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http://www.qthemusic.com/14073/muses-matt-bellamy-hillary-clinton-q357-preview/
In the new issue of Q, on sale in print and on digital from today (18 February), Muse grant us unprecedented backstage access to their current tour… although Matt Bellamy reveals he’s been mixing in even exclusive circles himself.
With his politically charged, dystopian lyrical theories, the frontman tells Dorian Lynsky that while in Washington he met US presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton and her husband, former president Bill.
“They seem like nice people, very down-to-earth,” reports our rock star in DC. “Hillary seemed like one of my friend’s mums but I’m sure she’s an expert at talking to anybody on their own terms. Put her in a room with me and she’s chatty and friendly: ‘Oh, I love your music.’ You just get the sense that it’s a chess game to them and they’re out to win.”
Bellamy adds though that he likes the idea of a female president. “I do think if all politicians were women, the world would be a better place,” he suggests. “Men compete for natural resources in the hope it will secure their chances of getting laid. That’s what men do.”
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Order of awards on the GRAMMY pre-show live stream and seating assignments for the live broadcast on CBS-TV courtesy of host LL Cool J
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Another editor at Gold Derby changed his prediction and now thinks James Bay will win. The overall odds are now 50% for Muse and 40% for Bay according to that web site.
The only bands who have won Best Rock Album more than once are Green Day, U2 and Foo Fighters. Muse would be the fourth.
Also, according to media reports including the LA Times, the Best Rock Performance category award winner will be announced on the live broadcast. Alabama Shakes is favoured to win this one over Foo Fighters as well as pick up the awards for Best Alternative Music Album and possibly Best Rock Song too. The Best Rock Album winner will therefore likely be announced at the pre-telecast ceremony an hour or two before the live broadcast since only about 10 trophies in various categories are handed out during the live broadcast. The posted seating charts at Staples Center show Dave Grohl and Foo Fighters are planning to attend the show since they have reserved seats in the first three rows close to the stage while Muse (Matt and Dom) as nominees have reserved seats further back.
Besides Best Rock Album, the closest contests appear to be:
Kendrick Lamar vs. Taylor Swift vs. Alabama Shakes for Album of the Year
Taylor Swift vs. Ed Sheeran for Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance
James Bay vs. Meghan Trainor vs. Sam Hunt for Best New Artist
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Two more predictions...
Best Rock Album
Muse — Drones
James Bay — Chaos and the Calm
Death Cab for Cutie — Kintsugi
Slipknot — .5: The Grey Chapter
Highly Suspect — Mister Asylum
This year’s nominees for Best Rock Album represent all sides of the rock music spectrum. From blues/folk-rock (James Bay); through alt-pop/rock (Death Cab for Cutie); progressive rock (Muse); to hard rock (Highly Suspect) and all they way to heavy metal (Slipknot). All the voices of rock were heard when determine the list but who will eventually take the prize?
British band Muse seems to have the edge. Their dystopian concept album Drones, co-produced by four-time winner, Robert John “Mutt” Lange, was considered one of the best albums of the year. Muse are also the only former winners. They won for The Resistance in 2011.
The second favourite is another British artist: James Bay. Some believe that Bay could take this because he’s got two other nominations including Best New Artist in the general field. His BRIT Award-nominated album, Chaos and the Calm is also his debut record and the only “new” artist to win this category had been Alanis Morissette for her blockbuster Jagged Little Pill, who also won AOTY in 1996. Bay’s album might also not be considered rock enough as it fits better within the “American roots” field.
Much like Beck, Death Cab for Cutie are one of those acts that had been switched from “alternative” to rock. Their album Kintsugi was met with mixed reactions. However, keep in mind that mastering engineer and two-times AOTY winner, Bob Ludwig is involved in the production.
The last two nominees have lesser chances. Former GRAMMY-winners, Slipknot are the only the second metal band (the other being Metallica) to be nominated for Rock Album. The Massachusetts trio Highly Suspect are first-time nominees and suffer the same fate as Bay. Unlike Bay they don’t have any general field presence.
If Bay somehow manages to not win this album for his AAA radio-friendly sound, Muse's Drones could be the one to upset him. The Brit rockers were nothing if not innovative on their latest record, blending together heartbreak with military technology for a concept album that reveals something new on each listen. Plus, Matt Bellamy is one of the best rock singers in the game today. Muse also has a history of winning this award -- taking home the Grammy for Best Rock Album for The Resistance in 2011.
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One rock category is normally awarded during the 3 1/2 live evening broadcast while the other three rock categories and the alternative best album award are announced during the streamed pre-telecast in the afternoon.
