When Linkin Park named Emily Armstrong their new frontwoman last year fans weren't exactly kind to the singer.

Linkin Park, who drew fan backlash with new co-lead singer Emily Armstrong, is opening up about the rocky public reception.

Mike Shinoda believes that the backlash surrounding Emily Armstrong’s addition to Linkin Park had less to do with her talent and more to do with gender.

And Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda has a good idea about why. "There were people who lashed out at Emily, and it was really because she wasn’t a guy," Shinoda recently told The Guardian.

After the death of Linkin Park's lead vocalist, Chester Bennington in 2017, the band is finally ready to make a comeback. In conversation with The Guardian, singer-songwriter Mike Shinoda and ...

Linkin Park member Mike Shinoda has said fans were “uncomfortable” with the band’s new singer Emily Armstrong because “she wasn’t a guy”.

Linkin Park, who drew fan backlash with new co-lead singer Emily Armstrong, is opening up about the rocky public reception.

Why doesn’t Linkin Park perform One More Light anymore? Mike Shinoda says the song is emotionally too painful to perform, especially after it became linked to Chester Bennington’s death.

In a recent interview, Mike Shinoda admitted that one particular Linkin Park song is just too heartbreaking for the band to perform.