Muse is Queen/King

Hello Friends,

Holy crap - have you heard the new Muse single 'United States of Eurasia' ? Well please click and do so...I'll wait until you have to continue.

Unreal how much Matt Bellamy sounds like Freddy Mercury - and the music is so massive and atmospheric. Wow - I'm not sure what to say or do - instead I will take my hat off to the lads for being amazing!

The band are currently on tour opening for U2 - and if you've not heard them before - you will now understand why.

They have also been announced as a perfromer at this year's MTV Video Music Awards in September. What this says to me is that MTV are trying to get back in the music game and no better choice at this particular time than MUSE. Well done!!

Here's a quick list - or beginners guide to some Muse tracks to get you started.

• Time is Running Out


• Starlight


• Invincible


• Feeling Good


• Super Massive Black Hole

Thank you Muse for releasing such beautiful music.

Gregg

Hip Hop Hooray

Hello Friends,

I was looking at Toronto concert lisitings today, in some Toronto publications, and was suprised to see that Ice Cube was perfroming this summer at The Sound Academy. I was in there looking to see who was at this year's North by Northeast Music Festival which kicks off next week. It's the festival in which I can proudly say gave me my start in this business. It's good people that come out each year and even better people that run it. An Englishman and a Welsh lass. It's a fun little festival and really is about the music. They stay true to what the festival is each year and this year proves to be the same. Check out the schedules here.

Based on my concert finding today - here's a little Hip Hop list of tunes I'm digging up as I type this...

1. Ice Cube - You Know How We Do It


2. Das Efx - They Want Efx


3. LL Cool J - Boomin System (one of the nicest guys and total pioneer in the game)


4. Redhead Kingpin - Do The Right Thing


5. Maestro Fresh Wes - Let Your Backbone Slide *CANADIAN

*Do you remember how big this song actually was in 1989?

Maestro did it and is still making waves today (check his wiki page) and so will many more Canadian's to come - be it Hip Hop or Punk - we make some great music up here.

NXNE Music Festival starts next Wednesday - get out there and support our troops.

Gregg

In My Opinion...

The British are simply better at music because they eat sleep and breathe it daily. North Americans, for the most part, are content and can take it or leave it and don't actively search for new stuff. I really wish we did more as it would be a better life - because In my opinion - music does indeed make things better.

Have you seen or heard of the UK channel 4 series entitled Skins? It's a great series that follows teenagers around Bristol, England. It shows us what teenagers are actually doing on their spare time rather than the way the OC and 90210 depict it. The beauty of this series is the use of music in scenes and key moments. If I could work my dream job it would be to do just that...select the tracks for television and motion pictures. I digress, the series is brilliant and stars some recognizable faces like the lead from Slum Dog Millionaire as well as the lead boy from About a Boy (he's grown-up now).

Here's a few tracks that were featured in this series...

• Adele - 'Hometown Glory'
• MGMT - 'A Time to Pretend'
• Gossip - 'Standing in the Way of Control'
• Crystal Castles - 'Alice Practice'

Anyway - you really should check this series out when you have a chance as it's pretty damn great.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iP8Vjfpf2M

speak soon.

Gregg