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Linkin Park survey

We're always looking for better ways to serve and engage our fans. As we've done a few times in the past, we'd like to get your feedback on some things, and also continue to learn more about you. We've created a survey that will just take a few minutes to complete. We truly value your opinions and love learning what our fans are interested in.

To thank you for taking the time to complete the survey, we're going to randomly choose one person who completes it to received a signed Linkin Park skate deck. Make sure you include your email address at the end.

You can take the survey here: http://dechesermedia.com/survey/collective/lp02/?r=9344

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The ninth annual MusiCares MAP Fund benefit concert will honor Chester at Club Nokia in Los Angeles on May 30. He will be honored with the Stevie Ray Vaughan Award for his dedication and support of the MusiCares MAP Fund, and for his commitment to helping other addicts with the addiction recovery process.

A limited number of tickets for the event have been set aside exclusively for LPU members. Members can get the pre-sale link and password at http://LPUnderground.com/.



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We held a press event in Berlin a few weeks ago for our new Facebook game, Linkin Park Recharge. Mike discusses the game and gives a preview in the video below.



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HANG IN STUDIO WITH LINKIN PARK

To support Music For Relief we're inviting two lucky fans to join us in the studio while we record our new album!
Please help spread the word about helping families still recovering from Hurricane Sandy by SHARING this post.



BENEFITING
 
* You +1 will get VIP access to a live recording session and the chance to win a rare autographed poster or drum head
* Airfare & hotel included
* Every entry helps provide necessary services for children and their families recovering from Hurricane Sandy

WHAT YOU'LL DO: You and a friend are flying to LA to spend an hour in the recording studio with Linkin Park while they record their next album

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN: Hear material the band is working on during a session for their next album

WHAT ELSE: This once-in-a-lifetime experience goes down on a mutually convenient date during this summer 2013. Enter by May 31 for your chance to win!

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Stone Temple Pilots hire Linkin Park's Chester Bennington to replace ousted frontman Scott Weiland

The ‘Crawling’ singer appeared alongside the group in a surprise performance at KROQ's annual Weenie Roast on Saturday.



New Stone Temple Pilots frontman Chester Bennington performing with Linkin Park at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas in 2011.
Almost three months after kicking singer Scott Weiland out of the group, the Stone Temple Pilots have hired Linkin Park vocalist Chester Bennington as their new frontman.

To the surprise of audience members, Bennington, 37, joined the other members of the alternative rock group onstage for an unannounced set at the KROQ Weenie Roast on Saturday in Irvine, Calif., Billboard reports.

RELATED: SCOTT WEILAND: STP TRYING TO SELL TICKETS BY 'FIRING' ME

Bennington performed a 40-minute set with the band, including hits "Vaseline” and "Sex Type Thing." The group also unveiled "Out of Time," their first new song since 2010 and the debut of their collaboration with Bennington.

"Chester has a one-of-a-kind voice that we've admired for a long time," Pilots guitarist Dean DeLeo said in a statement. "We know Linkin Park will always be his priority but we through it would be cool to try something together. We managed to find the time to record a song and we're all really happy with the result."



Scott Weiland (in hat) performing with Dean DeLeo (right) and Eric Kretz (on drums) as the Stone Temple Pilots in Baltimore in 2008.

RELATED: STONE TEMPLE PILOTS FIRE SINGER SCOTT WEILAND

DeLeo and drummer Eric Kretz announced in February that the group had "officially terminated" former singer Scott Weiland, a separation that Weiland apparently regarded as a hostile takeover.
"Not sure how I can be 'terminated' from a band that I founded, fronted, and co-wrote many of its biggest hits, but that's something for the lawyers to figure out," Weiland said in a statement at the time.

RELATED: STONE TEMPLE PILOTS TO REUNITE

Bennington isn't interested in starting a feud with the former frontman. In an interview with KROQ after the event, the Linkin Park singer expressed his admiration for Weiland.
"We wish nothing but the best for Scott," Bennington said. "Great singer, participated in making some of the best records of all time, I wish nothing but the best for him."

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Star Apps: Linkin Park

Linkin Park's rapper/multi-instrumentalist Mike Shinoda raps with Download.com about StageLight, developing video games, and the future of MySpace.



Linkin Park embraced the digital age early on. Even prior to changing the spelling of their name (because LincolnPark.com was already taken), founding members promoted their music in online chat rooms when most bands were still relying on street teams.
The eventually Grammy-winning, chart-topping alternative band, best known for such hits as "In the End," "Numb," "Breaking the Habit," "What I've Done," and "New Divide," has used MySpace to promote the "A Thousand Suns" album and has topped 1 billion views on YouTube. Linkin Park remains the most followed band on Facebook (over 55 million users), and has already developed its own game -- Linkin Park 8-Bit Rebellion.

The band isn't letting up on the technological development -- they've been working with software manufacturer OpenLabs on StageLight, an innovative, music-creation app for Windows 7 and 8. They've even released a special Linkin Park Edition of the software.
Download.com rapped with Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda about StageLight, video games, whether MySpace has a future, and what's on the horizon for the band now that vocalist Chester Bennington is singing for Stone Temple Pilots.

