This is the Life on MARS

8 mar 2013

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NEW 30 SECONDS TO MARS ALBUM IS FINISHED!

Tuesday, 5 March 2013

First a single in space, now an album done, thought this lot were taking it easy?

Jared Leto has spoken to MTV News about the new 30 Seconds To Mars album. It's mixed, mastered and delivered apparently!

In the same interview the frontman also said that album four is an important milestone for the band: "I wrote and recorded about 70 songs for this album, and I think there's a feeling that all of us in the band have that, especially after touring as long as we did last time, that this is a really important album for us; it's a critical album for us," he explained."It's an evolution, this album is more of who we are than we have ever been before, and we've gone to an entirely new place, which is incredibly exciting. And it's provocative at the same time, because changes bring new opportunities, new challenges, a chance to learn."

No firm release date or title but plenty of juicy hints at what is to come from 30STM, to read the whole piece head to this link.

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GQ Magazine UK - Interview with Jared Leto, new face of Hugo Boss ♥

Code Red

05 March 13

Jared Leto: front man of post-grunge band 30 Seconds To Mars, investor in burgeoning tech companies, campaigner on the Barack Obama trail and avid art collector. This is a man who has been busy during his three-year hiatus from the acting career that made him famous.

It began with a breakout role in My So-Called Life, the Nineties show that also propelled Claire Danes up the Hollywood ladder, and continued with memorable roles in Fight Club, American Psycho and Darren Aronofsky's bleak tale of drug addiction,Requiem For A Dream. His look has been as eclectic as his CV: from corn rows and a bleached mullet to ponytails or an impulsive mohawk. Attacked and applauded for his personal style, he is not afraid to experiment, even if that includes a full-body wax and drag make-up for his upcoming role as Rayon inThe Dallas Buyers Club. It's the story of Ron Woodroof, the Texan HIV sufferer turned drug smuggler of illegal AIDS medication at the start of the epidemic.

Leto is in Berlin to talk about his new project for Hugo Boss, which he approaches with typical gusto...

On Looking 31 at 41:
"I still have plenty of vices, but alcohol isn't one of them. It's probably just down to sleep and diet. If you travel long haul a lot or don't sleep much, it's not going to last very long, that's for sure. I'm pretty healthy so I think that helps a lot. I've been that way for a long time - 20 solid years of eating vegetarian/vegan and taking care of myself. That probably helps the preservation process."

On Pulling Off Any Hairstyle:
"You have to be willing to make mistakes. I don't have to show up at an office every day; I'm fortunate in that sense. I don't have to conform to someone else's dress code. Usually it's dictated by the film that I'm making, or being on tour, or doing something silly. So I don't take it too seriously. A couple of years ago I went to [photographer] Terry Richardson's house and I needed a haircut. So I asked him if he wanted to cut it. He gave me a mohawk. So it was pretty spontaneous. At the moment, I haven't had a haircut in almost a year."

On How To Get Out of a Style Rut:
"Shave your head. Get a neck tattoo. I think it's all about just being you - even if that means having a wild and wacky haircut every so often. Just be yourself and express who you really are: don't worry about conforming, making other people happy or fitting in. That's usually when people don't feel their best."

On Being Front Row at Fashion Shows:
"Fashion shows are fun because all the energy and excitement gets packed into 15 minutes, all that hard work. I remember I'd gone to see Karl Lagerfeld at the Chanel couture show in Paris, and it's pretty mind-blowing to see that - especially from my viewpoint as someone who doesn't know much about fashion. But you can just see the craftsmanship, the care and the creative thinking that goes into it. As a performer I put on shows every night, so it's interesting to see how other creative people use music, light and sound."

On Music to Work Out to:
"I'm a pretty adventurous hiker, so I like to crawl through the brush. I like to be outdoors and do that sort of thing. I never use an iPod. I like to hear the sounds of nature. I use it to get away from music. I make music so often I don't actually listen to it very much. But I am currently listening to Sigur Ros and Fever Ray."

On Piling On the Pounds:
"To get into character [as John Lennon's killer, Mark Chapman, in Chapter 27] I just ate giant pizzas and everything you know you're not supposed to eat, that's what you eat to gain weight like that. If you're a young actor reading this, you should never do that - it's really stupid. It's a mental and physical challenge. Putting on the weight was very difficult and very weird; I started every meal completely stuffed."

On Hugo Red:
"It's fun to be involved with Hugo Boss. It's been a brand-new experience and a blast for me. Hugo Red is a new chapter. It's exciting to see things come together: from the product design to the olfactory elements. I think it's really fun to be a part of it and watch it come to life."

On Returning to the Big Screen:
"It would have to be for something really special, something I couldn't say no to. A part or story or a director that I just felt was an opportunity of a lifetime, like a Jonathan Glazer or a David Fincher. The films that I've liked recently are A Prophet,Gomorrah and Animal Kingdom, but none of them had parts that I thought I would have been great for or that would have been a challenge for me. They were foreign films and suited for the people that made them. I don't pine for someone else's role, or song or art. But it can still be inspiring."

