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 Muse adalah grup musik rock alternatif asal Inggris. Band ini dibentuk di Devon pada tahun 1994. Anggota band ini terdiri dari tiga orang, yaitu Matthew Bellamy (vokalis, gitaris, pianis), Dominic Howard (drummer), dan Chris Wolstenholme (bassis). Muse memiliki genre musik yang memadukan rock, rock progresif, musik klasik, dan elektronika. Muse juga dikenal dengan konser live yang memukau, bercirikan permainan yang energik dan efek visual yang mengagumkan.[1] Muse telah merilis empat album rekaman, dimulai dengan Showbiz pada tahun 1999, diikuti Origin of Symmetry di tahun 2001, Absolution di tahun 2003, dan album terbarunya Black Holes & Revelations di tahun 2006. Sepanjang karirnya, Muse telah memenangkan berbagai penghargaan termasuk 5 MTV Europe Music Awards, 5 Q Awards, 4 NME Awards dan 2 Brit Awards. Sejarah[sunting] Pembentukan (1992-1997)Pada tahun 1990-an awal, anggota-anggota Muse memiliki grup musik masing-masing di sekolah mereka. Pembentukan MUSE berawal ketika Matthew Bellamy yang berumur 14 tahun berhasil lulus audisi untuk masuk grup Dominic Howard. Ketika bassis mereka memutuskan untuk keluar, mereka meminta teman baik mereka, Chris Wolstenholme, untuk bergabung dan mempelajari gitar bass. Chris sempat menolak, tapi akhirnya memutuskan untuk bergabung. Band baru ini sempat banyak berganti nama, antara lain 'Gothic Plague', 'Carnage Mayhem', 'Fixed Penalty', dan 'Rocket Baby Dolls', sampai akhirnya menggunakan nama Muse yang dikenal sekarang. Urutan kronologis pergantian nama band ini tidak jelas, karena Muse memberikan informasi yang tidak konsisten pada wawancara-wawancara mereka. Pada tahun 1994, masih dengan nama band 'Rocket Baby Dolls', mereka memenangkan kompetisi Battle of the Bands lokal.[2][3] Dan tak lama setelah ini, mereka mengganti nama menjadi Muse, berpindah dari Teignmouth dan mulai tampil di beberapa klub seperti Cavern di Exeter.[4] [sunting] E.P. dan Showbiz (1998-2000)Setelah beberapa tahun membangun komunitas penggemar, Muse memainkan konser-konser pertama mereka di London dan Manchester. Band ini lalu bertemu dengan Dennis Smith, pemilik perusahaan rekaman Sawmills, yang bermarkas di Cornwall, Inggris. Pertemuan ini akhirnya dilanjutkan dengan rekaman resmi pertama Muse, yaitu E.P. self-titled (berjudulkan nama band) yang menggunakan label Sawmills, Dangerous.[2] Lalu E.P. ke-2 mereka, Muscle Museum, meraih peringkat ke-3 pada tangga lagu indie dan mendapat perhatian dari jurnalis musik Inggris yang berpengaruh, Steve Lamacq, serta majalah musik mingguan Inggris, NME. Dennis Mills lalu membantu membangun perusahaan musik Taste Media, yang dibuat khusus untuk Muse (Muse menggunakan label ini untuk 3 album pertama mereka). Ini merupakan hal yang sangat menguntungkan untuk Muse karena mereka dapat mempertahankan keunikan musik mereka pada awal karir mereka. Walaupun E.P. ke-2 mereka cukup sukses, banyak perusahaan rekaman Inggris tetap enggan mendukung Muse, dan banyak orang di industri musik menganggap musik Muse terlalu mirip dengan Radiohead sebagaimana halnya band-band baru asal Inggris lain saat itu. Namun, perusahaan Amerika Serikat Maverick Records mempromosikan Muse untuk tampil beberapa kali di Amerika Serikat hingga akhirnya mengontrak mereka pada tanggal 24 Desember 1998.[5] Sepulangnya dari Amerika, Taste Media mendapatkan kontrak untuk Muse di perusahaan-perusahaan rekaman di Eropa dan Australia. John Leckie, yang menjadi produser album untuk Radiohead, Stone Roses, "Weird Al" Yankovic dan The Verve, dijadikan produser album pertama Muse, Showbiz.[2][3] Peluncuran album ini diikuti dengan penampilan pendukung pada tur band Foo Fighters dan Red Hot Chili Peppers di Amerika Serikat. Pada tahun 1999 dan 2000, Muse bermain pada beberapa festival musik di Eropa dan Australia, dan mengumpulkan banyak penggemar baru di Eropa Barat. [sunting] Origin of Symmetry dan Hullabaloo Soundtrack (2001-2002)Album ke-2 mereka, Origin of Symmetry, dengan John Leckie sebagai produser, berisikan musik yang lebih berat dan gelap, dengan suara bass yang dalam dan terdistorsi. Muse bereksperimen dengan alat-alat musik yang tidak biasa digunakan, seperti organ gereja, Mellotron, dan peralatan drum tambahan. Muse lebih banyak mengandalkan suara tinggi Bellamy, dengan alunan arpeggio gitar dan permainan piano yang terdengar jelas, yang terinspirasi dari gerakan Romantisme khususnya musikus Rusia Sergei Rachmaninoff dan Tchaikovsky. Beberapa lagu seperti "Space Dementia" memiliki unsur klasik yang lebih kental oleh musik Rachmaninoff. Bellamy juga menyatakan adanya pengaruh dari gitaris ternama Jimi Hendrix dan Tom Morello (gitaris Rage Against The Machine dan Audioslave) dalam melodi gitar pada beberapa lagu terakhir dalam album ini.