Here is the official music video posted on 30 Seconds To Mars’ Youtube Channel. The video has been reuploaded and added to our video archive. Watch it below.

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Actor and musician Jared Leto brought his polished prog rock extravaganza, 30 Seconds to Mars, to a fog-shrouded Santa Barbara Bowl on May 12. The shivering crowd at the half-filled venue made up for their small numbers with overwhelming enthusiasm for the Los Angeles-based band and their two opening acts.

The Steel Drum Corps had fans screaming and dancing early on in their opening set. Initially, the band appeared on stage with a pile of percussion instruments and proceeded to bang their way through a few loud numbers, resembling the Broadway show Stomp.

After a few more backing musicians appeared onstage and took up traditional rock band instruments, the music took a decided turn into retro rock. The band, dressed in glam-punk garb popular in recent years with bands such as Good Charlotte, actually produced a surprising veteran rock sound, richly layered beyond their youthful demeanor. With shades of sound reminiscent of the New York Dolls and The Ramons, the young rockers created a tight driving sound, punctuated by an occasional foray back into their tribal stomp beat. The short set was well received by the spunky crowd.

Mutemath, a Grammy-nominated band from New Orleans, followed with an innovative and compelling set of music that may have been the highlight of the show for some fans smitten by superior musicianship. The group, led by lead singer and keyboard player Paul Meany, sometimes sounds a bit like a Cajun Incubus, but their sound and its influences are so varied it is hard to easily categorize this group of astounding musicians.

Greg Hill plays guitar in an ever-evolving style. Bassist Roy Mitchell-Cardenas looks and sounds like the great Indy bass player Jack Lawrence. Darren King, an exquisite drummer who performed most of the set with headphones duct-taped to his head, played percussion in the tradition of other genius madmen drummers such as Keith Moon.

The band’s live performance is an electrifying mix of jam band sounds — from jazz, electronic, rock and Cajun roots, melded into a rich, new futuristic beat. In keeping with the day’s tribal theme, the band ended their set with all of the members banging on some sort of percussionist device. If you had to be stuck on a ship at sea for six months with one band to entertain you each night, Mutemath might be a wise choice.

As night fell on the Bowl and the house lights went out, the crowd erupted with excitement. A large, white sheet hung across the stage and 30 Seconds to Mars appeared as silhouettes as they began to play. Then, with a thunderous background beat, the sheet dropped, revealing a wall of strobes and white bank lights that lit the crowd like a movie set.

The group plays competent music with catchy lyrics that endear themselves to chart-topping radio hits. Fans of bands such as The Killers would probably enjoy this band’s accessible and nonthreatening, easy-to-follow sound. In fact, the group has amassed an impressive following since their 1998 inception. With more than 100 million views on YouTube and a multiplatinum record (A Beautiful Lie) under their wing, they have already achieved great commercial success.

Leto darted about the stage like a madman, occasionally freezing in place and barking orders at the crowd to sing, jump up and down, or clap. For the most part, the adulating crowd followed his commands. It was hard to catch a glimpse of the wiry singer for a good portion of the show, however, as only an occasional spotlight fell on the performer. For most of the evening, it seemed as if the venue was lit for the benefit of the movie star to view the crowd, while they were doused with the blinding lights and strobes. In fact, the band, led by Jared’s brother, Shannon Leto on drums, became largely irrelevant and indistinguishable in the blinding lights. Only a very occasional spotlight fell on them, and they were left to fade in the background, unacknowledged and unrecognizable.

Jared, appearing as yet another glam punk rocker (aka Good Charlotte), was dressed in garb complete with Michael Jackson-like gloves, and sported a giant pink mohawk sprouting from short, dyed blond hair.

After a relatively short set that apparently featured appearances by no less than the Steel Drums Corps and the Santa Barbara High School Choir and Drum Line (unannounced and drown out by the strobes and bank lights), Jared appeared in the middle of the Bowl for an encore. Armed with only an acoustic guitar, he did a short medley of songs and bantered with the audience. He reminisced about the shows he had seen at the Bowl over the years. Then he ordered his fans to make a path to the stage, and he began to sing an acoustic version of his biggest hit song, “The Kill.” When he reached the stage, the rest of 30 Seconds to Mars joined him, launching into the chorus of the song with the crowd screaming the lyrics in adoring fashion.

