Well now, those nice corporate giants at Warners have offered us a pair of Sonisphere Weekend Camping Tickets to give away to YOU, the reader, for this Saturday and Sunday's Knebworth-based festival. Plus they're chucking in a goodie bag of CDs, taking in: Taking Back Sunday - New Again, The Used - Artwork (to be sent on release date), Avenged Sevenfold - Avenged Sevenfold, Mastodon - Crack The Skye, Linkin Park - Minutes to Midnight, Dead By Sunrise - Out of Ashes

To be in with a chance of winning a ticket, simply go here and upload a picture of something you think should be included in the time capsule. The first 100 new entries will win weekend passes to Sonisphere, which takes place on Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd of August.

Linkin Park will be headed to Portimão, Portugal on August 5th to perform at the Rock One Festival, a four day music experience at the Algarve International Motor Park. Tickets are on sale now http://www.rockone.pt.

We have TEN pairs of two-day weekend camping tickets to be won to the Sonisphere festival taking place for the first time in the UK at Knebworth on August 1 and 2.

How would you like to spend Saturday, August 22 at Pomona Fairplex, rockin' out to the sounds of Linkin Park (in their only North American performance in 2009), Tool, Alice in Chains, Wolfmother and a bunch of other mosh-worthy bands...for free? Metromix Los Angeles is giving away a pair of tickets to Epicenter '09, Southern California's newest and mightiest summer music festival, featuring 12 hours of music on two stages. To quote Linkin Park's Chester Bennington, "If we weren't performing, we'd come just to see all the bands."

Back by popular demand, fans attending select shows this summer will be able to purchase limited edition digital souvenir packs which include a code to download the live recording from that night’s show, a collectible CDR to burn the recording to, as well as exclusive photographs taken by the Linkin Park crew. The digital souvenir packs are ONLY available at merch booths at the following shows:

7/21 - Athens, GR
7/23 - Graz, AT
7/28 - Zurich, CH
7/30 - Stuttgart, DE
8/2 - Graefenhainichen, DE
8/8 - Chiba City, JP
8/9 - Osaka, JP
8/11 - Okinawa, JP
8/13 - Taipei, TW
8/15 - Shanghai, CN
8/16 - Macao, CN

Please be aware we may have to substitute one show for another if we can't deliver a specific show due to circumstances beyond our control.

ONE of the biggest rock festivals to ever take place in Hertfordshire is just weeks away and we want you to be there. We have teamed up with the promoters of Sonisphere to offer 20 of our readers the chance to win a pair of tickets to the event, which is taking place at Knebworth House on August 1 and 2. Topping the bill at the two-day festival will be music legends Metallica and Linkin Park. Tickets have been selling like hot cakes, so why not enter our great competition to ensure that you have a place in the crowd?

We finally have the footage from our time in the studio with Linkin Park, including interviews with the band and the members who won the contest. Check it out HERE.

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! Join LPU today!

"We didn't intend for it to be a "sequel," but I can see why some people might think it is. I've seen some people on message boards making a big deal of trying to draw a line between the two songs; it seems a little over-dramatized. The two songs have a few things in common: Transformers, similar key, and tempo. There are also a few things that set them apart: the most obvious is the bridge and intro of "New Divide"...but also the song structure (the new one has a structure that we have never used in any song before, which uses a half-second chorus. The verses and chorus are also a longer format than most of our songs...which makes the song length about 4:30), and instrumentation (there are tons of differences in the instruments and sounds we used). I think they sound like two different songs with a few things in common."