Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park takes his 1st national solo tour to Sherman Theater in Stroudsburg on Oct. 15
From a press release:
As announced today by Outbreak Presents and Live Nation, Linkin Park co-founder Mike Shinoda is set to headline the latest installment of the Monster Energy Outbreak Tour, marking the first time the singer, songwriter, rapper, multi-instrumentalist, and producer will step out on a full-scale North American solo tour.
It stops at the Sherman Theater in Stroudsburg on Monday, Oct. 15 at 8 p.m.
Tickets, which are $35 in advance or $38 the day of the show, go on sale this Friday, Aug. 10 and will be available through the Sherman Theater box office (524 Main St., Stroudsburg) and online at shermantheater.com and ticketfly.com. VIP boxes and sky boxes are available for this show and include eight tickets (VIP box) or 12 tickets (sky box), a fruit and cheese platter, and waitstaff. To purchase box seats, call the theater at 570-420-2808.
Citi is the official pre-sale credit card of the tour. As such, Citi cardmembers will have access to purchase pre-sale tickets beginning Tuesday, Aug. 7 at noon until Thursday, Aug. 9 at 10 p.m. through Citi’s Private Pass program. Spotify, Ticketmaster, and Live Nation pre-sales begin Aug. 9 at 10 a.m. and end at 10 p.m.
Mike Shinoda’s North American tour follows a string of headline shows and festival appearances across Asia and Europe, including Reading & Leeds (U.K.), Summer Sonic (Japan), and Rock en Seine (France). The highly-anticipated five-week run kicks off on Oct. 10 at MTELUS in Montreal and wraps on Nov. 17 at the Fillmore in Silver Spring, Maryland.
In June, Shinoda released his raw and inspiring solo album, “Post Traumatic.” The album received widespread critical acclaim and garnered a slew of positive reviews and profiles in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Complex, Time, Pitchfork, Forbes, GQ, People, Newsweek, Entertainment Weekly, LA Times, Spin, Noisey, Genius, and more.
The album features the genre-melding singles “Crossing a Line” and “Make It Up as I Go” featuring K.Flay, along with a host of eclectic cameos from Blackbear, Machine Gun Kelly, Chino Moreno, and Grandson. He delivered a riveting live performance of “Crossing a Line” with The Roots on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” last month.
As a special treat for fans, at each show Shinoda will be showcasing the art pieces he created while writing and recording “Post Traumatic.”
“Listening to a recorded song is not the same as experiencing that song live on stage,” says Shinoda. “Similarly, seeing a painting in an album or book is not the same as seeing the original, in person. In sharing a live experience with you, my hope is to inspire questions, answers, and reflection – not only about my story, but about your own. The search for meaning is boundless, and art is often one of our best vehicles.”
Echoing Shinoda’s excitement, Monster Energy Outbreak Tour Founder Steve Glazer comments, “The Monster Energy Outbreak Tour is typically reserved for debut, emerging artists, and while Mike has obviously had a ton of success as a founding member of one of the biggest bands of all time, Mike Shinoda the solo artist is starting off completely fresh. We absolutely love his ‘Post Traumatic’ material, and we’re excited to bring his first solo tour all across North America this fall.”
Mike Shinoda is a songwriter, performer, record producer, film composer, and visual artist. He is best known as co-lead vocalist for multi-platinum, Grammy-Award winning rock band Linkin Park, which has sold over 55 million albums worldwide and commanded a massive fan following, holding the title as the most-liked band on Facebook and amassing over 5.5 billion YouTube views. Shinoda is a founding member of the group, which achieved the bestselling debut of this century with their diamond-certified album “Hybrid Theory,” selling over 10 million copies in the U.S. alone. Collectively, they sold out stadiums around the globe and earned a multitude of accolades, including two Grammys, five American Music Awards, four MTV VMA Awards, 10 MTV Europe Music Awards, three World Music Awards and, most recently, Rock Album of the Year at the 2018 iHeartRadio Music Awards for their seventh studio album, “One More Light.”
In 2005, Shinoda launched his first solo project, Fort Minor, releasing “The Rising Tied” to critical acclaim, with the single “Where’d You Go,” which reached No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and accumulated nearly 10 million YouTube views to date. In the months since the passing of Linkin Park vocalist Chester Bennington, Shinoda has immersed himself in art as a way of processing his grief. The result is his full-length solo album “Post Traumatic,” a transparent and intensely personal record that is accompanied by visuals that Shinoda filmed, painted, and edited himself. The new album includes 16 tracks, including the three songs from the “Post Traumatic EP,” released earlier this year to an overwhelmingly positive response from the New York Times, NPR, Rolling Stone, Billboard, and more.
“I wasn’t eating or sleeping well, so I eventually started making some music and painting. It was meditative in a way, but also scary. For so long, all my creative output was focused on the band. But I reminded myself that I had made music and art all my life before Linkin Park. Not only could I do it, this was necessary in order to move toward recovery,” Shinoda explains.
“It’s a journey out of grief and darkness, not into grief and darkness,” Shinoda says of the album. Ultimately, “Post Traumatic” is about healing. The songs, though specific about Shinoda’s experience with loss, manage to be universally relatable thanks to their honesty and heart. “If people have been through something similar, I hope they feel less alone,” he says. “If they haven’t been through this, I hope they feel grateful.”
Launched in 2011, the Monster Energy Outbreak Tour is recognized as the ultimate influencer, pairing breakthrough talent with fan-friendly ticket prices at premium venues, giving fans the opportunity to witness the stars of tomorrow, today. The Monster Energy Outbreak Tour is the largest national touring brand in the club and theater space and currently consists of five annual music tours (hip-hop, EDM, rock, country, college), one annual comedy tour, and the buzz-worthy Outbreak House at SXSW. Outbreak was created to provide a powerful platform for emerging talent to maximize their breakout moment. Notable alumni include Kendrick Lamar, Macklemore, The Chainsmokers, Carnage, Bullet for My Valentine, Cole Swindell, Garfunkel & Oates, Fetty Wap, and 21 Savage, to name a few.
