P!ATD: Vox Amps USA Interview

Click HERE to read an interview that Brendon Urie of Panic! At The Disco did with VOX amps 
USA

Source : Panic! at the Disco Website

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New LP Single Out in a Few Months? Brad LPU Chat (Transcript)

Brad held a video chat with LPU members today. Although he didn't reveal much about the new album, he hinted at the possibility of new music being released relatively soon. Check out a summary of the chat below:

• His favorite part of recording: he enjoys recording is being in the studio and recording with the other guys. It’s a great feeling coming up with something new. He is eager to share new music with us
• Is the album more analog or digital: he can’t really answer that as he doesn’t know, he didn’t go to engineering school.
• Will new music come out before the summer tour? He hopes to have new music out mid 2012 so it's very possible.
• There will be new art designs for the new album, he is excited about the visual art.
• They will work very hard to travel to different parts of the world, they are very excited to see the fans out on tour.
• He joked and said there will be 53 songs on the record, each 20 seconds long
• If he could play any show in the world, where would he play? He would like to play a show in LA because he wouldn't have to travel far.
• He talked about Power The World and thanked fans about generating awareness
• Solo tour date? he joked about playing an intimate show at his friends apartment by himself.
• A new single will hopefully be out in a few months.

Source : LPA

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Interview: Xylobands inventor Jason Regler

Coldplay fan Jason Regler invented the Xyloband flashing wristbands which have become such an incredible part of the Mylo Xyloto live shows - and which feature in the imminent Charlie Brown video. We gave him a shout to find out more.
 

Hi Jason, how are you?
I’m good, thanks. Just getting my head around what’s coming next with the Xylobands.

Let’s start at the beginning. How did you meet Coldplay?
The original connection came via buying tickets to go to the Crisis gig in Newcastle, because my son had always wanted to go and see them. There was an auction where you could bid for meet and greet tickets, and we had some of those. But we didn’t get there because of the snow.

Oh no!
Yeah, my son was absolutely devastated, so I got in touch with Crisis and asked if there was anything else we could go along to. And lo and behold I had an email from Phil Harvey and he asked if we wanted to come up and watch the band rehearse. So we did that and I decided I’d be brave and tell him about an idea I’d had a long time ago for Coldplay. Which was the wristband. And it all just went from there.

When did you have the idea?
In 2005, when Coldplay did the Glastonbury Festival. I remember I was going through a few down days and I saw them doing Fix You. And

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Interview: Xylobands inventor Jason Regler
2 February 2012 9:05 pm
The man behind the flashing wristbands tells us the story behind them

Coldplay fan Jason Regler invented the Xyloband flashing wristbands which have become such an incredible part of the Mylo Xyloto live shows - and which feature in the imminent Charlie Brown video. We gave him a shout to find out more.

Hi Jason, how are you?
I’m good, thanks. Just getting my head around what’s coming next with the Xylobands.

Let’s start at the beginning. How did you meet Coldplay?
The original connection came via buying tickets to go to the Crisis gig in Newcastle, because my son had always wanted to go and see them. There was an auction where you could bid for meet and greet tickets, and we had some of those. But we didn’t get there because of the snow.

Oh no!
Yeah, my son was absolutely devastated, so I got in touch with Crisis and asked if there was anything else we could go along to. And lo and behold I had an email from Phil Harvey and he asked if we wanted to come up and watch the band rehearse. So we did that and I decided I’d be brave and tell him about an idea I’d had a long time ago for Coldplay. Which was the wristband. And it all just went from there.

When did you have the idea?
In 2005, when Coldplay did the Glastonbury Festival. I remember I was going through a few down days and I saw them doing Fix You. And there was just such a feeling of it bringing everyone together, as well as the line “lights will guide you home”. That’s when the idea of a wristband came to mind.

So it was specifically invented with Coldplay in mind?
Absolutely. To this day, I still have my doubts that this would really work for anyone else. I feel Paradise, Charlie Brown and MX are almost too perfect for them, really. Like Chris said, it’s quite freaky how he wrote a lyric a long time ago about glowing in the dark and then all of a sudden it all comes together and we’ve got wristbands making people do exactly that.

