Bid on Kobayashi Helmet

  When Linkin Park was in Singapore during our tour in Asia, we had the opportunity to meet Formula 1 driver Kamui Kobayashi. We talked about Music For Relief’s  activities to support earthquake and tsunami recovery in Japan. He said he wanted to help, so we teamed up with Sauber F1 team and Kobayashi sponsor    Goodsmile Company and designed an original helmet that Kobayashi will wear for the last race of the season at the Brazilian Grand Prix on November 27th.  Following the race, we’ll auction off the helmet HERE and all proceeds will benefit Music For Relief’s Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Relief. The auction starts on  Thursday, November 24 at 9:00 am EST.

For more information, visit MusicForRelief.org.

Linkin Park’s ‘New Divide’

New Divide or New Horizon?
After lying low for almost 2 years, Linkin Park are back with quite an impact – their new song, “New Divide” is featured as a theme song in one of this summer’s most anticipated movies – the Transformer’s sequel, Revenge of the Fallen. The movie will be in theaters on June 24, 2009.  The single is already available for purchase on iTunes.

“New Divide” has made history by being just the 3rd record in history to debut in the Top 10 on the American Billboard Hot 100 Chart & Modern Rock Chart simultaneously.  Linkin Park’s “What I’ve Done” also enjoyed similar success.  The track is “built on layered, heavy synths and a sharp performance by Mr. Bourdon.” It also creates “a nice interplay between the organic feel of the rhythm track and the more robotic feel of the keyboards.”

Mike Shinoda recently spoke with Entertainment Weekly about Linkin Park’s brand new single.

I feel like “New Divide” is the beginning of a new phase for our band. We’re hoping to release things a little bit more often. We’re hoping to have Chester’s solo album, which will be under the project title of Dead By Sunrise, out by the end of this year. And we’ll have a new Linkin Park record out next year.

Creating The Song
Linkin Park give a small glimpse into the creating of the song “New Divide” in the video below, as they collaborate on creating the track.

Making the Video
Directed by the band’s own DJ, Joe Hahn, the video for “New Divide” will depict Linkin Park band members being  ‘yanked around by unseen forces and out of control’.  Images of the band members were captured as they performed for the production of the video, in which they literally fly around the set with slings on their backs.

          

          

As the on-set footage of the music video reveals (see clip below), the concept of the video is quite unique with regard to the distinct interpretive methods Joe Hahn has employed. According to Mike Shinoda “[Joe] is planning on using a lot of really interesting cutting-edge visual techniques, blurring the line between our performance and some kind of digital/mechanical reality.” Chester Bennington puts it more simply, describing the experience as being “in a tomb rocking out and there’s a huge dead Transformer.”

 

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Chester in Crank:High Voltage

Watch out for the release of Crank: High Voltage which opens on Friday, April 17. You’ll catch a glimpse of Chester Bennington who makes an appearance in the movie – you’ll see him when he has a reported run-in with Jason Statham’s Chev at a horse track. Chester also had a cameo in the previous Crank film. Tool’s Maynard James Keenan also makes an appearance and plays a dog walker who also encounters Chev. The soundtrack for the movie was produced by Mike Patton of Faith No More fame.

Linkin park

Linkin Park is an American rock band from Agoura Hills, California. Formed in 1996, the band rose to international fame with their debut album, Hybrid Theory, which was certified Diamond by the RIAA in 2005 and multi-platinum in several other countries. Its following studio album, Meteora, continued the band’s success, topping the Billboard 200 album chart in 2003, and was followed by extensive touring and charity work around the world. In 2003, MTV2 named Linkin Park the sixth greatest band of the music video era and the third best of the new millennium behind Oasis and Coldplay. Billboard ranked Linkin Park #19 on the Best Artists of the Decade chart.

Having adapted the nu metal and rap metal genres to a radio-friendly yet densely layered style in Hybrid Theory and Meteora, the band explored other genres in their next studio album, Minutes to Midnight, which was released in 2007. The album topped the Billboard charts and had the third best debut week of any album that year. The band has collaborated with several other artists, most notably with rapper Jay-Z in their mashup EP Collision Course, and many others included on Reanimation. The band’s most recent work, the concept album A Thousand Suns, was released on September 8, 2010. Linkin Park has sold over 50 million albums worldwide and has won two Grammy Awards.