python-lastfm/test/data/d6fb58e06ef53801a709feb78ef89f43.xml

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  <name>Muse</name>
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      <bio>
    <published>Fri, 3 Oct 2008 17:02:13 +0000</published>
    <summary><![CDATA[Muse is a alternative rock band from Teignmouth, England, <a href="http://www.last.fm/place/United+Kingdom" class="bbcode_place">United Kingdom</a>. The band consists of <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Matthew+Bellamy" class="bbcode_artist">Matthew Bellamy</a> on lead vocals, piano, keyboard and guitar, <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Chris+Wolstenholme" class="bbcode_artist">Chris Wolstenholme</a> on backing vocals and bass guitar, and <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Dominic+Howard" class="bbcode_artist">Dominic Howard</a> on drums and percussion.    They have been friends since their formation in early 1990 and changed band names a number of times (such as Gothic Plague, Fixed Penalty, and Rocket Baby Dolls) before adopting the name Muse.]]></summary>
    <content><![CDATA[<strong>Muse</strong> is a alternative rock band from Teignmouth, England, <a href="http://www.last.fm/place/United+Kingdom" class="bbcode_place">United Kingdom</a>. The band consists of <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Matthew+Bellamy" class="bbcode_artist">Matthew Bellamy</a> on lead vocals, piano, keyboard and guitar, <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Chris+Wolstenholme" class="bbcode_artist">Chris Wolstenholme</a> on backing vocals and bass guitar, and <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Dominic+Howard" class="bbcode_artist">Dominic Howard</a> on drums and percussion.  
 
 They have been friends since their formation in early 1990 and changed band names a number of times (such as Gothic Plague, Fixed Penalty, and Rocket Baby Dolls) before adopting the name Muse. Since the release of their fourth album, Morgan Nicholls has also appeared with the band at live performances to provide keyboards, samples/synth, and backing vocals.
 
 Their sound is a blend of <a href="http://www.last.fm/tag/alternative%20rock" class="bbcode_tag" rel="tag">alternative rock</a>, <a href="http://www.last.fm/tag/classical" class="bbcode_tag" rel="tag">classical</a> music, <a href="http://www.last.fm/tag/electronica" class="bbcode_tag" rel="tag">electronica</a>, <a href="http://www.last.fm/tag/metal" class="bbcode_tag" rel="tag">metal</a>, spanish guitars, and <a href="http://www.last.fm/tag/progressive%20rock" class="bbcode_tag" rel="tag">progressive rock</a>. Usually they use the bass line as the driving force, often with the guitar providing only an extra layer to the song rather than carrying the melody, the bass has distortion and other effects applied to it to achieve a greater weight, allowing the guitar to digress from the main tune and play higher notes. Another peculiarity is Muse´s piano style in many of their songs; their music has been inspired by the works of Romantic pianist-composers such as Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky and Liszt, and has thus resulted in a fusion of Romantic style with modern rock.
 
 The band is known for their energetic live performances and front man Matthew Bellamy's eccentric and avid interests in global conspiracy, extraterrestrial life, theology and the apocalypse (as much as in Space and theoretical physics). Their lyrical themes involve madcap conspiracy theory, revolutionary rabble-rousing, weird stuff about aliens (or Zetas, if you please), religions and other such classic Muse concerns. In general their music and lyrics gaze on helplessly at the subjugation of humanity by corrupt world leaders and encroaching environmental or galactic disasters (and certainly their last album 'Black Holes And Revelations' has its fair share of climate change/oil crisis/global inflagration paranoia). 
 
 In October 1999, Muse released their first full length LP; '<em><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Muse/Showbiz/">Showbiz</a></em>'. The album received mixed reviews among critics, and music fans, labeling the band as '<a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Radiohead" class="bbcode_artist">Radiohead</a> copycats'. This, however, did not stop the album from selling over 700,000 copies, with success coming from singles; <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Muse/_/Unintended">Unintended</a> and <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Muse/_/Muscle+Museum">Muscle Museum</a>. The album also earned Muse a nomination at the 2000 BRIT Awards, for Best New Act.
 
 2001, with John Leckie behind the desk again, saw the release of <em><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Muse/Origin+of+Symmetry">Origin of Symmetry</a></em> along with Top 20 entries for <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Muse/_/Plug+In+Baby">Plug in Baby</a> and <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Muse/_/New+Born">New Born</a>. The album went unreleased in the United States until 2005 because their record label at the time, Madonna's <a href="http://www.maverick.com/" rel="nofollow">Maverick</a>, allegedly thought the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_Symmetry" rel="nofollow">falsetto vocals</a> would discourage radio play and wanted the band to re-
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