Linkin Park is canceling its China tour because lead singer Chester Bennington has suffered a back injury. The band didn't say Tuesday how Bennington suffered the injury. ...
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Record first-half sales of video and computer games got a big boost from Rockstar Games' "Grand Theft Auto IV" and Activision's "Guitar Hero III." Previewed at...
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Linkin Park, Chris Cornell and the Bravery will perform on the main stage of the fifth annual Projekt Revolution tour, set to begin July 16 at the Tweeter Center outside...
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Linkin Park might have proved why it is at the top of the arena rock game in its sold-out Los Angeles homecoming Tuesday, but the band also demonstrated why it isn't yet...
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The night before they were set to play for thousands of people at one of the world's most famous venues, Linkin Park performed a midnight show for a small group of fans in...
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A woman who stalked Linkin Park lead singer Chester Bennington was sentenced Wednesday to two years in prison for using her work computer at Sandia National Laboratories to...
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A Linkin Park fan who crossed the line between avid and obsessive, and dragged both into the digital age, is finally facing the music.
A New Mexico judge sentenced Devon...
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With the announcement of Linkin
Park's November 18 show at the 25,000-capacity Hongkou Stadium
in Shanghai -- reportedly the biggest Chinese concert yet by...
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Chester Bennington broke his arm during a show in Australia this weekend, it has been confirmed.
The Linkin Park star fell from the stage four songs into the band's concert...
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Warner Music Group Corp., one of the world's largest recording companies, said Tuesday its fiscal third-quarter loss widened as more people bought digital music, rather than...
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Linkin Park are to headline the Tokyo leg of the forthcoming Live Earth concerts.
The global gigs, which take place across all seven continents on July 7, begin a one-year...
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Midnight never seemed so bright.
Linkin Park's latest, Minutes to Midnight, clocked in at number one on the Billboard 200 with the biggest sales debut of the year. The...
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Here's a collision course Chester Bennington would rather avoid.
An avid fan of the Linkin Park singer has been arrested for illegally hacking Bennington's cell phone and...
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The Rising Tied, the first album by Fort Minor -- the solo project of Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda -- debuted at Number 67 on the Billboard 200, selling more than 28,000...
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Linkin Park vocalist Chester Bennington and his wife, Samantha, are splitting up after nine years of marriage, according to Celebrity Justice. "Irreconcilable differences"...
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Linkin Park, Blink 182, Ozzy Osbourne and No Doubt are among the artists confirmed to perform at the Concert For South Asia, according to MTV.com. The event will take place...
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The third season of American Idol kicked off this week on FOX with the final auditions show airing Wednesday (January 21) at 8 p.m. ET. The three opening shows take a...
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Linkin Park and P.O.D. will hit the road together in the new year. LAUNCH has learned exclusively that Hoobastank and new band Story Of The Year will also be on the bill....
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Linkin Park and Papa Roach are among the artists confirmed to play the sixth annual Smokeout Festival on November 15, at the NOS Event Center in San Bernardino, California....
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Linkin Park played to a sold-out crowd of 50,000 in Kuala Lumpur, the capitol city of Malaysia, on Wednesday night (October 15). According to emedia.com, the band performed...
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Linkin Park has set Live In Texas as the name of their upcoming CD and DVD. The disks were filmed and recorded at an August 2 show in Houston, Texas, and an August 3...
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Linkin Park's second full-length album, Meteora, has been certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association Of America for sales of over three million copies....
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Linkin Park DJ Joseph "Mr." Hahn has acquired the rights to a dark fantasy novel called King Rat, by British author China Mieville, for his feature film directorial debut....
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Linkin Park's planned concert in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur is being protested by an Islamist opposition group. The group called Parti Islam se-Malaysia says the...
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Although Linkin Park is touring overseas through the end of the year, the group plans to write new material while on the road for what will likely be their third album....
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(8/22/03, 10 a.m. ET) – The Reading and Leeds Festivals take place this weekend in the U.K. and between the two festivals they've assembled a huge roster of talent. Bands...
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"Faint," the latest single from Linkin Park's most recent album, Meteora, is still at the top spot on the Billboard Modern Rock chart. It's the band's second Number One...