How did you become involved with StageLight?
I've had a relationship with OpenLabs for years. I've used their software and hardware onstage. A few years ago I was transitioning from a more primitive setup and I realized that I needed a software solution that could play anything that I made in the studio that required a computer-based system. And once I met with OpenLabs and saw the gear that they had, they convinced me that this PC-based system would be the way to go. When I was using it onstage or in the studio, I'd be asking for additions or something specific that I might need in whatever situation, and over time it developed into a relationship that resulted in StageLight.

What sets StageLight apart?
StageLight is more like a music writing and music creation software, though it has roots in performance. But we started looking at it as there really isn't great music-creation software for PCs. Apple obviously has GarageBand, but there isn't an application that teaches and allows a brand-new user who's never really done a song before to make something from scratch. StageLight is designed so that within five to ten minutes a user who's never made a song before can create a song and share it on SoundCloud or Facebook, or any other place where they could interact with their friends and family online.

What distinguishes the Linkin Park Edition?
There's a special edition called the "Linkin Park Edition," which includes a library of sounds that we made in the studio; and if you buy that edition you could use sounds that are Linkin Park sounds and make your own songs. It's almost like an expansion pack.

Going back a few years, Link Park released 8-Bit Rebellion, in 2010. Why did you decide to release a video game?
Well, we're gamers to some extent. A lot of our older fans know that when Halo first came out, that was one of the things that people used to joke about our band, that we were super into that game, in the first three editions of it. We would play on the bus and challenge other bands and challenge fans and it was so funny how competitive we were.

8-bit Rebellion was created as a visual reference to the stuff that we grew up with, things like Nintendo. If you finished the game, you'd get a free song. At the time, it made us a little nervous to do, because it was something different from what others were doing. But I think, for us, it set the tone for what we're doing now and what we can do in the future, because, as you know, the industry at large is moving in that direction, like the Jay-Z album with Samsung and other people putting out exclusives with various brands; so if it's something that is done right, it doesn't have to be this weird, corporate thing. It can be something that's organic and good for the band and good for the fans, most importantly.


Linkin Park developed their first gaming app, 8-Bit Rebellion, back in 2010.

Do you have plans to release another game anytime soon?
We have 55 million plus fans on Facebook, and knowing that's a strong place for us and knowing that a lot of those people are gamers, we wanted to make something again that we would enjoy playing, that they would enjoy playing, and that falls in line with the way we see our band -- and also, in this case, that has a philanthropic component.
Recharge is going to be a Facebook game set in a future time where the world's natural resources have almost run out and you, as a player, are part of a rebellion, because the bad guys have gotten their hands on the Earth's remaining resources and are using them to enslave the rest of the planet. You're going to fight the tyrannical bad guys; and on the way, any money generated from certain items that you might spend money on in the game would benefit Music For Relief, which is our organization to combat environmental crisis, climate change, and to provide relief to those who've suffered from natural disasters. That ties the theme of the game into something along the same lines in real life.

Linkin Park has done a lot of charity work over the last decade. How do you think apps have changed the philanthropic space?
I think two places where it's been really apparent are the online component and being able to reach that via mobile and the text-to-donate component. When something happens and you really want to go to work and do some good for the people who need it, being able to do that in as few clicks as possible or reaching people in that moment of realization when they want to help -- even if it's a dollar -- means a world of difference.

Forming in 1996, Linkin Park has really grown in popularity in tandem with the Internet.
We had a really intentional focus on it from the beginning. Spelling our band name "Linkin" was to get the dot com and that just set the tone for us. And over time, everybody just started to switch. We were always a part of that and it's always been a way for us to keep connected with each other and with our fans, to stay connected with families at home when we were on the road -- and now it's just second nature.
I'm personally very interested in technology. I love finding out about new apps and technology, and in some cases, if we can be a part of the innovation process that's amazing and it's one of my favorite things to do. When it comes back around to releasing music or entertaining our fans, or staying connected to our fans, that's high on our list. For example, one of the places where we've put a lot of focus and made some headway is our direct-to-consumer campaigns where we try to spread the word every chance we get that if you want to buy a Linkin Park song or album, do it from LinkinPark.com. You don't have to go to other places to buy it and we incentivize fans to make it interesting.

Along with most other bands, you've certainly minimized your MySpace promotional initiatives in recent years. Does MySpace have a future?
I'm currently not using it very much, so I wouldn't be the best person to ask. I don't know, so that might be a function of it being totally lame, or maybe I'm just missing the boat.

What can you tell me about the new Linkin Park album? Will singer Chester Bennington be a part of it?
There's not much I can say, at this point, but Chester has not left our band. He's just doing Stone Temple Pilots when he's got days off and it's not a big deal as far as scheduling goes. We're very supportive of him and he's doing great with them and they're having fun playing.
As far as we're concerned, we're going to have some interesting stuff going on in the future. I would say there are some surprises lined up in the coming months and I can't tell anybody about them, but you're definitely going to want to watch Linkin Park, be it on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or YouTube, wherever you're connected and want to stay in touch with the band. There'll definitely be some cool stuff happening in the coming months.

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Chester Bennington, Mike Shinoda & Steve Aoki.

Photos of Summer Sonic 2013