Linkin Park Moscow Concert Visuals

Ghost Town Media, known for working on the special effects of Meeting of A Thousand Suns and recent Linkin Park music videos, have released the concert visuals that they worked on for the Transformers: Dark Of The Moon premier concert in Moscow, Russia. The visuals include the Moscow concert intro, New Divide, What I've Done, and their recent single, Iridescent.

Ghost Town was tasked with creating visual assets to accompany Linkin Park at their performance for the premiere of “Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon” in Moscow, Russia. Unfortunately for fans of the band, those assets were created for that concert only, and tragically will never be seen again. However, fortunately for fans of the band, here they are! Enjoy! 

Click here to watch the visuals.

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"Iridescent" Artwork Contest Winner

Wan Muhammad Azzim from Melaka, Malaysia is the winner of the "Iridescent" Artwork contest. Check out his submission below. The runner up, also below, is Ashkan Harati from Belgium. Both entries were used on the screen at Linkin Park's performance in Moscow today. Thanks to everyone for participating. With so many amazing entries it was difficult to choose just one.

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Transformers 3 soundtrack album out today

Transformers: Dark of the Moon soundtrack album is out today!

Linkin Park contributes the song “Iridescent” (which also appears on Linkin Park’s 2010 album A Thousand Suns) to Transformers: Dark of the Moon. The track’s official video has already racked up more than two million views on YouTube since being uploaded on June 3rd. On the contribution, composer Steve Jablonsky says, “I respond to Linkin Park because they have a cinematic sensibility to their music that just translates to the big screen.”

Source : LPTimes

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Iridescent music video now online

Due to technical issues the video will be on LinkinPark.com tomorrow but it’s now online at MTV Asia, watch below, hope it’s not blocked in your country, otherwise just wait till tomorrow, it’ll be everywhere. The single is now on sale at iTunes near you.

also available on MTV Australia, MTV New Zealand, MTV Japan, MTV UK

Source : LPTimes 

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"Iridescent" Video Media Round-Up + Official Premiere Date

Linkin Park sent out a newsletter earlier today, announcing the release date for the new video as June 2nd on MTV.com in the following graphic:

Click to view the full-size image

If that tickles your fancy, the following two links should tie you over until Thursday:

First up is a behind-the-scenes look at the new video:

Next up is a preview clip of the beginning 35 seconds of the video:

Lastly, the band also posted a photo gallery of 13 new stills from the video on their Facebook page.

Source: Hybrid, Zane, ptto911, LPfreakification, LPAssociation

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Iridescent video is done and coming soon

Joe just tweeted saying the Iridescent music video is done and will be out soon. Mike has tweeted a picture of the final edit. Here’s a first look at the video via Linkin Park’s iPhone/Android app.
Linkin Park want to fly you to Moscow to be their official red carpet correspondent and see them perform at the Transformers 3 premiere. Details here.

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Linkin Park Detail Ongoing Recovery Efforts In Haiti

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More than a year has passed since an earthquake ravaged Haiti, and, as is sadly the case with disasters like this, the focus of the world has shifted elsewhere, despite the fact that the recovery effort is still very much ongoing.
But one group who hasn't forgotten about the Haitian people is Linkin Park, who, through their Music for Relief charity — and in conjunction with the United Nations Foundation — are working to bring light to the nation ... literally. They've begun a program to build solar-powered lights in many displacement camps (which are home to more than 1 million Haitians), and last week, though they were set to film a video for their new single "Iridescent," the band sent bassist Dave "Phoenix" Farrell down to Port-au-Prince to check on the progress.

"I just got back from Haiti last night," Farrell said on the Los Angeles set of "Iridescent." "I had gone over there to check on what we had been working on with Music for Relief, in conjunction with the United Nations Foundation. We've basically been working to install some solar-powered lighting in some of the camps there ... the camp in particular that we visited had 40,000 people ... and no electricity.
"So, at night, women and children are very susceptible to violence, rape, all kinds of really awful things, even when they're doing something as simple as trying to go to use the latrines, the restrooms, et cetera," Farrell continued. "We've been putting solar-powered lighting in strategic areas, and we've found that not only has that lowered the crime rate, but it's given the camps a place where kids can go and play in the evenings, and, in addition to that, we have students studying and reading at the lights at night."
And though Farrell said that he was "amazed" by the resiliency and spirit of the Haitian people, he realizes that bringing the nation back from the brink is an ongoing process — one that's going to take a lot longer than most could imagine. But, with his bandmates, the U.N. and his fellow musicians at his side, Farrell is confident that, eventually, Haiti will recover.
"We've always felt like music is a very inspiring and uniting force, and with Music for Relief, we've always wanted it to be something that's more," he said. "It's not supposed to be 'Linkin Park for Relief': It is really supposed to be 'Music for Relief.' We've always felt that with a united group of people, you can do a lot more than just as individuals."

