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It’s 30 Seconds to Mars, and it’s six days until the rock band hits the House of Blues stage.

But while local fans are counting down to the show, the band has been counting up the accolades. Since the release of its 2009 album, “This Is War,” 30 Seconds to Mars has produced two No. 1 songs on the Billboard Alternative Songs charts, been nominated for three MTV Video Music Awards and crossed four continents on an epic tour.

The band, which consists of famous frontman Jared Leto, his brother Shannon and guitarist Tomo Milicevic, is in the middle of the 13 month-long Into The Wild Tour that kicked off a new North American leg in Mexico City last night.

Kicks sat down with Milicevic last week to discuss the band’s success and how they’ve created one of the most devoted fanbases in rock music.

Read the Q&A with Tomo HERE

Such amazingly nice people, super clean streets, and damn good food too. It was great to finally play a show here after talking about it for so long. I really hope that we will come back here sooner than later and maybe do an entire Asia tour! Japan, here we come!!!

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New York, NY – August 9, 2010 – mtvU, MTV’s 24-hour college network, is bringing the hottest artists direct onto college campuses across the country with the 2010 mtvU “Campus Invasion Music Festival.” Headlined by the multi-Platinum rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars, as part of their “Into The Wild” U.S. tour, which is presented by mtvU, the band will be joined by special guests Neon Trees and New Politics.
Thirty Seconds to Mars who were just nominated for 4 MTV Video Music Awards, including Video of the Year, began the “Into the Wild” world tour early this year in support of their third studio album This Is War. The first leg of the tour took them to 89 cities in 27 countries where they played in front of over 1.3 million ecstatic fans. This Is War has already spawned two-consecutive #1 singles at alternative radio with “Kings & Queens” and “This Is War.” The album’s thirds single “Closer to the Edge” impacts radio later this month. Formed by brothers Jared and Shannon Leto, Thirty Seconds to Mars has captured numerous awards and accolades, including an MTV Video Music Award, three MTV EMA’s, an MTV Latin and Asia Award, and an mtvU Woodie Award.

The invasion starts this fall, hitting the following schools:

9/25 – Utah Valley College – Orem, UT
9/29 – Texas A&M (Kingsville Campus), Kingsville, TX
10/4 – Murray State University – Murray, KY
10/15 – University of South Florida – Tampa, FL

The Festival will feature a number of mtvU, MTV and sponsor related activities, with attendees taking home some great swag. For more information, head to campusinvasion.mtv.com

mtvU/MTV Presents is also the exclusive media sponsor of the U.S. leg of the “Into The Wild” tour, which starts on August 30th in Syracuse, NY at the New York State Fair and runs through Oct. 16th in Pensacola, FL at Deluna Festival. For more information, check out thirtysecondstomars.com

“Today is the greatest day I’ve ever known”: Smashing Pumpkins

And what a day it was. The third and final night of SingFest featured the likes of Great Spy Experiment, Hail The Villain, Ian Brown, The Vines, 30 Seconds to Mars and Smashing Pumpkins rocking up Fort Canning Park.

As Jared Leto, frontman of 30 Seconds to Mars said: “We are going to jump so high that when we’re done with the place, there’s going to be crater that 1,000 years from now, people are going to wonder what happened…This hill is going to be a flat park”.

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