Muse To Adopt 'Alien Techniques' On New Album

Muse bassist Chris Wolstenholme says the band want to experimentation with things that �are kind of alien� when they phonograph record their young album.


The group presently have septet songs in construction for the record, which will be the follow-up to 2006's 'Black Holes And Revelations'.


But Wolstenholme said that none of them were at the stage where they could be recorded.


�We just wanted to get started this year, only to get the globe rolling a little bit rather than just hold off for a year or so doing nothing and then father in the studio, and go, what do we do now?� he told BBC 6Music.


Speaking about the direction of the new material, the bassist said: "We're looking to do fresh things and we'll just now try and do things that ar kind of alien to us, you know, and things we haven't done before 'cos that's what we find challenging about making music."


Muse's last performance of 2008 came at the V Festival in August where they headlined the dual event in Chelmsford and Staffordshire.


You can see pictures from the band's set below.

Muse at V Festival 2008


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Meet the Band: Build a Machine

The band: Mike Serra (guitar, voice), Nick Serra (bass) and Tyler Saraca (drums); all hail from Walpole.

The sound: Metallic guitar riffs, hints of reggae and graspable lyrics

The name: Build a Machine takes its list from a line in the Jane�s Addiction song �So What!�

�It has everything I love about a rock song,� Mike Serra said. �There ar waves and trippy (stuff) and I�m a large fan of that. Ty (Saraca) suggested it and it�s sort of what we want to do.�

The story: Eight age ago, guitarist Serra and Saraca bonded over a love of Jane�s Addiction during artistic production class at Walpole High School and started acting music together.

�We were the only band that didn�t play the pop-punk stuff,� Serra said. �We�d play, like, reggae and (stuff) and people actually didn�t moil it. We were always the queer men out. But pop-punk is out now!�

Two-and-a-half long time ago, Mike�s younger full cousin Nick joined the gang to phase Build a Machine. The trio packed up and headed to California but found few friends in high or low places on the Left Coast.

�We didn�t know anyone out there,� Mike Serra said. �We were homeless person, living in my car and sleeping on the beach. Finally someone rented us an apartment in the Salton Sea Desert. It was such a trippy place, so extraneous to us, but real good intake for the album.�

Now back in Walpole and out of money, Build a Machine returned East - with help from a Jane�s Addiction.

�We went to see Steven Perkins, the drummer from Jane�s Addiction, play and gave the trumpet player our demonstration,� Mike Serra said. �We started keeping in touch with him and he set us up with Dave Aron, Snoop Dogg�s sound guy. He�s done production for Tupac, U2, Sublime, Prince and all these other big names.�

Build a Machine recorded at Aron�s house in Laurel Canyon overlooking the Hollywood sign. Aron enjoyed the band�s sound so much that he called in Perkins to cut a song with Build.

Aron is presently on tour with 311, but Build a Machine is header back to his house in October to conclusion the album.

The goal: �To retire in Huntington Beach, Cali,� aforementioned Mike Serra. �You have to go. It will change your life evermore. It�s replete of unholy friendly, mellow people. I love it.�

The show: Build a Machine plays a free show tomorrow night at the British Beer Company in Walpole.

�Everybody likes free,� Mike Serra said. �Right?�

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Virgin festival preps for first Calgary show, moves on from past problems

VANCOUVER - Virgin Festival organizers are promising a successful event in Calgary this month despite a series of problems that have plagued the festival in other Canadian cities.

Two years after Sir Richard Branson, eccentric billionaire and Virgin Group founder, launched the inaugural Canadian Virgin Festival in Toronto, Calgary is set to host its first V-Fest on June 21-22 with headliners Stone Temple Pilots and the Tragically Hip.

But what was to have been Virgin's second Vancouver V-Fest went out with a whimper earlier this year when organizers pulled the plug, saying they couldn't secure top acts to anchor the two-day 2008 outdoor festival.

That was despite a glut of artists passing through Vancouver this summer, fuelled by a decline in CD sales and an increasing reliance on touring to pay the bills.

"You'll be hard pressed to see another year like this," says Andrew Bridge, director of Virgin Festivals in Canada, of a summer touring season that includes rock stalwarts such as R.E.M., Radiohead, Jack Johnson, Judas Priest and Oasis.

But that sort of saturated market, along with conflicting schedules and creative differences, meant organizers couldn't land the acts they needed for Vancouver, Bridge says.

These two-day rock festivals, which are typically accompanied by hour-long sets by dozens of bands with local art vendors and goofy events in sun-drenched fields, are all about finding the right mix of talent and venue, he says.

All of the "magic pieces of the puzzle" came together in Calgary, Bridge says.

"When we looked at all the markets in Canada, we saw this market that has the highest percentage of youth, we found a great venue in Fort Calgary, and we had some artists who were interested in performing in the market," Bridge says.

"We decided to say goodbye to Vancouver this year with the hopes that we'll be back next year."

Two names they wanted on the bill - Radiohead and Jack Johnson - have already sold out their own shows in Vancouver's Thunderbird Stadium at the University of British Columbia.

Aaron Brophy, managing editor of Chart music magazine, says the corporate sponsorship may be a deterrent for a band like Radiohead, which spurned the big-label record industry by offering its latest album on a pay-what-you'd-like basis online.

"They don't need that extra push that a cellphone company-sponsored festival will provide for them. If Jack Johnson doesn't need Virgin's name attached to create the environment he wants, he's not going to do it."

Indeed, it's squabbles over creative control - and a lack of interest from concertgoers killing time as they wait for their favourite act - that are among the reasons why some bands don't play festivals, Bridge says.

There's also the open-air aspect, which can be a draw for some and a disincentive for others. A plus for many bands, he says, is the draw of playing with a diverse roster of talent.

"The music community is a big community; they like to get together with their compadres in the industry and have some fun at the festival," Bridge says.

Open-air festivals can be a gamble, and problems with weather and clean toilets can put a black mark on even the best planned festival, says Brophy of Chart.

During the first Toronto V-Fest in 2006, noise bylaws meant the Saturday night headliner, Flaming Lips, was rushed off stage after performing only four songs. Sunday's scheduled headliner, British band Massive Attack, was unable to even make it into Canada - festival organizers blamed immigration problems.

And organizers kept their "rain or shine" promise for Vancouver's 2007 show, as thousands of underdressed teenagers packed the open-air Thunderbird Stadium amidst a heavy downpour.

Despite the struggles, it's full steam ahead for V-Fest in Calgary and Toronto, which sees Foo Fighters and Oasis headline the third incarnation of the festival Sept. 6-7.

Bridge says it was a "tough go" for Virgin in its first year as it struggled to build the credibility necessary to attract top-name acts.

These days, the festival's biggest challenge for expanding is economics. Cities in many parts of the country, for example, don't have the population density of the Toronto area.

But Bridge suggests Virgin will soon use its market power to establish festivals in the more far-flung regions of Canada: "Those markets are definitely on our radar screen."

News from �The Canadian Press, 2008

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Kim Kardashian: 'My Booty Is Real!'

Kim Kardashian has been defending herself against allegations that her gravity-defying booty is fake.

The humanitarian campaigner has taken to her blog to set the record straight about internet rumours that she achieves her ample rear with the help of foam padded pants.

"OMG! When will people get off my a**e, literally!,” she writes.

"I have said it a million times before and I'll say it again: 'My booty is as real as the designer items I'm auctioning off on eBay'."

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