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]]>Linkin Park co-founder Mike Shinoda, who is currently promoting his first solo album Post Traumatic, recently had an interview with iHeartRadio’s Inside The Studio podcast and inevitably had to answer the question about the band’s future.
“I don’t know,” said Shinoda. “That’s the million-dollar question, right? And, unfortunately, I’ve said it before, but there aren’t any answers to that at this point. It would be awesome if there were. That would be really easy.”
Shinoda said that things would be much easier if they had found themselves in the situation AC/DC was in 1980.
“I wish we were in a Brian Johnson/Bon Scott situation where it’s, like, no, the guy, our best friend, who sang for the band who passed away, he literally said, ‘This is the guy,’ and we listened to the guy and the guy’s definitely the guy, and we all love hanging out with him, and we want to play with him. That didn’t happen to anybody else, really. That hasn’t happened to us,” he added.
Mike Shinoda also talked about the future of Linkin Park with Billboard, and said that the rest of the band will reveal the plans when “there’s a clear message.”
“We’ll let everybody know when there’s a clear message,” Shinoda told Billboard. “We all have different, varying degrees of interest and stamina right now, and I don’t want to hold anybody to anything they can’t or they don’t want to do. We still talk all the time. I joined Dave (Farrell) for his Member Guest podcast, and I just shot some emails back and forth to Joe [Hahn]. We’re always talking.”
Mike Shinoda released his first new music since Chester Bennington’s death in January 2018, presenting a three-song EP Post Traumatic. He then decided to make a full-length album, his first solo release. The album, also titled Post Traumatic, is out now.
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]]>Shinoda will be performing songs from his recent 3-song EP and upcoming full-length album which are both titled Post-Traumatic.
Linkin Park have been inactive since Chester Bennington, who shared vocal duties with Shinoda, passed away last August. In spite of this, the band have not announced that they are breaking up.
Shinoda released an EP titled Post-traumatic in January, where he appears to reflect on his feelings and experiences following the death of Bennington.
While speaking about his upcoming performances, Shinoda said: “I’m looking forward to getting back to releasing music and touring,” Shinoda said. “Those things are ‘normal’ to me — it’s what my professional life has revolved around for years. And I know this will be different, so I’m excited to figure out what this new normal is.”
The dates for the shows are as follows:
August 7 — Hong Kong, China
August 9 — Bangkok, Thailand
August 18 — Osaka, Japan
August 19 — Tokyo, Japan
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]]>The post Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda Says Interacting with Fans After Chester Bennington’s Death was “Cathartic Experience” appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>The music world was dealt a major blow in July last year when Bennington committed suicide at his home. He was 41 years old.
Shinoda released a solo Post Traumatic EP in January and is soon to release a solo album of the same name, where he opens up about his feelings following the death of Bennington.
While it is uncertain at this stage whether Linkin Park will continue to make music, Shinoda is hoping his new material can be of benefit to fans of the band.
When speaking about his experienced since the death of Bennington, he said: “The experience of this last year has been crazy, and I wanted to put it into music, not only to just put, like, a stamp on it and say this happened, but also to allow the fans and the people who have been along for the ride, to guide them on that journey.”
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]]>Shinoda revealed the recovery will take time after losing someone who was close to you but added that seeing Grohl and how he created something from nothing helped inspire him.
“If I’m on the other side of that, and I see somebody doing well, for example Dave Grohl after Nirvana, seeing him do the thing and get back up and create Foo Fighters out of nothing, that’s a moment where you go, ‘It can be done.’ It feels heroic in a way,” he says.
Shinoda is set to release a full-length solo album called Post-Traumatic on June 15th.
He spoke about returning to songwriting after Bennington’s death.
“I think about eight days after Chester passed, I knew that if I didn’t get into the studio and start writing something soon, that my fear of doing it would just build and build and build,” Shinoda explains. “In the beginning, I was just writing anything just to be able to write… Just to do it and know I didn’t have to be scared to get into the room, and those eventually turned into serious songs.”
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]]>Since then, Linkin Park have only played one show which was a tribute show to Bennington in October. Shinoda did, however, reveal this January that the band has “every intention” to continue.
“A week after Chester passed, the idea of the studio was scary,” Shinoda says. “And it wasn’t just the idea of attempting to make a song and being overwhelmed by those memories. There’s another layer of fear for artists in this situation that is, ‘What if I can’t make anything good [without that person]?’ Those hurdles start to accumulate, whether that’s fear or depression or the chaos of the outside world, it creates an echo chamber of anxiety.”
Shinoda revealed that he was making bad music during that period.
“I was making bad ’90s grunge songs, making bad rap songs… and then I made something good,” he says. “I’d make all these different things with no intention of putting them out, but just diving into some of the ideas that were already in my head.”
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]]>The post Mike Shinoda on Linkin Park’s Future: “I Don’t Know” appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>Linkin Park co-founder Mike Shinoda, who is currently promoting his first solo album Post Traumatic, recently had an interview with iHeartRadio’s Inside The Studio podcast and inevitably had to answer the question about the band’s future.
