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Homecoming Kings

benzo8 — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:08:10 -0800

It's every young musician's dream: Quit this town, make it big and come back to show these squares! Well, tonight (and tomorrow) Muse return home to Teignmouth in Devon, England (pop. 15,116) to play two home-town, homecoming gigs. Ten thousand people each night will be descending from all over the UK (and Europe) onto historical Teignmouth to see the band play at The Den, a park on the seafront where the townsfolk have been gathering for hundreds of years. But getting permission for an event on such an enormous scale in a sleepy seaside town wasn't easy, even for a band of Muse's stature. The band's bass player, Chris Wolstenholme personally attended the Teignmouth Council meetings to discuss the shows and put forward the band's position. After agreeing to fund cleaning and resoration of The Den, and take responsibility for the added requirements of traffic and transport, the Council gave their go ahead just a fortnight ago. The UK's prime pop radio station, Radio One will be there for Saturday's show, with DJ Zane Lowe broadcasting his show live before the gig. Later shows in the evening will contain live tracks from the gig. "A Seaside Rendezvous" (as the band have dubbed the shows) sees the start of over three months of touring to support the band's upcoming new album The Resistance...

IDEA USA RUNE UNIT

Defenestrator — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:29:21 -0800

Muse's international treasure hunt. (Sign up required for complete access to second link) In a hunt seemingly designed by the band themselves and centered around thematic elements present in their next studio album, The Resistance, thousands of fans scramble to decode messages and solve anagrams using twitter and various message boards as a select few traverse to locations scattered throughout Eurasia. The prize? For most, simply a track of new music for now being served in snippets.

Songs and their muses

rongorongo — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 11:55:38 -0800

Guardian Journalist Dave Simpson went in search of people who inspired famous pop songs. We have, for example, Holly Woodlawn ('Walk on the Wild Side'), Dave Balfe ('Country House'), Melanie Coe ('She's Leaving Home'), Pattie Boyd ('Something', 'Layla' AND 'Wonderful Tonight') and Suzanne Verdal ('Suzanne' - previously)

Oxford Muse

divabat — Tue, 06 May 2008 02:07:02 -0800

Oxford Muse - "a foundation to stimulate courage and invention in personal, professional and cultural life". Browse the self-potraits (autobiographies), participate in projects, go universal, or just learn what the Muse is.

'Because something is happening here - But you don't know what it is - Do you, Mister Jones?' '...He's dead, Jim'

y2karl — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:52:47 -0800

You walk into the room
With your pencil in your hand
You see somebody naked
And you say, "Who is that man?"
You try so hard
But you don't understand...

Jeffrey Owen Jones, a film professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology and, inadvertently, the featured metaphor in Bob Dylan's Ballad of a Thin Man, has died.

Thy spotless Muse, like Mary, did contain The boundless Godhead

rudster — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:29:38 -0800

"No notice was taken by the press of artist-writer Sheri Martinelli's death in November 1996, unfairly ignoring the significant role she played in the cultural history of our time." Just to drop a few names. Nin. Pound. Parker. Gaddis. Cummings. Bukowski. Brando. A staggering roll-call for a life almost forgotten.

A Resource For and About Songwriters

netbros — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:53:39 -0800

The Muse's Muse Songwriting Resource is the place for songwriting tips, tools, interactivities and connecting with other songwriters around the world. See the section about musical instruments or get into the guitar player's guide. Start communicating with other musicians and songwriters in the forums and check out the music reviews. Lots to do, see, hear, learn, and most of all, enjoy.

Just a girl?

mr.marx — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 11:34:29 -0800

Muse + 120% pitch shift = Gwen Stefani