What’s your background then? Have you always been an inventor?
Well, when I left school I went to work for the family vehicle repair business, but after 17 years I realised it wasn’t me, and that I liked making things, fixing things and creating things. So that’s when I ventured out on my own. And I managed to prove that I could have an idea and take it from my head to being successful. I’ve ended up working with people like Disney, Jim Henson, Sesame Street and Sony.

So, when you met Phil, was he immediately receptive to the idea of the wristbands?
Definitely. He’s someone who needs to be as praised in this story as anyone. He’s the one that saw the potential and took the chance. We were just talking and I was saying that I’d had a bit of a tough year and I could do with a break. But at that time the band were finishing the album and the priority was obviously to get on with that. And then all of a sudden one day I had an email from Phil saying he’d been chatting to Chris and that he had that break for me. He wanted to know when we could start looking at making the wristbands.

With the idea being that the Madrid UNSTAGED show would be their debut?

Exactly. That was a nerve wracking situation. We had a product that was untried and untested. We knew what we thought it could do, but we had to put it on stage with Coldplay at this huge YouTube show and hope that it worked.

You didn’t have a dress rehearsal?
No, we jumped straight in at the deep end. Everyone said we were mad. The wristbands only arrived in Madrid on the morning of the show in a van which had brought them overnight from the UK the minute they landed there from China. Me and Phil walked down from the hotel to the venue carrying a huge bin of wristbands and I told him that I was shitting myself. He was great. He just said “It is what it is. We’ve done it now. Let’s see.” So it was a really scary night, but it worked.

That must have been a relief.
Absolutely. After the show, I had no idea what the band had thought of it. But when I got back to the hotel and charged my phone up there was a message from Chris saying well done, that it was the most beautiful thing he’d ever seen and that he wanted to do it again.

So there was a chance they could have gone no further than Madrid?
Yes, exactly. We were ongoing with talks, but nothing was concrete and agreed before that.

But you obviously ended up doing the whole tour.
Yeah. Which has been such a rush. What we did and how quickly it was done is pretty unheard of, really. It was beyond madness. But we did it.

Interview: Xylobands inventor Jason Regler
2 February 2012 9:05 pm
The man behind the flashing wristbands tells us the story behind them

Coldplay fan Jason Regler invented the Xyloband flashing wristbands which have become such an incredible part of the Mylo Xyloto live shows - and which feature in the imminent Charlie Brown video. We gave him a shout to find out more.

Hi Jason, how are you?
I’m good, thanks. Just getting my head around what’s coming next with the Xylobands.

Let’s start at the beginning. How did you meet Coldplay?
The original connection came via buying tickets to go to the Crisis gig in Newcastle, because my son had always wanted to go and see them. There was an auction where you could bid for meet and greet tickets, and we had some of those. But we didn’t get there because of the snow.

Oh no!
Yeah, my son was absolutely devastated, so I got in touch with Crisis and asked if there was anything else we could go along to. And lo and behold I had an email from Phil Harvey and he asked if we wanted to come up and watch the band rehearse. So we did that and I decided I’d be brave and tell him about an idea I’d had a long time ago for Coldplay. Which was the wristband. And it all just went from there.

When did you have the idea?
In 2005, when Coldplay did the Glastonbury Festival. I remember I was going through a few down days and I saw them doing Fix You. And there was just such a feeling of it bringing everyone together, as well as the line “lights will guide you home”. That’s when the idea of a wristband came to mind.

So it was specifically invented with Coldplay in mind?
Absolutely. To this day, I still have my doubts that this would really work for anyone else. I feel Paradise, Charlie Brown and MX are almost too perfect for them, really. Like Chris said, it’s quite freaky how he wrote a lyric a long time ago about glowing in the dark and then all of a sudden it all comes together and we’ve got wristbands making people do exactly that.

What’s your background then? Have you always been an inventor?
Well, when I left school I went to work for the family vehicle repair business, but after 17 years I realised it wasn’t me, and that I liked making things, fixing things and creating things. So that’s when I ventured out on my own. And I managed to prove that I could have an idea and take it from my head to being successful. I’ve ended up working with people like Disney, Jim Henson, Sesame Street and Sony.

