Mike Shinoda will be lending his skills to various art exhibits in the next couple months. He will be designing a skateboard deck for Hit The Deck, an original art showcase of artists from around the world using skateboard decks as the medium. Hit The Deck will be held during February 13th - 15th at the Alexis Park Resort Hotel in Las Vegas. Part of the proceeds from the sale of Mike's skate deck will go towards his art scholarship at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.

In addition, Mike will be customizing his own painted "Bode Broad" figure which will be displayed at the Bode Broad show at The Showroom in NYC on March 10th. More shows soon to come in San Francisco and Los Angeles; check out the Bode Broad website for details.

To purchase Mike Shinoda art from his recent art show "Diamonds Spades Hearts & Clubs", go to www.mikeshinoda.com.

Just confirmed, LP will be performing in the UK at the Download Festival in the uk. The band will be appearing on the Saturday. Can't wait!

(thanks jaxxy! Jaxxy said Zane Lowe, the BBC radio announcer was really nice about LP!)

Rob Bourdon will be chatting with LP Underground on Monday, February 5th at 4pm PST. Now’s your chance to ask Rob about the progress of the next Linkin Park record, what they’re currently doing in the studio, and any other LP-related questions you may have for Rob.

Source:LPU News Post

Linkin Park will be performing at Rock am Ring in Germany scheduled for June 1st through 3rd, 2007.

Source: Rock am Ring Website

And thanks to the LPA's post, we know they're also set for Rock im Park too.

Young Buck of G-Unit has confirmed today on Hot 97 that he will be working with a member of Linkin Park for his next album. The album is titled Buck The World, and will be released March 20th, 2007, on Cashville/G-Unit/Interscope Records. This track cannot be found on the leaked versions of Buck The World.

It will probably be Mike since Fort Minor opened a show for 50 Cent overseas in 2006 ;)

Source: Machineshopspot.net
Thanks JNuts

Club Tattoo has recently announced plans to expand to a new location set to open in September of next year, this time branching out of Arizona to Nevada with a location in the Cosmopolitan Resort|Casino in Las Vegas.

Source - Club Tattoo News page or Club Tattoo's MySpace Page

Note: Club Tattoo's web site has undergone a redesign. For those who haven't seen it in awhile, be sure to check it out.

Linkin Park - Paris, France - May 30th, 2007 - Bercy

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Still a rumor, but that actually looks like a real date to me. Bamboozle is earlier in the month and a European tour after that makes sense. Thanks to CrazyLP for the image.

Link to Bercy Official Site

The site doesn't show it yet but maybe they can't put it up on the web until the band announces a tour schedule ;) And it's confirmed that the band has a rough tour schedule set for 2007, so maybe it IS real. Maybe a new album promo tour like they did with Meteora? ;)

LPFuse wishes Rob Bourdon a very happy 28th birthday.

Feel free to leave your birthday wishes in comments. Who knows... Rob might actually read them.

YouTube link

TRL Germany presented a exclusiv Qwerty Demo at the show.Watch it at youtube. After that a german rapper comment about it.

thats what he said:


Moderator: you havent heard that yet?

Sido: no but it sounds like all their other songs.it doesnt touch me... and when he starts to shout i already have turned it off.

Moderator: really?

Sido: i cant hear that shouting. i like listening to guitarmusic...but the voice must be good like evanesence. you know? the woman sings good but that guy (chester) doesnt sing good. but the rapper isnt good too.
Moderator: so mike shinoda just trys to rap?

Sido: i dont know him. i dont know who is rapping

Moderator: is just the guy....he had that fort minor solo thing

Sido: ah fort minor sucks too

"All right i just have to say that all LP Fans shouldnt care about this comment. He is a really bad rapper who thinks he rule germany. All right and he doesnt know about good music.He is just jealous cause Lp sold more cds than him in his whole very "successful career".I can say that cause im german and i really hate his "music". - Mrs Hahn"

Source: Mrs Hahn on LJ

As you all know, LP worked with David Campbell on Breaking the Habit when they were making the Meteora CD. He assisted them with all sorts of things with the song, ranging from strings to keyboard.

Alright, so after some searching by kay86 of the LPU, he discovered that David Campbell is working with the band on the new CD too.

If you go to his SITE, you'll see that the new Linkin Park album is under his 'Current Projects' list.

Awesome.

