The Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: The Album Special Edition CD/DVD will not be coming out after all. According to an email from Amazon, "we recently learned that the item won't be released by the manufacturer as expected." It is unknown if that means it was canceled, or simply means that Warner Bros subsidiary Reprise Records never planned one at all.

Stan Bush's song "The Touch - Sam's Theme" is now available on iTunes! The music video of this song has gotten over 150,000 plays! A lot of people have been asking if the song is available on iTunes. Since Transformers 2 ROTF is just released, the timing is perfect!

Scoring Sessions has posted a photo gallery of Steve Jablonsky and his 71-piece ensemble of the Hollywood Studio Symphony during the recording of Transformers: Revenge of the the Fallen: The Score that took place last month. The scoring took place at the Sony Scoring Stage in Culver City, CA.

Sample audio clips from both the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: The Album and The Score audio CDs have surfaced on the web. The Album samples are posted on Amazon.com while the German version of the online store has the clips from The Score.

Linkin Park has debuted the music video to their newest single New Divide from the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: The Album on their Myspace page. The video packs in never-before-seen clips from the film, including the beginnings of The Fallen, the Bumblebee/Rampage battle, and Optimus Prime blowing somebody away. Take a look at the video by clicking through.

Linkin Park has posted a new video on Myspace providing a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the music video to their new song New Divide. The song is the theme song for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, out in theaters June 24th. Video embedded after the jump.

The night of the Paramount party of BotCon weekend, we got a video quotes from Peter Cullen that night as well as Weird Al and Tyrese Gibson both saying positive things about Stan Bush and the new version of "The Touch" called "The Touch: Sam's Theme"

If you were wondering how Cheap Trick's "Transformers The Fallen (Remix)" from the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: The Album sounded, today is your lucky day. The song is now available for streaming on imeem and available for purchase DRM-free via Amazon and iTunes. Have a listen in the full article.

We have the cover art to the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: The Album to show you today. The cover art is the same shot that we received last night, and the entire left side lists the artists that will be featured on the CD. The track listings that we reported on is pretty accurate, with the exception that All-American Rejects and Avenged Sevenfold replace Mastadon and Dead By Sunrise.

Thanks to Music Server, we have the track listings for the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen soundtrack. It seems like the soundtrack is off to a bit of a sad theme, including songs by Taking Back Sunday, The Used, Hoobastank, and Staind. Take a look at the full listing in the full article.

On top of the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen score and soundtrack hitting music store shelves on June 23rd, it seems like it'll be joined by another version. A Special Edition one. Nothing is known about the disc, but according to the Amazon product listing, it will only contain one two discs. At first, we thought it was a mistake in the listing title, but the ASIN number is different.

The song that Tyrese Gibson and Jewel will be performing together for the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen soundtrack now has a name: "Make It Last." According to Mr. Gibson's Twitter entry, the song is written to accompany the "tender moments" between Sam and Mikaela in the film. He has also provided a 50-second or so snippet of the unfinished song in his most recent SayNow broadcast (embedded after the jump).

The first single from the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen soundtrack is now live! The film's theme song "New Divide" by Linkin Park has debuted on their website LinkinPark.com and is now available for purchase on iTunes. Check out the official artwork for the single as well as a promotional banner in the image gallery. Stay tuned to TFormers.com from now until the release, as we'll be doing some cool soundtrack-related things like contests and giveaways! We will have more details soon!

Well, that worked out just in time. According to the Amazon.com pre-order pages, both the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen soundtrack and score will be released at the same day, June 23, 2009. This is great news, considering the Transformers score was so laggard in terms of release. Amazon is currently taking pre-orders for each at $18.98.

Update: The soundtrack will indeed be released on June 23rd.
Tyrese Gibson and Jewel will be performing a duet together for the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen soundtrack, according to Mr. Gibson himself. Updating his Twitter page, he writes, "GREAT NEWS PEOPLE!! BabyFace is going in the studio tomorrow he's gonna write a smash duet for me and Jewel for the TF2 soundtrak [sic]! Wow!" There has not been any solid release dates regarding the release date of the soundtrack, but a previous report suggests it will release on the Tuesday before Revenge hits U.S. theaters, June 23, 2009.

According to Linkin Park fansite The Linkin Park Times, the new Linkin Park song titled "New Divide" will hit the airwaves starting May 18th worldwide and will also be available on iTunes the same day. The Times cites a recent Linkin Park fan club newsletter Linkin Park Underground. Why you (remotely) care is a good question: this song is the same one that band member Mike Shinoda wrote about on his personal blog last week.

HBO will air Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: HBO First Look beginning on June 18, 2009, a full six days before the film debuts in theaters nationwide. The special with then run until July 1st on various HBO stations. HBO has the full schedule of airings that will be available.

On top of Steve Jablonsky teaming up with Linkin Park for the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen score, another composer has joined the group to help score the film's music. According to Linkin Park band member Mike Shinoda, Hans Zimmer has been working on the song that the band has been writing the past several weeks. "We met with Hans last week, and heard some of the incredible things he and his guys have done with our new song," Mr. Shinoda writes on his blog.

Transformers score composer Steve Jablonsky will be once again lending his skills to Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, with a twist: he will be teaming with Linkin Park as well. "Nelson," the administrator of Director Michael Bay's official website, announced this on the site's blog. He also says that Mr. Bay is interested in putting out a collectible book to accompany the film. Read More.

Stan Bush, performer of the seminal Transformer classics "The Touch" and "Dare," has posted this tribute to the United States Armed Forces on YouTube. Salute our IRL Autobots!