So, when you met Phil, was he immediately receptive to the idea of the wristbands?
Definitely. He’s someone who needs to be as praised in this story as anyone. He’s the one that saw the potential and took the chance. We were just talking and I was saying that I’d had a bit of a tough year and I could do with a break. But at that time the band were finishing the album and the priority was obviously to get on with that. And then all of a sudden one day I had an email from Phil saying he’d been chatting to Chris and that he had that break for me. He wanted to know when we could start looking at making the wristbands.

With the idea being that the Madrid UNSTAGED show would be their debut?
Exactly. That was a nerve wracking situation. We had a product that was untried and untested. We knew what we thought it could do, but we had to put it on stage with Coldplay at this huge YouTube show and hope that it worked.

You didn’t have a dress rehearsal?
No, we jumped straight in at the deep end. Everyone said we were mad. The wristbands only arrived in Madrid on the morning of the show in a van which had brought them overnight from the UK the minute they landed there from China. Me and Phil walked down from the hotel to the venue carrying a huge bin of wristbands and I told him that I was shitting myself. He was great. He just said “It is what it is. We’ve done it now. Let’s see.” So it was a really scary night, but it worked.

That must have been a relief.
Absolutely. After the show, I had no idea what the band had thought of it. But when I got back to the hotel and charged my phone up there was a message from Chris saying well done, that it was the most beautiful thing he’d ever seen and that he wanted to do it again.

So there was a chance they could have gone no further than Madrid?
Yes, exactly. We were ongoing with talks, but nothing was concrete and agreed before that.

But you obviously ended up doing the whole tour.
Yeah. Which has been such a rush. What we did and how quickly it was done is pretty unheard of, really. It was beyond madness. But we did it.

How were they manufactured?
You get your team of people here to design them and do a prototype and spend a little time testing and then you turn it over to a Chinese manufacturer.

So how do they work?
Basically they’re an RF-driven wristband. They’ve got a receiver in them which receives data and that data tells them how to flash and when to flash, basically.

How far can you transmit?
I think at the moment we can go to about 300 metres. Hence the story of the lady who lived near the Charlie Brown video shoot who’d been to a gig and suddenly found that her wristband was flashing again!

Ah yes, the Xylobands feature prominently in Charlie Brown video.
Yeah, and I think that video’s going to look amazing. They had about 20 dancers with neon paint and we put like four or five wristbands on each arm. So they were definitely glowing in the dark. It looked really cool.

Could you do it over a bigger area?
That’s a good question. We’ve not really tested that yet. 300 metres is quite a long way. But we’d love to be able to do it over a big festival site one day. Somewhere like Glastonbury is the dream. But you could always have multiple transmitters. It’d be amazing to see that moment of unity that the Xylobands seem to create on that kind of scale.

It’s amazing to hear the roar the moment they kick in at the start of each show.
Definitely. Even if you watch the footage of the X Factor show - you can hear a massive roar when they first come on. It really does seem to blow people away.

Have there been any problems with them?
No, they’ve generally been fine. You get the odd faulty unit - you get that with any electrical item - but that’s not been a big problem at all. And the feedback has been incredible. It’s almost hard to imagine Charlie Brown live without the wristbands now. They just make it seem so alive and bouncy.

The X Factor performance must’ve felt like another big moment.
Oh totally. It was a production dream, how they shot it. It looked amazing.

A lot of fans have been asking if they could make the wristbands work at home?
Not at the moment, no. We are looking at a product which does work at home, but the main concern is that if you make it possible to activate them at home, then you’d get people trying to set them off at a gig, and spoiling the effect.

Is it theoretically possible for someone to make a transmitter like yours which matches your signal?
Possibly. But we put code and other stuff in there too, to stop that. But it would be possible to change your battery if it’d run out and bring it back to another show.

There’s a lot of dates in the diary for 2012. Is the idea to take the wristbands to the entire tour?
I believe so. The order is a big number. We’re looking at more than a million pieces.

Will you be there for the whole thing?
We’re sorting that out at the moment. I’m a family man, so I’ve got to balance all that out. There’s a lot of dates. We’re discussing that now.

But you enjoyed being on tour in December?
Oh, it was brilliant. It was just nice to see people having fun with what we’re doing - the band and the audience. I loved it.

