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Linkin Park | Mike Shinoda & Emily Armstrong

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Episode notes

Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda and Emily Armstrong came by to talk about the band's new album "From Zero", why Emily was the perfect fit to join the band and more!

:00 - Intro

4:00 - How Did Mike Shinoda and Emily Armstrong meet?

6:30 - Dead Sara

8:00 - Emily’s First Experience with Linkin Park’s music

10:30 - What Mike Shinoda saw in Emily Armstrong

20:30 - Approaching Linkin Park’s New Music

27:00 - Chester Bennington liked when Mike Shinoda suggested lyrics to him

29:00 - Emptiness Machine

31:30 - Heavy Is The Crown

38:30 - No one else could write Linkin Park songs

40:30 - The beauty of working on songs for a long time

41:30 - Linkin Park’s new drummer

46:30 - Emily Armstrong preparing for live Linkin Park shows

50:20 - Mike Shinoda on getting to perform with Linkin Park again

54:30 - Linkin Park is bigger than the band

56:30 - The meaning of From Zero

58:30 - Screaming on Heavy is the Crown

1:02:30 - What Mike Shinoda and Emily Armstrong learned about themselves making this album

1:03:00 - How did Linkin Park keep their comeback a secret?

1:06:30 - Having a woman in the band for the first time

1:10:30 - Mike Shinoda producing music over Twitch

1:11:30 - The Linkin Park Community

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