Source : MTV

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Linkin Park and Transformers 3: First Look

We're excited to announce that our new single, “Iridescent,” will be featured in the upcoming film, Transformers: Dark of the Moon. “Iridescent” has always been a fan-favorite when we play live, so we're thrilled that Michael Bay decided to feature it in his third Transformers movie.


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Iridescent video concept

MTV has a behind the scenes clip of Iridescent music video and Mike and Joe talking about the concept of the video. The 3-D trailer of Transformers: Dark of the Moon will premiere in front of “Pirates of the Carribean: On Stranger Tides” which opens in theaters May 20.

Linkin Park lending their music to a “Transformers” movie isn’t exactly a new thing — the rockers are three-for-three at this point, having just shot a video for “Iridescent,”, the lead single off the soundtrack to the upcoming installment of the sci-fi/action franchise, “Transformers: Dark of the Moon.” What is new this time out is the concept of the video for the song, which, truth be told, is actually pretty confusing … even to the guys in LP themselves.
“All I know about the concept is that [Linkin Park turntablist/frequent director] Joe Hahn sent me an e-mail that said something about ‘In the valley of the blind, the one-eyed man is king,’ or something like that,” singer/rapper Mike Shinoda laughed. “And the next thing I know, I’ve got horns growing out of my shoulders, and I’ve got one blind eye, and I’ve got a white dog and a snake on a throne made of antlers. I think you’d have to ask Joe what that all means.”
Sounds like Hahn’s been catching up on his H.G. Wells. And while the “Iridescent” clip is just the latest in a long string of Linkin Park videos to be directed by Hahn, it’s perhaps his most out-there work to date. And that’s fitting, considering that ever since the band released their 2010 A Thousand Suns album, they’ve been working very hard at pushing boundaries, too. Then again, to hear the Linkin Park guys tell it, all you need to know about Hahn’s videos is that they are 100 percent his, coming from a place that even his bandmates don’t totally comprehend.
“As we’ve gone on, the videos have gotten more abstract,” Shinoda said. “[And] I kind of like that, I’ve been encouraging it with Joe, because … the stuff that goes on in his head is really interesting and really fun, and I think it probably comes from the fact he grew up reading a lot of comics, watching anime, those things. Especially in a video like this, you can tell the influences are there.”

 Source : LPTimes

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Iridescent: Transformers 3 Single

A few months ago, I got on the phone with Michael Bay, who wanted to discuss the possibility of our band continuing our run with songs paired with the Transformers films. We (he, his team, and our band) all have enjoyed working together on the past two, and he wanted to discuss the ideas we might have for Transformers 3: Dark Of The Moon. In particular, one song came up immediately. Ever since we started playing Iridescent live, the song has been a fan favorite at the show.

For the film, there’s a new, slightly shorter version of the song, which is floating around the internet now. We’ll be shooting a video for the song tomorrow, directed by Joe Hahn.

…Also, watch this guy. (Not Safe For Work)


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Linkin Park, moon, robots and leather

Something is happening at LinkinPark.com, you will notice a small moon at the top right corner of the page, click on it and you’ll see a 15 second teaser of a moon image turning into an image that features the Autobot symbol while snippet of Linkin Park’s Iridescent playing in the background. Joe tweeted earlier about a new video and asking “Do robots and leather look good together?”. So it looks like another LP song will be used in the Transformers: Dark Of The Moon movie which opens in theaters on July 1. Update: AOL reports that a remix of ‘Iridescent’ will serve as the the lead single off the forthcoming soundtrack to Transformers: Dark of the Moon. Listen here.

Source : LPTimes

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Between Hard Rock and a New Place: Appreciating Linkin Park

Just when you think you know what to expect from Linkin Park, they change it up. ROB O'CONNOR follows the band's  evolution, but will nu-metal fans go along for the art-rock ride?



W ith the exception of Led Zeppelin, who were an island unto themselves, hard rock bands have a tough time with appearing soft. It goes against their very definition: hard rock.

