Linkin Park

Matt Anderson, What Are You Listening To?

Matt Anderson The local comedian performs at Monkey Pants Bar and Grill at 8:30 pm, Thursday, January 31. Follow him on Twitter @MattAnd3. When you put your key in the ignition, what station would play right now? I am an FM guy because I'm the poorest of them all. So, probably between 94.5 KOOL-FM ... More >>

ZZ Top @ Wild Horse Pass and Casino

Is Heavy Metal For Easy Girls?

I know it sounds weird, but I've always been a fan of Men's Health magazine. But in a recent issue, the magazine featured an article about updating sex playlists from such old cliches, like substituting Air's Talkie Walkie in for Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. This article linked back to one t ... More >>

Five Weird Collabortions That Rival Jack White and ICP Song

When the news broke last Wednesday that modern rock 'n' roll icon Jack White was pairing with the sticky, Faygo-coated Insane Clown Posse (ICP) for a "Mozart cover" called "Lech Mich Im Arsch," a simultaneous "wutttt?" was uttered by music fans across the globe. Surely Jack White is the type of dud ... More >>

Pendulum @ Marquee Theatre

U2 to Sell 360 Tour Stages to Create New Venues

​U2 wants the stages used during their extensive 360 Tour to be recycled and become new permanent venues rather than going to waste, according to Billboard.The band is selling three of their four-legged structures that stand over the stage. They each take up 29,000 square feet.Plans are currently ... More >>

HavocNdeeD Remix of Linkin Park's "Wretches and Kings" Gets Love From NME

​ Phoenix/Las Vegas duo HavocNdeeD recently remixed Linkin Park's "Wretches and Kings," and the track is getting some major love from the NME Blog. "Oh my. This is, well, bloody amazing," writes Rebecca Schiller about the remix. "Wretches and Kings" originally appeared on Linkin Park's divisive al ... More >>

June 6 In Blogs: Steve Rude, Kanye West, Sweet Republic, and Joe Arpaio

​​​In the 24-hour news cycle, it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries:

Death Cab For Cutie to Stream New Music Video as They Shoot It

​The music video for Death Cab For Cutie's latest song "You Are A Tourist" is about to be made, but it won't be a typical music video shoot, according to Pitchfork.Death Cab has chosen to make a live stream available to allow their fans to watch the music video creation process as the video i ... More >>

Linkin Park at US Airways Center Last Night

Maria VassettLinkin Park performing at Phoenix's US Airways Center.​Linkin Park US Airways Center Monday, February 28 Linkin Park is taking their sound in a new direction. While that move is taking them into some unfamiliar territory, it's something that isn't completely unexpected. Even tho ... More >>

Linkin Park, "The Catalyst" (Kannamix 'Bday' Remix)

​Song: Linkin Park, "The Catalyst" (Kannamix 'Bday' Remix)Context: Linkin Park comes to US Airways Center tonight. Should be an interesting show given their new sound which some fans might not totally appreciate. While they still sound a little too much like the old Linkin Park for my taste, this ... More >>

Linkin Park's New Record Is Going to Confuse Some Fans

Linkin Park Made Their OK Computer

All hail A Thousands Suns, the finest dystopian fusion a major label can buy

Flathead, Chester Bennington, George Jones and More in This Week's Issue

​In this week's print edition New Times writer Chris Hansen Orf -- himself a member of a veteran Tempe Americana act -- catches up with hard-nosed roots rockers Flathead. The band talks about how they've been able to fit on bills with everyone from Meat Puppets to Ralph Stanley, X and Th ... More >>

Linkin Park's Chester Bennington Talks About Rick Rubin, How Bad Saw 3D Was and More

Chester Bennington​ It seems as if most casual fans are still likely to associate Linkin Park with the nu-metal sound that the band helped make popular in the early '00s. But that was then and this is now.The groups' latest album, A Thousand Suns, finds the band making its most diverse music yet. ... More >>

10 Steps to Becoming the Next Indie Buzz Band

Arcade Fire​So, it's Saturday night and you are playing another show in front of an empty dive bar. You can't figure out why your Linkin Park tribute band hasn't become more successful. You've spent hours working on your bands MySpace page, you've worked hard to get your original stuff played o ... More >>

