Click HERE to watch a new episode of LPTV. The band seems to be discussing the song "When They Come For Me" . Also Brad can be seen playing around with a bullhorn and speaking Spanish into it!

We are less then 12 days away from the release of A Thousand Suns! How has this new LPTV, the release of The Catalyst and Wretches & Kings affected your expectations of the album? Lets hear it!

If you pre-ordered A Thousand Suns from linkinpark.com, we are sending you a new song some time on Thursday (9/2). Check your emails to receive a high quality MP3 of "Wretches & Kings." If you haven't pre-ordered the album from us, you can do so here to get the song too. Check it out and let us know what you think.

Hope you enjoy.

-Chester

Thoughts?

Want to be in the audience for Linkin Park's MTV VMA's live performance? LPU members are invited to attend. Visit LPUnderground.com for details.

Phoenix did an interview with Artist Direct.

You can find it here: http://www.artistdirect.com/entertainment-...nd-suns/7635582

Thoughts?

MTV posted a very well written article about Linkin Park's upcoming album, comparing it to Radiohead's highly successful 'Kid A'. Excerpts below, the full article is here.

"A Thousand Suns is washed in ominous electronics, jarring percussion and an unshakeable, unyielding post-millennial tension. The latter is nothing new for the band — their 2007 Minutes to Midnight dealt, in parts, with the politics of George W. Bush and the tragedy of Katrina — but here, they've steeped the entire album in a thick coat of dread. It's a transition underscored in the repeated refrain of "God bless us every one/ We're a broken people living under loaded gun," first heard in opening number "The Requiem" and then later on in lead single "The Catalyst." And in moments like the beginning of "When They Come for Me," when chirping crickets are gradually drowned out by the sound of artillery, or, most notably, in the use of recorded, world-weary speeches by scientist Robert Oppenheimer, political activist Mario Savio and Martin Luther King Jr.

Each of the speeches are appropriately monolithic — Oppenheimer's famous quoting of the Bhagavad Gita after the first testing of the atomic bomb in 1945, Savio's terrifyingly prescient "bodies upon the gears" screed in 1964, King's 1967 lament that the horrors of modern life "cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love" — and it's telling that they all come from the last millennium. Because, really what A Thousand Suns (which takes its name from Oppenheimer's speech) is trying to say is that none of these problems, these terrors or these specters that haunt us in 2010 are particularly new. Quite the opposite, in fact. We've just chosen to ignore the warnings. And now it might be too late. And that's another reason it reminds me so much of Kid A.

But that's where the similarities between the albums end. Because rather than hide their fears in a claustrophobic din (as Radiohead did), Linkin Park make the conscious decision to rage against them. They're not willing to go down without a fight, and it's in those moments — the massive roar of "Waiting for the End," the thunderous, squealing "Blackout" (Chester Bennington's best moment on the album) and the muscle-bound might of "Wretches and Kings" — that the album truly soars. And it bears mentioning that for all its mechanized morose, there are some decidedly uplifting moments too. Most notable among them is "Iridescent," which starts with just a piano line, then slowly heads skyward on interlocking guitars (they do in fact exist on the album) and explodes in a rousing chorus of "Remember all the sadness and frustration/ And let go."

It all ends with an acoustic-based number, "The Messenger," which features Bennington going full-bore and culminates in this lyric: "When life leaves us blind/ Loves keeps us kind." And perhaps that's the real message of the album, that no matter how far gone things may be, humanity isn't beyond saving. What separates man from machine is our capacity to love, and despite all evidence to the contrary, there are still things worth believing in. All of that may seem crazy, but Linkin Park seem just insane enough to buy into it. And they want you to as well. After all, at this point, it's about all we have left.

So while A Thousand Suns may be dark, sprawling, discordant, ambitious and an all-out game changer, Kid A it's not. This one's optimistic."

Thanks to the LPA and wesleyhahn for the hint.

That's right LPLive, we are giving you an opportunity to win a ticket to the September 14 "A Thousand Suns" release party show in New York City! The only people that had access to win tickets to this show were LPUnderground members, those who preordered LPUX, and those who preordered "A Thousand Suns" on linkinpark.com. Now, LPLive is giving YOU, one lucky LPL member, a chance to go to the show completely FREE. See below for rules and regulations for this contest:

RULES / INFO

- This is a contest for ONE ticket to the 9/14 show for FREE. This does NOT include transportation to the show, so you better have your ride/transportation already sorted out!
- You have to be 18 or older. (Sorry, minors. Not our fault!)
- This contest is only open to US and Canadian citizens. International people, we have another contest coming for you soon.
- You need to be willing to meet me (Mark) in person on 9/14 at the Nokia Theatre. Here's how this will work: I will get in touch with you the day of the show in New York City and we'll meet up AT the venue. Once I give you the ticket, you need to go right into the show with me. This is to prevent the winner from grabbing the ticket and reselling it at the last minute (shit happens, I know it does, so I'm trying to prevent it). I trust 99.9% of you, but I'd like for the person to at least enter the show right before or after me so that the ticket isn't resold. I bought this with my own $ and want to give it to an LPL member.
- With that said, you have to be a CURRENT LPLive.net forum member to apply. For this contest, registration is disabled. Why? This is for one lucky LPLive winner...I don't want the site to be flooded with people that have only visited the site once before or something and have one of them win. I want this to go to a solid LP fan that's a member of the site.
- You can't already have a ticket to the show (duh, lol). This is available only for people that DON'T have a ticket.
- LPLive Staff is NOT allowed to enter this contest.

Please only enter if you are 110% SURE you are able to attend. Do NOT enter the contest if you do NOT have transportation to the show. We will pick several alternate winners as backups in case you are not able to attend at the last minute for some reason.

So to enter, you simply need to reply to this post by September 8 (one week from now) with:
-Username
-Age
-Location (State; City too if you want)
-A paragraph or two explaining why you think YOU should win the contest.

LPLive staff will get together on the 8th, collectively pick a winner and contact them accordingly. Good luck!

The first 2010 performance for Linkin Park will take place Sunday, September 12th at the MTV Music Video Awards in Los Angeles, CA, where they will be playing their lead single off the new album "A Thousand Suns" entitled "The Catalyst".



The Linkin Park Facebook page states "We're performing "The Catalyst" live on TV for the first time ever at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday, September 12. The show airs that day at 9:00PM." Chester commented on the performance, saying: "After two years of working on our new album, we're looking forward to sharing our first live performance of new music with our fans around the world on the MTV Awards," Chester Bennington said in a statement about the show. "

MTV.com adds: "The 27th annual MTV Video Music Awards will be broadcast live from the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles on September 12 at 9 p.m. ET. Go to VMA.MTV.com (or text VMA to 97979 if they are Verizon subscribers) to vote for the Best New Artist video through September 12."

Source here.

This is the first concert of any type for the band since the Epicenter Festival in Pomona, CA last year on August 22nd, over ONE YEAR ago (show page here). It's important to note that this is the longest break the band has ever taken from performing live: 386 days. This is the first performance of the "A Thousand Suns" touring cycle and the first time they have played for a live TV show since they played the VMA's in 2007, playing 'Bleed It Out' with Timbaland (show page here).

The rest of the Linkin Park 2010 tour dates can be found here. Two days later, the band will head to New York City, NY to play the Nokia Theatre to play their first full show of the touring cycle. It would also be the first time they've played a venue with the same name in two consecutive cities on tour in the band's history except for the fact that the NYC venue was renamed to the Best Buy Theater recently.

Interesting enough?