Mike Shinoda

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

Pushkin Industries

Music, Society & Culture

4.5 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

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.

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0:00.0	Pushkin.
0:10.8	Mike Shinoda took a bold step last fall when he reintroduced Lincoln Park with a new lineup
0:15.6	featuring drummer Colin Britton and singer Emily Armstrong as lead vocalist, taking the
0:20.6	role once held by
0:21.8	Chester Bennington. Mike, who co-founded Lincoln Park in 96, has long served as the group's de facto
0:27.6	producer, as well as its MC and keyboardist. The band rose to massive success in the 2000s with the
0:33.6	run of new metal albums that have collectively sold more than 10 million copies worldwide.
0:38.9	In November, Lincoln Park released From Zero, their eighth studio album and the first with Emily as
0:44.2	frontwoman. The records already surpassed 3 billion streams online. On today's episode,
0:50.3	Leah Rose talks to Mike Schnoe about why he chose not to retire Lincoln Park and instead
0:55.0	took the creative risk of reinventing the band nearly 30 years after its formation.
1:00.4	Mike also shares his favorite Lincoln Park songs of all time and explains how the band
1:04.5	managed to stand apart from the bro-centric frat-boy culture that defined much of early
1:08.9	2000s new metal.
1:17.0	This is Broken Record. Real musicians, real conversations.
1:21.8	This is an I-Heart podcast.
1:28.8	Here's Leah Rose and Mike Shinoda.
1:32.9	I was listening back to your last interview on Broken Records. So the last time you were on was 2021 in March.
1:38.7	And you were very much in your Twitch era, like, you know, five days a week on there, grinding,
1:48.6	producing new music with people that you were meeting online. And you seemed like super pumped
1:53.4	about it. So how did that transition into Lincoln Park, finding Emily and the band starting up again?
2:04.0	Like, where do I even start? So, I was doing, you know, after 2020, I was doing some, I was doing
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