Linkin Park Teams Up With Flingo to Reach Fans on Smart TVs

Flingo, the leading publisher of applications for the smart TV, today announced a partnership with Linkin Park to create the band's official app for Smart TVs. Designed in collaboration with the band, Flingo's Linkin Park app will utilize the smart TV as a platform to distribute video, behind-the-scenes footage of studio sessions and concerts, photos and tour dates. The app will soon be available on Smart TVs including Insignia, LG, Samsung, Vizio, Sanyo, Western Digital, and Netgear devices.

"Flingo provides us with a new way to connect with our fans and give them immediate access to our videos," says Joe Hahn, of Linkin Park. "With our app available in the newest Internet Connected HD TVs, we know our videos are going to look great and sound amazing. Plus, the app gives us total creative control over the format and frequency of which we can reach viewers and listeners, an uncommon luxury for most musicians today."

Flingo's application publishing suite seamlessly integrates the web with the TV experience. This enables an ecosystem where media companies, artists and brand sponsors converge on consumer hardware platforms to give viewers a more engaging and personal TV experience. Viewers will enjoy more content on TV than ever before in a highly personalized, interactive experience. Additionally, they can share their favorite moments across popular social networks. Flingo is currently available on 7.2 million screens, in 117 countries worldwide.

"We're very honored to launch Linkin Park's app for Smart TVs," says Alvir Navin, co-founder of Flingo. "As a musician myself, I am always looking for ways that artists can bring their creativity to large audiences directly. Linkin Park is one of the biggest rock bands of all time, so people are going to love 24 hour access to the band's latest news and videos in the convenience of their TV with all the sound fidelity of a home theater environment."

About Flingo Founded in 2008, Flingo delivers a more engaging TV experience through its portfolio of applications. Flingo publishes more Smart TV apps than any other company in the world and is a product and service of Free Stream Media Corp. For more information, go to http://www.flingo.tv .

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Julien-K announcement

Today Julien-K announced that their second album “We’re here with you” will be released on January the 23rd, 2012″!

This was posted on their facebook:

Tickets are now available for our Record Release show Saturday January 21st at the ROXY in Hollywood, CA BONUS!!!

You will receive our NEW album We're Here With You (ON CD) included in the ticket price AT THE DOOR!!! 2 days before anyone else will have it in their hands!!! Link to purchase tickets:  ticketweb

One-of-a-Kind Formula 1 Helmet Designed by Linkin Park's Joe Hahn

Take home Kamui Kobayashi's one-of-a-kind Formula 1 helmet designed by Linkin Park's Joe Hahn. The helmet will be worn by Kobayashi at his final race of the season at the Brazilian Grand Prix on November 27, 2011.

Linkin Park met Kamui Kobayashi on their recent tour of Asia while performing at the Singapore Grand Prix. Kobayashi is a fan of the band, and wanted to lend his support to help recovery efforts in his homeland.

Together the band, Sauber F1 Team and Kobayashi sponsor GoodSmile Company, with the support of Arai Helmets, joined forces to design an original helmet Kobayashi will wear for the last race of the 2011 Formula 1 World Championship season at the Brazilian Grand Prix on November 27, 2011.
The proceeds for this item benefit Music for Relief for Japan Earthquake & Tsunami Relief.

Terms: Includes: Kamui Kobayashi's one-of-a-kind Formula 1 helmet designed by Joe Hahn. In condition as donated. Additional shipping costs will apply based upon location of winner. Cannot be resold or re-auctioned.
Donated by: Joe Hahn, Kamui Kobayashi, Arai Helmets, Team Sauber, and Good Smile Company

Click here to bid!

LPU11

LPU11 launched today! Here is a message from ROB:

LPU11 has officially launched! This new year of the LPU launches with a brand new members-only online community, an exclusive merchandise package and additional benefits, including LPU members' request for early admission into Linkin Park shows.

We are also releasing our annual LPU CD. The LPU11 CD is filled with unreleased demos from Hybrid Theory to A Thousand Suns. Some of the songs on this CD are early versions of familiar songs, such as the “In The End” demo. Other songs on this CD never made it on a Linkin Park album and remained unfinished and in raw form. All of the songs represent the journey it takes to create an album as a whole, and we're excited to share them with you.
To learn more, visit us at LPUnderground.com.
Thank you to our dedicated members for making LPU such an amazing place for us to connect with our fans!
-Rob

Chester Bennington plays children's benefit

AZ central:

Linkin Park's Chester Bennington headlined the second annual Stars of the Season, which drew a packed house of 520 to the beautiful Montelucia Resort & Spa on Saturday, Nov. 12. The evening was dedicated to raising funds for Cardon Children's Medical Center in Mesa. The proceeds will help expand and enhance services offered in the pediatric rehabilitation center.

Attendees were treated to a silent auction featuring a vast array of items including everything from sporting tickets to a day of golf with local music Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Alice Cooper. After a delicious dinner, a touching video presentation spotlighted three children who are patients at the Mesa facility. The stories of these brave children helped make the live auction a huge success and raise thousands of dollars.

The final live auction item was an autographed guitar from Linkin Park that would eventually sell for $10,000. The prize was in such high demand that lead singer Chester Bennington decided to auction off two additional Linkin Park guitars and raised $30,000.

After the auction, Bennington played an intimate acoustic set with Dead By Sunrise on the ballroom stage. The 40-minute, eight-song set put the focus on material by the singer's side band, including "Crawl Back In" and "Let Down." Dead By Sunrise also features Julien-K singer Ryan Schuck, who sang the Julien-K songs "I'll Try Not to Destroy You" and "Palm Spring Reset." They also played one Linkin Park track, "Messenger." When the set was over, Bennington took time to speak to the children in attendance and take photos with excited fans. It was wonderful to see Bennington's commitment to the community and the children. He truly is a class act.

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Linkin Park nominated for Peoples Choice Award

Linkin Park have been nominated for a People's Choice Award in the category Favorite Band. You can now vote online at the PCA website. Spread the word to your friends, then vote daily and as often as you can!

Linkin Park teams with UN on energy effort

The rock band Linkin Park is teaming up with the U.N. to bring clean energy to Haitian families. 

 Band members joined Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at a Tuesday news conference announcing their involvement in an initiative to replace dirty energy sources like kerosene, charcoal and wood with solar and other clean, sustainable power. 

 Rapper and co-frontman Mike Shinoda says the band began funding disaster relief efforts worldwide after the devastating 2004 tsunami in Asia. 

 Linkin Park's albums include Hybrid Theory and Meteora. It has sold more 50 million albums worldwide and has won two Grammy awards.

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Dead By Sunrise to headline Children's Center benefit

Dead By Sunrise will be headlining the 2nd annual fundraiser at Cardon Children's Medical Center on Saturday, Nov. 12, at the Montelucia Resort & Spa in Paradise Valley!

The signature fundraising event for Banner Health's only free-standing pediatric facility has a goal of raising $250,000 in support of Cardon's Pediatric Rehabilitation Center, which provides critically important rehabilitation services for children from newborn to 18 years. Bennington's wife, Talinda, volunteers there with Bruiser, their dog.
Last year's event raised $170,000 for the medical center's Integrative Pediatric Pain Management Program. Tickets to this year's cocktails and dinner event are $250 per person; sponsorships range from $5,000-$50,000. To purchase tickets or inquire about Stars of the Season sponsorship opportunities, contact Natalie Hood, director of special events at Banner Health Foundation, at 602-747-GIVE or natalie.hood@bannerhealth.com.

AZ Central.