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Thirty Seconds To Mars
Release new single ‘Closer to the Edge’ on July 19th to follow second stage headline set at this summer’s Download festival
Thirty Seconds To Mars mark their first ever UK festival headline set – at the Download festival’s second stage on June 12th – with the July 19th release of the single ‘Closer to the Edge’ on Virgin Records.
Co-produced by Flood (U2, Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails), Steve Lillywhite (The Rolling Stones, Talking Heads, Peter Gabriel) and Thirty Seconds To Mars, the uplifting ‘Closer to the Edge’ is lead by Jared Leto’s soaring vocals and is backed with an undercurrent of electronic flourishes. Equally as anthemic as the band’s stand-out singles ‘Kings and Queens’, ‘This is War’ and ‘The Kill’, ‘Closer to the Edge’ also focuses on the band’s ability to craft evocative atmospherics.
Taken from the band’s second album and global hit ‘This is War’, ‘Closer to the Edge’ features backing vocals courtesy of the band’s fan community The Echelon, who contributed to the album’s recording during sessions in nine different countries stretching from America to Australia.
The audience for the Thirty Seconds To Mars live experience has continued to swell and expand since the release of ‘This is War’. The trio introduced the album with an intimate show at London’s Koko that sold-out immediately and saw devoted fans waiting at the venue’s main entrance from 10am on the morning of the show. The band’s subsequent full tour in February saw them return to the UK with six arena shows as well as a Dublin date.
The follow-up to their incredibly successful multi-Platinum album release ‘A Beautiful Lie’, the first single to be taken from ‘This Is War’ was the Radio One and XFM playlisted ‘Kings and Queens.’
Formed by brothers Jared and Shannon Leto, Thirty Seconds to Mars have won numerous awards and accolades, including an MTV Video Music Award, three MTV EMA’s, an MTV Latin and Asia Award, a Fuse Award, and three Kerrang! Awards. Thirty Seconds to Mars’ second album, ‘A Beautiful Lie’ hit platinum status after almost two years of heavy touring and winning fans over, one by one.
Thirty Seconds To Mars have over 500 live performances under their belts since the release of ‘A Beautiful Lie,’ including major festival shows like Lollapalooza in the United States, Holland’s Pinkpop Festival and Japan’s Summer Sonic, which has earned them a growing, loyal, global fan base.
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Mark Ronson And The Business Intl – ‘Bang Bang Bang’
New single out July 11th
From the forthcoming album ‘Record Collection’
‘Like Van Halen and The Meters had a baby’ – Mark Ronson
‘Bang Bang Bang’ sees Mark Ronson doing what he does best – smashing disparate genres and artists into each other headfirst, before standing back and admiring the controlled, party-starting chaos left behind.
Featuring the talents of Ronson’s old mucker, rapper Q-Tip, as well as vocals from MNDR, who moonlights as the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ live keyboard player, the first single from the Mid-Atlantic mastermind’s new album ‘Record Collection’ – the follow up to ‘Version’, which went triple platinum in the UK – is a playground funk triumph.
Released through Columbia, it’s a collaborative effort, with Ronson at the production helm.
The song was built using a classic Eighties Duran Duran keyboard idea (‘Setting 32 on the Prophet V,’ says this self-confessed trainspotter and crate-digger) and a version of French nursery rhyme Alouette (MNDR’s idea). Add to this a writing contribution from Nick Hodgson of Kaiser Chiefs and ideas culled from Ronson’s experiences touring the festival circuit and the result hangs – bangs – together brilliantly.
‘When we played all those festivals in 2007, we’d end up in the dance tent. And I got so jealous when Justice or Soulwax or Pendulum would go into their double-time breaks, and all the kids would start jumping up and down. And we never had that tempo in our set. So I just wanted that in one of our songs’ – Mark Ronson
Zane Lowe will be giving ‘Bang Bang Bang’ an exclusive first play on his Radio 1 show on Monday 24th May, while Ronson’s 16-bit styled instrumental ‘Circuit Breaker’ has already gone viral, getting the blogs burning like an aural Bunsen burner.
‘Bang Bang Bang’ – it’s the kind of explosion you’ll be more than happy to stand next to when it goes off.
