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...time, the band has packed up everything once more and moved to LA. They hooked up with producer Josh Abrahams, whose genius lies behind the success of Korn, Limp Bizkit and Staind, and the result is Pacifier, their U.S. debut...
...inane, and even its catchiest songs aren't memorable. But Linkin Park also exemplifies hard rock at its most open-minded, with a line-up that includes a rapper and a D.J.; nearly every song juxtaposes heavy riffs with ambient electronic sounds. If none of this seems revolutionary, thank Korn, Limp Bizkit and Rage Against the Machine, who transformed rap-metal from a novelty into a commonplace...
...This is usually a real problem in Grammy season. Usually, I find myself browsing through lists of nominees, stumbling over names I don't recognize and often can't decipher: Ludacris, Linkin Park, Staind and Korn, for example. (Did I miss something, or have we now officially determined that "K" is an acceptable substitute for "C" and "Z" can fill in for "S"? And what's the deal with all these bands dropping vowels from their names? Are the cool kids all anti-vowel...
...Shinoda, "the vision was, 'Let's create a hybrid of hip-hop and heavier music and electronic music and try to make it into one sound.' It was pretty crude when we started." So crude that every major label took a pass. Things only got worse when Limp Bizkit, Korn and other fusion groups hit the charts with a similar musical formula. "We thought we had a new idea and, to our dismay, all these groups started breaking," recalls Delson. "We were almost, like, 'We've been beaten to the punch...
...rather than wait for record companies to notice, Linkin Park started building a fan base on its own. "I would assign everyone in the band to go on the Internet and recruit five or six people a day," says the business-minded drummer Bourdon. "We'd go into a Korn chat room and say, 'There's this new cool band called Linkin Park, go check out their MP3,' pretending like we weren't in the band." When interested kids e-mailed asking for more music, the group sent back mountains of tapes and instructions to pass them out to anyone...