From businesswire.com:

Charity, celebrities, fun and feeding the hungry will intersect at the 4th annual Ahi Extravaganza — a star-studded event to benefit the Someone Cares Soup Kitchen, a Costa Mesa-based nonprofit. The gala will be held on Sunday, September 19, 2010 from 4-8 p.m. at the exclusive Geisha House restaurant in Santa Ana. With celebrity guests, a high-profile silent auction, top-shelf entertainment and a delicious gourmet menu, the event will help the Someone Cares Soup Kitchen to raise funds to feed the hungry in Orange County.

With special celebrity guests scheduled to attend, the Ahi Extravaganza is not to be missed. Chester Bennington of Linkin Park will make a special appearance and sign autographs for lucky attendees. Mixed martial arts fighter Benji “Razor” Radach will also be on hand to name the lucky winner of a one on one personal training session at LA Boxing.

Kevin & Bean at KROQ are giving listeners a chance to win tickets to see Linkin Park live at a very intimate setting, as well as to have a Q&A with the band.

"We’re getting together to spend some time with the band at a very intimate venue. They’ll be answering your questions and performing live. It’s not possible to get any closer to the band without actually joining them on stage. This is a Linkin Park fan’s dream come true.

You’ve got two ways to get in. Listen to The Kevin & Bean Show all week. They’ll tell you when to call. When they do, dial 800-520-1067. An alternate way to get in is via the KROQ Street Team. If you’re not a member, now is the time to sign up!"

"This is the most intimate show you'll ever see with this band. It's a once-in-a-lifetime performance."

Sign up for the KROQ Street Team here.

So all you have to do is listen in all week to see when they plug the contest and ask you to call, and you could win two passes for this special event.

source: lpassociation.com and kroq.radio.com

Interview about Medal of Honor and The Catalyst

source: mikeshinodaclan.com

Absolute radio spoke to Mike during his stay in London about ATS, the upcoming live shows, the internet and working with Rick Rubin.

Watch it here.

source:mikeshinodaclan.com

mikeshinodaclan.com has the scans from the newest Big Cheese Magazine.
Check them out.

Watch the episode here

Check out an exclusive clip from behind the scenes of the new Linkin Park video "The Catalyst" here.

source: lpassociation.com

Kerrang! have uploaded a video where Mike discusses A Thousand Suns, the upcoming tour and other things.

Watch the clip here

source: lpassociation.com

Dailymotion and Linkin Park are giving fans an opportunity to make their own video of The Catalyst, the winner will receive some awesome prizes!

Mike and Brad are shown in this video asking you to make your own video for The Catalyst and upload it on dailymotion.

Watch clip here

You could win:
- A meeting with the group in Paris 25/10/10
- 2 seats for the concert in Paris Bercy 25/10/10

I don’t know French but I got this: upload your video on Dailymotion before September 23rd, the rest is just telling you what Mike and Brad said, make your own video. Oh and what you could win, I think, lol.
Edit:

I don’t know if it’s available to everyone, it didn’t say but I think anyone can participate just as long as you have transportation TO France where the m&g will be and the concert tickets are for, Paris Bercy.

source: mikeshinodaclan.com

From mtv.co.uk:

Linkin Park have spoken to MTV about their “immersive” new album and single The Catalyst- which is premiered right here on MTV.co.uk.

The group are back this year after a while away working on their new disc and will play UK live dates this Autumn.

“The Catalyst is a good set up for the album,” Bass player Phoenix told us. ”I think it’s a very good bridge to set you what ‘world’ the album A Thousand Suns is going to live in.”

He continued: “I say ‘world’ intentionally because I do think it’s almost like if you do give it a chance and sit down with it you can get a full experience, it’s crafted in a way to be more 3D and immersive.”

Singer Mike said the band wanted to make more experimental music rather than radio friendly hits. He explained:

“We’ve had a good run at making songs that were shorter and concise and we’ve had a lot of success on the radio with songs that were three minutes long.

“I feel like with The Catalyst just to put out a song in its intended format, it’s almost six minutes long that was just kind of holding up the right directional sign post to the fans to say we’re doing something different.”

Mike also talked us through the gloomy video for their new single, which was directed by bandmember Mr Hahn.

“My favourite part of shooting was the chalk dust fight thing that we did” he said. “We showed up and there were bags of coloured dirt…by the end of the day we’re throwing that stuff in each others faces.

“It’s part of one scene in the video, something we hadn’t done before but actually, I think it looks really cool.”

