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Paris Show Added

Paris Show Added We just added a show at Bercy in Paris, France on October 25th. Pre-sale tickets for LPU members are on sale now and tickets go on sale to the public on Friday, June 18 at www.avosbillets.com. We have even more tour dates coming, so keep checkingLinkinPark.com for updates. -Phoenix

UK Shows Added

UK Shows Added

Three shows added in the UK. Pre-sale tickets for LPU members go on sale Tuesday, June 15 and tickets go on sale to the public on Friday, June 18 at 9AM HERE.

November 4 - Manchester, UK - MEN Arena
November 9 - Birmingham, UK - LG Arena
November 10 - London, UK - O2 Arena

Join LP Underground today at LPUnderground.com so you can take advantage of these pre-sale opportunities as well as chances for meet and greets with members of Linkin Park.

Chat with Mike Shinoda!

Mike will be chatting exclusively with LPU members tomorrow at 12:30pm PST in the LPU chat room! If you're not already a member, join today so you can take part in the chat and take advantage of all of the other LPU benefits! Visit LPUnderground.com for more info!

LPU 9 IS NOW AVAILABLE!

Join now to get the exclusive LPU9: Demos CD, a special rarities album that features never before heard versions of LP hits and includes the unreleased song, “Across the Line.” LPU9 membership packages also include a t-shirt, other merchandise and online access to membership benefits including chances at presales and meet & greets. Check out www.LPUnderground.com to watch the promo video and see all available membership options, including the Premier Pass package which comes with the first ever Limited Edition LPU vinyl, ONLY the first thousand are hand numbered. Visit /join">www.lpunderground.com NOW!

Linkin Park Nominated For A Grammy!

Linkin Park has been nominated for a Grammy for Best Hard Rock Performance for “What I’ve Done” from Road To Revolution: Live At Milton Keynes! The Grammy Awards will take place on January 31 at Staples Center in Los Angeles.

Linkin Park To Release Special Rarities Album With Fan Club Package

Linkin Park has announced a December 3rd release date for LPU9: DEMOS, a special rarities album available with a membership to the band's fan club, the Linkin Park Underground. The album and membership package can be purchased together at www.lpunderground.com and at select Best Buy locations and includes a t-shirt, patch, and other exclusive merchandise items.

LPU9: DEMOS features nine unreleased demo versions of some of the band’s biggest hits, including “Faint,” “Breaking The Habit,” and “Leave Out All The Rest.” Also included is “Across The Line,” a previously unreleased song recorded during the Minutes To Midnight studio sessions. Fans also get “Morning After (acoustic),” from frontman Chester Bennington’s side project, Dead By Sunrise (as an exclusive download).

“Songs change constantly over the course of the creative process, so we thought it’d be cool to share early versions of familiar tracks,” says Linkin Park vocalist Mike Shinoda. “The versions in this collection represent important moments in the evolution of each song: different vocals, music variations, and missing parts. They're snapshots of our works-in-progress."

Since its formation in 2001, the LPU’s reach has extended worldwide to form a tight global community. The band has maintained a strong direct bond throughout, and every year they design special merchandise and release music exclusively to LPU members.

Fans first heard the new song, “Across The Line,” during online video episodes ("LPTV"). Originally entitled "Japan," fans sought out the song for years, but the band had never released it. In response to fan feedback, the band decided to finish the song and make it available as a highlight of LPU9.

"The LPU is a movement," says guitarist Brad Delson. "Their support of the band is inspiring. So we try to give back to them whenever we can. When we heard that they had been talking about 'Across The Line,' we knew we had to make it available for them."

The LPU has enabled fans worldwide to interact with members of the band, meeting them at exclusive LP Underground meet & greet signings (held at almost every Linkin Park show), or chatting with them online at exclusive chats through the fan club members-only website, www.lpunderground.com. In past years, the band has offered free concert tickets to fan club members, cast them as extras in a music video (“Faint”), and flown them out for rehearsal sessions. The site also provides fans with exclusive news, presales, contests, photos, video, and more. The fan club consistently strives to offer more to its members through website innovations, creative content, and engaging contests and giveaways. For more information, please go to www.lpunderground.com.

The full track listing for LPU9: DEMOS is as follows:

1 – “A-Six” (Original Long Version 2002)
2 – “Faint” (Demo 2002)
3 – “Sad” ("By Myself" Demo 1999)
4 – “Fear” ("Leave Out All the Rest" Demo 2006)
5 – “Figure.09” (Demo 2002)
6 – “Stick And Move” ("Runaway" Demo 1998)
7 – “Across The Line” (Unreleased Demo 2007)
8 – “Drawing” ("Breaking The Habit" Demo 2002)
9 – “Drum Song” ("Little Things Give You Away" Demo 2006)

Linkin Park is currently in the studio preparing a new album for release in 2010.