L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — The surprise guest at Saturday night's opening installment of KROQ-FM's Almost Acoustic Christmas passed away in 1996. After the majestically earnest 30 Seconds to Mars finished its set of electronics-shaded rock, the Gibson Amphitheatre stage rotate... more info

AngryApe — When making music with 30 Seconds to Mars more info

Rolling Stone — • News Ticker: Eddie Vedder, Springsteen • Decade-End Readers’ Poll: Green Day Rules • Remembering John Lennon • Lenny Kravitz Says He Won’t Join Aerosmith • Weezer’s Cuomo’s Condition Improving • 30 Seconds to Mars on New This Is... more info

Rolling Stone — At some point today, Jared Leto will walk into a record store to carry on a band tradition: picking up a copy of 30 Seconds to Mars‘ latest disc, long-awaited third studio LP This Is War. When the band’s last album A Beautiful Lie dropped, he sna... more info

MTV.com News — 'It's safe to say it's a concept album — I mean, if this isn't, I'm not sure what is,' frontman Jared Leto says.By James Montgomery 30 Seconds to Mars' Jared Leto Photo: MTV News Jared Leto isn't afraid to use the occasional dirty word. ... more info

VH1 News — 30 Seconds to Mars' Jared Leto explains the band's new concept album, This Is War. more info

Chorus.fm — *30 Seconds to Mars* (http://www.myspace.com/thirtysecondstomars)' new album, This is War, is on sale for $3.99 on Amazon MP3 (http://tinyurl.com/ycsp4ee). Submitted by SKM more info

411 Mania — Jared Leto and co. go to war and come out triumphant. more info

The Independent — More than 40,000 Twitter users joined in the Music Monday trend on December 7, sharing the names of music and songs they like in a tweet using the "#musicmonday" hashtag. The week's popular song selections included long-standing favorites by Lady Ga... more info

VH1 News — 30 Seconds to Mars' This Is War has monks, but no Kanye West. "He's phenomenal on the song, and it will be out at some point," Jared Leto said of rights issues keeping the MC off "Hurricane." more info