Linkin Park will perform at the 2012 Billboard Music Awards on May 20th, 2012 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas!

Other confirmed acts: Carrie Underwood, Justin Bieber, LMFAO, The Wanted, Kelly Clarkson, Nelly Furtado, Usher.

Thoughts?

Sources:
LPA & venue website.

Our friends at LPA got a hold of a 7-track Hybrid Theory Demo CD. It appears to have the same tracks as the 8-track CD with She Couldn't, which was our exclusive, just without this particular song. As you probably remember, that 8-track CD had a lot of static closer to the end of it. This 7-track CD has no static, so we can consider it an upgrade for existing tracks.



You can download both MP3 and FLAC at LPAssociation

Linkin Park and Incubus will be taking the Honda Civic Tour through Wantagh, NY at the Nikon at Jones Beach Theater on August 15.LP underground members can purchase pre-sale tickets starting tomorrow, May 19 at 10:00AM (local time). Fans who pre-ordered LIVING THINGS from Linkinpark.com can purchase pre-sale tickets starting Sunday, May 20 at 10:00AM (local time).


Source

Roll Call Thread

Now we can watch how they talk and discuss the album cover.



Thoughts?

Time for the first preshow post of 2012!

On the 16th, LP played their first show of some sort of 2012 at their rehearsal studio Third Encore in Burbank, CA. This was a KROQ "winners only" rehearsal (show page here). From this rehearsal we can gather several things - 'New Divide', 'Given Up', 'Papercut', 'Waiting For The End', and 'Faint' will be played this year but hey, that's probably all a given except for 'Papercut' - we're VERY glad to see that one returning! 'BURN IT DOWN' made its live debut as well. One interesting thing from the rehearsal is 'Waiting For The End' is listed to have an 'Apaches Intro' and at the rehearsal had 'No ext. outro'. It'll be exciting to hear the new intro and possibly a new outro as well.

We also had a setlist sneek peak the other day via Phoenix on Twitter that had 'BURN IT DOWN', 'In The End', 'Numb', and 'Bleed It Out' (w/BBoys Bridge) in the encore. 'Numb' being placed in the encore for the first time is interesting and I know we're all stoked to hear the new bridge for 'Bleed It Out', which we assume will make its debut at this next show - a small, intimate LPU-only show at the House of Blues in West Hollywood, CA on the 18th! This will be the first full show of 2012 for the band and also the first time a touring cycle has kicked off with an LPU show since the 2003 LP Underground Tour.

The last LA show came at the Mayan last August (show page here) for a Music For Relief benefit show so it's no surprise that this show will have proceeds donated to Music For Relief again as well. The last time LP has played this actual venue was in 2007 for Jimmy Kimmel Live (show page here), where they played a full set. They have only played it one other time - the last show of 2002 (show page here) for a Young Angels benefit show that we don't know much about. Here's a sweet video of the Mayan show's 'Bleed It Out' with the fan-favorite 'A Place For My Head' bridge:



Since the last show for the band was all the way back in September in Singapore (show page here), we are excited to see the new setlist the band will debut in West Hollywood. At that show, 'One Step Closer' was in the number THREE (!) spot. Interesting! What songs would you like to see them play at this LPU show? Would you like an old song or two to return? Will we get 'With You' perhaps? Or will LP stick with a standard festival set since their European Tour starts soon? Would you like to see certain songs move around in the setlists? Or new intros/outros to any? Will we see more than one new song played?

Who's going to the show?! Anyone Tweeting it live for us?

The DSP website at downloads.linkinpark.com sadly hasn't been updated for 2012 shows yet so hopefully we get a DSP of this afterwards.

After this show, Linkin Park plays the Billboard Music Awards on the 20th in Las Vegas. The European Tour starts on the 26th in Lisboa at the Rock in Rio Festival and includes Rock am Ring, Rock im Park, and Pinkpop performances as well as appearances in Romania, Poland and Ukraine. This will be a great tour to start the LIVING THINGS touring cycle.

For the full 2012 tour schedule, click here.


SET
01. Tinfoil
02. Faint
03. Papercut
04. With You
05. Runaway
06. Given Up
07. Blackout
08. Somewhere I Belong
09. New Divide
10. Points Of Authority
11. Waiting For The End (Apaches Intro w/ 'Until It Breaks' rap; Ext. Outro)
12. Breaking The Habit
13. LOATR/SOTD/Iridescent (Medley)
14. The Catalyst
15. What I've Done
16. Crawling
17. One Step Closer
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18. Burn It Down
19. In The End
20. Numb
21. Bleed It Out (Ext. Bridge w/ Beastie Boys 'Sabotage')

Here's the setlist from tonight's rehearsal at Third Encore:



New Divide
Given Up
Papercut
Waiting For The End (w/Apaches Intro) [No Extended Outro)
Burn It Down
Faint w/Extended

This was a surprise to us as we thought this would probably occur on the 17th. Only KROQ winners were allowed at this rehearsal, which we will count as the first show (although partial) of 2012. Thanks to Eric for the info!

First live performance of BURN IT DOWN!
Thoughts?

EDIT: LPLive member BaZz had this to say:
"Hey guys the show was awesome maybe like 80 people, as for the waiting for the end intro it was really awesome it was Mike's Apaches accappella, basically as he would do on before POA during other shows I haven't heard the verse he did before so I am not quite sure where it was from. Some people were using cameras for video so I am sure something will pop up."

With several shows coming up this week, including the House of Blues show in West Hollywood on Friday and a KROQ winner-only "secret" rehearsal most likely the day before, it's no secret the band is rehearsing for the upcoming tour.

Phoenix recently posted a picture on Twitter that includes the encore for what we can assume is a new setlist. The band I'm sure tries out several different sets and ideas during rehearsal so there's no telling if this will even be played live, but it's pretty cool to check out at least. Maybe this clues us in to what is going to be played Friday.

Check it out here. The rehearsal this came from was on May 10, 2012.



The portion we can view in the setlist is:

"Encore:
Burn It Down
In The End
Numb
Bleed It Out w/BBoys Bridge"

Thoughts on this? What song do you think they incorporated by the Beastie Boys into 'Bleed It Out'? Do you think this might mean the end of 'A Place For My Head'/'No Roads Left' being sung/played over it?