Muse Delivers the Neo-Classic-Rock Goods in Eighth Trip to L.A.’s Crypto.com Arena: Concert Review
variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Muse was making its eighth visit to downtown L.A.’s Crypto.com Arena, frontman Matt Bellamy reminded the audience, shortly into the trio’s return engagement Thursday night — except rather than call it by its current name, he said the venue would always be Staples Center to the band.
He added a joking, mumbled reference to “weird fucking con artists,” presumably a reference to his lack of faith in the state of cryptocurrency.
Digital assets are fleeting, but office supplies are forever, right? There is some kind of loose analog there — no pun intended — to the situation with Muse, which is forever using futuristic imagery in its shows but reigns as one of rock’s best bands by its rootedness in a slightly pre-digital past.
Or pasts, plural. Looking around at the full house at Stap—… er, Crypto, you would definitely say the audience counted as intergenerational, by any measure.
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