1. By Cody Rudd

2.  Mike Shinoda – vocals, rhythm guitar, piano, keyboards  Chester Bennington – vocals  Joe Hahn – electronics, backing vocals, keyboard  Brad Delson – lead guitar, keyboards, bass guitar  Rob Bourdon – drums, percussion  Dave Farrell “Phoenix” – bass guitar, backing vocals

3.  The band joined together in 1996 in Agoura Hills, California.  Chester Bennington, joined the band in 1998. The following the year the band became Linkin Park, named after Lincoln Park in California.  Original name of the band was Hybrid Theory, which they named their first album after in 2000.

4.  Mike Shinoda formed a side band called Fort Minor with the help of Jay-Z.  The band has also helped raised money for charity as well as helping out during the Hurricane Katrina and the Indian Ocean Tsunami in 2004- 05. They created the Music for Relief to help raise funds for the destruction.  As they worked on their albums their genre changed. Their style changed to a softer rock-pop with hip-hop infused.  Their latest album, Living Things was a dub step-like sound, the electronics effects are much more prevalent in the music.

5.  Nu Metal, is a sub-genre of heavy metal music and adds hip-hop and hardcore punk to the music.  It is largely based upon syncopation (unity of different rhythms in the music) and the heavier guitar riffs.  Their original style of music when the band was created; it is heard in their albums Hybrid Theory and Meteora.  The bands genre now in considered alternative.

6.  Deftones – Hardcore-heavy metal sound  The Roots – hip-hop sound  Nine Inch Nails – electronic sound  Aphex Twin – electronic sound

7. Listen For: The hip-hop style of singing, the heavier sound of the guitar. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yw1Tgj9-VU Listen For: The hip-hop style of singing, the heavy guitar playing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmUTBDuUGz8 “One Step Closer”

8.  2000 Hybrid Theory  2003 Meteora  2007 Minutes to Midnight  2010 A Thousand Suns  2012 Living Things  2014 The Hunting Party (6-17)  Collaborated with other artists to create Reanimation in 2002  Collaborated with Jay-Z to create Collision Course in 2004

9.  The Transformers trilogy.  They have three songs for the each of the movies.  Transformers – “What I’ve Done”  Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen – “New Divide”  Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon – “Iridescent”

10. Listen For: The movement away from nu metal, the pop style of singing, the hip-hop sound of the band. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMePM9Q-bYk

11. Listen For: Very little nu-metal sound, the percussion, digital effects, the softer style of singing, harmony on the verse from Bennington and Shinoda. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qF_qbaWt3Q

12.  Andrew Leahey, Rovi. Linkin Park. Biography. 2014. Web. May 2, 2014. http://www.billboard.com/artist/307438/linkin- park/biographyhttp://www.billboard.com/artist/307438/linkin- park/biography  Wikipedia. Nu Metal. Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. 2014. Web. May 2, 2014. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nu_metalhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nu_metal  Rolling Stone. Linkin Park. Biography. 2014. Web. May 2, 2014. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/linkin-park http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/linkin-park  Wikipedia. Linkin Park. Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. May 2, 2014. Web. May 2, 2014. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linkin_Park http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linkin_Park  Images: Google Images: Linkin Park.