Thirty Seconds To Mars unveiled "City Of Angels"

Thirty Seconds to Mars just came out with a star-studded documentary video for the most personal song "City of Angels," the second single off the rock band's fourth album, "Love Lust Faith + Dreams." Directed by frontman Jared Leto, who is known for his epic short films-come-music-videos, but this one is a bit more restrained when it comes to special effects and visuals. Instead, it relies on interviews with stars, L.A. residents and celebrity impersonators to provide the story, intercut with sweeping images of Leto and Co. singing on California rooftops against a setting sun.
Though the song title references the nickname of Los Angeles, Leto explained that it focuses on the two brothers' dreams of making it in Los Angeles. The pair also discussed the video itself, as well as the band's relationship with their devoted supporters. "It could refer to any place where you go to fulfill your dreams, he added, "That was a very personal song, obviously, about a specific place: Los Angeles. But it could be... well, when I was a younger kid, it was New York City. That was the place where I went to make my dreams come true, at that time to be a painter, an artist. But it could be Paris, it could be Shanghai, it could be San Francisco, Palo Alto, anywhere. A place where you go to realize yourself and your dreams."
It was christened "The City of Angels," but Los Angeles, for the thousands of stars and would-be stars who arrive there every year is also a place of dreams, broken dreams, and plenty of nightmares. In total the mini-movie spans more than 11 minutes, Leto evokes some pretty dramatic statements from these celebrities who getting emotional while recounting their experience. The video is billed as a "Bartholomew Cubbins Film" but, and he borrowed the name from a Dr. Seuss book so people would not picture him when they read the name.
Helmed by Leto himself, who told Rolling Stone, "I made up the story that he's some insanely obnoxious Danish albino," under his Bartholomew Cubbins alter ego, the clip combines footage of the band performing the song and shots of the impactful Hollywood icons, as they speak to the camera about their thoughts, experiences and address very mixed emotions about the entertainment capital in candid interviews and recall their own journeys to the storied city.

Fall Out Boy tough out torture in "The Phoenix"

Fall Out Boy have officially risen from the ashes, they're ready with a new video for their comeback and new anthem, "The Phoenix," the opening track and a promotional single from their upcoming fifth studio album, "Save Rock and Roll," due out April 15 via Island Records and it's the pop punk band's first album since coming out of a four-year hiatus, a follow-up to 2008's "Folie à Deux." "The Phoenix" proves the Chicago boys are absolutely on fiiyahh.

It's fair to say their sound has changed dramatically over the years and the modern music tastes of the masses are trying to be pleased with the new record, "Save Rock & Roll." Calling an album that straight away makes me kind of not want to listen to it. A swell of symphonic strings opens the track cinematically before a gritty-voiced frontman Patrick Stump belts the album's first battle cry. The lyric, "I'll raise you like a phoenix," is a reference to the mythical bird of ancient times that burned itself to death on a pyre every 500 years and rose rejuvenated from the ashes. The phoenix was subsequently adopted as a symbol of resurrection in early Christianity.
When we last saw Fall Out Boy in "My Songs Know What You Did In the Dark (Light Em Up)" clip, they found themselves in a precarious position, kidnapped and blindfolded by nefarious villains. The new clip for "The Phoenix," serves as a prequel to last one, and it sheds light on the first video's story. The band explained a bit more on their website today: "it tells the tale of how we ended up blindfolded in the back of the black van in the #mskwyditd video. This is chapter 2 of 11(from album). Stay tuned for chapter 3, coming to a computer, tablet, or phone near you soon."
Directed by Donald/Zaeh, the rather graphic video details the abduction of each of the band members by a handful of female kidnappers one by one. Taking a page from Pulp Fiction, the rockers finds themselves in possession of a mysterious briefcase. They're all targeted by a secretive group of masked women assisted by a disarming kid on a bike, but Stump takes the brunt of the abuse, enduring extensive torture and getting his hands sliced clean off his wrists, and ends with Stump's bloody hand snapping at a dinner table. The clip  is reminiscent of an especially gory episode of "Criminal Minds."