@mscccc No album at this moment--putting out the song as a standalone felt right, as opposed to making a whole album and waiting to put everything out (which is the usual chain of events). I feel like this is a more modern approach: when I've got something to share--a song, video, or whatever--I share it! Make sure to follow me on your favorite social media to be in the loop. https://www.facebook.com/mikeshi... https://twitter.com/mikeshinoda https://instagram.com/m_shinoda/ Snapchat: MikeShinodaLive

@mikeshinoda @mscccc I'd love to hear thoughts from your experience pushing turntablism more into the mainstream (your own work with LinkinPark, collabs w/ JayZ, X-Ecutioners). How was that experience from your perspective? And how do you think of those efforts in the context of music that came before and after?

@staringispolite i just saw this....Jonathan you are a MASTER at text rapping. i need to get you ghostwriting.

@eriktorenberg In!

@nickschwab With so many social platforms and so much noise, I'd (theoretically) like to keep things simpler. Probably best place to do it is through the existing Linkin Park Underground, or just release them on fortminor.com ...haven't really thought about it :)

@nickschwab We filmed on a 4-Go-Pro cluster.

@mikeshinoda should team up with @eriktorenberg for a single!

@bhavesh @eriktorenberg Best idea.

@bhavesh @eriktorenberg @mikeshinoda @rrhoover @jsneedles Yes! Erik on a track would be amazing :) Who you heard fresher than 'berg? Riddle me that PH event-goers, where he lyrically at? Young P-H, tech's Grateful Dead, About to take over the world, now break bread. E's in... podcasts, coach class Off to Israel but the Slack channels still connect "On the low, here's a launch, can you triple-check?" But with community what the fuck you expect? (yep! yep!) Grand opening, /games growing, God damn it, T-Berg cracked the can open again. Who you know who's out-husslin' him? No music section, Just start off AMA'in!

@mikeshinoda Pretty awesome to hear about you guys opening up Machine Shop. Curious about your investment strategy.

@toddsaunders @eriktorenberg The fund is a way for us to deepen our relationship with the tech community, to learn, and to support smart people and innovative ideas. To get more granular, we're interested in consumer-facing tech that is on-brand with Linkin Park. We've already invested in Robinhood, Shyp, Lyft, and Blue Bottle Coffee.

@mikeshinoda If you think you'd dig a browser extension that turns your post field in Facebook, Twitter and lots of sites into a multimedia content-crafter (gif, emoji, images, influencer-tagging, etc.), please kick the tires on https://ritetag.com and ping me (I'm osakasaul everywhere.) The song and video and wonderful, BTW; I'm sure you're going to be beckoned to play Japan again.

@eriktorenberg Not managing or signing artists anymore. Figured it's better to just focus our attention on the varied interests of our own band and its members!

@julien_jorda @erictwillis Yeah. I didn't ask about Meerkat because I don't think he's used it, but I'm really interested to get his take on the topic.

@erictwillis I don't think either. In my case it is more because we have a livestreaming app of our own, and music artists like him are our number 1 focus users.

@erictwillis I'm on Periscope. Love it. Haven't debuted new music on Periscope yet; not sure if I'd prefer that to Snapchat at this point, but we'll see!

@therealsjr Right now, Youtube supports 360 videos like this one 1.) inside the mobile YouTube app, and 2.) in the Chrome browser. If you have an android phone and cardboard, you can open it in the app and press the cardboard icon to view in 360 VR. **BTW, for those of you who are less familiar with 360/VR if you're watching the video and it looks "stretched" or looks kinda like two bubbles on left and right, then 360 is not enabled. Switch to the app or Chrome.

@brentsum The three standout elements, to me: 1.) $15 family plan for up to 6 people, 2.) Apple Music Connect, and 3.) Beats One live worldwide *with amazing DJs and curated playlists* Both Apple and Spotify need to make it easier to edit playlists on mobile. It's too cumbersome (read: impossible) to move and delete groups of tracks. If they want you to "live" in that app, it needs to be as easy or better than the desktop version. As for "freemium / Ad supported not paying enough" (Spotify, Pandora), I think that ought to be more directed at the users than the company. Users of free streaming are almost in the same boat as people who pirate songs--I feel like it's a behavior that just "is"...either because they haven't been taught to respect the creators by paying for the art, or because the user simply can't afford to buy what they want to listen to. Either way, I'd prefer that person use freemium streaming over illegally downloading.

@mikeshinoda great points, thanks! agree there is a huge opp. for the first player who makes mobile playlists easy to build.

@mikeshinoda Your thoughts on this are really interesting to hear and much appreciated (Hybrid Theory was my anthem to high school). But I don't agree with the opinion that it's the user's fault. If free streaming is bad, then the company shouldn't offer it. You can't blame consumers for taking an option (the default option) that is put before them. It's like the design of anything. If a user is doing something the product designer didn't intend, it's the product's fault.

@julien_jorda No plans yet. What I liked about the WELCOME video is the opportunity to do something more narrative, as opposed to plopping a 360 cam on the side of a stage...but I'm not opposed to a 360 or VR live shoot.

@julien_jorda Thanks! Big changes are happening now, content is seeping into a bunch of new territories and platforms (for example, the massively popular messaging app Line is now selling music. Not to mention the obvious Apple / Spotify topic). I also believe there might be an opportunity for the tech community to go to bat WITH the artists in a way that the labels and networks never could. Only time will tell.

@mikeshinoda @julien_jorda Totally agree on that. I feel that too many artists get frustrated/suspicious about technology in general and are afraid of ticket cannibalization/ misuse of their music/image, due to abusive and monopolistic behavior of labels, platforms etc... I also think time has come to break this paradigm.

@lejlahunts Innovation on those platforms can be very overt; for example, an artist might have a conversation directly with the company about a release. Think about Beyonce's choice to make videos for every song and release everything as a surprise, all at once. Our efforts up until now have mostly been more subtle, like being one of the first artists to support platforms' new services, like the in-store merch and concert ticket sales buttons in Spotify. And I'm looking forward to seeing what we can do with Apple Connect and Beats One. I'm proud of the super-compact marketing roll-out of Welcome, which involved a complex orchestration of all our social media and the 360 video, driving traffic to YouTube, iTunes, and Spotify.