Hugo Red by Hugo Boss, £27 for 40ml. hugoboss.com

Originally published in the March 2013 issue of British GQ

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Thirty Seconds to Mars Launching Single to Space Station on SpaceX Rocket

28 February 2013

Thirty Seconds to Mars' single art for "Up in the Air." The first copy of the new song is being launched to the International Space Station on SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft. On March 1, 2013.

It's more than half-a-minute away and not quite the Red Planet, but the International Space Station is about to play host to Thirty Seconds to Mars.

The American rock band, fronted by actor Jared Leto, is sending their first new single in four years to the orbiting laboratory on Space Exploration Technologies' (SpaceX) Dragon capsule as part of a cargo mission contracted by NASA. The first copy of "Up in the Air" — Thirty Seconds to Mars' first single from the band's fourth studio record — will lift off with more than 1,200 pounds (540 kilograms) of science experiments and crew supplies on Friday (March 1) at 10:10 a.m. EST (1510 GMT).

The band, who will be at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to watch the launch, will visit Mission Control at the Johnson Space Center in Houston on March 18 where they will take part in a question and answer session with Expedition 35 flight engineer and NASA astronaut Thomas Marshburn live from onboard the space station. The orbital downlink will serve to "launch" the music single on Earth, which will premiere worldwide that day and be available at all digital retailers the following day, March 19.

Thirty Seconds to Mars are just the latest musicians to interact with the space station's residents. The astronauts recently spoke with singer Peter Gabriel and Expedition 35 commander and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield collaborated with Ed Robertson, the frontman of the band Barenaked Ladies, to record the first duet of an original song performed simultaneously in space and on the ground.

The SpaceX mission carrying the copy of "Up in the Air" is the second of 12 unmanned resupply flights contracted by NASA using the California company's Falcon 9 rockets and Dragon capsules. The private spacecraft is part of a new fleet of U.S. commercial vehicles that are taking the place of NASA's now retired space shuttle program.

In addition to the single, the CRS-2 (or SpX-2) mission is also packed with a surprise snack for the space station crew from the orchard of a SpaceX employee's father. The gumdrop-shaped capsule is slated to arrive at the orbiting complex the day after its launch, where it will stay through March 25. The spacecraft will then return to Earth packed with science results and spent equipment, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean.

Thirty Seconds to Mars — comprising brothers Jared and Shannon Leto, as well as Tomo Milicevic — has sold over five million albums worldwide and the band's videos have more than 300 million views on YouTube. During the 2009 release of their previous album, "This is War," the group broke the Guinness World Record for most shows played during a single album cycle.

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Thirty Seconds To Mars' New Album Is 'An Evolution'

Mar 4 2013

'We've gone to an entirely new place,' Jared Leto tells MTV News about Mars' upcoming album.

Thirty Seconds to Mars' new single hadn't even reached the International Space Station when Jared Leto got on the phone with MTV News to discuss its rather epic (and quite literal) launch on Friday morning ... but, as is often the case with him, he was already moving on to the band's next project: their new album.

"This is the first time I'm really talking about the album, and when you talk about these things it helps you put them into perspective," he said. "I just mastered it two days ago, and we're still toying with it, but it's been turned in and it's finished."

And perspective is definitely necessary; after all, there was a time when it seemed like the album would never happen at all. Thirty Seconds to Mars spent much of the past year recuperating from the whirlwind ride that followed 2009's This Is War, and very openly discussed the idea of calling it quits entirely. But, recharged from their time off the road, they regrouped and got to work on the record that Leto said will come to define them.

"I wrote and recorded about 70 songs for this album, and I think there's a feeling that all of us in the band have that, especially after touring as long as we did last time, that this is a really important album for us; it's a critical album for us," he explained. "It's an evolution, this album is more of who we are than we have ever been before, and we've gone to an entirely new place, which is incredibly exciting. And it's provocative at the same time, because changes bring new opportunities, new challenges, a chance to learn."

Leto added that, though the record has been mastered, there's still no firm release date, and if there's a title, he wasn't ready to reveal it just yet. But all of that will be announced over the coming months ... and once again, Thirty Seconds To Mars are ready to bring their mission to the masses.

"So much of the stuff is TBD, but we've shot a video, we've launched a single, we've finished an album, we have the most incredible things to share with our fans," Leto said. "It's brand-new territory for us, both musically and creatively."

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MARS on MTV.com ♥

Thirty Seconds To Mars Blast New Single Into Orbit

Mar 1 2013

'Putting your music into space is no easy feat,' frontman Jared Leto tells MTV News.