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Linkin Park will be headlining the upcoming Livid Festival in Australia. The band will be joining the bill that already includes the White Stripes, Jurassic 5, Black Rebel...
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Linkin Park had great success with its 2001 DVD/VHS video, Frat Party At The Pankake Festival, which peaked at Number Four on the Soundscan Music Home Video chart. Singer...
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Linkin Park, whose Meteora is one of the biggest selling rock albums of 2003, has joined the likes of Kid Rock, Metallica, and Green Day in nixing Internet sales and...
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Linkin Park is a part of Metallica's Summer Sanitarium tour this summer, and singer Chester Bennington is holding up fine for a man who was in the hospital a month ago with...
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Kid Rock, Linkin Park, Metallica, and Green Day are just a few of the bands who have changed their tune on the subject of music downloading. The aforementioned acts have...
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Linkin Park may be assembling footage for a DVD to be released in November. If the band goes through with plans to release it, it will be the first since the highly...
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Linkin Park has announced rescheduled dates from this spring's Projekt Revolution tour. The band missed the opening date of the tour in Rochester, New York, and a few others...
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Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington was released from a Los Angeles area hospital on Monday (June 9) after spending a week in intensive care. He wanted to thank everyone...
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Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington was released from the hospital late Monday (June 9) night, feeling better after a mysterious ailment that caused him chest, abdominal...
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Linkin Park vocalist Chester Bennington is still in an undisclosed Los Angeles area hospital with intense stomach and back pain, but his condition is improving, said a...
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Linkin Park has postponed and possibly cancelled all of its European tour dates because vocalist Chester Bennington is suffering from severe back and abdominal...
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Linkin Park took time off during May after wrapping up its Projekt Revolution tour on April 25 in support of its most recent album, Meteora. The band is currently rehearsing...
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Linkin Park finished its Projekt Revolution tour in Rapids City, South Dakota on Saturday (April 26). A day before the last gig, drummer Rob Bourdon reflected on the tour,...
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Linkin Park cancelled its Projekt Revolution tour opener in Rochester, New York earlier this month (April 7) due to a snowstorm. Part of the rationale for deciding to...
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U2, Garth Brooks, and Linkin Park are just a few of the stars who have placed autographed guitars on the auction block in the name of the Save The Earth Foundation. Other...
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Linkin Park holds on to the Number One spot on the latest Soundscan album chart for a second week with its new album, Meteora; while rapper 50 Cent's former Number One...
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Linkin Park's Projekt Revolution tour is now scheduled to begin tonight (April 9) in State College, Pennsylvania due to the snowstorm that hit the northeast on Monday (April...
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Linkin Park's album Meteora made its debut at Number One on the Billboard charts. The album has already sold a whopping 811,000 copies--almost 400,000 copies more than...
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If Linkin Park's new Warner Bros. album, Meteora, debuts at Number One on the album sales chart on Wednesday (April 2)--as it's expected to--it won't be thanks to Olsson's...
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Linkin Park released its album, Meteora, on Tuesday (March 25), and the band has every intent on making it a global album.
DJ Mr. Hahn said that the band wants to play...
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Linkin Park releases its album Meteora on Tuesday (March 25), and chances are the set will debut high on the charts. The band made an appearance at a Los Angeles-area record...
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Linkin Park taped an episode of MTV2's 2$Bill Concert Series on Monday (March 17) at the State Theatre in Detroit. The show will air at 9 p.m. ET on Tuesday (March 25), the...
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Linkin Park will release Meteora on March 25. The album is the group's follow-up to its eight-times platinum 2000 debut, Hybrid Theory.
The band has included several bonus...
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Linkin Park has revealed dates for its forthcoming Projekt Revolution tour, which starts April 8 in Rochester, New York. The dates are separate from the special free shows...
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Linkin Park is rewarding members of its fanclub, LP Underground, with a series of free shows in March. The band will one-up the "Thank You" to fans by giving them an...
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Linkin Park has officially announced its list of cities it is set to visit during its Projekt Revolution 2003 tour.
