Just a reminder that the chat starts very soon

Here's a step by step rundown of the tracks and what the band has to say about it. Thanks to my sucky ORC software not working at the moment, me and jaxxy have had to type this all out, so I hope you enjoy it :)

Wake
Mike: this is an intro track that starts the album - you can hear a needle going down on a record and I think it sets a tone for what's to come.


Given Up
Brad: We had a really bad song called 'Fire in the City' - the chorus actually had the words i'fire in the city' on it! Mike was the only person who liked it. Rather than just scrap the song, we mined it for any good parts.
Mike: It felt like Brad stole my car and ripped out the stereo!
Brad: I took the bassline and the drums and built weird sounds around it, which eventually became this song. Chester's screaming: 'What the f**k is wrong with me? Put me out of my f**king misery!' so without explaining exactly what the song is about, it's pretty clear he's not happy.


Click read more to read about the rest of the tracks!

Its that time of the year again guys. With the upcoming release of Minutes to Midnight, the UK Street Team will be organising a meet up in the next few weeks to completely promote in your area, get to meet the rest of the team and see who's who before the next set of shows start.

For those not familiar, it'll be a chance to meet Simon and I, aquaint yourselves with how to go about promoting Linkin Park and whether you'll have any friends who live near you that can help you out with promoting. We can have a meal and get to know each other. Then, if any of you're attending Download or any of LP's future shows, people will hopefully recognise each other and have some more company!

Either way, it'd be great to see you guys and if no-one comes, Simon and I will have to just hang out all afternoon... no loss for me either way :D

If you would like to contact us, please email either jon at runyc dot com, or simon at lpfuse dot co dot uk

Hey all! Within the last couple of hours lp.com has transformed like a butterfly from the old building site into a shiney new white site! Go check it out. www.linkinpark.com

Also the album cover is now available.


Leave some comments! (energy- if you can get them to work) I'm interested to know what you guys think about the album cover and the new lp.com

The above image gives us two things. First, a confirmation that there is an explicit and non-explicit version of the M2M album. Secondly there are some bsides going to be availble. Now I guess these will be on the collectors editions of the album. Only time will tell. Currently the preorder is only availble in the US. Along with other preorder systems like lp's season pass...

Also beginning Tuesday, April 3, you will be able to pre-order the album, and buy the video for "What I've Done." The pre-order offer includes a deluxe digital album with bonus tracks and a "Season Pass" including all 15 FULL LENGTH episodes of LPTV, the behind-the-scenes series documenting the last four years of the band. This offer is available in the U.S. only. Be sure to look out for more info.

Considering the UK Itunes only just updated their list to include What I've done....

Hey everyone! I'm Jaxxy (aka Jaxiebelle on the LPU). I'm a new newsposter here on the glorious LPFuse!

I just wanted to let you guys know that Mike Shinoda features in the "Random Question Generator" in this weeks Kerrang! (dated March 31st).

In it he talks about throwing up at school, people getting naked and his hidden (non) talent! You know...all the important issues in life! Check out the scan below.



*waits for everyone to try touching their shoulder...*

Hope to post some news again for you guys soon!

What I've Done Premiere on Zane Lowe, BBC Radio 1 tonight. To listen live, go to
"http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/" this evening, and enjoy.

Should be the fourth of fifth song of the set.

Just want to thank EVERYBODY who regularly checks this site. Last night, around 1am in London, we reached 500,000 hits.

So from everyone here at Fuse, thanks so much for using us as a source of your information.

energy - Hey all! Wooo 500,000 unique visitors! There will be some updates and trinkiets shortly. You guys just reached the 500,000 before we were ready. Keep an eye on the site and if you have any ideas for updates feel free to email us. I'll be about a lot more over the next few days as it's the easter holidays. Looks like there'll be alot happening too.
enjoy the site!

oh and the first thing we'll fix is the comments. new podcast in the next 48hrs!

For all you iPod and iTunes users, the video for What I've Done is now up in the iTunes Music Store. To find it do a search for "What I've Done" and click the Music Video tab.

EDIT: The audio version is now out on iTunes aswell.

EDIT 2: Apparently they were not supposed to release it yet and both files were taken down. Consider yourself lucky if you got it.

Thanks to Hahninator and stucknmove.

Mike and Brad will be calling in to KROQ radio tomorrow morning at 7:30am PST to officially premiere 'What I've Done' and talk about the new album.

Listen on KROQ.com for those of you not in the area.

Source: LP's MySpace page via LPA.

To help clear up some confusion, Derek from LPA has asked me to post this for him here. Please feel free to direct others here if you're hearing any 'rumors' about LPA:

Hey folks, this is the REAL Derek from The Linkin Park Association writing in to let you know, that the person who claimed to be me in the LPFUSE comments is a fraud and not the real me.

Never in our 5 year history has The Linkin Park Association ever illegally hosted an entire album, and we definitely did not do it this time around, and in all honesty nobody on staff even has the full album as of yet. We are simply just experiencing higher than normal traffic due to the news of What I've Done leaking (a leak we never hosted due to protecting copyright issues by the way) and because of this we are temporarily down until it gets resolved. Our technician is currently offline, and LPA shall be restored later this evening.

This is not an April Fools Joke, we were not shut down by Warner (since I am the primary contact for lpassociation.com I would be aware of this), and LPA's server simply just crashed.

