A Los Angeles event Thursday night featuring AP cover stars 30 Seconds To Mars had to be postponed due to a bomb scare at the location–the Hive on Melrose Avenue. Beginning around 8:30 p.m. PST, tweets from the Hive said: “Evacuating Due to Bomb Scare. WE WILL UPDATE,” “The police are blocking off the streets around The Hive for about 4 Blocks. Stay Tuned.”

Fans were gathered to watch 20 minutes of the band’s upcoming documentary when a young man in a hoodie stormed into the venue with a large, wrapped box and dropped the package at frontman Jared Leto’s feet. The man stood onstage and said, “It’s time for a little self-help,” before Leto interrupted with, “I think he’s got some sort of agenda or something.” Leto then grabbed the man by the arm and pulled him out of the room through a back door.
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Videogame chatter isn’t all Jared Leto is good for; we also talked with him about the new 30 Seconds to Mars album and his seemingly intense love for the bands’ fans and his desired to interact with them in some appreciable ways. And you’ll find all that below.

“It’s overwhelming,” he said when we asked about how fans have responded to the album. “The reaction has been unlike anything I’ve ever experienced before. We worked on this record, I was writing for a couple of years, maybe even three years and in the studio for about two years and hadn’t had a record out in four years. When you wait that long and you spend that much time doing something, it obviously…carries a lot of weight when you finally release it. It was a relief. It’s exciting to have it out there.”

But it isn’t just about making them happy, Leto says. 30 Seconds to Mars is in it for the fans. “When you’re up there, at least for us, it’s really about what can we give the audience and about what we share with the audience,” he said. “We never really take away from it any worthless adulation or anything like that. It’s really about what we can give; when we talk about the show, we talk about areas that worked and areas that didn’t work and how can we make that better and how can we give a better show for the people that have come.
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Jared Leto may not being starring in any films at Sundance this year, but don’t count 2011 out.

Four filmographers taped around 3,500 hours of Leto and his band Thirty Seconds to Mars as the rock outfit completed its latest album “This Is War� in 2008 and 2009. A final product, to be culled from those videos, will be released as a documentary film, “Artifact.�

Leto hopes that the film is a literal artifact of a specific time, of the band, of his personal life, and “really what was happening with the entire world.�
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Jared Leto doesn’t just like videogames; he wants want to help make them. The third album from 30 Seconds to Mars, This is War, was released in December, but before that the album’s title track was featured prominently in Dragon Age: Origins. And for Leto, those ole videogame machines represent much more than just a way to pass the time.

“I think it’s an exciting place to collaborate, an exciting place to experiment,” he said. “I’m a big supporter of new technologies and new places to share music… I think the [Electronic Arts] Dragon Age is a great example of delivering a song simultaneously with an image that helped to build upon each other. I think there was a good marriage there.”
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JARED LETO is an interesting guy. While it’s difficult to get the frontman of 30 SECONDS TO MARS to open up, once he begins, he offers up a wealth of information–so much, in fact, that we couldn’t fit half of it in our cover story for AP 260. Here’s just some of what Leto let us in on.
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30 Seconds To Mars released their third album, This is War in December and their singles have climbed Billboard and iTunes charts..Each song has a classic rock sound with a splash of the electronic synth – all perfected by lead singer, Jared Leto. This is War is a 30 Seconds to Mars mind explosion, so sit back and hold on tight.

The first track opens with a monk chant followed by an ascending drum beat, preparing the audience for the war-ridden world 30 Seconds To Mars (30STM) has created. Leto softly breaks the chant with his emotionally distinct voice. This is also the first time we hear the children’s choir, a fantastic addition. The choir appears often, but not to the point of annoyance.
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It’s no secret we’re Guitar Hero fans around here. We love Rock Band as well, but Guitar Hero shines in places Rock Band does not.

All petty indiferences aside, Activision today announced the entire catalogue of songs coming to the Guitar Hero and Band Hero music stores in the shortened month of February.

Songs from Breaking Benjamin, 30 Seconds To Mars, Third Eye Blind and Black Sabbath are on the way in the next month, and can you guess which I’m most excited about?

30 Seconds To Mars- “Attack,� “From Yesterday,� and “King and Queens� arrive February 4.

February 11 sees the debut of rockers Breaking Benjamin with the release of “Until The End� and “Give Me a Sign.�

Yet another 7 days later on February 18, “After Forever,� “Into the Void�and “Sweetleaf,� from classic-rockers Black Sabbath arrive.

And finally, and definitely not least in importance, on February 25, Third Eye Blind returns to the scene with “Can You Take Me?,� “Losing a Whole Year,� and my personal favorite, from the 1999 album Blue, “Never Let You Go.�

Like you could have guessed, every tune will set you back $2.Rock on!

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Bobby Alt of punk rock percussion band Street Drum Corps, has confirmed to Ruled By Rock that the band are to open for 30 Seconds To Mars on all upcoming European dates.

The band create their sound solely by playing instruments such as acoustic drum kits, hand drums, kitchenware, garbage cans, buckets, marching band tools and even power tools on stage.

Street Drums Corps have also enjoyed the company of members of Atreyu, Good Charlotte, Bad Religion, The Used and 30 Seconds To Mars in the past.

Check out the footage below of the band playing live with special guests Adrian Young ( No Doubt), Brooks Wackerman (Bad Religion), Shannon Leto (30 Seconds to Mars), Byron McMacking (Pennywise) and John Sawicki at the Guitar Center’ Drum-Off Grand Finals. Read the rest of this entry →

30 Seconds To Mars have raised a staggering $100,100 (one hundred thousand, one hundred dollars) for the Haiti earthquake appeal through a charity Ebay auction.
The lucky bidder won the chance for them and up to 3 friends to have tickets and backstage access to any show of their choice, plus an exclusive dinner with the band.

This is just one of many efforts the band have undergone to support the Haiti appeals. Singer Jared Leto recently donated £1000 ($1700) for the Echelon ‘House For Haiti‘ appeal where almost 5 houses have already been funded, and has attended the ‘Hope For Haiti Now’ phone bank in the states.

Jared recently confirmed that himself and brother Shannon lived in the Caribbean country for a year as teenagers where their Mother helped to run two hospitals.

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