LINKIN PARK is on the road again, celebrating the follow-up to their 2008 album, Minutes to Midnight.
Just last month (January), Linkin Park began the first leg of their 2011 North American and world tour, which had been announced last November with much excitement and anticipation.

They are dubbing this the “A Thousand Suns World Tour 2011” and will be touring through much of the US, and following up with dates in Europe, where they’ll finish the tour on July 4, 2011 in London, UK at the iTunes Festival, which is located at the Roundhouse. Though most of the dates are for US venues, they are spending nearly a full month in Europe and the UK, where they’ll play dates in countries like Sweeden, Germany, and England.
Though they have had to cancel several shows due to band health issues, they promise to make them up later this year. Also interesting to note is the fact that everyone that buys a ticket for a Linkin Park 2011 concert will also get a free digital download of the same show.
Ticket prices range between just around $40 and as much as a few hundred dollars, depending on where you get them. They’re offered on Ticketmaster, but selling out quick, so those looking to snag last minute tickets might need to check secondary outlets like Stubhub.com.
Accompanying Linkin Park on their 2011 tour are bands The Prodigy, Pendulum, and Does It Offend You, Yeah?
Linking Park’s tour begins shortly after they released their latest album, A Thousand Suns, which debuted in the Billboard Top 200 and sold nearly 500,000 copies in its launch.
Though reviews have been mixed and it failed to live up to sales expectations, it represents a new, more mature direction for the band best known for the angst ridden rap-rock tunes that catapulted them to success in the prior decade.
Some of the more popular singles from A Thousand Suns are “Wretches and Kings,” “The Catalyst,” “Blackout,” “Burning in the Skies,” “The Messenger,” and “Waiting for the End”, many of which were featured the latest Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock in October last year.
To learn more about their 2011 world tour, buy tickets, or grab show notes, you can visit their website at LinkinPark.com. Lastly, if you bought tickets for an event that was rescheduled, you can get new dates on their tour page and/or via Ticketmaster.