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Live Review: Muse in Calgary

CALGARY - They've been trumpeted as the best band in the world by a smitten U.K. press and an even more adoring European fanbase.

Published: 2010-03-31 Provider: Canoe

Rolling Stone’s Texas Takeover: “Historic” Portraits From SXSW

Photograph by Candice Lawler for RollingStone.com. Photographed with permission from the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum Rolling Stone stayed busy at SXSW this year, tweeting 100 band reviews @RollingStone (catch up on all the reports — and check out video — here), and seeing the biggest shows by Muse, Hole, Stone Temple Pilots and more. We also helped some of the fest’s hottest rockers into exhibits at the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum — so Patrick Stump, the xx, Surfer Blood, N

Published: 2010-03-22 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, SXSW

Muse Pack Arena-Size Anthems Into Surprise SXSW Show

Photo: Webber/Getty Muse are a band that like things on a massive scale, igniting big sounds on the biggest stages, with the kind of big visual effects known only to the likes of Pink Floyd and Daft Punk. That’s the Muse comfort zone, but the British trio’s special appearance Friday on a much smaller stage at a MySpace Music-presented South By Southwest show traded grand gestures for relative intimacy, without deflating the band’s soaring post-punk prog sound. There were still laser-beams and so

Published: 2010-03-20 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, SXSW

SXSW 2010 Day Three Twitter Marathon: 24 Reports, From Liars to Local Natives

The big story on SXSW’s third day was the surprise Muse performance at Stubb’s, which was announced during the broadcast of the Fox show Human Target earlier in the week (yes, really) — though Rolling Stone’s own showcase featuring Band of Skulls, Jimmie Dale and Colin Gilmore, Court Yard Hounds, John Doe, Rye Rye and Nneka was a pretty hot ticket, too. Christopher R. Weingarten of @1000TimesYes continued his Twitter odyssey yesterday, tweeting about 24 bands in 14 hours for @RollingStone. Reli

Published: 2010-03-20 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, SXSW, SXSW Twitter Marathon

News Ticker: Arcade Fire, Phish, D’Angelo, The Dramatics’ Ron Banks

Photo: Venema/WireImage Arcade Fire have booked their first 2010 live date: a spot headlining Dublin’s Oxegen Festival, NME reports. Jay-Z, Muse, Broken Social Scene, Vampire Weekend and the Black Eyed Peas are also confirmed for the event, which takes place July 8-11th. Phish are jumping into the lucrative 3-D game with an upcoming movie that’ll have fans strapping on paper glasses. A new Website Phish3Dmovie has launched, but the band isn’t offering up any concrete details yet. Rumor has it

Published: 2010-03-08 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Morning News Roundup, Rock News

BRITS ARE COMING

While most Americans are still fawning over Radiohead, the rest of the world has already figured out that Muse is one of the biggest and best bands on the current rock scene. Considering its lack of exposure here - ask people on the street about...

Published: 2007-08-05 Provider: New York Post Keywords: band, rock, Bellamy, Muse, album, piano, music

The 20 Best Live Bands Playing Right Now

This weekend’s rock list, Best Live Band Playing Right Now, got an awesome and terrifying response from you all - thanks for all the nominations. After careful consideration, here is our final list. Now go see these guys! 1. White Stripes 2. Radiohead 3. Pearl Jam 4. Rage Against the Machine 5. U2 6. Metallica 7. Flaming Lips 8. My Morning Jacket 9. The Hold Steady 10. Arcade Fire 11. The Raconteurs 12. Wilco 13. Yeah Yeah Yeahs 14. Red Hot Chili Peppers 15. Gogol Bordello 16. Kings of Leon 17. Muse 18. Dave Matthews Band 19. Tool 20. LCD Soundsystem Photo: AFP/STADLER/Getty

Published: 2007-07-24 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Coachella lineup ranges from Jay-Z to Seattle locals Sunny Day Real Estate

Music & nightlifeThe lineup for the California rock festival Coachella has been announced: Jay-Z, Muse, Gorillaz, Thom Yorke, Vampire Weekend, Sly & The Family Stone, De La Soul, LCD Soundsystem, Deadmau5, The Raveonettes, Corinne Bailey Rae, She & Him (with Zooey Deschanel), Gil Scott-Heron, Tiësto, Z-Trip, The Dead Weather (Jack White's new band), Mayer Hawthorne, Devo, Les Claypool, MGMT and Sia. Locals on the list include Sunny Day Real Estate, Gossip, Hockey and Portugal. The Man.

Published: 2010-01-19 Provider: Seattle Times

Warner Music Partners With Hulu to Bring More Music Videos Online

Warner Music Group has teamed up with Hulu to bring the label’s artist roster to the video streaming site. The Resistance rockers Muse are the first beneficiaries of this new deal, as the band’s Hulu page is stocked with music videos and live performances. The deal also calls for artist pages for Jason Mraz and Paramore to be launched in 2010, with more WMG artists to follow in the new year. Interestingly, Warner Music remains the lone major label holdout to not agree to a deal with the new vide

Published: 2009-12-23 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, The Industry

The Dead Weather Muse on the Future of Music, Supergroup Wars

Rolling Stone recently had a kind of stream-of-consciousness backstage chat with the Dead Weather where Jack White and Co. tackled topics ranging from time travel and geography to the art of picking band names and avoiding being sued (for instance, White insists, the Arctic Monkeys added the “Arctic” to sidestep the legal wrath of the Monkees). We also quizzed the band on who would win in a supergroup slugfest, the Dead Weather or Them Crooked Vultures. Watch White’s response in the video above.

Published: 2009-11-25 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, The Dead Weather, Videos

LINKINS NEW SOUND ISNT STUCK IN PARK

WITH more than 130 bands converging on the Meadowlands parking lot this weekend, the two-day outdoor rock extravaganza known as the Bamboozle is a virtual tasting menu of proven mainstream successes - My Chemical Romance, Yellowcard and Muse (not to...

Published: 2007-05-01 Provider: New York Post Keywords: band, rock, song, Shinoda, Bamboozle, bands, stores, album, case, metal, nu, record, sound, music

CHIEFLY SPEAKING

AT the Muse Hotel in Times Square, the Kaiser Chiefs keyboardist, Nick Peanut Baines, received a card under his door, asking if there were any way the hotel could inspire him. Im currently fine for inspiration, Baines, 29, told The Post, so...

Published: 2007-04-10 Provider: New York Post Keywords: Baines, band, Chiefs, show, world, Angry, Everything, Kaiser, Mob, debut, derivative, inspiration, live, single, sophomore, music