FMBQ.com reports that Linkin Park will soon have it's own broadband/mobile media channel through a company that Warner is teaming with called MobiTV.

"Beginning in February, MobiTV subscribers will be able to view unique video programming conceived and created by music artists. Linkin Park will be one of the first participants and the band will direct original video programming to populate their own MobiTV channels."

Click Read More to read the whole article.

Hey all,
Well I'm back (for a few days at least), and this post is a bit of good and bad news. First off, I'm sorry I've been away over the holidays. Main issue was the internet connection at my home was rubbish, anyway I'm back now, fighting fit. I'll be about for a few days (until the 16th Jan) I'll then be gone for a week. That week I'll be in San Francisco. It's my first visit to the states, so I'm looking forward to it. If you're in the area keep an eye out for me. Once I'm back I will make it up to all you guys!

It seems Nick and Mark have been keeping you up to date with the world of LP, however we've got lots of stuff going on to make the build up to this album better than ever. I hope to get both Nick and Mark really active in this site, so get used to their names.

However time for the bad news, Jon (Jonandbt), has decided that the time has come for him to leave the site. I have known for quite a while now that Jon is not as enthusiastic about Machine Shop Recordings as he once was. Jon is very busy with other commitments outside of the world of the web as well as many online commitments.

To me, this is really sad to write, as Jon has been involved with the site from birth. He befriended me in the LPU and I consider him a good friend. To me, LPfuse loses something very special with his departure.

I hope Jon will still visit the site and see what's going on. I would like to give him a big thank you for all the work he's done, and I look forward to working with him in the future on other projects.

So from LPFuse a huge, heartfelt goodbye
and a good luck for the future.

LPU member LPfreak99 points out that there's been an update to LP.com However small a detail, the crane that's been on the upper half of the page for months now moves.

Yeah, I know this is hardly news worthy. Any update to LP.com is significant though, especially so close to some of the rumored album release dates.

An article appeared the other day in Kerrang magazine featuring the band. It had an in-depth interview with Chester and Phoenix that you won't want to miss. Chester says he's played some of the tracks for his friends, and they said the album is basically finished, so hopefully we'll have some big news soon.

With about half of the globe already in 2007, LPFuse would like to wish everyone a very Happy New Year.

Here's looking forward to the new LP album and a full tour, as we can finally say there'll be activity from the band this year.

We hope.

Happy holidays, best wishes and an early Happy New Year from the entire LPFuse staff. Stay safe, have fun, and we hope you get everything you wanted!

Many thanks to all of the readers of LPFuse who make this one of the best LP fan sites around. And here's to the staff, especially Energy - without him, LP fans would have one less site to depend on.

Merry Christmas!

After we've heard a confirmation on Projekt Revolution 2007 as well as a European tour, an Asia/Australia tour and another big US tour, we now have had confirmation that the band will continue to play QWERTY live on their next few tours at least.

An interview that Rob gave to AOL states:
"Among the songs is 'Qwerty,' which Bourdon can't wait to play live again after debuting it this past summer. "It's probably the heaviest song we've ever written," he says. "And usually those songs tend to be the most fun to play in front of an audience."

With the album in the mixing process already, we can expect a tour sometime soon with the album dropping shortly afterwards.

Read the full article here: aolmusicblog

Source: LPTimes

LPU 6 Mobile Is Now Available:

If you are an LPU 6 member, you now have access to your mobile benefits! Only LPU members with an LPU 6 Pass or LPU 5+6 pass are eligible to receive LPU mobile benefits (Online Only members or LPU 5 members who have not renewed are not eligible). Check out the instructions in the LP News section of the LPUnderground.

Joe Hahn received an achievement award at KoreAm Journal’s 16th Annual Gala, held in Hollywood, CA this past weekend.

Congratulations, Joe!

Source: LPU News Post

Head on over to LPAssociation.com to check out their interview with LP's Dave 'Phoenix' Farrell.

In what could quite possibly be one of the first interviews ever granted to a Linkin Park fan site, Dave managed to provide the LPA and the fans with exciting new information regarding the new album, upcoming tours, LPTV, as well as answers to some of the more nagging questions that have been bugging fans over the last few months. This is certainly one of the more informative interviews Dave has done considering the new album and is definitely something that should not be missed by Phoenix lovers and die-hard Linkin Park fans alike!

Props to LPA for scoring such a great exclusive.

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