LINKIN PARK to Headline Sunset Strip Music Festival, 8/3

SUNSET STRIP MUSIC FESTIVAL (SSMF) organizers today announced that the sixth annual festival will be headlined by LINKIN PARK at the Saturday, August 3 street festival on the famed Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood. The Grammy Award-winning and multi-platinum California rock band and SSMF are partnering to create a unique festival experience that will let attendees "rock for a cause" with a significant portion of ticket sales to benefit Music For Relief, the nonprofit organization LINKIN PARK founded to support disaster relief, provide aid to survivors of natural disasters and support the prevention of such disasters via environmental programs.

LINKIN PARK--CHESTER BENNINGTON, ROB BOURDON, BRAD DELSON, DAVE "PHOENIX" FARRELL, JOE HAHN and MIKE SHINODA--are excited to perform at SSMF, as it will be their only North American performance for the remainder of 2013. This also marks the band's first performance in Los Angeles since May 2012, when they performed an intimate benefit show at the House of Blues Sunset Strip. "We started our career playing clubs on The Strip," said lead vocalist Chester Bennington. "It's a thrill to be back where it all began, headlining this festival in our hometown."

"We are happy to welcome Linkin Park back to The Sunset Strip as headliners at this year's festival. The band started their career on The Strip at The Roxy. It is fitting to see them perform on the boulevard's largest stage, outdoors with thousands of fans. We are also happy to partner with Music for Relief this year, which continues to give back to those in need around the world," noted SSMF executive director Todd Steadman.

The band's current single, "CASTLE OF GLASS," the third single from their latest album LIVING THINGS, has just entered the Top 30 on the Alternative radio chart. Since Linkin Park debuted on the Billboard 200 in 2000, no other artist has had more Top 10 singles on the Alternative chart or achieved more number one albums this century.

As in years past for the Saturday event, Sunset Boulevard will be closed to traffic between Doheny Drive and San Vicente Boulevard and transformed into a premier concert destination with two outdoor stages, beer gardens, an artist autograph tent, an outdoor VIP rooftop lounge, silent disco, VIP Lounge at On The Rox, food trucks and interactive experiences. The festival will announce additional artists as well as the 2013 honoree in the coming weeks.

Tickets for the SSMF 2013 street festival are on sale now via the official ticketing provider, Eventbrite, at http://sunsetstrip.eventbrite.com. Ticket options include general admission August 3 street festival ticket for $79 and a VIP option for $145, which includes access to the rooftop VIP area with views of the West stage, VIP areas in the beer garden and venues, access to VIP lounge On The Rox, a separate entrance and additional perks.

Members of Linkin Park's official fan club, LP Underground, have exclusive access to tickets now at LPUnderground.com, which includes a special area reserved for LPU members only to watch the show at the front. Space is limited.

Previous SSMF performers have included Ozzy Osbourne, Motley Crue, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Offspring, Marilyn Manson, Steve Aoki, Slash featuring Fergie, Public Enemy, Bad Religion, Common, Bush, LMFAO, Kid Cudi, Neon Trees, Matt & Kim, Cobra Starship, Shiny Toy Guns, The Head Cat, Andy Grammer, Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger of The Doors, She Wants Revenge, Awolnation and Imagine Dragons, among others. Highlights from the past five years, including the SSMF 2012 street festival--which drew 15,000 music fans from Southern California and beyond--can be seen here: http://bit.ly/SSMFvideo13. .

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ABOUT LINKIN PARK
LINKIN PARK is a Grammy Award-winning, multi-platinum alternative rock band comprised of co-lead vocalist Chester Bennington, drummer/percussionist Rob Bourdon, guitarist Brad Delson, bassist Dave 'Phoenix' Farrell, DJ/programmer Joe Hahn and co lead-vocalist/keyboardist/guitarist Mike Shinoda. The band has sold more than 50 million albums worldwide, and is the biggest band on Facebook with more than 52 million fans and counting. In the span of time since 2000, when Linkin Park debuted on the Billboard 200, no other artist has had more top 10 singles on the Alternative chart and, with the release of their latest album, LIVING THINGS (Machine Shop Recordings/Warner Bros.), which reached No. 1 in more than 20 countries, no other band has achieved more No. 1 albums this century.

ABOUT MUSIC FOR RELIEF
Founded by two-time Grammy-winning/multi-platinum rock band Linkin Park, Music for Relief is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization dedicated to providing aid to survivors of natural disasters and the prevention of such disasters. Since its inception in 2005, Music for Relief has raised more than $5 million for victims of multiple disasters across four continents including the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, hurricane Katrina, China's Wenchuan earthquake, the 2010 Haiti earthquake and the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Music for Relief also supports environmental programs as a means of disaster risk mitigation including the planting of more than 1 million trees to help reduce global climate change. The organization was recently recognized by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon for the Download to Donate program to raise funds and awareness in the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake. For more information visit www.musicforrelief.org.

ABOUT THE SUNSET STRIP MUSIC FESTIVAL
The Sunset Strip Music Festival (SSMF) is a not for profit festival created in 2008 to promote, preserve and perpetuate the legendary Sunset Strip music experience. Now in its sixth year, the festival has featured performances by established and rising artists including Ozzy Osbourne, Motley Crue, The Smashing Pumpkins, Slash featuring Fergie, The Offspring, Public Enemy, Bad Religion, Kid Cudi, LMFAO, Neon Trees, Matt & Kim, among many others, The festival has also raised significant charitable funds through ticket proceeds and sponsor partnerships that have benefitted music education programs, drug and alcohol treatment centers and children's cancer foundations. The Sunset Strip Business Association is the managing member of the limited liability company, which owns the Sunset Strip Music Festival.

ABOUT EVENTBRITE
Eventbrite enables people all over the world to plan, promote, and sell out any event, and has sold over 100 million tickets and registrations worldwide. In 2012 alone, Eventbrite ticketed 500,000 events in 179 countries - 40,000 of which were for concerts and music festivals. The online ticketing and event registration service makes it easy for everyone to discover events, and to share the events they are attending with the people they know. In this way, Eventbrite brings communities together by encouraging people to connect through live experiences. Eventbrite's investors include Tiger Global, Sequoia Capital, DAG Ventures, T. Rowe Price and Tenaya Capital. Learn more at www.eventbrite.com.

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