Agoura Hills, California’s Linkin Park have been gradually making that transition from your average mosh-pit variety nu-metal, rap rock band into an art rock band capable of U2-type seriousness and Pink Floyd-like conceptual heft.

Where tunes such as Hybrid Theory’s “In the End” and Meteora’s “Easier to Run” were the exceptions to their initial aggressive attack, years of mentoring under the production auspices of Rick Rubin have turned the group into a much more contemplative unit.

With that, critical respect for the band is ever so subtly changing. Where once the group was openly disparaged, according to Rolling Stone,  as “must have (being) designed in a laboratory as the consummate rap-metal band,” they have since begun receiving positive notices in The New York Times.

Linkin Park certainly know that all forms of hard rock have been ostracized upon initial impact. From Blue Cheer, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath through Judas Priest, Iron Maiden and Motörhead, it takes a ridiculous amount of persistence or patience for bands on the louder end of the spectrum to get any respect. If you’re Marillion or Black Oak Arkansas, you’re likely waiting for eternity.

The band’s latest studio release, 2010’s A Thousand Suns, solidifies the shift toward varied tunes and tones. The album emphasizes atmospheric shades, apocalyptic concepts and electronica interests just south of Radiohead. Linkin Park are steadily marshalling the troops towards the epicenter of “artistic respectability.” Do they need to?

Fact is, LP were doing just fine on their own. Their debut album, 2000’s Hybrid Theory, got called plenty of names resembling “derivative,” but the sales and audience reaction justified the existence of a band that had received multiple rejections from major labels before finally signing a deal.

The kids will always know what the adults never understand. Hybrid Theory wasn’t just an explanation of the group’s sound – a hybrid of metal and hip-hop exemplified by the melodic singing of Chester Bennington and the rapping of Mike Shinoda – but an accurate description of the band’s bi-polar emotional outbursts. Bennington ached to be loved and expressed deep insecurities while Shinoda launched to the front of the stage to fend off all doubters with his raps of defiance.

The band appeared to have a pinky swear with its audience to understand their grievances with growing up and the band’s second album, Meteora, further earned their audience’s trust with tunes like “Somewhere I Belong,” “Nobody’s Listening” and their concert fave “Numb.”

While the band spoke the language of youth in their lyrics, they also knew there were changes in the music world, subtle shifts that demanded remix albums and strategic alliances with others in neighboring genres. Their 2004 mash-up with Jay-Z for Collision Course, where Jay-Z’s raps are set to LP’s music, led to a hit and a Grammy Award for the track “Numb/ Encore.”  

A Thousand Suns, like its predecessor Minutes to Midnight, was produced by Rick Rubin, the man who gives new life to aging legends and a critical pedigree to everyone he meets. The resulting album plays as intended, as one long concept album concerning that most joyous of topics, human extinction, where songs segue from one another and sampled speeches give the album a feeling of, gulp, elegant power.  (Can fans forgive them for the piano ballad, “Iridescent”? Can critics get past the usual “extinction” clichés?)

The extra percussion and further reliance on keyboards suggest Linkin Park will continue to evolve. Sure, “Blackout” screams with the disgusted rage of yore, but even then it’s to increasingly computer-derived sound blocks that are far more futuristic than another guitar solo. That’s something you can’t say for many hard rock bands that believe mining the same territory, repeatedly, is the only way to get the job done.



LP’s audience may appreciate the doomsday scenario of “The Catalyst,” but can its Euro-disco aura really be any substitute for the tough gnarl of fan-favorite oldies such as “ Papercut,” “Points of Authority” and “Don’t Stay”?

Large audiences, though, have a way of surprising us often more than the bands they love. LP have always had serious musical undercurrents guiding their travels. Together, perhaps, they’ll discover a new musical planet. To hell with the nay-sayers.  

