Linkin Park plans to cut down the space between new studio releases this time around, hoping not to repeat the four-year gap between 2003's Meteora and 2007's Minutes to Midnight. Singer Mike Shinoda says that the band members have been working on new material for a while and that he's even found time to record some demos while on tour: "Actually I've been doing a couple of studio dates out on the road, which is new for me. I did a date when we were touring in Germany, one date in Prague, a bunch of dates in New York, and I'm excited about that. It's been very cool for us. So long story short, we've been putting in a lot of work and hopefully we could have a new record out next year."
Linkin Park is in the midst of its Projekt Revolution tour, which stops in Charlotte, North Carolina on tomorrow (July 30th) and rolls through Riverbend on August 15th!
Ex-Soundgarden and Audioslave singer Chris Cornell's third solo album, titled Scream, will be out this fall, with the exact release date yet to be determined. Several song excerpts recently surfaced online and indicate a very different style for the vocalist. Cornell recorded the disc with famed urban pop producer Timbaland, and says that the results surprised him: "Tim lent a lot to what I describe as sort of the psychedelic aspect of this album, kind of a Pink Floyd or Dark Side of the Moon or almost like a Queen Night at the Opera type of a feel to me. That's something I never would have predicted. You know, I would have felt like I would be the one that would try to go into the album-oriented rock world, and really it was Tim's influence on this album that pushed it more in that direction." Cornell is also part of the Projekt Revolution tour which comes to Riverbend on August 15th.
My Chemical Romance will cover a song by Bob Dylan for the film version of the celebrated graphic novel Watchmen. Director Zack Snyder said that the song itself has not been chosen, but that the track "will close out the film, and will be the only modern composition making up the movie's soundtrack." My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way, a comic book fan and writer himself, said that Watchmen "is the first graphic novel I tell people to read if they are slightly unfamiliar with comics, and it is the graphic novel that changed the way I thought about superheroes and mainstream comics."
Watchmen is set in an alternate Earth in the year 1985, where superheroes have been outlawed. The last remaining costumed crimefighters must reunite to discover who is murdering them one by one. The film arrives in theatres next March and you can see the tailer for it by clicking this link http://watchmenmovie.warnerbros.com/
Meanwhile, Way himself is working on the second series of his own comic book, The Umbrella Academy. The story, about a dysfunctional family of superheroes, debuted last year with a six-issue run and will continue with another six issues later this year.
My Chemical Romance's live CD/DVD, The Black Parade is Dead!, arrived in stores earlier this month.