Updated Gold Derby Predictions for Best Rock Album:
Muse has a 54% chance of winning...One editor changed his mind and now favours Bay
Chicago Tribune/Greg Kot Prediction for Best Rock Album:
Who will win: Drones, Muse
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Bing.com predicts:
Muse 31% chance of winning the GRAMMY Award for Best Rock Album
James Bay 29%
Death Cab for Cutie 21%
Slipknot 13%
Highly Suspect 6%
Muse Albums - History of Nominations Received:
Drones - GRAMMY Awards nominee for Best Rock Album
The 2nd Law - GRAMMY Awards nominee for Best Rock Album
The Resistance - GRAMMY Awards winner for Best Rock Album
Black Holes and Revelations - BRIT Awards and Mercury Prize nominees for Best British Album and Album of the Year
Absolution - BRIT Awards nominee for Best British Album and Kerrang! Awards winner for Best Album
Origin of Symmetry - NME Awards nominee for Best Album
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http://hitsdailydouble.com/news&id=299577
"James Bay could win Rock Album. His Chaos and the Calm is excellent, but it’s simply not a rock album. So why is it in this category, competing with the likes of Slipknot? Why is he not in Alternative or Pop? Is it so he could win without having to compete head-to-head against Alabama Shakes in Alternative or Taylor in Pop? Not that we won’t be happy to see him take home a statue, but put his music where it belongs and let it compete with his peers. It should be important to all of us that the Grammy committees do the right thing."
"There's one part of the Grammy process that I don't think most people know about. In each category, the voters select 15 albums or songs to be nominated. Then there are committees for each genre, and those committees narrow those 15 nominees down to five. Which I think is wrong, and I'm on a committee! On top of that, the committee can actually replace two of those five records that people actually voted for with records that weren't even in the initial top 15. My committee had, like, 15 people -- producers, managers, etc. -- and everyone had their own agenda. Myself included! In my category, at least one act that wasn't in the top 15 ended up with a Grammy nomination."
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Updated Goldderby.com predictions:
Muse has a 59% chance of winning - 8 out of 13 experts/editors picked Drones while 4 selected James Bay's Chaos and the Calm.
http://www.goldderby.com/odds/index/391/
Two more GRAMMY Pundit Predictions from Slant and HDD/Grein:
"Who Will Win: Muse"
https://www.slantnews.com/story/2015-12-07-2016-grammy-awards-who-should-win-and-will-actually-win
"James Bay is the front-runner."
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"In a year with less competition, Death Cab for Cutie might have a chance, but this one will come down to Muse versus James Bay. Bay has the momentum and the buzz, but we suspect the Recording Academy will go with the more established name and give Muse their second win for Best Rock Album."
http://m.axs.com/2016-grammy-awards-best-rock-album-prediction-analysis-74969
The writer mistakenly said Bay is up for Album of the Year. He is nominated for Best New Artist, Best Rock Song, and Best Rock Album. Bay has been already been announced as a performer but that was expected since most nominees for Best New Artist are featured on the show either in a solo performance or in a collaboration with other artists.
I will post more predictions in the next two weeks before the ceremony takes place on 15 February. Some of the categories including Best Rock Album could be too close to call and I also expect a few surprises.
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Final GRAMMY ballots due today 15 January 2016:
Muse is favoured to win with a 60% chance according to the nine 'experts' polled at Goldderby.com. Six of them selected Drones while two picked James Bay to win the award. They correctly picked Beck to win Best Rock Album last year.
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I also attended both nights. What amazing shows! I was glad the Friday show started late because my flight from Denver to LAX was delayed over 3 hours due to aircraft maintenance. Lower bowl or club seats facing the main stage give the best views of the performance.
Musicianship: 5/5
Visuals/Stage Props: 5/5
Set-list: 4/5 (No Reapers on Friday, no rarities, could have played at least two more songs like Bliss or CE or AP)
Most memorable moments:
Reapers with the blackbird stealth dirigible flying around the arena (Saturday)
The Handler with the visual effects and holograms
The Globalist with myriad visuals on the screen curtains
Drones Intro with nine multi-coloured orbital balloon drones launching and flying around the arena
Supermassive Black Hole with the outer space visuals
The flying drones technology in the stage production involves computer software algorithms like those in an airplane flight plan with collision avoidance commands:
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Expecting 18,000-19,000 concert-goers each night at the Staples Center and am hoping for one or two rarities and perhaps a slightly longer set-list. I was lucky to get MOTP, Falling Down, Host, Sunburn, Take a Bow and Exogenesis Symphony, Part 1 at gigs I attended at the O2 in London in 2012 and the Target Center in Minneapolis in 2010 and 2013.
The record attendance at this venue is 20,800 for a boxing match a few years ago. The Lakers, Clippers and Kings can also accommodate about 19k fans. The normal capacity for an end-stage concert here is 14-16k. Adele has scheduled a six-night run at this venue in 2016. Muse will have played seven sold-out gigs here since 2010. Taylor Swift holds the record for 16 sell-outs.
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For the record, Muse have now received a total of seven GRAMMY Award nominations, including three for Best Rock Album, three for Best Rock Song and one for Best Rock Performance since 2011.
Matt provides insight about the songwriting process behind Drones and prior studio albums in an interview conducted with CCTV earlier this year when they toured mainland China:
"It's both looking internally, your own life & your own experiences, and how you relate to the rest of the world and the people around you. Obviously those things can make you think about things outside your life. So there's some context putting yourself in the current world. And I think that the album ended up having this sort of dual narratives going on at the same time. The songs can be interpreted as being either political, or either self-expressive, about personal lives. I deliberately write the songs to be mixed message in that way. They can be interpreted in two ways," singer Matt Bellamy said.
