Radiohead guitarist Ed O’Brien has released 'Shangri-La', a dance rock song from his debut solo album 'Earth', coming in April, signed EOB; Cabane is a Belgium musician and photographer releasing his solo debut album 'Grande Est La Maison', with Will Oldham singing on the pretty 'Take Me Home'; Horseneck includes two former Will Haven guitarists and Chelsea Wolfe's drummer, they play sludge/post-hardcore on 'Pen15'; Jon Hopkins released a piano and violin heavy 'Scene Suspended'; Le Couleur on 'Concorde' sang an ode to the airplane; Chester Bennington 1990s band Grey Daze remade their song 'Sickness' with Helmet frontman Page Hamilton lending his guitar; Noah Reid does US-rock on 'Honesty'; folk singer Aoife O'Donovan catches attention with the first line "The water is a glaze like loneliness at ease with itself" on her new song 'Night Fishing'.

Before he joined Linkin Park, Chester Bennington fronted a late grunge band Grey Daze. Beginning of 2017 the band got together and reworked recordings from their early releases, with vocals Bennington recorded as a teenager. The album is coming out this spring.