Thirty Seconds to Mars spent Friday (March 1) morning literally launching their brand new single ... sending the first copy of "Up In The Air" into orbit on board a SpaceX rocket.

And an hour after liftoff, MTV News spoke to frontman Jared Leto from Cape Canaveral, Florida, where he was still trying to wrap his head around everything that had happened. And, for a guy who's witnessed no shortage of amazing things with his Mars mates, well, that's saying something indeed.

"It was a phenomenal morning; it's been a mind-blowing experience, sending our music up into space, where it's pushing into orbit and going around the earth, that's a pretty amazing thing to think about," Leto said. "It seemed impossible; for a moment I played with the idea of a weather balloon, but I had been speaking with NASA for quite some time about ways to find something creative to do together. And I presented them with this idea and here we are."

Leto said the process of getting a copy of the single aboard the SpaceX cargo capsule began months ago — "It wasn't easy," he laughed, "but most worthy things aren't." — and that the decision to launch it into orbit had nothing to do with the song's title. Instead, he and his bandmates were looking to kick off the next chapter of their career in an appropriately massive manner.

"From the beginning, it was clear this was a special song for us. I wrote and recorded about 70 songs for this album, and I think there's a feeling that all of us in the band have that, especially after touring as long as we did last time, that this is a really important album for us ... and 'Up in the Air' is the first step, the beginning of a conversation," he said. "It's a song that has a lot of energy, a lot of optimism, a lot of life in it. And it's incredibly important to me and Shannon and Tomo.

"A core part of what Thirty Seconds To Mars is about is dreams ... creativity and dreams are one in the same," he continued. "And so it's inspiring and challenging to try to make the impossible into reality. And this has certainly been an example of that; putting your music into space is no easy feat."

Are you excited for the return of Thirty Seconds To Mars? Let us know in the comments below!

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MARS on KROQ ♥

Thirty Seconds To Mars Begin Their Mission Into Space

March 1, 2013

Thirty Seconds To Mars have lift off. The band’s new single “Up In The Air” is officially on its way to the International Space Station.

The song, featured on their upcoming fourth album, hitched a ride on the second SpaceX Drag Cargo Capsule, which along with the very first copy of “Up In The Air” is carrying 1,200 pounds of supplies for the space station crew and experiments being conducted aboard the laboratory.

Jared Leto and the rest of his Thirty Seconds To Mars bandmates got a chance to watch the ship blastoff from Cape Canaveral this morning (March 1), tweeting their excitement throughout the launch and posting photos of them in front of the Cape Canaveral sign, along with a snapshot of the band with NASA Commander Mark Kelly.

They later tweeted out a short video of the actual space launch with a bit of their own commentary.

#UpInTheAir is officially in space! #MARSisComing #ISS vine.co/v/bXHq2XdV3QE
— JARED LETO (@JaredLeto) March 1, 2013

Fans will get a chance to hear the new song on March 18 when the band’s interview with Tom Marshburn, one of the astronauts aboard the space station, is broadcasted live online. Visit the band’s website for more details on where to watch the livestream. “Up In The Air” will be available to buy on March 19.

Thirty Seconds To Mars aren’t the only current rockers interested in space exploration. Blink-182 and UFO enthusiast Tom DeLonge produced the 2011 sci-fi flick Love, which takes a look at an astronaut’s demise as he gets ready to come back to earth. His side project Angels & Airwaves, known for their space-themed songs, also created the musical score for the film.

Muse frontman Matt Bellamy told Guitar World last year that he would like to someday record a song or a music video in space. Bellamy is even trying to convince Richard Branson to give him a seat on Virgin Galactic.

Broken Bells’ 2010 video for “The Ghost Inside” tried to recreate the living conditions of space using Mad Men actress Christina Hendricks as the guinea pig. Unfortunately, she proves the black abyss isn’t easy on the body or the mind, something Bellamy might want to know before heading into the new frontier.

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Thirty Seconds to Mars Debuting New Song From Space Station

February 28, 2013

Ground control to Major Leto: 18 days until the song, "Up in the Air," makes its landing at the International Space Station!

How's this for a comeback? Thirty Seconds to Mars — never one to be outdone by will.i.am's space adventures — will debut a track from their first new album in four years ... in space.

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NASA and SpaceX (a tech company focused on space exploration) are teaming up to send the rock band’s new song, “Up in the Air," up to the International Space Station. Check out its cover art above.

The rocket holding the first copy of the track will reach the station on March 18. That same day frontman Jared Leto & Co will hold a live Q&A at NASA’s mission control. After chatting, an astronaut will premiere "Up in the Air" for us earthlings. Watch it all unfold on the band's website.

Watch the rocket's blast off tomorrow at 10:10 A.M. ET via NASA’s website.

There's still no release date or title for Thirty Seconds to Mars’ new album. But with such a galactic kick start to their comeback, fans should expect more details soon. But how can they band top a trip into space? Any suggestions?

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