DJ Circle Talks Chronic Future, Sugar Hill Gang, Swedish House Mafia, Sharam, and More

​Name: Freddy Krems AKA: DJ Circle Current club nights: I do Toxic Mondays at Zuma, Airia at Wild Horse Pass on Thursdays with D-JR, Fridays at Dirty Pretty all by myself, and then Cream on Saturdays. I'm also in a rotation on Sundays at Martini Ranch for Retox Sundays. Genres spun: Pretty much ... More >>

Story of the Year

Chester Bennington Strips for PETA

www.peta.org​We're used to screaming and hard rock from Linkin Park and Dead by Sunrise singer Chester Bennington, but the tough, tatted guy shows off a softer side by advocating for animals in a new PETA campaign...and he's shirtless! The Phoenix native displays his massive collecti ... More >>

Beyond The Now: You Asked For It

Beyond The NowSubject to Change (Self-released) Grade: CIt's hard to believe, but tomorrow marks the 10th anniversary of Woodstock 1999. Though organizers have done everything they can to protect the Woodstock brand since, distancing themselves from the fiery debacle in Rome, New York, if you ask m ... More >>

Jordin Sparks Hammered In Reviews, Chester Bennington Talks About Drugs, Pearl Jam On The Radio

So Much Silence: Alvin Band: Temple Pressure (video, mp3) Idolator: Highlights from various Jordin Sparks reviews NME: LCD Soundsystem set for new release of '45:33' Idolator: Will Lil Wayne's "Rebirth" Ever See The Light Of Day? Rolling Stone: Pearl Jam's New "Backspacer" Single "The Fixer" Hits Ra ... More >>

Arizona Premiere Living's List of Top Ten All-Time Arizona Musicians Kinda Blows

We recently ran across this list of the "Top Ten All-Time Arizona Musicians" from Arizona Premiere Living. Some of the choices are obvious: Meat Puppets, Jimmy Eat World, Jordin Sparks, Gin Blossoms, Alice Cooper, and Linda Ronstadt almost always make the "top" lists of Arizona musicians.

Is This Jay-Z and Radiohead Mash-Up Really Necessary?

Brand new to the internet this week is the latest effort from DJ Minty Fresh Beats, otherwise known as 22-year old New Yorker Max Tannone. Tannone has harnessed the eternal power of Jay-Z's The Black Album for his own evil-doing, choosing Radiohead as his partner in crime in creating this week's mas ... More >>

The Digital Age

Local hard rock faves take over the Marquee

The Top 14 Heavy Metal Men of Arizona

Linkin Park's Projekt Revolution helps Chris Cornell find nostalgia and camaraderie

Lucky 13

Chester Bennington and crew celebrate indie success

Future Shock: Peter Murphy, Ringo Starr, Maria Taylor, and more

Patti Smith

Twelve
(Sony)

Rock Politics

Paint it green

Linkin Park

Minutes to Midnight
(Warner Bros./WEA)

Marketing Lessons

Evanescence

The Open Door
(Wind-Up Records)

Ill Niño

This bill is filled

Rob Swift

It is, in fact, going down

Z-Trip

No spring chicken

Downward Dog

Time Marches On
(self-released)

Up From the Underworld

This year, blood-soaked extreme metal took its rightful place in the world of heavy music

Jay-Z/Linkin Park

Collision Course
(Warner Bros.)

Home Grown

La Tarea, Hollow, & STRÜB

Projekt Revolution Tour

Linkin Park's festival-style show still standing after Lollapalooza's summer bummer

Citizens Here and Abroad

Ghosts of Tables and Chairs (Omnibus)

Future Tense

Chronic Future, long absent from the local scene, reemerges with a major-label deal

Tricky

Vulnerable (Brown Punk/Sanctuary)

Life or Art?

Two local bands put divergent spins on their metal theater

Made With Love

Rosanne Cash is the friend who will say, or sing, what you can't

Park Rager

Linkin Park's newest album would suck without help from a Valley native

When Online Got Off Base

Or: How Mark Cuban would have and could have saved the music biz

Gone Hollywood

Turntable virtuoso Z-Trip returns to the desert in triumph

Nihil

Hollow