Muse.....The New British Invasion?

Muse is currently the opening act for U2's 360 Tour, need I say more? To even be considered an opening act for U2 is beyond the scope of any bands imagination.

Muse was formed at a community college in their hometown of Teignmouth, England in 1994 and have since become one of the most popular bands in Great Britain and Europe and finally starting to catch major fire in the US. Major recognition started following the East/West Records release of the bands third album "Absolution" which featured stand out tracks "Time is Running Out" and "Hysteria". Muse relentlessly toured the UK and US in support of "Absolution" and performed they're largest show to date at the Glastonbury Festival in England in 2004. A wave of emotions followed when drummer Dominic Howard's father died of a heart-attack an hour after the show.

The follow-up album "Black Holes and Revelations" was released on Warner Brothers Records in July 2006 and charted number 1 on Billboard in the UK and crept up the US Billboard charts to a number 9 position. The album was considered a huge success and launched Muse into the forefront of rock stardom largely due to the impressive singles "Supermassive Black Hole", "Starlight" (my personal fav.) and "Knights of Cydonia". I can highly recommend checking out all three of these tracks if you have not done so already. The success of "Black Holes and Revelations" garnered Muse for world-wide tours and headlining acts on the worlds festival circuit, exposing they're sometimes under-appreciated talent to the rest of the world.

The long awaited album named "Resistance" dropped this past September 2009 and charted a well deserved number 3 on Billboard. First single "Uprising" was released a week before the album and featured a live performance at MTV's Video Music Awards while the band was embarking on yet another worldwide tour in support of the new album.

Spin Magazine: "They turn to the next logical ladder rung of pretension: symphony. And they may have finally found the perfect category to fuse with their ever-swooping brand of rock."

The New York Times: "The Resistance, the crispest Muse album yet, is unapologetically and ambitiously beautiful."

Show support, buy an album for a change....