Muse ask Fox News presenter Glenn Beck to retract his support for the band – audio

Muse have reportedly asked under-fire Fox TV presenter Glenn Beck to retract his public endorsement of the band after he praised them on his radio show.

Listen to the broadcast by scrolling down now.

Beck, who is known for his conservative stance on politics, is currently embroiled in a scandal over remarks he made in July when he called President Obama "a racist". The Press Association today (October 5) reports that Waitrose has pulled its advertisements on Fox News over the incident.

Speaking on 'The Glenn Beck Program' on September 16, the presenter hailed Muse's latest album 'The Resistance' as "fantastic", before stating that the band themselves are known to share his libertarian views concerning how the western world is governed.

"These guys are brilliant, they know the time that we live in. They are libertarians from England," he said. "All of the lyrics are just dead on, on what's coming our way."

Muse, Lily Allen, Dizzee Rascal for Big Day Out festival

Muse, Lily Allen, Dizzee Rascal, Kasabian, Calvin Harris and The Temper Trap have been announced as set to play the Big Day Out festival in Australia next year.

The travelling event takes place in Australia and New Zealand in January next year and will also feature Powderfinger, The Mars Volta, Ladyhawke, Peaches and The Horrors.

The festival will take place in Auckland (January 15), Gold Coast (17), Sydney (22), Melbourne (27), Adelaide (29) and Perth (31). See Bigdayout.com for more information

The Big Day Out line-up so far is:

Muse
Powderfinger
Lily Allen
Eskimo Joe
Groove Armada
Grinspoon
The Mars Volta
Ladyhawke
Dizzee Rascal
Karnivool
Peaches
The Temper Trap
Kasabian
Midnight
Juggernauts
Rise Against
Magic Dirt
Mastodon
Lisa Mitchell
The Horrors
Bluejuice
Calvin Harris
Kisschasy
The Decemberists
Tame Impala
Girl Talk

Glenn Beck admits lying over Muse retraction plea

Fox News presenter Glenn Beck's declaration that Muse had asked him to stop praising the band was entirely false, it has been revealed.

As previously reported, Beck had praised the band on Twitter and during his radio programme in September, before telling listeners that the band's representatives had been in touch with him asking if he would "retract my endorsement".

Beck, who is known for his strong conservative views, is still under fire after he called President Obama "a racist" in July.

Speaking about the presenter's comments about Muse, Christopher Balfe, the president and COO of Beck's company Mercury Radio Arts, admitted that the whole thing had been a ruse, reports MTV.

"After raving about Muse for four minutes, Glenn made a joke about their representatives emailing him to stop," Balfe said. "While it is entirely possible that Muse does not like having Glenn as a fan, he was making a joke and their representatives never reached out to him."

Despite Beck suggesting on several occasions that he believes Muse share his strong libertarian views on western power, the band's spokesperson said they would be making no comment about the issue.

Queen's Brian May: 'I love Muse's 'The Resistance''

Queen's Brian May has lauded Muse's latest album.

The guitarist praised 'The Resistance', which many critics and fans have said owes a big debt to the sound of the British veterans.

"I love it, I think it's great stuff," May told BBC News. "I think they're very good boys and extremely talented, and like us they have their tongue in cheek a lot of the time."

The Queen man added he had met Muse on several occasions and they had cited his band as an inspiration.

"They said they liked us and that we've been an influence, which is obviously nice for someone like me to hear," he recalled.

"They are extraordinary musicians. Real virtuosos - much more than I am. I like the way they let their madness show through, always a good thing in an artist."

Muse, Kasabian and Green Day star on new NME album

'NME The Album 2009', featuring a host of stars including Muse, Kasabian, Green Day and Biffy Clyro, is available to buy online now.

Spanning two CDs, NME has sifted through the trash and put together a compilation jam-packed with all the biggest names of 2009.

To purchase click here now.

CD1 boasts tracks from Muse with their comeback single 'Uprising', Kasabian's biggest hit to date ('Fire') and 'Zero' by Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

Meanwhile, CD2 combines 'That Golden Rule' by Biffy Clyro, Green Day's 'Know Your Enemy' and a plethora of new and exciting tracks from Wild Beasts, The Big Pink and The Horrors.