Have you got plans for future tweaks and changes to the wristbands?
Yeah, we’d like to do something that’s a bit more tailored for home. We’re looking at that for the future. The dream would be to create a global event with the wristbands - almost like a global Mexican wave. Just bring people together and let them have fun for a little while. Another dream would be that the band could do a gig on the net and we could provide people with a small, low-cost device that would flash in exactly the same way as people who were at the gig. We’re also trying to look at zones with the wristbands, to see if we can do different shapes within the crowd and that sort of thing. There’s definitely a lot of possibilities.

And are you marketing the Xylobands to other companies?
Well, the band don’t want the experience diluted for Coldplay, so we’ll see. But I think we will see some organisations using them for other kinds of events.

Do you guys have some kind of patent on them?
Yeah. The band and I have an agreement which covers the design trademark on them, patent protection and the intellectual property rights. So we’re pretty covered. We believe it’s a product that belongs to Coldplay and us, so if people want to do it themselves, they’d have to find a different way to do it.

It sounds like 2011 was a pretty crazy year for you.
Well it started with no notion of what was going to happen at the end, that’s for sure. If you’d said to me I’d be flying on a jet with Coldplay and feeling like I'm the happiest man in the world, I’d have said you were off your head. When I had this idea, I was sat in a dark room, I’d split up with an ex, with all these doom and gloom feelings, and there’s Chris singing, “When you lose something you can’t replace, stuck in reverse”. That was certainly how I felt! And then “lights will guide you home” was the line I really hooked onto for the wristbands. Actually, the first show we did the Xylobands, they suddenly started flashing of their own accord just as he did that line. That was pretty freaky! A lot of this whole thing has felt like fate, to be honest. But I’m incredibly grateful and thankful to Phil and the band for giving me this chance.

Do you have any top tips for aspiring inventors?
Believe, believe, believe. Don’t ever give up on the belief in yourself and if you try hard, you’ll get there eventually, for sure.

Final question, did you put any wristbands on your Christmas tree this year?
Haha! Well, we’ve certainly had some fun with them at home, yes.

For more info visit xyloband.com 

Source : Coldplay Website 

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Linkin Park To Cooperate With Flingo For Fans On Smart TV

Linkin Park and Flingo, publisher applications for Smart TV, do the same work. Flingo today released a press statement announcing their partnership with Linkin Park to make a formal application Linkin Park Smart TV, here will include videos, behind-the-scenes footage of studio and concert, photos and tour schedule. See press release below andquote from Joe Hahn:


"Flingo provides us with a new way to connect with our fans and give them immediate access to our videos," says Joe Hahn, of Linkin Park. "With our app available in the newest Internet Connected HD TVs, we know our videos are going to look great and sound amazing. Plus, the app gives us total creative control over the format and frequency of which we can reach viewers and listeners, an uncommon luxury for most musicians today."
Flingo's application publishing suite seamlessly integrates the web with the TV experience. This enables an ecosystem where media companies, artists and brand sponsors converge on consumer hardware platforms to give viewers a more engaging and personal TV experience. Viewers will enjoy more content on TV than ever before in a highly personalized, interactive experience. Additionally, they can share their favorite moments across popular social networks. Flingo is currently available on 7.2 million screens, in 117 countries worldwide.
"We're very honored to launch Linkin Park's app for Smart TVs," says Alvir Navin, co-founder of Flingo. "As a musician myself, I am always looking for ways that artists can bring their creativity to large audiences directly. Linkin Park is one of the biggest rock bands of all time, so people are going to love 24 hour access to the band's latest news and videos in the convenience of their TV with all the sound fidelity of a home theater environment."


Source : LPFI

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Linkin Park: Power The World

One out of five human beings on the planet have no access to reliable electricity. Some 2.5 billion people—almost half of humanity—rely on dangerous pollutants for cooking and heating.

Linkin Park and Music For Relief are supporting the UN Secretary-General's goal to help achieve Sustainable Energy for All through our new initiative, Power the World. Join us to help bring sustainable energy solutions to 1 million families.

The first step is to learn more, and spread the word.

Find out about the year of Sustainable Energy for All here.

-Chester, Rob, Brad, Phoenix, Joe & Mike


Source : Linkin Park Website

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