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Send aid to #Japan. Get 5 new songs added to Download to Donate: Tsunami Relief with a $10 donation http://ow.ly/4kfob.

So the story behind these finds took place on Twitter. AberuLP tweeted a new picture from this photoshoot to PFF and it took on from there. Looking at the site that had the picture you’ll see that they have the entire photoshoot in super high quality, which of course has been saved and uploaded in the gallery. (It took me years to save the pictures)

Enjoy!

Mike talking about their follow up to ‘A Thousand Suns’.

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Mike Shinoda has added the fan remixes he has requested for LP fans to do previously in his blog! Please check out the above link to give them a listen!

The 7th Annual MusiCares MAP Fund Benefit Concert- a dinner and concert to benefit the MusiCares MAP Fund, which provides members of the music community access to addiction recovery treatment. MusiCares offers programs and services to members of the music community including emergency financial assistance for basic living expenses, including rent, utilities and car payments; medical expenses including doctor, dentist and hospital bills; psychotherapy; and treatment for HIV/AIDS, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, hepatitis C, and other critical illnesses. MusiCares offers nationwide educational workshops covering a variety of subjects, including financial, legal, medical, and substance abuse issues, and programs in collaboration with healthcare professionals that provide services such as flu shots, hearing tests and medical/dental screenings. Staffed by qualified chemical dependency and intervention specialists, MusiCares Safe Harbor Rooms offer a support network to those in recovery while they are participating in the production of televised music shows and other major music events. MusiCares holds weekly addiction support groups for people to discuss how to best cope with the issues surrounding the recovery process. The MusiCares Sober Touring Network is a database of individuals across the United States who can take music people to recovery support meetings while on the road.

Honorees: Depeche Mode lead singer Dave Gahan and Vans Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman. Steven Tyler (www.twitter.com/IamStevenT; www.steventyler.com) will present the Stevie Ray Vaughan Award to Gahan for his dedication and support of the MusiCares MAP FundSM, and for his commitment to helping other addicts with the addiction and recovery process. Concert promoter Gary Tovar will present Lyman will be the recipient of MusiCares’ From the Heart Award for his unconditional friendship and dedication to the mission and goals of the organization.

Host
Comedian Greg Behrendt

Performers:
Chester Bennington, Curt Bisquera, Dave Gahan, Jane’s Addiction,Vincent Jones, Martyn LeNoble, David Levita, Jason Orme,Ozomatli, and Paramore. Adam Bravin and Justin Warfield from She Wants Revenge will DJ during dinner.

Attendees:
President/CEO of The Recording Academy® and MusiCares Foundation® Neil Portnow and MusiCares®Board Chair Emeritus John Branca.

TICKETS:
This special dinner and concert offers Living Room Sets that seat 10 for $12,500, Individual Floor Seats for $1,250 per person, and General Admission Floor – Standing Room Only (limited availability) for $500; contact Wynnie Wynn for ticket information at 310.392.3777 or wynniew@grammy.com. VIP Balcony Seats for $250 per person and General Admission Balcony Seats for $125 per person are available only through Ticketmaster at www.ticketmaster.com. Out of respect for the clients the MusiCares MAP Fund serves, the event will be alcohol-free. This event is made possible with the generous support of Caravents, Goldenvoice, Jackson Limousine Service, Swing House, and Ticketmaster.

WHERE:
Club Nokia
800 W. Olympic Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90015
*Parking available in Olympic East Garage for $25

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To hear a longer cut of the interview, you can subscribe to “Sound Check Uncut” on iTunes or on www.cnn.com/podcasts.

Los Angeles (CNN) — Mike Shinoda saw images of the devastation in Japan and knew he had to do something.

The co-frontman of Linkin Park immediately took to Twitter and asked his fans to brainstorm ideas for a T-shirt to benefit victims of the 9.0 earthquake and tsunami that has claimed the lives of more than 11,000 people with 17,000 more missing.

Someone suggested an origami crane. Shinoda, a graduate of Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, thought an origami butterfly would be more appropriate.

“That’s more a symbol of rebirth — you know, the caterpillar turning into the butterfly,” he said.

The black and white butterfly tee and a second T-shirt design with the words “Not Alone” emblazoned on the front are available on the group’s Music for Relief website (musicforrelief.org), with all proceeds going to benefit Save the Children’s relief efforts in Japan.

There’s also a Download to Donate initiative, where fans can pledge a minimum of $10 to access a digital album featuring unreleased tracks by a growing number of artists — including R.E.M., Angels & Airwaves, Sara Bareilles, The Ting Tings, Talib Kweli and Slash. The last track is a Linkin Park instrumental inspired by the tsunami called “Issho Ni.”

“Music for Relief is not Linkin Park for Relief,” says Shinoda. “Right now, we’ve got folks on the Board of Music for Relief from MTV, from Fuse, from other bands. We hope that other artists will feel welcome to jump on board and contribute in some way.”