Dates and venues have not been finalized yet, but the...
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Limp Bizkit joins Linkin Park, Mudvayne, and the Deftones for Summer Sanitarium 2003.
One would think that Bizkit and Metallica would be strange bedfellows, considering...
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Linkin Park, Metallica, and Limp Bizkit will officially announce their tour today (February 5) at a press conference in Los Angeles. The tour, as first reported here back on...
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Linkin Park is currently holed up in a California studio rehearsing for its European Tour, its North American club tour, and North American arena tour. The band will hit the...
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Linkin Park's new album, Meteora, is at the pressing plant right now waiting to be multiplied and distributed around the world, according to DJ Joe Hahn. The band will tour...
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Linkin Park's Meteora is set to be released March 25, but the title of the album isn't taken from the obvious.
"Actually we were touring in Europe, and inside the bus, the...
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Linkin Park's newest effort will hit stores March 25. Meteora was produced by Don Gilmore, who was at the helm for the band's monster hit Hybrid Theory. The first single...
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Linkin Park is mapping out its itinerary to support its next, still untitled, album and will take it international. Dates haven't been solidified, but the band is eyeing...
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Linkin Park, System Of A Down, Nelly Furtado, and Avril Lavigne are among the two-time nominees for the MTV Video Music Awards Latin America, taking place October 24 in...
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Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington has bowed out of a planned benefit concert appearance next month in Phoenix in order to focus on the making of the group's next...
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Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington is set to join his former band Grey Daze at Phoenix, Arizona's Dodge Theater on September 7 in a benefit concert for friend and former...
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The heavy presence of rap and experimental sounds on Linkin Park's new remix album, Reanimation, should not be looked at as a hint of what's to come on the band's second...
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Linkin Park's remix album, Reanimation, has debuted at Number Two on the Billboard 200 album sales chart with just more than 270,000 copies sold during the week, according...
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Linkin Park returned to record stores Tuesday (July 30) with the release of Reanimation, a remix album spawned from its multiplatinum debut release, Hybrid Theory.
The...
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Pharoahe Monch is among the All-Star lineup of MCs featured on Linkin Park's remix album, Reanimation, due out on July 30 on Warner Bros. Pharoahe appears on the song "H!...
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Alternative rock/hip-hop band Linkin Park solicited a number of respected underground MC and turntablists to contribute to the group's remix album, Reanimation, due out on...
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The Linkin Park success story has added another chapter, with its debut album, Hybrid Theory now being certified eight times platinum for sales reaching the 8 million mark,...
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Live versions of Staind's "It's Been Awhile," Linkin Park's "One Step Closer," and Stone Temple Pilots' "Wicked Garden" are among the hits featured on The Family Values Tour...
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Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington and wife Samantha welcomed a new baby boy into the world on April 19. The baby and mother are reportedly doing fine.
Bennington has...
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Stone Temple Pilots have four songs on the forthcoming Family Values 2001 album, two of which feature guest appearances. Linkin Park vocalist Chester Bennington is featured...
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Collaborations between members of Stone Temple Pilots, Linkin Park, and Staind are featured on the Family Values 2001 live album, due in stores May 7. The collection is made...
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Linkin Park will play a benefit concert planned by Los Angeles-area teens for Los Angeles's first pediatric hospice, to be held at the House Of Blues on the Sunset Strip on...
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Linkin Park vocalist Chester Bennington recorded vocals for "System," a song written by Jonathan Davis and Richard Gibbs for the movie Queen Of The Damned. The song was...
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Linkin Park and Creed both increased their multiplatinum status with their latest releases, and No Doubt's Rock Steady reached platinum in recent certifications by the...
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Linkin Park wants fans to know the band is alive and well after some web surfers got hysterical over a fake CNN.com link that reported that the band had died. The faux...
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Linkin Park's Projekt Revolution tour kicked off Tuesday night (January 29) in Colorado Springs with tour openers DJ Z-Trip, Adema, Cypress Hill, and a slew of local DJs...
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Godsmack is nominated for a Grammy for the instrumental "Vampires." The band's frontman Sully Erna told LAUNCH he isn't only pleased with his band's nod. He's also...