Thank you for your patience and remember to never trust anyone claiming to be me in LPFUSE comments as I most likely would always contact LPFUSE first if I needed to make an announcement of that sort. Thank you.

Respectfully Yours,
(THE REAL) Derek Oswald
Administrator/Co-Owner
www.lpassociation.com

nkramar says: It appears that all is well once again in LPA-land as the server is back up. Resume your viewing of their site after you visit LPFuse first as usual.

Energy: Ok I'm cleaning this article up.

The Truth. Yes, someone ripped the single off the radio. No we will not be hosting it. Anyone caught posting a link in the comments (if you can get them to work!) will be banned from the site. Any news poster, posting any commercial material will be removed from the site permantly.

Like it or not, we're the ones who have to deal with an unhappy Warner Bros so we're showing no tollerance to people who post illegal material. Be a great fan and show your support on monday by going online and purchasing the digital single! It'll prove to LP that you're still wrapped up in their music and can't wait for the album.

Click Read more to view the lyics to the song to keep you tied over till monday.

Hey Jon. I dunno if you remember me from the FM Militia... Anyways, as you may be aware of already, there's a poll on MTVAsia.com for the most anticipated new album of 2007, and the LPU struggled to get LP to the top, but a bunch of Britney Spears fanatics are trying to catch up! They're only 200 votes behind. Please make a post on LPFuse telling people to vote. This is free promotion if we can keep the victory. Thanks.
http://mtvasia.com/
-KrylonShadow

Apr 23 2007 6:30P
Silent Movie Theatre- With Duncan Sheik Los Angeles, California
Apr 25 2007 7:30P
The Independent- with Duncan Sheik San Francisco, California
Apr 26 2007 5:30P
Triple Door- with Duncan Sheik Seattle, Washington
Apr 27 2007 7:00P
UC Ballroom at University of Montana- with Duncan Sheik Missoula, Montana
Apr 30 2007 6:00P
Varsity Theatre- with Duncan Sheik Minneapolis, Minnesota
May 2 2007 7:00P
Vaudeville Mews- with Duncan Sheik Des Moines, Iowa
May 3 2007 7:00P
Raue Center for the Arts- with Duncan Sheik Crystal Lake, Illinois
May 4 2007 7:00P
Stage Door at the Orpheum- with Duncan Sheik Madison, Wisconsin
May 5 2007 7:00P
Buskirk-Chumley Theatre- with Duncan Sheik Bloomington, Indiana
May 6 2007 7:30P
The Ark- with Duncan Sheik Ann Arbor, Michigan
May 7 2007 6:00P
Club Cafe- with Duncan Sheik Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
May 10 2007 7:30P
McCarter Theatre- with Duncan Sheik Princeton, New Jersey
May 12 2007 7:00P
Gild Hall- with Duncan Sheik Arden, Delaware
May 15 2007 7:00P
The Concert Hall at Society for Ethical Culture- with Duncan Sheik New York, New York


Apologies if this goes bad. Source.

Edit: Holly Brook is amazing live. She'll play every instrument and be able to do every part of the song at the same time flawlessly and sounds amazing. Still the best artist on Machine Shop.

"Please vote for LP on www.mtvasia.com !"

Various MySpace bulletins.

LPTV three is up. Its based on Summer Sanitarium.
Click to see.

Edit: If it isn't loading for you yet, come back and check it in a few hours. Youtube may be having some problems. It hasn't loaded for me but it was only uploaded about 4 hours ago according to its stats.


Linkin Park - LPT...
linkinparktv
4 hours ago

Click here to check out the area that UK people are suggested to purchase the new single 'What I've Done'.
The sample which includes a full chorus and a first glance at part of a verse!

Thanks to Mzerok + others
(Energy - sorry I updated jon!)

From Astat (since he can't get comments on here to work for some reason):

This is NOT the Club Tattoo Anniversary Party guys. Go to www.clubtattoo.com and look at the big banner in the upper right: "12th Anniversary Party: June 23rd, Acme Roadhouse."

The 4/20 show at the Marquee is completely unrelated (other than being promoted by Club Tattoo in some manner) and I can assure you LP/FM/BOW will not be playing there.

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Edit by Hahninator: Yeah I totally messed that up lol. I thought they moved the 6-23 date to 4-20. Anyways, LP/BOW/FM won't play that date...their Club Tattoo show is the 12 Anniversary Party on June 23.

www.clubtattoo.com/events.html

LPFuse and it's staff are sorry for any confusion we might have caused (Jon and I mainly) to the community.

JonandBT: Apologies for the mistake. I find it hard being gorgeous and intelligent at the same time. Guess the looks won this round.

Looks set to be on the 20th April. Club Tat are looking for bands in the Arizona/Tempe area to open for them

The lineup's not confirmed but you can be pretty sure of Linkin Park and/or Fort Minor, Chester's solo group Bucket of Weenies and more.

Source: Myspace bulletin by Club Tat.

CD Wow has the track listing for "Minutes To Midnight". Of course nothing is official till it comes from LP's mouth but looks okay to me. Thanks to Benashhug and LPTimes.

Wake
Given Up
Leave Out All The Rest
Bleed It Out
Shadow Of The Day
What I've Done
Hands Held High
No More Sorrow
Valentine's Day
In Between
In Pieces
The Little Things Give You Away