From cjfw.ca:

Linkin Park has earned its ninth Number One single on Billboard's Alternative radio chart with "The Catalyst," the first track sent out from the band's upcoming album A Thousand Suns. The tune reached the top of Billboard's chart after just three weeks, tying the band record set by the last Linkin Park single, 2009's "New Divide."

The band is now tied with Green Day for the second most Number One tracks in the chart's 22-year history. The Red Hot Chili Peppers still lead with 11 chart-toppers, while U2, Foo Fighters and R.E.M. trail with eight, seven and six respectively.

From mtv.com:

At 12:01 a.m. on Thursday (August 26), Linkin Park premiered their brand-new video for "The Catalyst," the first single off their upcoming A Thousand Suns album. It's a dark, moody, abstract affair, full of swirling smoke, charred earth and rising tides, and, judging from the comments we got on MTVNews.com, Linkin Park fans totally love it. So that got us thinking: Is it good enough to rank among their all-time best videos?

Even though "The Catalyst" is barely 13 hours old at this point, it's clear the clip takes the band to places they've never gone before. But the short answer is ... no, not just yet. Sure, the video would probably land in the LP top 10, but we're talking about the best of the best here. So while it's undoubtedly good, it's not quite good enough to crack the band's top five. But give it some time. We're sure its impact will be measured in weeks and months, not hours. That's how Linkin Park videos tend to go. At least, judging by the ones we've selected as their five best:

#5: "Somewhere I Belong"

The greatest Linkin Park videos also tend to be the biggest, and while "Somewhere I Belong" is definitely massive — the burning bed, the creeping, long-legged mammoths, the mech-like archway the band performs beneath — it's the minimal touches that make it one of their all-time best. Joseph Hahn deftly uses macro focus to take us deep inside Chester Bennington's subconscious, and from there, he fills the void with items taken from his bedroom: the Dalí-esque painting on the wall, the Gundam figures on the dresser, etc. The end result is a stirring, powerful piece — one that matches the punch of the song — proof that sometimes the smallest things also pack the biggest wallop.

#4: "Faint"

Sort of a left-field choice (it's by no means one of their best-known clips), "Faint" is little more than a live clip ... and while Linkin Park have made more than their fair share of those, none can match the live-wire energy and emotional outpouring on display here. In a genius move, director Mark Romanek puts his cameras behind the band, which not only gives the viewer a new perspective on LP's stage show, but somehow makes the explosion of angst and aggression all the more palpable. The closest thing we can find to capturing the band's thunderous live performances.

#3: "Crawling"

A video that tackles heady themes (abuse, suicide, judgment and despair, to name just a few), "Crawling" goes deep — into the mind, behind the mirror, into a rapidly crumbling world — and somehow manages to come out the other side. It never feels heavy-handed, rather, the Brothers Strause were smart enough to harness the cathartic power of the song's chorus, and set the main character's road to redemption against it. Powerful stuff, with a happy ending.

#2: "Breaking the Habit"

Animated by the legendary Kazuto Nakazawa, "Breaking the Habit" is based around a simple story: the suicide of an unknown man in some foreboding future city. But as things progress, the story becomes increasingly complex ... a ghost haunts the skyscrapers, a girl slowly bleeds, a man struggles with his demons. And at clip's end, we learn that it was Bennington who leapt to his death. All the while, you're marveling at the unraveling narrative — and the dazzling animation too. Dramatic, doomy, filled with dread: It's the kind of thing that most bands only aspire to make. Linkin Park pull it off with style to spare.

#1: "What I've Done"

The biggest, baddest and best Linkin Park video of all time, "What I've Done" is full of wide-screen visuals (the band performs in a barren desert, surrounded by walls of speakers and lighting rigs, mountains peaking on the horizon), but it's hardly a summer blockbuster. Rather, Hahn was smart — or brave — enough to inject a message here: the destructive power of man versus the unyielding beauty of nature, and where it all will undoubtedly end (hint: we lose).

It also marks Linkin Park's first time wading into political waters, as Hahn filled the video with images of the collapsing Twin Towers, a Katrina-ravaged New Orleans and oil-soaked wildlife. A shot of a starved African man is intercut with an engorged American eating a cheeseburger. An atomic bomb is detonated, followed by time-lapse footage of blades of grass peaking through the soil. "We are living in the end times," the band seems to be saying. "Repent while you still can." Not exactly the most uplifting of messages, but certainly the most vital.

MTV UK has posted Mike and Phoenix's twitter chat transcript when they dropped by the office the other day.