Mike Shinoda on Creative Risks, His Favorite Linkin Park Songs, & the New Lineup | Broken Record

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Mike Shinoda took a bold step last fall when he reintroduced Linkin Park with a new lineup featuring drummer Colin Brittain and singer Emily Armstrong as lead vocalist—taking on the role once held by Chester Bennington, who died by suicide in 2017. Mike, who co-founded Linkin Park in 1996, has long served as the group’s de facto producer, as well as its MC and keyboardist. The band rose to massive success in the 2000s, with a run of genre-blending albums that have collectively sold more than 100 million copies worldwide. In November, Linkin Park released From Zero, their eighth studio album and the first with Emily Armstrong as frontwoman. The record has already surpassed three billion streams online. On today’s episode, Leah Rose talks to Mike Shinoda about why he chose not to retire Linkin Park—and instead took the creative risk of reinventing the band nearly 30 years after its formation. Mike also shares his favorite Linkin Park songs of all time and explains how the band managed to stand apart from the bro-centric, frat-boy culture that defined much of early-2000s nu-metal. You can hear a playlist of some of our favorite songs from Mike Shinoda and Linkin Park HERE: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1cOUlkFdvGK7eUzo0jPGCZ?si=bbbc8f91c6374294&nd=1&dlsi=cc13f57541eb49d0 Subscribe 🎧 https://bit.ly/3EamIjM#podcast #brokenrecord #music #musicpodcast #podcast #jessemalin ABOUT BROKEN RECORD For generations of music lovers, the liner notes on albums were a central part of the way music was heard. You bought an album and it came with an accompanying narrative: a digression, an aside, a backstory—maybe even an invented history. We intuitively understood that great music required not just listening but conversation between the artist and the audience and the audience and the rest of the world. Broken Record is a podcast that restarts those conversations—in a world without liner notes—for a new audience of music lovers. Broken Record is hosted by Justin Richmond with interviews by producer Rick Rubin, writer Malcolm Gladwell, and former New York Times editor Bruce Headlam. STAY CONNECTED Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebrokenrecordpod Twitter: https://twitter.com/brokenrecord Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thebrokenrecordpod Website: https://www.pushkin.fm/show/broken-record-with-rick-rubin-malcolm-gladwell-bruce-headlam-and-justin-richmond/