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30 Seconds to Mars and EMI make nice, new album due this fall
30 Seconds to Mars and EMI make nice, new album due this fall
06:48 PM PT, Apr 28 2009
EXCLUSIVE
Of all the things that can come betwixt band and record label, the gulf that emerged between Jared Leto’s 30 Seconds to Mars and EMI appeared insurmountable. All that seemed to separate the two sides was $30 million or, as Leto once described it on the band’s website, “30 gazillion.”
But reunions are standard business procedure in the music industry, and the actor-musician said today that 30 Seconds to Mars and EMI have reached an agreement. Expect a new album, tentatively titled “This is War,” on the major this fall.
“It was a long battle, and the time came for the fight to end,” Leto told Pop & Hiss. “We’re certainly not experts at this. This certainly was the first time we had been sued for $30 million, and the first time we ever really had a battle with a business partner. We’re not a group of fighters. It certainly is not fun being in litigation. I would avoid it at all costs.“
In a well-covered lawsuit filed last fall, EMI’s Virgin Records filed papers against 30 Seconds to Mars, seeking damages in excess of $30 million. It was widely reported that EMI was claiming the band had only delivered three of five albums due to the label. Leto, in turn, responded on the band’s website, and noted the group had been seeking to cease its relationship with the major long before the suit was filed.
“There was a point after we had sold millions of records around the world, where not only were we never paid a single penny, but we learned that we were millions of dollars in debt,” Leto said. “That brought up a lot of questions for us, and we started to investigate the strange scenario that we were in. That was kind of the beginning of the conflict.”
2009年04月29日 02点04分