[6] Terdapat pula daur ulang dari lagu "Feeling Good", yang aslinya dibuat oleh Anthony Newley dan Leslie Bricusse dan dipopulerkan oleh Nina Simone. Origin of Symmetry memperoleh penilaian yang beragam dari berbagai kritikus musik. Dean Carlson dari Allmusic menilai permainan Muse terlalu menyerupai Radiohead, dan menganggap lagu-lagu mereka terlalu berlebihan dan sulit diterima."[7] Sebaliknya, Roger Morton dari NME memberikan nilai 9/10 untuk album ini, mengomentari sisi yang gelap dan berani dari Muse, bahkan menilai bahwa Bellamy lebih 'gila' dari Thom Yorke, vokalis Radiohead.[8] Album ini berpotensi untuk membuat Muse semakin terkenal di Amerika Serikat, tapi Maverick tidak setuju dengan gaya vokal Bellamy yang dianggap tidak cocok untuk penyiaran radio dan meminta MUSE untuk mengubah beberapa lagu mereka sebelum dirilis di Amerika Serikat. Muse menolak permintaan ini dan meninggalkan perusahaan rekaman Maverick, yang mengakibatkan tidak dirilisnya album Origin of Symmetry ini di Amerika (album ini akhirnya dirilis di daerah tersebut pada 20 September 2005, setelah Muse menjalin kontrak dengan Warner). Penampilan Muse selama promosi album Origin of Symmetry berhasil menarik banyak pengemar dan membangun reputasi Muse sebagai band dengan penampilan live yang luar biasa. Reputasi ini membawa Muse untuk merilis Hullabaloo Soundtrack, DVD yang berisi penampilan mereka di Le Zenith di Paris,Perancis pada tahun 2001. Lalu secara bersamaan, mereka juga merilis album ganda yang berisi B-side dan rekaman dari penampilan di Le Zenith. Album ganda single A-side juga dirilis, dengan dua lagu baru yaitu "In Your World" dan "Dead Star", yang berbeda dengan gaya opera lagu-lagu lain pada Origin of Symmetry. Pada edisi Februari 2006 majalah Q Magazine, album Origin of Symmetry berhasil menempati peringkat ke-74 pada daftar 100 album terbaik sepanjang masa menurut penggemar. Personil band
Personil tambahanBerikut personil tambahan yang sering muncul pada beberapa penampilan konser Muse:
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MUSE
THE BEATLES
The Beatles adalah salah satu grup musik rock paling awal sekaligus paling berpengaruh di era modern. Beranggotakan John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, dan Ringo Starr, kebanyakan lagu mereka ditulis oleh Lennon dan McCartney. Popularitas mereka sedemikian tingginya di Britania Raya sehingga di tahun 1963 pers menelurkan istilah "Beatlemania". Mereka juga kemudian meraih sukses di Amerika Serikat dan seluruh dunia.
Dibentuk di Liverpool tahun 1959 dengan formasi awal John Lennon (Vokal, Gitar), Paul Mc Cartney (Vokal, Gitar), George Harrison (Vokal, Gitar), Stuart Sutcliffe (Bass) dan Pete Best (Drum). Namun tak lama kemudian Stuart Sutcliffe mengundurkan diri (hijrah ke Jerman dan menikahi Astrid Kircherr dan meninggal disana tahun 1962 akibat pendarahan di otak). Lalu pada tahun 1962 Pete Best hengkang dari The Beatles, dan posisinya digantikan oleh Richard Starkey alias Ringo Starr
Manager The Beatles, Brian Eipstein, pertama kali mengenal Beatles lewat banyaknya request pembeli piringan hitam di toko musiknya. Pertama kali Brian mencoba menawarkan Beatles kepada Decca Record, label besar perusahaan rekaman kala itu. Audisi bisa didapat, hanya saja manajemen Decca berpendapat bahwa kelompok musik gitar sudah lewat masa tenarnya. Kendati keempat pemuda menjadi patah arang, Brian akhirnya bisa mendapatkan audisi bagi mereka di satu label rekaman, Parlophone, yang sejatinya adalah perusahaan rekaman untuk siaran radio. George Martin, manajer Parlophone, setuju, dan dimulailah perekaman untuk album pertama The Beatles yang bertajuk "Please Please Me". Lagu Please Please Me dan Love Me Do merupakan andalan untuk album tersebut.
