After All Muse Not Really Into Twilight

Muse is in the midst of a strategy to build its American fan base one 13 year old girl at a time.
In an apparent effort to shield his band from the guffaws that come with being the only band with music featured in all three Twilight flicks, bassist Chris Wolstenholme said the band only participated in the soundtracks because it wanted to get its name out in the United States.
Wolstenholme also says he's skipped watching the two latest vampire movies, because, you know, that'll help his band gain back credibility. The bassist didn't go so far as to express pity toward Twilight fans, but you can be sure that's what's going on here at Aversion right now.

Muse to play at this year's South by Southwest festival.

Currently on tour in North America, the band's label Warner Music said that no show is confirmed, but Billboard.com insist that Matt Bellamy and co will play Stubb's in Austin on March 20, along with Metric.

Taking place between March 17 and 21 in Austin, Texas, this year's South by Southwest will see the likes of The Drums, Mariachi El Bronx and We Are Scientists all play.

Meanwhile, Muse have just been confirmed as one of the headliners for the Coke Live Festival in Cracow, Poland. The event takes place on August 20-21.

Muse reaches the top with little resistance

With its grandiose, occasionally even grotesque combination of Radiohead's art-rock angst plus Queen's ebullient excess, Muse has been working its way to the top for more than a decade. Until recently, mass success in America somehow eluded it, but not anymore. Supporting its fifth album, "The Resistance," Muse filled the United Center on Friday night, and, having made it to the top, worked overtime to go over the top.
Moving hydraulic platforms; lasers; shiny suits; rotating drum sets; LCD towers; giant, inflatable eyeballs; soaring solos; and falsetto vocals: Muse may hail from the U.K., but in terms of bombast and sheer spectacle, the band is tailor-made for the U.S. It's a wonder it took as long as it did to extend its global hold to these shores. There are far worse aspirations than ruling the world, at least for a rock band, and Muse wielded its technical prowess and mastery of technology like benevolent dictators, the virtuoso core trio of Matthew Bellamy, Christopher Wolstenholme and Dominic Howard (abetted by a keyboard player) soaking in all the ego-charging adulation, while still working nonstop to entertain.
For a band whose sweeping sci-fi, hard-rock-plus-synths songs frequently tweak totalitarianism (however generally), Muse can be a tad oppressive. Indeed, in less enthusiastic hands, the dystopian visions of songs such as "Uprising," "Unnatural Selection" and "Knights of Cydonia" would have been big bummers. But Muse performed each with such maximum anthemic aplomb that — boilerplate us-versus-them subject matter aside — victory never seemed in question. Despite the dire scenarios of Bellamy's songs, Muse is far from fighting for survival; it's celebrating winning the war. They are the champions.

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, 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: 'would say yes' to Bond song

Rock band Muse have said they would be keen to record the theme for the next James Bond film.
"It's something we'd probably say yes to, or at least give it a good go," drummer Dom Howard told the BBC.
The new Muse album The Resistance, released this week, sees the band blending their stadium rock sound with strings and opera.
"Certainly some of our music fits with the James Bond vibe and I think it could work," Howard said.
Dom Howard talks Vera Lynn and James Bond
Daniel Craig is due to return as James Bond in the 23rd adventure of the series, although no production date has been announced.
The last James Bond theme Another Way to Die was recorded by Jack White and Alicia Keys.
Duran Duran were the last British band to record the Bond theme, more than 20 years ago, for 1985's A View To a Kill.
"The last few have been pretty good," said Howard. "But I think we could do a good job.

Alicia Keys and Jack White performed the theme song for Quantum of Solace
"United States of Eurasia (from new album) could have worked but it's probably a bit late for that now."
He added that bassist Chris Wolstenholme was a big Bond fan.
Orchestral symphony
The Resistance is the follow up to 2006's Black Holes And Revelations and features a three part orchestral symphony called Exogenesis.
So would Muse consider writing a full film score?
"Matt 9Bellamy) did the end credits for a film called The International," said Howard. "It's not something we've done as a band, but we sometimes get asked for that kind of thing.
"It's a bit weird in the Hollywood world, because you spend a lot time being told what to do and that's a bit of a pain because we like to do what we want.
"So, I think if you can find a director you can acually relate to, and it's a great film, and you know you can work well together, then it could be a possibility."

Muse in Ranbir's life

Deepika Padukone needs to wake up, there is a new muse in Ranbir Kapoor's life. Well not in his real life but in his upcoming movie Rocket Singh: salesperson of the Year where Shazahn Padamsee will be making her debut. Shazahn is the daughter of well known theatre personality Alyque Padamsee who had acted in the Richard Attenborough's award winning film Gandhi

Shazahn Padamsee has featured in different ad cause before being signed for the movie. Interestingly her mother Sharon Prabhakar will also be starring in the movie. The Yash Raj Films movie whose shooting has at present started is being directed by Shimit Amin who had directed the blockbuster Chak De! India.

APORTHEOSIS A MUSE'S FULL RESUME

VAIL, Colo. — On Thursday and Friday nights the Vail International Dance Festival looked both forward and back. An UpClose evening on Thursday, at the Vilar Performing Arts Center in Beaver Creek, was called “Wendy Whelan: Dancer and Muse.” The first half looked back over Ms. Whelan’s 24-year career (beginning in 1985) with New York City Ballet; the second half homed in on her work with the choreographer Christopher Wheeldon and, most recently, as a guest with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.Morphoses menachem begin life at the Vail festival two years ago. It has begun its annual season here each year, then gone on to dance, in the fall, in both London (Sadler’s Wells Theater) and New York (New York City Center), as it will this year. It now seems work a day that its dancers are drawn from diverse American and European companies and that its duets often feature trans-Atlantic partnerships.In its Friday performance at the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater in Vail, Ms. Whelan was partnered successively by Rory Hohenstein (a former San Francisco Ballet soloist), Edwaard Liang (a former New York City Ballet soloist) and Edward Watson (a Royal Ballet principal), yet nobody made an issue of this. Her repertory, all Wheeldon, included two previews of new works to music by Martha Wainwright, one of which, “The Tears of St. Lawrence,” will have its original on Friday at Central Park SummerStage.