Thirty Seconds to Mars retreated to the isolation of Wyoming’s countryside in 2001 to record their debut album, working with producers Bob Ezrin and Brian Virtue . They contacted Ezrin because they grew up listening to his work with Pink Floyd , Kiss and Alice Cooper and they felt he…
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“I got a phone call from a promoter who asked me if I would be interested in re-forming the band for the Coachella festival in LA,” said Farrell in 2001, “and taking the band on tour after that… This comes at a time when this record Song Yet to Be…
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In 2001, they became the first popular Western rock band to play in Cuba (at the Karl Marx Theatre ) and met with President Fidel Castro .
On September 18, 2001, the experimental V (originally to be called Ecstatic Fanatic ) was released to mixed reviews. The first single was ” Simple Creed “, which featured a rap by Tricky , but the events of 9/11 , which occurred a week before V was released, meant that…
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The Argument was released by Dischord Records on October 16, 2001, along with the EP Furniture . Arion Berger of Rolling Stone called the album “bracing” and “intellectual” and Chris True of AllMusic “spine-tingling and ear-shattering all at once”, writing, “the band has raised the bar for themselves and others…
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During a party in 2001, the band recorded a live Christmas album, A Very Arcade Xmas , which they are rumoured to have hand-distributed to their friends as a Christmas gift.
and then toured through South America and Europe in 2001.
For their fourth album, Comfort Eagle , the band signed a deal with Columbia Records . Comfort Eagle was both produced and arranged by the band, and was recorded at Paradise Studios in Sacramento and Hyde Street Studios in San Francisco. Following the recording, drummer Todd Roper left the band,…
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On September 26, 2001, the band appeared on Drew Carey’s Back-to-School Rock ‘n’ Roll Comedy Hour . In 2002 the band played select shows as the opener for NSYNC on their Celebrity Tour .
Phoenix Music re-issued a Tobruk retrospective in 2001 with rare tracks and video footage, called Recaptured .