TRAVIS BARKER BLINK 182
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 Travis London Barker (lahir 14 November 1975; umur 33 tahun) adalah pemain drum asal Amerika Serikat. Namanya terkenal setelah menjadi pemain drum untuk grup Pop-Punk Blink 182, tapi sekarang dia bermain untuk +44. Barker juga bermain untuk beberapa grup musik seperti Box Car Racer, The Transplants, Expensive Taste, The Suicide Machines, dan The Aquabats. GayaDi seluruh badan Travis dipenuhi tato. Pertama kali Travis membuat tato ketika berusia umur 17 tahun. Tato tersebut bertuliskan "BONES" yang tak lain adalah namanya waktu kecil. KeluargaTravis sudah menikah dua kali. Travis menikah dengan Melissa Kenedy pada 22 September 2001 tapi pasangan ini hanya bertahan selama 11 bulan. Pasangan ini bercerai pada tanggal 6 Agustus 2002. Pada tanggal 30 Oktober 2004 Travis menikah kembali dengan Miss USA 1996 Shanna Moakler. Travis dan Moakler mempunyai 2 orang anak yaitu Landon Asher dan Alabama Luella, serta 1 Moakler Atiana Cecilia de la Hoya anak dari pacar istrinya dengan petinju Oscar De La Hoya. Setelah hampir 2 tahun bersama Travis pun menuntut minta cerai. Dari Wikipedia Indonesia |
GEARS OF WAR 2 GAME
Gears of War 2 is a tactical third-person shooter video game, developed by Epic Games and published by Microsoft Game Studios for Xbox 360.[4] It is the second game of the Gears of War series (as the sequel to Gears of War), and was announced by lead designer Cliff Bleszinski during the February 20, 2008 Game Developers Conference. The game uses a heavily upgraded version of the Unreal Engine 3.[5] During E3 2008, a worldwide[6] release date for the game was set for November 7, 2008.[1]
In Gears of War 2, the Locust have found a way to make giant emergence holes capable of sinking entire cities at once. Marcus Fenix and the rest of the COG Delta Squad are now drilling underground to "take the fight to the Locust." In a teaser of the first scenes of gameplay of Gears of War 2, COG soldiers engage in battle with a large army of Locust as they travel to drill into the underground region. Comic book writer Joshua Ortega says, "The stakes are raised. This is humanity's last stand. Nothing is safe. Everything is at risk."[7]
Since its release, Gears of War 2 has been received with critical acclaim,[8] and in its opening weekend the game sold over two million units.[9]
Gameplay
Gears of War 2 is a third person shooter with an emphasis on the tactical use of cover, and retains much of the same gameplay from the first game. The player, playing as either Marcus or Dom in the campaign mode, or as any of the human or Locust characters in multiplayer mode, can only carry a pistol, one type of grenade, and two other weapons at any time, though they may swap these for weapons found in strategic locations or left by downed foes. Each weapon can be used for normal fire as well as for melee attacks; the game's signature Lancer, an assault rifle mounted with a chainsaw bayonette, can be used to instantly kill foes. The game introduces the ability to engage in "chainsaw duels" should the player attempt to chainsaw an opponent also using the Lancer; the player is presented with a controller button to press rapidly in order to try to win the duel.[10][11][7] Gears of War 2 introduces three new weapons, a chain gun, flamethrower and a mortar cannon. The chain gun and the mortar are heavy weapons, forcing the player to move at walking speed while carrying it in both hands. Existing weapons have been "tweaked" to improve their balance.[12] Grenades can be planted on walls or floors as proximity traps that go off when an enemy nears, and have the ability to kill foes when they go off.[12]
The game encourages the player to use and move between cover effectively to avoid taking damage. The player's health is represented by a red "Omen of Death" that fades onto the screen the more damage the player takes; staying out of the line of fire allows the player to recover their health. Depending on the game mode, if the player takes too much damage, they will enter a downed state which they can crawl around the map to get out of battle and seek help; during this time, a fellow teammate can revive him, an enemy may brutally execute the downed player, or the player may "bleed out" if too much time has passed. In Gears of War 2, the player can grab a downed character and use them as a "meatshield", allowing the body to absorb damage but forcing the playing to use a one-handed pistol.[13] Explosive weapons will simply destroy the character it strikes.