"You can not be too confident about the impact or anything like that... But I guess music, obviously, is bringing people together to experience something, which is - you know they're physically in the same space together so they feel each other. That's something a little different I guess, to help people live their lives, mainly. And also listening to music it's a method of hearing and feeling somebody else's feelings in a slightly deeper way maybe than it's possible for some other ways. For me anyway, I like that. Music has always been a very powerful method to understand the feeling of somebody else's, both the feelings of somebody from a different time as well. So I guess in that way music is slightly unique form of communication compared to modern technology methods of communicating," Bellamy said.
'This is not the first time that Muse have tackled weighty social or political issues.'
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39 | Muse, 'Drones'
"The seventh album from U.K. prog-rock vets Muse is a mirror for these times, a searing commentary on our era's vague dread, computer-driven death from above and Orwellian political climate. Muse take us into a warzone where the death happens over there and the casualties are lost values over here. They drive home their doom gospel with a precision-strike muscularity that makes for the most straight-ahead music they've delivered in years, pairing the ornamental excess of their equally high-concept 2012 album The 2nd Law down to pure lunging force. Legendary AC/DC and Def Leppard producer Robert "Mutt" Lange helps focus the band's power-trio impact, giving Seventies and Eighties arena heroism a mordant cast that can suggest a real-time image of today's collapsed idealism. "I am crushed and pulverized/Because you need control," singer-guitarist Matt Bellamy wails in the stark opening electro-funk of "Dead Inside," like Bono calling out from inside an episode of Mr. Robot. It was the year's most convincing howl from the abyss."
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/50-best-albums-of-2015-20151201/muse-drones-20151130
46 | Muse, 'The 2nd Law'
"In an era of diminished expectations, Muse make stadium-crushing songs that mix the legacies of Queen, King Crimson, Led Zeppelin and Radiohead while making almost every other current band seem tiny. The proudly pretentious British trio add bits of Skrillex-style dubstep to their sixth album, on which Matthew Bellamy howls about a modern-day dystopia of unsustainable societal growth and difficult girlfriends. And on "Madness" and the London Olympics theme, "Survival," Muse even manage to compact the epic into a tight pop form."
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/50-best-albums-of-2012-20121205/muse-the-2nd-law-19691231
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Muse - Le Bataclan theatre - January 2000
Nos pensées vont aux familles des victimes et au peuple francais. Le monde entier solidaire de la France. Restez fort et uni!
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5 December 2015 show at Gila River Arena in Glendale AZ confirmed by venue this morning
http://gilariverarena.com/details/?event_id=165
2nd gigs in Toronto and the NYC/NJ metro area are possibilities as well as a Chicago date
Ticket sales are strong in most cities with the possible exception of Detroit
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Listening to Kroq tonight the dj mentioned they have big muse news on Monday. Let's see if it's a new show! Or something kroq exclusive at the red bull Soundstage.
2nd show added on Saturday December 19!!
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Apologies if this has already been posted, but apparently there's a credible rumor of Muse in Quebec in January. Sadly nowhere near me, but thought I'd bring it in case anyone knows more-
http://99scenes.com/rumeur-muse-serait-au-centre-videotron-de-quebec-en-janvier-2016/
Hey, it's east coast, finally, maybe!
https://www.billets.com/concerts/muse/
Montreal and Quebec apparently confirmed in January, might as well schedule a gig in Toronto too before the NBA All Star Game. Lucky Canadians!
New York City (Madison Square Garden or Barclays Center) and Chicago (United Center) and Boston (TD Garden) and Houston/Dallas and perhaps a 2nd LA gig could also be strong possibilities before Muse begin the lengthy European leg of 47 arena shows.
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Matt, Dom and Chris talk about their influences with the streaming service Deezer.
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A review of the gig in Singapore...
http://entertainment.toggle.sg/en/hollywoodbuzz/photos/a-night-of-hard-rock-5698116
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About 19,000 tickets sold at Staples - A few single seats remain on the upper concourse 300's level as of Saturday afternoon so not yet officially sold out
Got two 100 level seats in the presale but aiming for club seats for the second LA show assuming it will be announced early next week. Muse sold 32k tickets at this venue in 2010 and 44k tickets in 2013 so there is definitely sufficient demand
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It appears the gig will take place as scheduled with confirmation the support band is now in Singapore. The air quality has improved somewhat Friday afternoon.
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The gig scheduled for 26 September could be problematic because of weather related issues namely the worsening haze and very unhealthy air quality that have impacted Singapore the past few days. Some schools will be closed on Friday and air traffic could also be affected.
This concert is close to a sell out so I would feel bad for the fans from Singapore and neighboring countries like Indonesia and Malaysia if the show has to be cancelled or postponed to a different date if the conditions do not significantly improve in the next couple of days.
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Muse gets positive publicity from the predominant state television broadcaster in mainland China (CCTV):
http://english.cntv.cn/2015/09/22/VIDE1442851682692739.shtml
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Official Drones European 2016 Tour Shirt
http://imgur.com/a/GT1Gw
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