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"FacebookPinterest\n\nMadison Square Garden. Friday night. A bass thrums, drums pound, a guitar screeches. Muse appears atop three gargantuan pillars, one for each member of the bastion of modern British rock, gods on metal pedestals, sandwiched between tremendous video displays, generating bombastic sounds so much huger than themselves. This all feels perfectly reasonable, because today, Muse may be the best live band in the world.\n\n To the delight of all who seek maximum rockage, \"subdued\" and \"understated\" are words Muse never quite grasped. The group's larger-than-life-ness peaks in concert, fusing techy, digital flourishes with riffs that could sink continents. It also doesn't hurt that Bellamy's got a Ph.D in guitar trickery, or that Muse gets mentioned in the same breath as Queen not only for its bravado, but for its epic orchestration as well. Muse is classic rock happening in real time.\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nMuse gets slammed with a torrent of Radiohead comparisons every second of every day, and there's a simple litmus test to determine the legitimacy/bunk-assedness of the rip-off factor: Gauge a crowd of 20,000 moaning, \"I'm a creeeep, I'm a weiiiirdooo-ohhh-ohhh,\" versus the same horde rocking their skulls off to the best Sabbath riff Sabbath never wrote (closer \"Knights of Cydonia\"). Now you understand.\n\nRadiohead is dreary. Queen died with Freddie Mercury. Now the world has Muse.\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nDubious? Watch Rolling Stone senior editor and renowned rock critic David Fricke whap a floating balloon with boyish glee while Muse rocks \"Plug In Baby.\"\n\n Follow Verge Correspondent Zach Dionne on Tumblr and Twitter."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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