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Linkin Park 's home video Frat Party At The Pankake Festival is still one of the top 10 best-selling music DVDs according to Soundscan. After peaking at Number Four, it now...
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Korn vocalist Jonathan Davis will not appear on the soundtrack to the forthcoming movie Queen Of The Damned due to a stipulation in his contract with Epic Records, which...
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Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda and DJ Joe Hahn have recorded a track with hip-hop turntablists X-ecutioners for the group's Built From Scratch, which is set for a February 26...
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Linkin Park is looking forward to its Projekt Revolution Tour, which also features Adema, Cypress Hill, and DJ Z-Trip. The tour starts January 29 at the World Arena in...
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U2 and the Dave Matthews Band are each up for two American Music Awards tonight (January 9), when the show airs from Los Angeles on ABC at 8 p.m. ET/PT.
Linkin Park is up...
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Linkin Park scored three Grammy nominations--best new artist, best rock album (Hybrid Theory), and best hard rock performance ("Crawling"). The nominations cap an amazing...
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A December surge in sales has made Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory the best-selling album of 2001, besting Shaggy's blockbuster release Hotshot by just over 300,000 units....
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Linkin Park will cease promoting its multi-platinum debut album, Hybrid Theory, after its upcoming Projekt Revolution tour next month and concentrate on writing and...
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Members of Linkin Park have definitely been thinking about the meaning of Christmas. Singer Mike Shinoda told LAUNCH that he gets involved in the charitable Christmas dinner...
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Linkin Park has signed Adema, Cypress Hill, and Z-Trip for its Projekt Revolution Tour. The package tour is set to begin in January and run through February, possibly going...
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Linkin Park is in the process of organizing its own headlining tour, the first Projekt Revolution Tour, tentatively set for January of 2002. It's being planned for U.S....
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Linkin Park has had a monster 2001, and the band will top the year by giving fans a DVD titled Linkin Park: Frat Party At The Pankake Festival. The release, due November 20,...
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Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory has been certified triple-platinum by the Recording Industry Association Of America for sales of 3 million copies. Meanwhile, "In The End," the...
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Linkin Park is teaming up with turntable masters the X-ecutioners both in the studio and the live setting. The pairing will first be witnessed on a nationally televised...
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Linkin Park has completed its OzzFest tour dates, and is readying a new single, "In the End," to follow "Crawling," which is still getting lots or airplay. The video for 'In...
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Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington will seek treatment for a poisonous spider bite he received on August 8 at a hotel in the Boston area (Mansfield, Massachusetts) while...
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Linkin Park took some time off in between OzzFest dates to lens the video for its next single, "In The End" last week. DJ Joseph Hahn and Nathan Cox co-produced the clip,...
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Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory and Staind's new release Break The Cycle have been certified double platinum for sales of 2 million copies, according to the Recording Industry...
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Metallica, Linkin Park, and the Deftones were among the music acts honored at Saturday's (April 7) ESPN Action Sports & Music Awards in Los Angeles. The first-time awards...
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Linkin Park and Stereomud are leading the charge for the sixth annual Boarding For Breast Cancer (BBC) Snowboard & Music Festival in Sierra at Tahoe, California on April...
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Linkin Park has been linked to the controversy surrounding Santee, California, teenager Charles "Andy" Williams, who opened fire on his schoolmates, killing two on Monday...
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Members of Linkin Park have definitely been thinking about the meaning of Christmas. Singer Mike Shinoda told LAUNCH that he gets involved in the charitable Christmas...
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Linkin Park has done its share of radio festivals, which allowed the band to meet some of their heroes. One such hero is Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland.
Linkin...
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Between its song "One Step Closer" and its live show, Linkin Park has been building momentum while winning a growing legion of fans, including many from other bands. Singer...
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Linkin Park and Papa Roach will share the stage starting December 5 in Columbus, Ohio, as their two tours intersect at various points throughout the month. The two bands...
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Linkin Park is "One Step Closer" to the top of the alternative charts, but fans must learn to spell the band's name correctly: "L-i-n-k-i-n." Chester Bennington, one of...
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