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  • Brad Delson UCLA Commencement Speech

    June 16, 2009 84 Comments

    Brad Delson is one of the world's most fascinating wonders.

    I spoke at Art Center's graduation only a short time ago. When I was preparing for that speech, I did a lot of research, watching videos and reading speeches. If I had come across Brad's speech at that time, I would have stopped writing mine entirely. I would have just called Brad and begged him to write it for me!

    Enjoy,
    mike

    CLICK THROUGH TO SEE PART 2

  • New Divide Official Video

    June 11, 2009 148 Comments

    Linkin Park – “New Divide”

    mike

  • Making Of New Divide Video

    June 5, 2009 68 Comments

    Linkin Park - Making of 'New Divide' Music Video

  • How We Write

    June 5, 2009 51 Comments

    We had a big band meeting this week to get caught up on album progress. With all the New Divide and Transformers stuff going on, we've been distracted for a while :)

    In our weekly meetings, we listen to each song, give it a grade (A+ to F-), and write notes. The grades get tallied (10 points for an A+, 9 for an A, and so on). The written notes are things like "the music in the first half loses my attention a little bit," or "I like the chorus, but the verse is a little weak." My favorite note from this week: "Sometimes it's nice to have balls." (thank you Dave)

    The songs all have working titles like "Robot Boy," "Rygar," and "Underbite." Usually the working titles don't sound anything like the song (the name usually comes before we've written a note). All of those titles are going to change, but we need to name stuff to keep it organized. "Robot Boy" got the highest grade so far, at about an 8.75. "Voyage" got the lowest, with a cumulative 3.5 and notes like "sleepy time." LOL

    We listened to about 18 song ideas, and I think we'll have another session to listen to another 10-15 songs in a week or two.

    mike

    PS: I put the Carson Daly interview up temporarily in the videos section:
    http://www.mikeshinoda.com/video/all/last_call

    PPS: Still no word on Laura and Euna, keeping an eye on the news.

  • Rolling Stone LP album 2010

    May 27, 2009 55 Comments

    http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2009/05/26/linkin-park-cooking-up-genre-busting-concept-album-for-2010/

    EDIT: Incidentally, I think he misheard me when I said I wouldn't call this a concept album, but that's OK. You get the point...we are striving to make something fresh. Whether we get there or not, at least that's where we're trying to go :)

    mike

  • New Divide Video Shoot

    May 25, 2009 133 Comments

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    Here are some more photos of the New Divide video shoot. I just saw an edit yesterday, it's looking great so far. More pics on the next page.

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