From LP.com: Linkin Park will play at Shanghai Stadium in Shanghai, China on August 15. Tickets are on sale NOW at Ticketmaster! LP Underground members have tickets set aside, and also have a chance for Meet & Greets with members of Linkin Park.

Also, a new LPTV episode entitled "Mike's Valiant Effort" is up on LP.com. The episode deals with Mike and Chester having fun in the studio at NRG playing pool during the writing of the new album.

Lastly, if you have any ticket stubs or promo posters for 2009, send 'em on in if you haven't. You can email them to me at "hahninator@sotrix.net" or attach them in a reply to this post. We currently have stubs for Istanbul, Athens, Graz, St. Petersburg, Zurich, Stuttgart, Grafen, Taipei and Macao. That means we're missing Pori, Chiba City, Osaka, Okinawa, Shanghai and Macao. If you have any of those, we'd love to have some scans. We're also taking any from older shows as well. Fort Minor and Julien-K are accepted as well.

As far as the site goes, we're currently working on an "LPLive 2.5" upgrade for you all, hopefully ready before the first show of the summer in Istanbul in a few weeks. We're going to be including some cooler stuff, such as expanding the site's width to allow more room for content, adding a Twitter box, adding ticket stubs and show posters, and more. Our next exclusive will be next week and once again, it will be a really good live show (our best one besides the Mountain View 2004 release in my opinion), so be ready for that. I want to get a page up sometime soon with all of the downloads and info on them that we've ever had. Hmm.

Thanks for the support and I'm glad you all enjoyed "She Couldn't" and the other demos!

Here's an exclusive that's sure to blow your minds: A previously unheard, 10 year-old demo CD that includes a never-before-released song and alternate versions of several other demos!

Of course, the big gem on this disc is 'She Couldn't.' This song goes against a lot of stereotypes regarding early Hybrid Theory/Linkin Park material. For one, the song clocks in at well over 5 minutes in length, and features an extended instrumental breakdown. It's also one of the softest songs the band has produced, particularly from this era. And as mentioned, this is an extremely rare case of a Linkin Park song sampling music from another artist (which may be part of the reason it was scrapped so early on and none of us had ever heard it until now).

Thanks to Astat, Nick (Yes, I mentioned you this time since this is huge), Jonas, Sotrix (oh man) and everyone else involved in this awesome release. Thanks for keeping the track on the down low despite all the pressure! Now, maybe we can get a quote from Mike on it…?

Check out our FULL post and download the entire CD in both FLAC and mp3 HERE.

Everyone ready for our best exclusive in LPLive history?

Take some guesses! I'll be posting it later today.

EDIT: It's not the live show - I decided to release that next week; this is something different.

Here's our next exclusive - the 2nd out of 4 big ones we have before the summer LP tour. A few years ago, LP collectors and fans alike saw a vinyl for sale on eBay titled "Projekt Revolution Breaks by DJ Focus". Baffled by this vinyl, a collector that's friends with LPLive went on a hunt to find a copy that he could have for himself.

This rip was produced by a friend of the site and is being offered in its entirety in lossless format for the first time anywhere (at least that we're aware of). For those that don't know, this particular record was likely used for the DJ battles on the Projekt Revolution 2002 tour in Revolution Village. It is presented in two files - side1 and side2. side1 contains generic scratches and hip hop beats while side2 contains some Linkin Park samples from the Papercut drums to short samples of With You, A Place For My Head and more.

We're offering it up now in the hopes that some of our more creative members might be able to put some of the samples to good use with remixes or other projects. While we realize this may not be the "biggest" and "coolest" exclusive for some people, we're hoping some members find this an interesting, different release. If it's not your thing, then just wait for the next two exclusives - both of which are sure to "blow your mind" in a sense. More coming soon!

Download here.
[FLAC + 320kb/s mp3]

Thanks to nkramar, Neil, and everyone else involved in this release. Enjoy!

EDIT: Also check us out on our newly created Facebook and Twitter pages.

There is a new video on linkinpark.com. It's pretty short but check it out!

In the video, Mike Shinoda announces to the fans that LP will be playing their only North American show this year at the SoCal (Southern California) festival, Epicenter. Linkin Park is set to co-headline with Tool and Alice in Chains. The festival will be held on Saturday, August 22nd.

While this is the only North American show of 2009, Chester Bennington has promised to make the show as memorable as possible.

If you want to see LP get down 2009 style, head over here to get tickets.

Thx to The Glue for the heads up!