Linkin Park

Linkin Park — Road To Revolution

Linkin Park's popularity has always been perplexing, and nowhere more so than in England. It's amazing that the band have remained popular long after nu-metal's death knell was sounded, particularly since they seem to have tried to reinvent themselves as a somewhat more aggressive power-pop band over the last few years. This DVD was filmed in...
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Linkin Park's Road To Revolution

STP Rock Edgefest

Before I say anything about this year's Edgefest, let me take a moment to commend the organizers for one thing: the food. Never in my life have I seen such a smorgasbord of goodies up for grabs at a show. Nearly every cuisine was represented on the concert grounds. You want a burrito? No problem. Jerk chicken? They had it. Lasagna? Only five...
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Scott Weiland

Linkin Park At The Forefront Of Projekt Revolution

Even the weather was emo.Through the chill, the gloomy greyness and the occasional spot of rain, thousands of all-agers stuck it out from noon to the late hours at the Molson Amphitheatre, eager to catch the day's worth of bands at the Projekt Revolution festival — or, at least, to get a good seat for the evening's joint headliners: My Chemical...
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Linkin Park

Linkin Park — Minutes To Midnight

Linkin Park have finally realized that rap-rock is dead. To celebrate their discovery, they've released Minutes To Midnight, their third proper album which virtually annihilates the rap and ratchets up the rock. Produced by Rick Rubin (Rage Against The Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers) and group member Mike Shinoda, Minutes To Midnight comes four...
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Linkin Park's Minutes To Midnight

Fort Minor — The Rising Tied

Surrounded by lumbering, overproduced guitars and the angsty wail of singer Chester Bennington, Mike Shinoda's mediocre rhymes always seemed like an afterthought in Linkin Park. As such, Shinoda's solo effort, The Rising Tied, recorded under his Fort Minor moniker, is a bit surprising for the way it validates the rapper-producer's skills. Shinoda...
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Fort Minor - The Rising Tied

Linkin Park — Reanimation

The album art of Linkin Park's Reanimation features various Manga-styled images of Transformers. They serve as apt visual representations of the music enclosed within the package. The disc, comprised primarily of reworked songs from the band's best-selling Hybrid Theory album, features a wide array of collaborators from both the hip-hop and...
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Linkin Park - Reanimation

I Read The News Today... For June 21, 2011

Cancer Bats are working on the follow-up to last year's Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones, which they say should feature plenty of Sabbath-esque riffs. And, y'know... screaming. That, too. Anet Mook, singer for '90s indie rockers Cay, died earlier this month after she was hit by a bus in Amsterdam. Her funeral was held last Thursday.Your mom...
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Cancer Bats

I Read The News Today... For April 20, 2011

If you've been waiting over three years to hear some falsetto folk crooning, you won't have to much longer: Bon Iver's self-titled sophomore album is out June 21. First Rusty reunited... now SIANspheric have reunited. Or will reunite on May 14 to play a show with stoner rockers Quest For Fire in Hamilton, Ont. —Facebook Diamond Rings has signed...
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Bon Iver

Linkin Park, Modern Superstitions, Tune-Yards Join Japanese Relief Projects

It's been over two weeks since a 9.0-magnitude earthquake hit northeastern Japan and an ensuing tsunami killed thousands and left tens of thousands more missing. Early yesterday, a 6.7-magnitude earthquake occurred off the coast of northeastern Japan. The country is still struggling to deal radioactive contamination leaks at nuclear plants that...
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Musicians Step Up For Japanese Earthquake, Tsunami Relief

We doubt there's anyone out there who hasn't heard about what happened in Japan last week, but just in case, here's a recap for those who live under a boulder:An earthquake with a magnitude of 8.9 occurred off the Pacific coast of Japan near the city of Sendai on Friday afternoon. It triggered a tsunami which has caused extensive damage, flooding...
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I Read The News Today... For Jan. 11, 2011

Janelle Monae, Shad, Hollerado, Hannah Georgas, Bombay Bicycle Club and Desperate Union will perform at this year's Independent Music Awards, which will be held during Canadian Music Week on March 12 at Toronto's Fairmont Royal York Hotel. —indies.ca Hey Rosetta!'s Seeds sophomore album is coming out on Feb. 15. —heyrosetta.com ROCK ON! Here's...
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Hey Rosetta!

I Read The News Today... For Dec. 7, 2010

The Tragically Hip's Paul Langlois released his Fix This Head debut solo album today. "Can't Wait Anymore," which appears on it, was used in Nov. 20's Toronto Maple Leafs/Montreal Canadiens game. You can hear it here. Jay-Z says he supports (and supported) Kanye West's "George Bush doesn't care about black people" comments in the wake of Hurricane...
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I Read The News Today... For Oct. 13, 2010

Lykke Li will release a new single, "Get Some," which will be available as a free download through her website on Oct. 25. —lykkeli.com Zeus will finish 2010 with a brief run of Canadian shows in December. —MySpaceCBC Radio 3's Grant Lawrence is going on a cross-Canada tour to support his first book, Adventures In Solitude (get a copy if you haven...
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Video Of The Day: Linkin Park's "Waiting For The End"

Whoaaaaaaaaaaaaaa... Linkin Park are turning into pixels in the video for A Thousand Suns' "Waiting For The End." Every part of their bodies seems to be either connected to or creating constellation-like grids. Forget techno; this is their space rock reinvention right here. Check out Linkin Park's video for "The Catalyst" here.
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Linkin Park — A Thousand Suns

Don't let first single "The Catalyst" fool you — A Thousand Suns isn't a complete throwback techno record. It also isn't a concept album. But it definitely ISN'T a rap-rock album either.While it's great to hear the band getting out of their nu-metal rut and trying new things on singles like the aforementioned track and "Wretches And Kings," A...
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I Read The News Today... For Sept. 8, 2010

Well, this was unexpected... Fucked Up guitarist Ben "Young Governor" Cook plays a drummer in the new Jonas Brothers movie. Get a load of this: The Toronto Public Library will launch its 2010 Make Some Noise series with a free show from Diamond Rings at its Parkdale branch (1303 Queen St. W.) on Oct. 8. —Toronto Public...
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Diamond Rings (Photo by Jess Baumung)

I Read The News Today… For Sept. 3, 2010

Calgary's Michael Bernard Fitzgerald is taking his folky tunes across most of western Canada with LIGHTS this fall. —Facebook "Radioactive," the first single from Kings Of Leon's new Come Around Sundown album, is out Oct. 12. It's out the following week in North America. —Sony Music How's this for bizarre:...
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