This video we got is very short and it’s Chester covering The Cure’s ‘Friday I’m in Love’. We have no information on what this video’s about, musician, Bruce Menchen uploaded it to youtube yesterday giving it the title ‘Jamin with Chester Bennington From Linkin Park’ so we’ll for now assume that it’s just Chester having fun with friends.

We have a tour date ladies and gents, on September 13 Stone Temple Pilots with Chester will be playing in Oklahoma City at the OKC Downtown Airpark. Tickets go on sale tomorrow at 10am through Ticket Storm.

We also have a new photoshoot pic.

The band has just confirmed the rumors of them playing in Malaysia on August 19th. LPU Presale starts June 19.

Kami baru saja menambah lokasi persembahan iaitu di Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia pada 19 Ogos 2013. Jualan tiket untuk member LP Underground boleh didapati mulai Rabu,19 Junini diwww.lpunderground.com. Manakala tiket-tiket untuk peminat akan dijual mulai 21 Jun (Jumaat) ini.

Chester and Dave visited x103.9′s studio today, pictures of their visit and a video of Chester performing “The Messenger” have already circulated. Check them out below.

A lot of memorabilias have been put up for auction by the MusiCares Foundation signed by Chester Bennington, Linkin Park, Mike Shinoda, Stone Temple Pilots, Slash, Tony Alva and generally most of the performers at the MusiCares MAP Fund Benefit Concert which took place on May 31st honoring Chester and Tony Alva. Below is a list of signed items up for auction; proceeds benefit The Grammys Foundation and MusiCares Foundation.

• Linkin Park Signed Fender Guitar
• Performer Signed Program
• Concert Program Signed By Chester Bennington
• Linkin Park Signed & Framed Rolling Stone Cover
• Drumhead Signed by MusiCares MAP Fund Benefir Concert Performers

For a complete list of items  from other artists go here, I only included Chester Bennington, Mike Shinoda, Linkin Park and Stone Temple Pilots signed items.

Following STP’s lawsuit on Weiland last week, their former lead singer has countersued them and requested that the band changed its name. In addition he claimed that the band had no right to expel him and shouldn’t be allowed to perform with their new lead singer Chester Bennington.

“How do you expel a man from a band that he started, named, sang lead on every song, wrote the lyrics, and was the face of for 20 years, and then try to grab the name and goodwill for yourselves,” Weiland’s complaint states.

The band claims Weiland isn’t entitled to call himself a former member of the group and was using its songs without proper permission. They cited him being late to concerts and poor performances as some of the reasons for his ouster.

The second part of STP’s interview with ArtisanNews on MusiCares red carpet is out, Chester said that his joining is not temporary, there will be more music and tours.

Guitar Center has interviewed Chester Bennington and Mike Shinoda who talked about the technical aspects of their band and also said that they’ll keep their promise of turning records out faster.

as befits a band that was one of the pioneers in integrating hip-hop and rap elements into heavy rock. From the down-tuned guitar heaviness of the millennial Hybrid Theory to the more-orchestrated but equally dense 2012 release, Living Things, they’ve remained a moving target, always pushing to grow creatively and find the next space from which to create.

As vocalist Chester Bennington reminisces about the band’s beginnings, “We were fortunate to have guys in the band who were very tech savvy and kind of into collecting gear. We had our own PA that we would take to shows and we would have our own mixing board.” An enduring part of Linkin Park’s setup through the years has been gear from the Harman Professional family of brands. “I remember the second microphone I ever bought was a D12 by AKG,” says multi-instrumentalist/producer Mike Shinoda, “and we bought it because we were just starting to record drums. We had no experience doing anything other than playing together, and then we’d gotten some digital recording software and were starting to play around with that. Still, to this day, we basically use that same microphone in the studio, on stage. I mean it’s not an expensive piece of gear, but it’s nice to know, from a beginning musician point of view, that you can buy something that’s just going to last you forever at any level that you play.”

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Tons and tons of pictures have been popping up all the time and just now I got the chance to upload all of them.

UPDATE: I was too quick to speak because we just got LOADS of more pics. All albums below are updated.

Red Carpet – Arrivals

Performance

Award Acceptance Speech

Seems like there’s another interview from the MusiCares MAP, I thought it was a double at first but apparently it isn’t. Chester talking about STP and how the whole uniting thing came about.