Suddenly it feels like hump day and it has everything to do with Jared Leto being shirtless in these teaser trailers for Thirty Seconds To Mars‘ upcoming Hurricane short. Why I believe there is a mini hurricane going on in my panties right now. WHAT??? Did I just write that??

There is good teasing and then there is bad teasing. I think this is a bit of both but it’s great marketing because it is totally building up anticipation and whets our appetite with just enough to start with the visualization of Jared sans clothes. Or is that just me?

Thirty Seconds To Mars has released a deluxe edition of This Is War which features “Hurricane 2.0” feat. Kanye West, live versions of Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance” and Kanye West’s “Stronger,” which the band recorded for BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge, the “Kings & Queens” and “Closer To The Edge” videos along with bonus DVD content.  The new edition of the album also has four different covers and an entire new look and design.  Fans can order the deluxe edition on iTunes and other Thirty Seconds To Mars merchandise at http://30secondstomars.shop.musictoday.com.

The second teaser trailer (below) is entitled ‘Introducing The Telephone’ and it is nowhere near as nice as the first video. In fact it may make your skin crawl a bit. You’ve been warned.

Super hot Jared Leto and his band 30 Seconds To Mars, shared the stage at the 2010 MTV Europe Music Awards in Madrid last night with Kanye West. I’m not sure if Kanye was up there to ruin the band’s performance but I tried finding video and couldn’t I kid.  Jared says of Kanye:

“This wasn’t even last-minute, more like last-second,” frontman Jared Leto told MTV News backstage at the EMAs. “Literally a day and a half ago, he was in New York and he got on, literally, the last flight, he made it out here. It’s really a testament to him. … I mean, Kanye West flew halfway across the world to be on the stage with 30 Seconds to Mars for a short period of time.”

Even the performance itself was very last minute planning:

“We were backstage and, literally, right before we went on — maybe five minutes — we were making changes, and Kanye said, ‘Well, maybe we’ll play a piece of “Power” in the middle of the song,’ and we were like, ‘OK, let’s go for it,’ ” Leto smiled. “It was thrown together last-minute, and rather than try to make something perfect, which is a silly thing, we really just embraced it as much more of a punk affair. We were all laughing with each other beforehand, because we knew it was going to be imperfect and a bit of a beautiful disaster, we hoped, and that was fine with us. It was more about the doing and sharing it together and really celebrating each other and the work we do.”

The guys from 30 Seconds To Mars won an award for Best Rock at the event.

Jared Leto Isn’t Into Groupies

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Thirty Seconds To Mars has added some more dates to their U.S. return of their massively successful “Into The Wild” world tour.  The tour starts at the New York State Fair in Syracuse on August 20th and continues through to October 16th where they will perform at the Deluna Festival in Pensacola, Florida.

On select dates of the tour Neon Trees, Violent Soho and New Politics will open for the band.

In addition to that, Thirty Seconds To Mars leads the 2010 Kerrang Award nominations with 4 nominations including best album (This Is War), best video (Kings & Queens), best live band and best international band.  Fans have until next Wednesday, July 21st to vote for the winner and can register to vote at http://awards.kerrang.com.  The band is winner of 3 previous Kerrang awards, 1 in 2007 and 2 in 2008.

For More information on Thirty Seconds To Mars, please visit: http://www.thirtysecondstomars.com/

Follow Thirty Seconds To Mars on twitter: www.twitter.com/30secondstomars

And don’t forget to vote for the band at http://awards.kerrang.com

Thirty Seconds To Mars have just released a teaser for the upcoming short film “This Is War” on their Youtube Channel. The entire short film, available in June, features the title track of the critically acclaimed album “This Is War.”

Enjoy the teaser and let me know what you think!

Jared Leto and his band Thirty Seconds To Mars perform in Milan, Italy as part of their tour to promote their latest album This Is War.

The guys recently sat down with Spinner for a brief interview about their musical evolution, their close relationship with their fans and their dream musical collaboration.

Today, Thursday, 25th March at 5pm UK / 1pm EST / 10am PST  Jared, Shannon and Tomo will be live on their MySpace profile –myspace.com/thirtysecondstomars

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