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Busta Rhymes, Chris Cornell Join Projekt Revolution Tour

Linkin Park's fifth annual Projekt Revolution tour has rounded up Busta Rhymes, Chris Cornell, 10 Years, Armor For Sleep, Ashes Divide, Atreyu, Hawthorne Heights, Street Drum Corps, and the Bravery. Set to kick off on July 16 in Mansfield, MA, the amphitheater-heavy trek will wind down on August 24 in Woodlands, TX.

Interestingly enough, Linkin Park co-frontman Mike Shinoda said the tour wouldn't have any hip-hop artists this year in an April interview with LiveDaily. He explained, "I think maybe in the future we'll have some more hip-hop artists back on the bill, but last year and this year we didn't find the right rap groups to put on the show. There weren’t any that we felt would mix well with everything. And I think, for this one, it's pretty much an all-rock bill and there's a ton of variety this year. I think this is a really diverse bill, as far as rock goes."

Busta Rhymes latest disc, Blessed, was originally set for last December and is now expected on July 1. The effort features Kanye West, Timbaland, RZA, Mary J. Blige, Common, Akon, and more.

Tour dates:

7/16 Boston, MA - Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts
7/18 Pittsburgh, PA Post - Gazette Pavilion
7/19 Philadelphia, PA - Susquehana Bank Center
7/20 Hartford, CT - New England Dodge Music Center
7/22 New York, NY - Nikon at Jones Beach Theater
7/23 Holmdel, NJ - PNC Bank Arts Center
7/25 Raleigh, NC - Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion
7/26 Virginia Beach, VA - Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
7/27 Washington, DC - Nissan Pavilion
7/30 Charlotte, NC - Charlotte Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
8/1 West Palm Beach, FL - Cruzan Amphitheatre
8/2 Tampa, FL - Ford Amphitheatre
8/3 Atlanta, GA - Lakewood Amphitheatre
8/7 Phoenix, AZ - Cricket Wireless Pavilion
8/9 San Francisco, CA - Shoreline Amphitheatre
8/10 Irvine, CA - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
8/12 Denver, CO - Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre
8/15 Cincinnati, OH - Riverbend Music Center
8/16 Chicago, IL - Alpine Valley Music Theatre
8/17 Indianaplis, IN - Verizon Wireless Music Center
8/19 Cleveland, OH - Blossom Music Center
8/21 St. Louis, MO - Verizon Wireless Amphitheater St. Louis
8/23 Dallas, TX - Superpages.com Center
8/24 Houston, TX - Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion

—The ARTISTdirect Staff
06.04.08