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Verizon Wireless Teams Up with Linkin Park and Chris Cornell for Projekt Revolution Tour
BASKING RIDGE, N.J. – When Projekt Revolution, the summer’s premier rock tour featuring Linkin Park, Chris Cornell, The Bravery, Atreyu, Hawthorne Heights, and a host of other headline-worthy acts, comes to cities across the U.S., Verizon Wireless will offer fans a number of opportunities to interact with the stars of the show. Customers will have a chance to attend an exclusive autograph signing with Chris Cornell and preview songs off of his upcoming album “Scream” at each venue. Verizon Wireless customers can also automatically be entered to win two mobile tickets to the show when they use their V CAST-capable phones to download Linkin Park content, including ringtones, ringback tones and full songs.
“I am very excited to be working with Verizon Wireless to connect with my fans in innovative new ways via their mobile phones and look forward to sharing some of my new music exclusively with the fans attending Projekt Revolution tour first,” said Chris Cornell.
Fans planning to attend one of the stops along the Projekt Revolution tour have several opportunities to interact with Linkin Park and with Chris Cornell, including:
- Meet and Greet with Linkin Park – Verizon Wireless customers can win a chance to meet Linkin Park and take a photo with the band. Fans in each city will also receive autographed memorabilia.
- V CAST Song ID Tent and Chris Cornell Autograph Signing – V CAST Song ID stations will be set up to demonstrate to fans how to use the service as they listen to Chris Cornell’s upcoming “Long Gone” from his new album, “Scream” as well as Linkin Park’s “Leave Out All The Rest” and “Given Up.” The first 200 fans to participate in the demonstration of V CAST Song ID and identify Chris Cornell’s new song “Long Gone” will be given wristbands to an exclusive autograph signing where fans will have a chance to meet Cornell the day of the show. With V CAST Song ID, customers can discover the title, artist and album information from millions of songs and easily purchase it and/or the matching ringtone or ringback tone. For more information visit www.lpconcerts.com.
- Chris Cornell Listening Station – Tracks from Cornell’s upcoming album “Scream” will be previewed exclusively at specially designed listening stations via Monster Cable’s Beats By Dr. Dre headphones. At each stop of the Projekt Revolution tour, Verizon Wireless will give fans the ability to listen to three yet to be released new tracks (“Long Gone,” “Far Away” and “Ground Zero”).
Linkin Park is Chester Bennington (vocals), Rob Bourdon (drums), Brad Delson (guitar), Joe Hahn (DJ), Dave “Phoenix” Farrell (bass), and Mike Shinoda (vocals). The band has sold over 40 million albums worldwide and has 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.” Chris Cornell, one of the most influential artists in rock – from Soundgarden and Audioslave to his solo career – will perform this summer on the Main Stage of Linkin Park’s Projekt Revolution 2008 U.S. tour. In the mid-1980s, Cornell helped form Soundgarden and has come to be known as a rock icon who thrives on contradictions. An innovator who resists genre labels, he is the chief architect of grunge.
Fans can download music from Linkin Park as well the exclusive pre-released Chris Cornell track “Long Gone” as full-song downloads, ringtones and ringback tones, both over-the-air and on their PCs via V CAST Music with Rhapsody.
For more information on mobile music from Verizon Wireless, visit a Verizon Wireless Communications Store, call 1-800-2 JOIN IN or visit www.verizonwireless.com/music.
Schedule for Projekt Revolution Tour Sponsored by Verizon Wireless:
Date Location Venue
July 30 Charlotte, N.C. Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Charlotte
August 1 West Palm Beach, Fla. Cruzan Amphitheatre
August 2 Tampa, Fla. Ford Amphitheatre at the Florida State Fairgrounds
August 3 Atlanta, Ga. Lakewood Amphitheatre
August 7 Phoenix, Ariz. Cricket Wireless Pavilion
August 9 San Francisco, Calif. Shoreline Amphitheatre
August 10 Irvine, Calif. Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
August 12 Denver, Colo. Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre
August 15 Cincinnati, Ohio Riverbend Music Center
August 16 Alpine Valley, Wisc. Alpine Valley Music Theater
August 17 Indianapolis, Ind. Verizon Wireless Music Center
August 19 Cleveland, Ohio Blossom Music Center
August 21 St. Louis, Mo. Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
August 23 Dallas, Texas Superpages.com Center
August 24 Houston, Texas Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
About Verizon Wireless
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