Source : Fuse.tv

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Iridescent Lyrics

Iridescent

You were standing in the wake of devastation
And you were waiting on the edge of the unknown
And with the cataclysm raining down
Insides crying "Save me now"
You were there, impossibly alone

Do you feel cold and lost in desperation?
You build up hope, but failure’s all you’ve known
Remember all the sadness and frustration
And let it go. Let it go

And in a burst of light that blinded every angel
As if the sky had blown the heavens into stars
You felt the gravity of tempered grace
Falling into empty space
No one there to catch you in their arms

Do you feel cold and lost in desperation?
You build up hope, but failure’s all you’ve known
Remember all the sadness and frustration
And let it go. Let it go

Do you feel cold and lost in desperation?
You build up hope, but failure’s all you’ve known
Remember all the sadness and frustration
And let it go. Let it go

Let it go
Let it go
Let it go
Let it go

Do you feel cold and lost in desperation?
You build up hope, but failure’s all you’ve known
Remember all the sadness and frustration
And let it go. Let it go

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A Thousand Suns

A Thousand Suns (Indonesia: "Seribu Matahari") adalah album studio ke-3 dari grup musik beraliran rock dari Amerika Serikat, Linkin Park. Album ini akan dirilis pada tanggal 13 dan 14 September, 2010, di negara UK dan USA, masing-masing melalui Warner Bros. Records.^[1][2] Album ini diproduksi oleh Rick Rubin dan penyanyi Linkin Park Mike Shinoda, yang sebelumnya bekerja memproduksi Minutes to Midnight (2007).^[3] Singel pertama untuk album ini bernama "The Catalyst", dirilis ke radio pada tanggal 2 Agustus, 2010.^[1]

Daftar isi [sembunyikan] 1 Daftar Lagu 1.1 Reguler 1.2 iTunes Bonus lagu edisi deluxe 1.3 Bonus lagu versi Jepang 1.4 Linkin Park, Featuring You special track 2 Sejarah Rilis 3 Penampilan di media populer 4 Personel 5 Referensi

Daftar Lagu

Reguler

1. "The Requiem"
2. "The Radiance"
3. "Burning in the Skies"
4. "Empty Spaces"
5. "When They Come for Me"
6. "Robot Boy"
7. "Jornada Del Muerto"
8. "Waiting for the End"
9. "Blackout"
10. "Wretches and Kings"
11. "Wisdom, Justice, and Love"
12. "Iridescent"
13. "Fallout"
14. "The Catalyst" – 5:42
15. "The Messenger"

iTunes Bonus lagu edisi deluxe

• "Blackbirds" - 3:21 (Berasal dari 8-Bit Rebellion!)

Bonus lagu versi Jepang

• "New Devide" (Live)

Linkin Park, Featuring You special track

• "The Catalyst" - 4:22 (NoBraiN remix)

Sejarah Rilis

Daerah	Tanggal
Jepang	8 September, 2010
Britania Raya	13 September, 2010
Amerika Serikat	14 September, 2010

Penampilan di media populer

• Lagu "The Catalyst" ditampilkan di trailer video game Medal of Honor yang muncul pada tanggal 1 Agustus, 2010. Trailer ini disusun oleh Joe Hahn. Lagu ini juga menjadi salah satu soundtrack di permainan ini yang akan diliris pada tanggal 12 Oktober, 2010.^[4]

• Lagu "The Catalyst" digunakan di acara X Games XVI selama during beberapa bagian tinjauan saat kembali dari iklan.^[5]

Personel

Linkin Park

• Chester Bennington – vokalis utama
• Rob Bourdon – drummer, vokal latar
• Brad Delson – gitaris utama
• Dave "Phoenix" Farrell – bassis
• Joe Hahn – turntable, sampling, programming, Synthesizer
• Mike Shinoda – vokalis, gitaris kedua, keyboard

Produksi

• Diproduced oleh Rick Rubin dan Mike Shinoda.

Referensi

1. ^ ^{a b} Linkin Park A Thousand Suns Details Revealed. Metal Hammer. Diakses pada 10 Juli 2010
2. ^ Linkin Park: New Album Title, Release Date Announced. Blabbermouth.net. Roadrunner Records. Diakses pada 8 Juli 2010
3. ^ New Linkin Park Album Due September 14. FMQB. Diakses pada 8 Juli 2010
4. ^ Hahn, Joe "THE CATALYST" IN MEDAL OF HONOR. LinkinPark.com. Diakses pada 29 Juli 2010
5. ^ "Music on ESPN X Games broadcasts. Diakses pada 29 Juli 2010

A Thousand Suns
Album studio oleh Linkin Park
Terbit	14 September 2010 (2010-09-14)
Direkam	2008 - 2010
Label	Warner Bros.
Produser	Rick Rubin, Mike Shinoda
Kronologi Linkin Park
Road to Revolution: Live at Milton Keynes (2008) A Thousand Suns (2010) Singel dari album A Thousand Suns "The Catalyst" Waktu rilis: August 2, 2010

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