Mr. Leto, you’re no Tool or Radiohead. But your fans sure seem to love your music.

— L. Paul Mann is a Noozhawk contributor.

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The 16-year-old teen sensation was jeered as his name was called out at the event in Bangor on Saturday.

But Leto brushed off the reaction, and said Bieber could overcome it.

“He’s a young kid,” Leto told BBC Newsbeat. “He’ll be able to charm the crowd.”

Later in the day, the teen star proved the 30 Seconds To Mars singer right when his three-song set was greeted by loud cheers from fans.

Both artists were among a host of acts who played the two-day free festival at the weekend.

You can see extensive photo highlights, including Bieber’s set, on Gigwise here.

30 Seconds to Mars have never been ones to shy away from spectacle. When a band recruits 400 Chinese soldiers for one of their music videos, it’s fairly safe to say that they like to do things big. And that was certainly the case Sunday, May 16, when the Los Angeles rockers rolled into the Marquee Theatre, playing a wild, frenzied set that had everyone pumping their fists, shouting along and eating out of lead singer Jared Leto’s very charismatic hands.

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The show began with a dark stage and a low rumble. As strobe lights began to flicker to life, the pulsing sound of three drummers hammering in unison rang through the theater. As the drumming reached a fevered pitch, so did the screams of the crowd, as Leto strutted his way to the mike, sporting a white leather jacket, dark sunglasses and a bright pink Mohawk.

The band then launched into a climatic pairing of “Escape” and “Night of the Hunter,” both songs off the their latest album, 2009’s “This is War.” As his bandmates hammered out the music, Leto flew around stage, striking rock-star poses and hyping up the crowd, while a seizure-inducing array of strobe lights flickered behind him.

It’s not surprising that Leto had such a dramatic stage presence. After all, when he’s not being a rock star, the 38-year-old is busy being a movie star, appearing in films such as “Panic Room,” “Requiem for a Dream,” “Lord of War” and “Chapter 27.” With plenty of Hollywood direction behind him, Leto knew how to play to the crowd, capturing everyone in the audience with his manic intensity and warm enthusiasm.

The crowd jumped around while the band plowed through “Attack” and “Vox Populi,” with drummer Shannon Leto (Jared’s brother) pummeling his massive drum set and guitarist Tomo Milièeviæ laying down bruising power chords. Leto in the meantime appeared with a flashlight, shining it around the crowd.

But shortly after they started into “Search and Destroy,” Leto interrupted, telling his bandmates to stop playing.
“Now I don’t know if you know this, but this is our last show of our tour of the entire U.S.,” he said, removing his sunglasses and peering into the crowd. “And I hope you understand that I’m going to kick all of your asses tonight, and I’m going to make sure that you have the best night of your (expletive) life.”

Leto then told everyone in the crowd to jump as high as they could once the music started again, and when that wasn’t satisfying, he stopped the song again and went back to hyping up the crowd.

In someone else’s hands, this might have seemed pretty arrogant and tiresome, but Leto’s connection with the crowd really began at that moment. He may have seemed like a standard rocker flying around the stage at the beginning of the show, but once he started talking, the crowd couldn’t get enough of him. When he said to form a mosh pit, everyone in the front quickly complied. When he told the people in the back to step forward, they all walked towards the stage together. And when he told people to jump, he had the whole place off their feet.

The crowd screamed along with “From Yesterday,” the massive single off 30 Seconds to Mars’ platinum sophomore album, 2005’s “A Beautiful Lie.” And after speaking a bit about the immigration controversy currently gripping Arizona, Leto and his band delivered an amped up version of “This is War.”

After hammering out an acoustic versions of “Was It A Dream?,” Leto launched into “The Kill,” eventually diving into the crowd, only to reappear standing on the fence in front of the stage, grabbing at outstretched hands.
Nearly everyone in the audience sang along with “Closer to the Edge” and “Hurricane,” and for the final tune, Leto invited what seemed like half the crowd onstage with him.

“I can’t wait to come back to Phoenix, because it’s so beautiful here and this has been the perfect way to end this tour,” said Leto. “This has truly been one of our best nights, and I hope every one of you had the time of your life.”

And based on how loudly the crowd sang along with closer “Kings and Queens,” it certainly seemed like they did.

Thanks to Tamriel86 for posting the video.