Linkin Park were the musical guests on ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon’ last night (September 17), performing their latest single ‘The Emptiness Machine’.
The track, their first to feature new co-vocalist Emily Armstrong and drummer Colin Brittain, has already seen huge commercial success, becoming the band’s highest ever charting single in the UK. It is taken from the upcoming new album ‘From Zero’ which is set for release on November 15.
Watch the band perform ‘The Emptiness Machine’ below:
Mike Shinoda also joined Jimmy Fallon for an interview, hilariously brought out to the stage to the sounds of house band The Roots performing a slightly adapted version of ‘My Sharona’.
Watch below:
Following a special livestream event announcing their comeback on September 05, the band played the first official show of this new era at LA’s Kia Forum venue on September 11, following that up with a gig in New York on the 16th. They will play further shows in Hamburg, London and Seoul later this month.
Have a look at their full list of dates below:
SEPTEMBER
22 – Barclays Arena – Hamburg, Germany
24 – The O2 – London, UK
28 – INSPIRE Arena – Seoul, South Korea
NOVEMBER
11 – Coliseo Medplus – Bogota, Colombia
Earlier this year, in his Rock Sound 25 Icon interview, Mike Shinoda reflected on the growth of the band’s audience and its continuing legacy:
“To be in 2023 seeing brand new, teenage artists and bands show up referencing and loving Linkin Park music is such a blessing. We would have never guessed that we could be in this position. It’s crazy to think that some of them will be in this position later, they’ll grow up to be a band that somebody else references. That chain of influence and inspiration goes on. That’s a beautiful lineage. Separate from that, on the more practical or logical side of things, there’s the end of the year when everybody gets a lot of their data back, besides your Spotify Wrapped and stuff like that, more deep dive wrap ups that you get from management or your label or your publisher and so on. For a band that is technically inactive, Linkin Park has been on an upswing in the last two years. That is unbelievable. We got on one report for one DSP platform that we had gained multiple tens of millions of new listeners. Wow. That’s mind blowing. These are people that have never listened to Linkin Park and found us this year. All I can do is be grateful. There’s almost nothing else I can say about that. It’s just shocking. What do I say? Thank you.”
You can read that full interview with Mike inside his cover issue of Rock Sound magazine, available now at SHOP.ROCKSOUND.TV.
