Mudvayne has revealed the details of its first North American tour in three years, as well as more information about the band's upcoming album, The New Game. Through a program called "The Album Is The Ticket," fans who pre-order the record at BestBuy.com will have an opportunity to buy a ticket to the tour through a code accompanying each copy or pre-order of the CD. The code will take buyers to a private fan club area at TheAlbumIsTheTicket.com where they can buy their ticket and also receive a one-year membership in Mudvayne's fan club.
Singer Chad Gray said in a statement, "Traditionally, over the life cycle of an album, a fan purchases a CD, DVD, tickets to a show and a fan club membership, generally spending over $100 for the experience. For the launch of The New Game, fans can experience all of these elements for well under $40."
The New Game is due out on November 18th and follows up Mudvayne's last all-new studio effort, 2005's Lost and Found.
We asked drummer Matt McDonough if the new CD was a concept record like some of the band's earlier ones: "I don't really see any of the records we've done as being a concept record. I like to look at it more in the sense of the records being conceptual, and that there might be ideas that are pervasive and overriding views or things that could be suggested in it. But as far as like a concept, where there's a narrative and a plot, we don't really work like that."
The first single from The New Game is called "Do What You Do." It hits rock radio on September 23rd.
The New Game Tour 2008 kicks off on October 28th in El Paso, Texas and will wrap up on December 20th in Orlando, Florida. 10 Years and Snot will be along as support. Confirmed dates are (subject to change): FYI tickets for the Cincinnat show at Bogart's go on sale THIS SATURDAY AT BEST BUY SO DON'T MISS OUT!!!
October 28 - El Paso, TX - El Paso County Coliseum
October 30 - Corpus Christi, TX - The Pavilion At Concrete
October 31 - Grand Prairie, TX - Nokia Live
November 1 - San Antonio, TX - Sunset Station
November 3 - Houston, TX - Warehouse Live
November 5 - Tulsa, OK - Cain's Ballroom
November 7 - Oklahoma City, OK - Bricktown Events Center
November 8 - Albuquerque, NM - Albuquerque Convention Center
November 9 - Tempe, AZ - The Marquee Theatre
November 11 - Hollywood, CA - Palladium
November 12 - Las Vegas, NV - The Joint
November 14 - San Francisco, CA - The Grand Ballroom
November 15 - Portland, OR - Roseland Theatre
November 17 - Seattle, WA - Showbox SoDo
November 19 - Spokane, WA - The Knitting Factory Concert Hall
November 21 - Denver, CO - The Fillmore Auditorium
November 22 - Kansas City, MO - Uptown Theatre
November 24 - Wichita, KS - The Cotillion
November 25 - St Louis, MO - The Pageant
November 26 - East Peoria, IL - East Peoria Event Center
November 28 - Des Moines, IA - Val Air Ballroom
November 29 - Maplewood, MN - The Myth
December 1 - Milwaukee, WI - The Eagles Ballroom
December 2 - Chicago, IL - The Congress Theater
December 5 - Detroit, MI - The Fillmore Detroit
December 6 - Grand Rapids, MI - The Orbit Room
December 8 - Cincinnati, OH - Bogart's
December 9 - Columbus, OH - LC Pavilion
December 11 - Baltimore, MD - Rams Head Live!
December 12 - Philadelphia, PA - The Electric Factory
December 13 - Worcester, MA - The Palladium
December 16 - New York, NY - Roseland Ballroom
December 17 - Norfolk, VA - The Norva
December 19 - Atlanta, GA - Tabernacle
December 20 - Lake Buena Vista, FL - House of Blues
Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington blasted the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards in an interview with Entertainment Weekly last week. Bennington, who attended the September 7th awards show, was disappointed in the lack of rock acts represented at the event. He said, "Where were Foo Fighters and Nickelback? Or even a band like Three Days Grace, who had a pretty big year? There was no Vampire Weekend or Daughtry. It was very one-sided." The singer described the show itself as "raising the bar of confusion and disarray. The VMAs are consistently clusterf***s, and this year set a new standard." Bennington noted that "you had people who were invited sitting out in the streets. Plus, everybody was texting, no one was watching the show. I got super bummed out." But the vocalist's main criticism was that the VMAs are appealing to less and less people, saying, "I think the VMAs have completely lost touch with a broad scope of music. It was very bubble gum and Disney, which is why bands like Foo Fighters, and everybody else in my group weren't there."
Although Bennington didn't think his band would win anything, Linkin Park did in fact nab a Best Rock Video prize for "Shadow of the Day."
JD - I personally am glad to hear that somebody from the rock world has finally stood up and said something about this. I mean seriously how much Chris Brown, Rihanna and T-Pain shit can we all take! Not too mention the Miley Cyrus crap I mean seriously... this stuff is pure garbage but the teens dig it and I guess MTV can't see that they are missing out on an entire generation of people that don't give two shits about this stuff... such a shame.
Bennington also revealed that his long-in-the-works solo project, which had been called Dead By Sunrise, might come out under his own name when it emerges sometime in 2009. He described the album as "very moody, very dark and melodic."
Linkin Park has also been working on new material and plans to record and release a new album in 2009. The band will head to China next month, with proceeds from the shows going to help victims of the earthquake that rocked portions of the country earlier this year.