“I don’t know,” said Shinoda. “That’s the million-dollar question, right? And, unfortunately, I’ve said it before, but there aren’t any answers to that at this point. It would be awesome if there were. That would be really easy.”
Shinoda said that things would be much easier if they had found themselves in the situation AC/DC was in 1980.
“I wish we were in a Brian Johnson/Bon Scott situation where it’s, like, no, the guy, our best friend, who sang for the band who passed away, he literally said, ‘This is the guy,’ and we listened to the guy and the guy’s definitely the guy, and we all love hanging out with him, and we want to play with him. That didn’t happen to anybody else, really. That hasn’t happened to us,” he added.
Mike Shinoda also talked about the future of Linkin Park with Billboard, and said that the rest of the band will reveal the plans when “there’s a clear message.”
“We’ll let everybody know when there’s a clear message,” Shinoda told Billboard. “We all have different, varying degrees of interest and stamina right now, and I don’t want to hold anybody to anything they can’t or they don’t want to do. We still talk all the time. I joined Dave (Farrell) for his Member Guest podcast, and I just shot some emails back and forth to Joe [Hahn]. We’re always talking.”
Mike Shinoda released his first new music since Chester Bennington’s death in January 2018, presenting a three-song EP Post Traumatic. He then decided to make a full-length album, his first solo release. The album, also titled Post Traumatic, is out now.
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]]>The post Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda Announces Dates for Solo Album Tour appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>Shinoda will be performing songs from his recent 3-song EP and upcoming full-length album which are both titled Post-Traumatic.
Linkin Park have been inactive since Chester Bennington, who shared vocal duties with Shinoda, passed away last August. In spite of this, the band have not announced that they are breaking up.
Shinoda released an EP titled Post-traumatic in January, where he appears to reflect on his feelings and experiences following the death of Bennington.
While speaking about his upcoming performances, Shinoda said: “I’m looking forward to getting back to releasing music and touring,” Shinoda said. “Those things are ‘normal’ to me — it’s what my professional life has revolved around for years. And I know this will be different, so I’m excited to figure out what this new normal is.”
The dates for the shows are as follows:
August 7 — Hong Kong, China
August 9 — Bangkok, Thailand
August 18 — Osaka, Japan
August 19 — Tokyo, Japan
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]]>The post Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda Says Interacting with Fans After Chester Bennington’s Death was “Cathartic Experience” appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>The music world was dealt a major blow in July last year when Bennington committed suicide at his home. He was 41 years old.
Shinoda released a solo Post Traumatic EP in January and is soon to release a solo album of the same name, where he opens up about his feelings following the death of Bennington.
While it is uncertain at this stage whether Linkin Park will continue to make music, Shinoda is hoping his new material can be of benefit to fans of the band.
When speaking about his experienced since the death of Bennington, he said: “The experience of this last year has been crazy, and I wanted to put it into music, not only to just put, like, a stamp on it and say this happened, but also to allow the fans and the people who have been along for the ride, to guide them on that journey.”
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]]>The post Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda Says Dave Grohl Helped Him Cope After Chester Bennington’s Passing appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>Shinoda revealed the recovery will take time after losing someone who was close to you but added that seeing Grohl and how he created something from nothing helped inspire him.
“If I’m on the other side of that, and I see somebody doing well, for example Dave Grohl after Nirvana, seeing him do the thing and get back up and create Foo Fighters out of nothing, that’s a moment where you go, ‘It can be done.’ It feels heroic in a way,” he says.
Shinoda is set to release a full-length solo album called Post-Traumatic on June 15th.
He spoke about returning to songwriting after Bennington’s death.
“I think about eight days after Chester passed, I knew that if I didn’t get into the studio and start writing something soon, that my fear of doing it would just build and build and build,” Shinoda explains. “In the beginning, I was just writing anything just to be able to write… Just to do it and know I didn’t have to be scared to get into the room, and those eventually turned into serious songs.”
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]]>The post Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda Reveals He Wrote Bad Songs After Death of Chester Bennington appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>Since then, Linkin Park have only played one show which was a tribute show to Bennington in October. Shinoda did, however, reveal this January that the band has “every intention” to continue.
“A week after Chester passed, the idea of the studio was scary,” Shinoda says. “And it wasn’t just the idea of attempting to make a song and being overwhelmed by those memories. There’s another layer of fear for artists in this situation that is, ‘What if I can’t make anything good [without that person]?’ Those hurdles start to accumulate, whether that’s fear or depression or the chaos of the outside world, it creates an echo chamber of anxiety.”
Shinoda revealed that he was making bad music during that period.
“I was making bad ’90s grunge songs, making bad rap songs… and then I made something good,” he says. “I’d make all these different things with no intention of putting them out, but just diving into some of the ideas that were already in my head.”
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