Weekly Roundup 5/3/2015

• Draven painted a ribbon for Rock VS Cancer!

Draven Is painting his ribbon for Rock VS Cancer

A photo posted by Samantha Bennington (@samanthabennington) on Apr 29, 2015 at 8:56pm PDT

• Chester posted a picture of his bright hair. :)

pink hair pic.twitter.com/doE5umNc65

— Chester Bennington (@ChesterBe) April 29, 2015

• STP announced 5 tour dates for the Fall here!

• Linkin Park posted a photo of the guys rehearsing a new song for shows:

@m_shinoda, @phoenixlp, BBB, and Rob rehearsing a new song for the upcoming shows. What song from #TheHuntingParty would you like to hear live this summer?

A photo posted by LINKIN PARK (@linkinpark) on Apr 29, 2015 at 6:28pm PDT

• Anna posted a photo of her 1980's "junk necklace".

Sometimes you've got to break out the vintage jewelry. #YesThatsAToilet

A photo posted by Anna Shinoda (@annashinoda) on May 1, 2015 at 7:10pm PDT

Weekly Roundup 4/26/15

• Joe was interviewed during the Star Wars celebration and you can watch it in the uploaded stream from the event here. 

• Phoenix was interviewed by Ticketmaster and it's a really good one so be sure to check it out if you haven't already, here!

• The Distortion of Sound documentary featuring Mike is nominated for The Webby Awards People’s Voice Award. You can vote here!

• Steve Aoki and Mike stopped by to do a podcast with theCHIVE. You can get it here.

• Stone Temple Pilots wil be streaming their live show tomorrow night on Yahoo Screen at 9:15 ET. More info at https://screen.yahoo.com/

• And last but definitely not least, I'm sure everyone has heard of that awful earthquake in Nepal...Music For Relief are supporting everyone affected and needs our help. If you can donate anything please click here!

Weekly Roundup 4/17/15

• While at Country Love this week, Elka spotted a Linkin Park fan. :)

Little LP love at #CountryThunder pic.twitter.com/8FUoxRquOB
— Elka Brand (@ElkaBr) April 13, 2015

• Rolling Stone posted some photos of Mike and Steve Aoki on the video set of "Darker Than Blood". Check them out here!

By the way, here is the lyric video for the song:

• A new LPTV was posted today. You can watch that on youtube here.

• Chester shared this photo before a STP show. :)

Warming up for the show with my friends😈 pic.twitter.com/wvbBtNXgIm
— Chester Bennington (@ChesterBe) April 17, 2015

Weekly Roundup 4/4/15

• Wednesday marked one year since Anna's first novel, Learning Not to Drown was released. :)

I can't believe it's been a year since Learning Not To Drown was released. Thank you to everyone who has read the book - whether you bought it or borrowed it from the library or a friend. A book isn't complete until it's been read. I'm so very grateful to all of you who have completed Learning Not to Drown. Photo by @inniscasey from my release party last year, hosted by @lisalingstagram and @paulysong #TBT

A photo posted by Anna Shinoda (@annashinoda) on Apr 2, 2015 at 1:57pm PDT

• Talinda is volunteering to help out kids:

For my fellow school & sport volunteers--Who give their time to make 'it' happen for all of our kids! pic.twitter.com/2Zdj7NATZ0
— Talinda Bennington (@TalindaB) April 4, 2015

• Chester was interviewed by ARTISTdirect about Stone Temple Pilots and it's a good read! Check it out here. ARTISTdirect also posted 8 of Chester's favorite 90's albums here.

• Steve Aoki announced that he worked with Linkin Park again and the song is called Darker Than Blood:

Been talkin about my next @linkinpark collab for over a year & I'm happy I can announce our next single, DARKER THAN BLOOD! OUT ON APRIL 14!
— Steve Aoki (@steveaoki) April 2, 2015

• Icon VS Icon interviewed Joe about his movie MALL and how he got started directing with Linkin Park and about his style. Read it here!

That's all for this week. Happy Easter!

Weekly Roundup 3/22/15

• In the past week both Joe and Chester celebrated birthdays! It looks like Joe is in the lead on the MFR birthday challenge by $10!!
  
  
• Anna had pink eye earlier this week. :( But thanks to tea, looks like she's feeling better.
  
  
• Linkin Park are nominated twice for the Rock 100 by Kerrang! Vote for The Final Masquerade or In the End as your favorite track in the world at http://kerrangvote.com/
  
  
• Joe's movie "MALL" is now streaming on Netflix!
  
  
  
  
  
• Elka went hiking with her mom and had a great time. :) Makes me look forward to nice weather myself.

Having a laugh on the mountain:) pic.twitter.com/rQN1GuAgno
— Elka Brand (@ElkaBr) March 15, 2015

• Chester did an interview with Altwire where he talked about his ankle, Linkin Park and Stone Temple Pilots. Read it here!
• And last but definitely not least, the new LPTV shows when Chester broke his ankle and how hard it was on him having to cancel the rest of the tour.

Weekly Roundup 2/20/15

Hey everyone! I'm going to try and do a post like this each week with news and/or small updates. That way you can still keep up with what's going on but I wont have to post so many separate posts without much content. Happy weekend!

• Samantha has posted a new blog on CertainlyHer.com. Read it here! She also posted some pictures on instagram (including some of Draven's new haircut).

• Jasper has been helping Anna with her writing. :)
  
  

  Writing partner.

  A photo posted by Anna Shinoda (@annashinoda) on Feb 19, 2015 at 2:27pm PST




• Linkin Park gave fans a free gift:
  
  

  A Gift For You #FinalMasquerade https://t.co/AD4YIRvrwm
  — LINKIN PARK (@linkinpark) February 19, 2015

• Get your $15 LPU Limited Archive 2 T-Shirt Bundle in the LP store!

• Stone Temple Pilots (with Chester) are going on tour this Spring. Tickets on sale now.

• There are some interesting speculations about Fort Minor going on right now. Check out twitter and MSC for more info...

Chester Predicted He'd Be STP Frontman

Here's a quick read for you. :)

According to DeLeo, things were put into motion when he saw Bennington on television, wearing a Stone Temple Pilots t-shirt. "I was on a European tour, in my room, late at night. I turn on the TV and there's Linkin Park doing this massive festival, and Chester's hitting it with a Stone Temple Pilots shirt on. It put a smile on my face, it brought me back to home, and I could feel my heart again."
"When the time came to think about a singer we reached out to him."
As DeLeo notes, it was during the recording of the first STP song with Bennington that the singer told the guitarist that he had premonitions about being in the band a number of years ago:
"When I was dating my wife, about eight, nine years ago, I said: 'One day, they're going to call me to be in the band.'"
But even though he's said similar things to the press, it was all a surprise to the guitarist, who wasn't sure whether Bennington would say yes. "I didn't know," he admits.
In a separate interview Bennington revealed that the only condition of his joining Stone Temple Pilots is Linkin Park's being a top priority for him. In a case of two band's interests collision Chester will choose his main band. This condition was willingly accepted by DeLeos and drummer Eric Kretz.
STP are now working on a new EP. The band say they've completed four songs so far.