by Alix Vallecillo | Feb 17, 2016 | Events, News, Updates
In the past few years, Stone Temple Pilots have been working with Linkin Park’s singer Chester Bennington after the departure of the late Scott Weiland back in 2013. After collaborating with the band for a while, Bennington left the band due to lack of time and...
by Bram Teitelman | Dec 4, 2015 | In Memoriam
In news that’s heartbreaking, yet not terribly surprising, former Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland has died. The singer was found unresponsive in his tour bus last night at around 9:00. The singer was 48. TMZ reports that the singer was found in...
by Seth Werkheiser | Nov 10, 2015 | News, Video
The Jimmy Kimmel Live! feature of Mashup Mondays got their start earlier this year, so Stone Temple Pilots performing with singer Joss Stone had to have been planned months ago. It’s just coincidence, then, that the day after announcing their split with Linkin...
by Seth Werkheiser | Nov 9, 2015 | Grunge Musical Chairs, News
After Stone Temple Pilots fired vocalist Scott Weiland back in 2013, Chester Bennington of Linkin Park started singing for the band, even appearing on an EP that came out later that year. Bennington’s focus has always been Linkin Park, however, and the timing of...
by Seth Werkheiser | Sep 9, 2015 | News
In an NME interview with Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park and Fort Minor, the vocalist reveals his dislike for the nu-metal tag that has followed the band around for the past 15 years. Said Shinoda in the interview, “At the same time, as big as the band got, we...