songs of bands that I like and I think I’m more of a modern listener, where I like the compilation of songs, the best of’s.”

After a few moments to clear things out and make way for the staging, Linkin Park finished up the day with a performance for those on hand. The set eased the audience in with ‘Waiting for the End’ kicking things off, followed by ‘Breaking the Habit’ and eventually upping the aggression with ‘Crawling.’ The group also continued their Beastie Boys tribute that they’ve done in recent shows by offering up a bridge of ‘Sabotage’ within the song ‘Bleed It Out.’

Off of the new ‘Living Things’ album, ‘Burn It Down’ and the latest single ‘Lost in the Echo’ got some play, before the group finished up the performance with ‘What I’ve Done’ and the song that started it all for them, ‘One Step Closer,’ leaving fans on a high note after a fun day in the Valley. Linkin Park’s Sirius/XM Town Hall Set List

0 Linkin Park will play at the Soundwave 2013 Festival

Linkin Park will play at the Soundwave 2013 Festival, speaking to Channel V , Chester said their set will include a mix of old and new.

Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington told us the band is stoked to be on the line-up. “We’re looking for any excuse to get to Australia, honestly. We’re so excited to get back there and to be part of a great festival,” he said. “I know Soundwave’s kind of a newer festival, so we’re excited to hopefully build a legacy there like some other great bands. We’ll at least give people something special while we’re there.”

Bennington also said that Linkin Park’s Soundwave set will include a mix of old and new tracks. “‘Burn It Down’, ‘Lost In The Echo’, ‘In My Remains’, ‘Victimized’, ‘Lies Greed Misery’ are all going to be part of our set going forward,” he said. “At that point maybe ‘Powerless’ will be getting worked in there, so a lot of the new record is going to be incorporated into our new set, as well as a lot of the songs that people really want to hear. And also some songs that we’ve put on the backburner for a while, so hopefully a lot of a our fans that came to our last show will get something that they didn’t really get before.”

Soundwave 2013 dates:

Saturday 23rd February – Brisbane
Sunday 24th February – Sydney
Friday 1st March – Melbourne
Saturday 2nd March – Adelaide
Monday 4th March – Perth

Tickets onsale Thursday, August 23rd 2012 at 9am

0 Linkin Park SiriusXM town hall concert

Linkin Park had a Q&A session with an audience of SiriusXM listeners last night, the band played also played an intimate concert as part of “Town Hall” Special. The show will air on Octane, channel 37, on Tuesday, August 14 at 9:00 pm ET and will be rebroadcast throughout the week.

0 Q&A with Chester Bennington on Take 40′s Google+ Hangout

Take 40 had a Q&A session with Chester Bennington recently on Google+ where he answered fans questions about music video, his song writing process and playing them live, his favourite crowd and venue, he also talked about hanging out with Bono and Oprah during Linkin Park’s last visit to Australia, playing with artists he admires, being starstruck and more. Watch video below.

0 The Number One, Twitter Responses, and a New Linkin Park Video Game.

I wanted to take a moment to respond to a couple things online that caught my eye. These responses seemed worth more time than a tweet, so I collected them for answers here.

1.) First off, thanks to the fans for making LIVING THINGS #1 in the U.S. this week. Billboard says that LP now holds the record for the most consecutive #1 albums on the Billboard 200 chart since the year 2000. A surprising bit of trivia, though: the five albums are Meteora, Collision Course, Minutes To Midnight, A Thousand Suns, and LIVING THINGS…Hybrid Theory, although it did stay in the Billboard Top 100 for over 100 weeks, peaked at #2, and never made it to #1.

2.) On Twitter this week, @8bitesquivel said: “Help us!!! There’s this page on Facebook called “Linkin Park Sucks” Help us remove it!!!!!”

Dearest 8bitesquivel, I appreciate your fervor. But remember:

3.) Next up, a random one on, again from Twitter. @EpicDrumGamer asked: “is it a bad idea to hear the whole band in the monitors? Ask Rob?  (I drum)”.

Monitors are a very individual thing. Most of my bandmates use in-ears, but Brad prefers to use speaker monitors. We all like to hear different things in our mix. But as a rule of thumb, make sure your monitors let you hear whatever makes you play your best show. If hearing vocals distracts you, mute them. If you want to lock in with your bassist, turn them up. And if you are playing shows at a club level, where your monitor mix is unpredictable, try to do whatever you can to make your monitor mix as foolproof as possible. Some guys just put a click track into their in-ears, and leave it at that!

4.) Here’s a big piece of news that’s slowly starting to leak out there: we’re making a new Linkin Park game! It will be available on Facebook, and we announced it in conjunction with the Rio+Social event. Here’s a video describing it, below. The idea was inspired by the Music For Relief “Power The World” campaign, so it’s got a philanthropic twist…but first and foremost, we’re trying to make a game that’s FUN.

5.) Lastly, a huge thank you to all the fans who helped give LIVING THINGS a warm welcome into the world. Here are some worldwide first-week stats for LP fans to enjoy:

US #1
Canada #1
Austria #1
Belgium #3
Czech Republic #1
Denmark #2
Finland #1 (Gold Album)
France #2
Germany #1 (Gold Albun)
Holland #1 (1st ever #1 there)
Hungary #1
Ireland #2
Italy #2 first week, #1 second week
Norway #3
Poland #1 (Gold Album)
Portugal #1
Slovenia #1
Spain #2
Sweden #6
Switzerland #2
UK #1
Australia #2
New Zealand #1
India #1
Japan #1
Taiwan #1
Thailand #1
Singapore #1
Malaysia #1