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The Nashville-based real estate firm is in talks to buy the Roseland Theater in Portland.
While hotel developer AJ Capital faces off with Nashville politicians and musicians protesting the company’s acquisition of the building housing the famed Exit/In music club, sources say the well-funded company is in talks to buy the Roseland Theater in Portland, Oregon, which has hosted concerts by Bob Dylan, Tina Turner, Pearl Jam and Miles Davis.
AJ Capital intends to purchase Roseland through a recently registered LLC called StageRight Ventures, the club’s current owner
David Leiken, 72, confirms, noting that the acquisition talks have been led by AJ Capital’s chief investment officer
“I had an opportunity to be really productive with music and wrote maybe 100 songs”, he told
TODAY on Sunday (February 8).
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When quizzed if that meant a new Thirty Seconds To Mars album would land “pretty soon”, Leto replied: ”Oh yeah, yeah. Absolutely. And I hope the world gets back to a place where we can go out and tour again and give people a little break from the madness.”
Thirty Seconds To Mars’ last album was 2018’s ‘America‘. The US band have released four other records to date: ’30 Seconds to Mars (2002), ‘A Beautiful Lie’ (2005), ‘This Is War’ (2009), and ‘Love, Lust, Faith And Dreams’ (2013).
28 January 2021
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Jared Leto came close to signing Billie Eilish and her brother and collaborator Finneas when they were unknown artists after inviting them to perform at an intimate dinner party.
The Suicide Squad star recalls originally meeting the siblings through his married pals, film producer Emma Ludbrook and agent Tom Windish, and then recruiting the young musicians to play for guests including Leonardo DiCaprio. They weren’t signed, and I thought that maybe I would try and sign them, they were so incredibly talented and just special people, he told America s The Late Late Show with James Corden.
On Tuesday (January 26), the 30 Seconds to Mars frontman stopped by
The Late Late Show With James Corden. During the interview, he revealed that he was close to signing a record contract with the sibling duo before Leto began working with Finneas. I met them through [film producer] Emma Ludbrook and [agent] Tom Windish, he explained. They weren’t signed, and I thought that maybe I would try and sign them. They were so incredibly talented and just special people. Music is one thing, but I think they’re just incredibly intelligent, really empathetic, just really good people, and I quite like them a lot.