Disc 1:
1. Muse – 'Uprising'
2. Kasabian - 'Fire'
3. Friendly Fires – 'Kiss Of Life'
4. Temper Trap – 'Sweet Disposition'
5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – 'Zero'
6. Jamie T – 'Sticks & Stones'
7. The Big Pink – 'Dominos'
8. Maximo Park – 'In Another World'
9. The Enemy – 'Be Somebody'
10. Franz Ferdinand – 'Ulysses'
11. White Lies – 'Death'
12. Passion Pit – 'The Reeling'
13. The Maccabees – 'No Kind Words'
14. Gossip – 'Love Long Distance'
15. Jack Penate – 'Tonight’s Today'
16. Peter Doherty – 'Last Of The English Roses'
17. Esser - 'Headlock'
18. The Virgins – 'Private Affair'
19. The Cribs – 'Cheat On Me'
20. Gallows – 'I Dread The Night'

Disc 2:
1. Biffy Clyro – 'That Golden Rule'
2. Paramore – 'Ignorance'
3. Green Day – 'Know Your Enemy'
4. The Prodigy – 'Warrior's Dance'
5. Enter Shikari – 'No Sleep Tonight'
6. The Horrors – 'Who Can Say'
7. The View – '5Rebbeccas'
8. Ian Brown - 'Stellify'
9. Bombay Bicycle Club – 'The Hill'
10. Howling Bells – 'Into The Chaos'
11. Little Boots – 'Remedy'
12. Marmaduke Duke – 'Je Suis Un Funky Homme'
13. Marina & The Diamonds – 'Obsessions'
14. Animal Collective – 'My Girls'
15. Danananananakroyd – 'Back Wax'
16. Golden Silvers – 'Please Venus'
17. Phoenix – '1901'
18. Manic Street Preachers – 'Peeled Apples'
19. Graham Coxon – 'Dead Bees'
20. Glasvegas – 'Flowers & Football Tops'

Muse a toast to Vermeer

I've never met Ektoras Binikos, but his cocktail recipes have been intriguing me for many a year, and I'm sure that you, too, would be pretty fascinated by a guy who tried to incorporate dried blood into a cocktail.
The people who hired him to create the drink wouldn't allow the blood, so he tried to add some tears - a specific woman's tears, of course - to the drink, but they didn't go for that, either. It was back to the drawing board.
Ektoras is a Greek born artist who tends bar in New York City, and any decent search engine will lead you to sites where his work is on display. I'm particularly fond of his video, "Explaining an Image to a Stuffed Hare (After Joseph Beuys)," though I'm sure it's not to everyone's taste.
The "blood and tears" drink was created for the 60th birthday party of performance artist Marina Abramovic. She's a woman who is fond, it seems, of freezing herself onstage, and she incorporates other acts of self mutilation into her art form, too. It's not actually my cup of tea, but the world would be oh-so-boring if people like this weren't among us, right?
Being denied permission to use human body fluids in his drink, Ektoras went for cayenne pepper, instead. Good choice, right? But this wasn't any old cayenne pepper. It was cayenne pepper that Abramovic had placed under her pillow and slept on for seven nights, "so that it would absorb her auratic energy," he told me.
The birthday party was a big hit. People such as Lou Reed and David Byrne turned out for the event - it was held at the Guggenheim Museum in New York a few years ago - and Binikos' cocktail was a big hit, too. "As everyone toasted her, a strong auratic energy vibration simultaneously connected Marina with everyone in the room," he said.
More currently, Binikos sent me a recipe for a drink that he calls the Milkmaid. He created it to celebrate the painting of the same name by Johannes Vermeer. There's no milk in Biniko's Milkmaid cocktail, and there's no bread pudding in there, either - the maid in the painting is sometimes thought to be making that dessert - but there's an ounce of geneva from the Netherlands in there, so the ever-so-Dutch Vermeer would probably approve.
Although you'll have to go to the bother of making a citrus-mint syrup to make this baby, give thanks for the fact that you don't have to track down Marina Abramovic so you can persuade her to sleep on some cayenne pepper for you.

"Undisclosed Desires", Muse

Muse frontman Matthew Bellamy is apparently taking the name of the band's 2001 "Plug In Baby" single seriously because the second he and his band begin performing in the video for new single "Undisclosed Desires," he plugs his guitar in... to his foot.
Of course, no Muse video would be complete without a total "WTF" moment, and that's definitely got to be the random shots of blood, hearts and brains that show up throughout this typically futuristic, completely random clip. Oh, and that keytar is nothing short of amazing.You can watch the video for "Uprising" here. "Undisclosed Desires" is on The Resistance, which is in stores now.