Like its predecessor, Gears of War 2 features an optional mature content filter, which, when active, makes blood appear as sparks and removes harsh language from the dialogue.[14] Furthermore, progress towards most of the Xbox Live achievements for the game can be earned in either campaign or multiplayer modes.[7]
Campaign mode
The campaign mode allows for a single player or two players playing co-operatively to complete the game's story mission as Marcus and Dom. A new "Normal" difficulty was added between the game's "Casual" and "Hardcore" difficulties, as senior producer Rod Fergusson admitted that — for the first game — "We overshot on [the Casual] difficulty and a game that was a little harder than we intended."[7] There is also an 'Insane' difficulty. Players in co-op mode can select different difficulties, and a "communal combat system" will adjust the game's artificial intelligence to give both players a fair challenge.[7] The co-op campaign can be played in a "drop in/drop out" manner, with the second player able to join the first player's game in progress.[15] Instead of collecting COG tags as in the first game, players can search for story-based items such as personal letters and medical records, with discovered items being added to a "war journal".[7]
The campaign features a deeper story with new characters, new weapons, and new enemies, according to John DiMaggio, the voice actor for Marcus Fenix.[16] New vehicles have been added to the game, such as the Centaur Tank which lead designer Cliff Bleszinski describes as a "tank with monster truck wheels."[17] Players will also ride a Brumak and Reavers in the game.[1] Cut-scenes use the better facial rendering technology of Epic's Unreal engine, and engage in more dramatic angles for the conversation, as well as using a video screen on Jack (the all-purpose robot used by Delta squad) to talk with their commanders "face-to-face."[7]
Multiplayer
Gears of War 2 features an upgraded multiplayer mode that allows up to ten users to simultaneously play in teams of five-on-five.[18] Gears of War 2 includes most of the multiplayer modes, including "Execution", "Warzone", "Annex" and "King of the Hill", and adds in three new modes.[18][12] "Guardian" is a modified version of "Assassination" from the original Gears of War, but allows players to continue fighting after the leader has been killed, but losing the ability to respawn.[18] "Wingman" splits all ten players into five teams of two, where both members of a team play as the same character.[18] "Submission," formerly known as "Meat Flag,"[12] is a version of capture the flag in which players attempt to "down" an enemy controlled by the game's AI and move its body to their team's base to earn points.[18] A Halo-like matchmaking system has been utilized for the online multiplayer[7] Players can now engage in multiplayer scenarios with any combination of human players and "bots" controlled by the game, with the ability to set the bot's intelligence level.[19]
"Horde" is a new co-op mode for five players, fighting off waves of attacking Locust together, with each wave becoming more difficult.[1] Horde Mode does not feature bot support as in competitive multiplayer, and can be played alone.[20]
Cameras in the multiplayer modes have also been improved significantly. Rather than static views from different points on a map, the new Battle Cam allows players to pan around a map as the camera focuses on areas of intense fighting, and the Ghost Cam allows a player to roam freely around a map. A photo mode is also featured, with each photo taken by a player rated on the amount of action in the shot and can be uploaded to the official Gears of War website.[12]
Graphics
At the 2008 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, California, as a showcase for the functionality of the Unreal Engine 3 (only rendering grey and blue), Gears of War creators Epic Games showed various improvements to the engine with specific reference to the sequel itself. The video showed several demonstrations of the improvements, the initial being improvements to the in-game lighting through ambient occlusion, in which dynamic shadows could be generated through the use of a pixel shading technique to render more realistically lit and shaded objects and actors, illustrated through comparison between character and environment models in the original game engine to that of Unreal Engine 3. Also showcased was the ability of the engine to render hordes of actors within the engine, as demonstrated with a large crowd of locust flocking through the "Gridlock" multiplayer map from the original game. Alongside this technology was improvements to "Matinee," an artistic tool used for the rendering and editing 3-dimensional scenes within the game.
Other physics-related features included improvements to the rendering of water in which specular light and physical interactions with were displayed more realistically, improvements to soft body entities demonstrated with a "Meat Cube" and a floating ball possessing properties similar to that of liquid helium. The largest of these physics engine related changes was the introduction of destructible environments due to the implementation of real-time structural analysis tools to generate the damage of the materials and subsequently their deformed shapes based upon resultant forces placed upon them. This was demonstrated with the use of explosive arrows fired from the "Torque Bow" of the original game causing damage to wooden planks, and also revealing rebar present after destroying areas of a stone structure.[36]
Gears Of War 2 By Microsoft Games Studio
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