Linkin Park founded Music for Relief in 2005 in the aftermath of the tsunami in the Indian Ocean that caused mass destruction and loss of life from Sri Lanka to Indonesia.

“We had just toured in Southeast Asia, and when we got home, we were seeing the images of the devastation on the news — and these were happening in places we had just visited,” Shinoda said. “I think first and foremost, we tend to get involved in endeavors that are closest to our hearts.”

Since then, Music for Relief says that it has raised more than $3.9 million for victims of natural disasters around the world, including Hurricane Katrina, wildfires in Southern California and Australia and monsoon flooding in Pakistan. Shinoda says the organization’s Download to Donate program for Haiti has raised more than $270,000.

CNN spoke with Shinoda at Music for Relief headquarters in Beverly Hills, California.

Michael Kenji Shinoda is half Japanese-American. His paternal grandparents were uprooted from their homes and sent to an internment camp during World War II with their 12 children.

CNN: Do you have any friends or relatives who were affected by the earthquake and tsunami in Japan?

Mike Shinoda: I have a lot of friends who are out there, especially the folks at our label in Japan. I immediately got in touch with our production manager, and he helped me send out e-mails and investigate how everyone’s doing out there. Luckily for us, all our friends are accounted for.

But there were some scares. The sister of one of my really good friends was staying in Sendai. It took over a week to find her. That was really, really frightening.

CNN: Has the disaster inspired you to write music?

Shinoda: I did write a song based on what I was seeing on the news about Japan, which is included on Download to Donate. We decided to call it “Issho Ni.” Basically, the rough translation is, “We’re in this together.” The song doesn’t have any lyrics. Once I wrote the music, I didn’t feel like words were going to make it better. It didn’t feel as universal with words. Hopefully, even more of our Japanese fans can relate to the music and understand that song.

CNN: A lot of Linkin Park’s music is kind of apocalyptic in feel. It almost goes hand-in-hand with the backdrop here.

Shinoda: Our DJ, Joe Hahn, has directed a lot of our videos. I think on the last video, I joked with him, “Can we stop doing post-apocalyptic or mid-apocalyptic videos after this one? Can we take a break?”

I think we can look to Joe for answers about why that imagery keeps showing up. I know that it does fit with the conceptual nature of our new album, “A Thousand Suns,” and that’s just stuff that’s on our collective minds.

A lot of this record was written in a very loose, kind of subconscious way. It was like the writing equivalent of what you do when you sit down at the telephone and doodle on a note pad. It’s kind of a stream of consciousness.

CNN: Perhaps this is the kind of stuff this generation thinks about. The world has become a very dramatic place, in terms of extreme weather and natural disasters.

Shinoda: In the last two records, “Minutes to Midnight” and “A Thousand Suns,” we’ve become very aware of our place on this planet, our influence on this planet — not meaning our band, but human beings’ influence on the places in which we live.

That’s partially a function of getting older. It’s partially a function of us traveling so much, and touring in so many different places. I mean, just to give you an idea, at one point on this current record cycle, for every one album we sold in the United States, I think we were selling six, seven or eight outside the States.

CNN: Because your fan base is so large online, you can mobilize it very quickly.

Shinoda: This generation’s very in-tune to what’s going on in our online world. We really saw it with Haiti. We saw a new form of simple ways to contribute in the form of text-to-donate campaigns. We did our own with Music for Relief for Haiti. We have another one going on right now for Japan. Basically, you text “MFR” to 85944 to make a $10 donation using your mobile phone. So much is going on in people’s lives that they want to do it easily and quickly.

One hundred percent of the donations to Music for Relief flow directly through to Japan, and our partner, Save the Children. One hundred percent — I think that’s a pretty good number.

CNN: Do you have plans to tour Japan?

Shinoda: We’re going to be in Japan touring towards the end of the year. It’s going to be an ongoing process. We’ll see what we can do while we’re out there to help out, as well.

CNN: Did the guys in Linkin Park always have this kind of consciousness, or is this something that came about as the band became more successful?

Shinoda: I think with the success of the band came an interest in charity. We’ve been so blessed, and we wanted to share that with other people. Music for Relief is an organization that provides relief to those who are victims of a natural disaster.

But we don’t want to just play clean-up. We also have efforts that are ongoing that are geared towards mitigating the effects of climate change, for example. Planting trees. We give a dollar of every concert ticket to Music for Relief for those efforts. I think by the end of this tour, we will have planted a million trees. That’s one of those places where our hearts are, and we feel we’re lucky to be in the position to do something about it.

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LPTV – Making of the “Burning in the Skies” Music VideoDownload 

MusicForRelief We just added 2 new songs from R.E.M. & Shinedown to Download to Donate for Japan http://t.co/XW5IuJs!