Linkin Park
Linkin Park’s recent revelation that they were never really nu-metal couldn’t have been more disingenuous had they claimed to have been just following orders. They won’t let it lie, though; their fourth album opens with an instrumental...
Jay-Z/Linkin Park : Collision Course
Please god, someone make it stop. First there was Danger Mouse’s ‘The Grey Album’, which mixed a capella bits from Jay-Z’s ‘The Black Album’ with guitar bits from The Beatles’ ‘The White Album’ and was both popular and...
Carling Weekend : Reading, Main Stage Friday
Linkin Park's Chester Bennington says he is so excited he wants to shit. Considering the problems he has had with his innards of late, this sounds more like a threat than a call to arms. With Linkin Park, it's all or nothing. And 50,000 fans,...
Linkin Park : Meteora
Out of all the shitty bands from the unexciting and artistically retarded nu-metal scene, Linkin Park was the only one with more than minus-five original ideas to its name. Essentially a pop band with heavy production and good epic choruses...
Linkin Park : Somewhere I Belong
There’s a lot riding on Linkin Park ’s return – not just their future, but that of nu-metal itself. If their new album goes the way of Korn ’s and Papa Roach ’s last efforts, baggy shorts across the Western World will be turned into...
Linkin Park : London Brixton Academy
Those against Linkin Park say they're more brand than band. Wicked whispers that they were engineered by a svengali looking to corner the pop-metal market dogged their early career. Detractors say they've cynically co-opted the angst of...
Linkin Park : Reanimation
Such is the paranoia surrounding the Linkin Park summer holiday (or 'remix') album and the threat of internet piracy, that in order to review the 20-track mutha, NME is required to scoot off to the band's label for a listening session. Not an...
Linkin Park : High Voltage/ Points Of Authority...
Say what you like about Linkin Park but, at least, they do actually sound like a park. Trouble is, it’s well-trimmed patch in some anonymous middle-class mid-west town, where moody 13 year-old skate "dudes" make like Johnny Knoxville until...
Family Values : Toronto Skydome, Canada
After two sets by industrial fools Static-X and then the awful Deadsy - who support the theory that nu-metal can make O-Town look credible - it's time for Linkin Park to strut their platinum skills. It's sweet relief after an awful beginning....
Linkin Park : In The End
It's hard to fully grasp the gravitas, and point, of Linkin Park unless you've just entered your first year of GCSEs, your parents are on your back about tidying your bedroom and your face stinks of Clearasil. Fresh out of charm school, this...
