A big thank you to Lazarium and everyone who made the party last night a lot of fun. Photos to come…
Waiting For The End Video w/ Lyrics
September 7, 2010
See you guys at The Music Box tonight, for the album release / listening party…I’ll be there FIRIN MAH LAZERS
mike
Wretches And Kings – Lyrics
September 6, 2010
“There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part; you can’t even passively take part, and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop. And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all” -Mario Savio
To save face / how low can you go
Talk a lot of game but yet you don’t know
Static on the way / make us all say whoa
The people up top push the people down low
Get down
And obey every word
Steady getting mine if you haven’t yet heard
Wanna take what I got / don’t be absurd
Don’t fight the power / nobody gets hurt
If you haven’t heard yet then I’m letting you know
There ain’t shit we don’t run when the guns unload
And no one make a move unless my people say so
Got everything outta control
Now everybody go
Steel unload / final blow
We the animals take control
Hear us now / clear and true
Wretches and kings we come for you
So keep pace / how slow can you go
Talk a lot of shit and yet you don’t know
Fire on the way / make you all say whoa
The people up top and the people down low
Get down
And I’m running it like that
The front of the attack is exactly where I’m at
Somewhere in between the kick and the hi hat
The pen and the contract
The pitch and the contact
So get with the combat / I’m letting ‘em know
There ain’t shit you can say to make me back down no
So / push the button let the whole thing blow
Spinning everything outta control
Now everybody go
Steel unload / final blow
We the animals take control
Hear us now / clear and true
Wretches and kings we come for you
Steel unload / fire blow
Filthy animals / beat them low
Skin and bone / black and blue
No more this sun shall beat onto you
From the front to the back and the side to side
If you fear what I feel put ‘em up real high
mike
Walking “Beests”
September 6, 2010
Artist Theo Jansen makes these animated “animals” out of plastic tubes. No motors, just wind power.
mike
Linkin Park on iTunes Ping
September 2, 2010We were invited by Apple to be one of the first artists to join Ping, the new iTunes social network. If you use iTunes, get version 10, then add us here. See what we’re up to, what we’re listening to, maybe even some reviews of shows we attend or things we like:
http://c.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZConnections.woa/wa/viewProfile?userId=-10035
mike
MTV calls A Thousand Suns “Linkin Park’s ‘Kid A’”
September 1, 2010“According to legend, in August of 2000, a group of clearly terrified Capitol Records executives were outfitted with headphones, loaded into a series of unmarked vans and driven down the Pacific Coast Highway, where they listened to Radiohead’s Kid A for the first time. It was an inspired — not to mention particularly apt — premiere for the album, and though the whole thing is rather apocryphal, it certainly made for nice copy at the time.
I only mention that because in August of 2010, a clearly relaxed Warner Bros. publicist sat me down in her office and allowed me one of the first listens to Linkin Park’s A Thousand Suns. There were no headphones or unmarked vans or winding, windswept vistas — budgetary cuts, one can only assume — just an iced coffee and a notepad, which was sort of a shame, because if ever there was an album that deserves the Radiohead treatment, it’s this one. Since, as you’ll probably discover in the coming weeks, A Thousand Suns is most definitely Linkin Park’s Kid A…completely different from the band’s previous efforts that it will almost certainly stand as the line of demarcation between everything that came before and everything that will come after…”
A big thank you to James Montgomery for the flattering (and ballsy) piece. Read the whole article here: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1646930/20100831/linkin_park.jhtml
mike
Late On LookAtBook
September 1, 2010
A handful of artists from different cities, all contributing to one sketchbook, mailing it back and forth. Happened a few years ago, but I just got the link this week. Hope I hear about it earlier next time something like this goes on, ha.
mike
