Projekt Revolution Tour: Linkin Park, My Chemical Romance

The revolution continues in 2007.

Fans can expect to see Linkin Park, My Chemical Romance, Taking Back Sunday, HIM, Placebo and Julien-K on the main stage and Mindless Self Indulgence, Saosin, The Bled, Styles of Beyond and Madina Lake on the second stage. “Projekt Revolution” and Music For Relief have been working hard at making this event an environmentally conscious effort. Besides making the tour a “Green” tour “Projekt Revolution” and Music For Relief will be donating one dollar from each ticket to give to American Forests for their global ReLeaf program to plant trees to help reduce global temperatures. Recently, Linkin Park performed some of the new tracks from their recently released third studio album, Minutes to Midnight, to a sold out crowd of 40,000 at the Bamboozle Festival in New Jersey. Currently they have the number one track at Alternative and Active Rock radio and have sold more than 275,000 downloads to date of the first single “What I’ve Done.” Linkin Park is Chester Bennington (vocals), Rob Bourdon (drums), Brad Delson (guitar), Joe Hahn (DJ), Dave “Phoenix” Farrell (bass) and Mike Shinoda (vocals). They have earned two Grammy Awards, the first for Best Hard Rock Performance in 2002 with their hit single “Crawling” and the second for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration with Jay-Z in 2006 for the innovative “Numb/Encore.” Linkin Park has sold 40 million records worldwide since their debut in 2000. The Diamond-Certified Hybrid Theory has alone sold more than 18 million copies. In addition, Linkin Park established Music For Relief in January 2005 to help aid victims of world catastrophes and combat global warming. For more information on Linkin Park or Music For Relief, please long on to www.linkinpark.com or www.musicforrelief.org. The New Jersey bred quintet My Chemical Romance will be joining Linkin Park as one of several Main Stage artists. Their latest album, The Black Parade (2006) shot to number two on Billboard’s 200 Top-Selling Albums chart, selling more than 240,000 copies its first week of release. Now platinum-certified, it was named “Album of the Year” by Blender Magazine, and the band’s “Best Album Yet” by Entertainment Weekly. Rolling Stone ranked it in their Top 20 Albums of 2006. My Chemical Romance consists of Gerard Way (vocals), Ray Toro (guitar), Frank Iero (guitar), Mikey Way (bass) and Bob Bryar (drums). Taking Back Sunday is a New York based melodic hardcore quintet whose latest album, Louder Now (2006), skyrocketed to number two on Billboard’s 200 Top-Selling Albums chart a week after its April 23, 2006 release. Now gold-certified, the album has spawned two blockbuster Modern Rock hit singles “MakeDamnSure” and “Liar (It Takes One to Know One),” which led to three sold-out tours and a MTV Video Music Award nomination (The MTV2 Viewer’s Choice award) for “MakeDamnSure.” The band has sold 2.5 million records worldwide, with Louder Now marking their third consecutive gold album. Taking Back Sunday ends each year with a personalized Holiday Card that is sold to their fans with all proceeds being donated to benefit cancer related charities chosen by family members who have been affected by the disease. Members of Taking Back Sunday include Adam Lazara (lead vocals), Fred Mascherino (lead guitar/vocals), Eddie Reyes (rhythm guitar), Mark O’Connell (drums) and Matt Rubano (bass). After conquering the rest of the world with chart-topping albums and sold-out tours that have seen them play before hundreds of thousands of fans over the last decade, Finland’s finest, HIM, is proud to join Linkin Park on “Projekt Revolution.” They are the first band from Finland to sell 500,000 copies of Dark Light (2007), their latest record, in America making them a gold-record selling artist. They are currently in the studio getting ready to release their second full-length album, which will be out in September. Currently, HIM consists of Ville Valo (vocals), Mikko Lindstrom (guitar), Mikko Paananen (bass), Janne “Burton” Puurtinen (keyboard) and Mika “Gas” Karppinen (drums). From collaborations with David Bowie, Michael Stipe, Robert Smith and Frank Black to headlining festivals all over Europe, South East Asia and South America, over the past decade Placebo have slowly but surely grown into one of the biggest and best international rock bands on the globe. Following the success of 2003’s Sleeping With Ghosts, which reached the Top 10 in 21 countries, sold 1.6 million copies worldwide and firmly re-established the band’s foothold in the U.S., their new album, Meds, is described by the band as a back-to-basics project with the elemental feeling of a debut album. Placebo includes Brian Molko (vocals/guitar), Stefan Olsdal (bass) and Steve Hewitt (drums).