Linkin Park's lead singer Chester Bennington has sustained a back injury, and is restricted to travel or do any physical activites. The band's Asia tour has therefore been canceled.
Tickets for the following venues will be refunded at point of purchase:
Oct. 12 - Shanghai, China - Shanghai Stadium Oct. 15 - Wuhan, China - Xinhua Stadium Oct. 17 - Taipei, Taiwan - Taipei Soccer Stadium Oct. 19 - Beijing, China - Beijing Workers Stadium Oct. 21 - Macau, China Cotai Arena - The Venetian
The concerts were fundraisers for victims of this year's China earthquakes in the Sichuan province.
Generous donations from concert promoter Emma Ticketmaster and Linkin Park, funds will still be contributed to the band’s nonprofit organization, Music for Relief, and matched by the World Bank.
Linkin Park, which released its “Minutes To Midnight” after 4 years long break since its “Meteora” in 2003, is planning to release its next album in 2009 and has already started working on a few songs. Sources say that the band doesn’t want to repeat the gap of 4 years again and is wishing to be as consistent as possible.
Mike Shinoda was quoted saying: "Actually I’ve been doing a couple of studio dates out on the road, which is new for me," and that "I did a date when we were touring in Germany, one date in Prague, a bunch of dates in New York, and I’m excited about that. It’s been very cool for us. So long story short, we’ve been putting in a lot of work and hopefully we could have a new record out next year."
The band was committed to their “Projekt Revolution tour”, until August 24 and will now concentrate on their next album.
Linkin Park covered Sweet Child O' Mine from the Guns N' Roses during a show at Alpine Valley last Saturday night. The band came out with fake blond wigs and did an ok job. Surely Guns N' Roses won't be impressed by this cover, however Linkin Park fans will love it and possibly see the humor in it.
“Leave Out All the Rest” is the third track and the fifth and final single from Linkin Park’s third studio album, Minutes to Midnight. Even before the song was confirmed as an official single, due to radioplay, the song had achieved a U.S. chart position. On the album, the song segues into “Bleed It Out”.
“Leave Out All the Rest” was one of the names considered for the title of the album along with “In Triumph & Tragedy”, “Triumph in Tragedy”, “In Cold Blood”, “Linkin Park”, “All the Rest”, “Almanac”, “Dictionary”, “Argue. Agree”, “Ascend”, “WTF”, “WTF Is Wrong With Me?”, as well as others, according to the Minutes to Midnight DVD.
Announcement As a Single: In a Kerrang review/interview of the band, and the album, vocalist Chester Bennington had this say about “Leave Out All the Rest”, “We knew this was going to be a single from the very beginning, so we worked really hard on making sure it had great lyrics. I’m singing ‘Pretending someone else can save me from myself’ during it because it’s supposed to feel like an apology letter, as though I’m moving on but I want people to remember the good things and not the bad things. A lot of the song is about humility.” Mike Shinoda has also stated that Rick Rubin (producer for Minutes to Midnight) said “This sounds like a massive single” and according to Shinoda, was the first to realize the song’s potential as a single.
According to an interview with Mike Shinoda by MTV, “Leave Out All the Rest” will be the next single..
About the Music video: In an interview with MTV, Mike said that the video, directed by bandmate Joe Hahn, will take place in a futuristic, sci-fi influenced setting, and will depict what the daily life of the band’s members would be like if they lived in outer space. The band lives in a rundown, artificial habitat that’s making its way across the galaxy. At first, they are seen passing the time performing mundane tasks, but then gravity is lost onboard the vessel, sending the members floating about. The video features no performance footage. The video has respectively been influenced by the British movie Sunshine, borrowing imgery and a similar concept.
Joe said: “We’re explorers in space, just like when we go on tour. We’re leaving our home life behind, and I guess it kind of ties into ‘Leave Out All the Rest’, in that we have to leave things behind in order to do something better. ” (source:
