Mixing

I feel that mixing music is one of the greatest innovations that has developed fairly recently. It's a splendiferous (yes it's actually a word) form of creativity and there are limitless possibilities and expressions. You can take one song that has some vibe and another that's totally different and combine them to make something that is totally unique. Now i have yet to be able to mix my own music but I will be getting the software and hardware to be able to do that and then the doors will open, because there are so many things you can do with music. Take the drum part of one song combine it with the vocals and bass/synth part from another song, take the vocals of a totally different song and put that in the backround, and make something crazy.
Mixing is my favorite form of UGC (user generated content), but as some may have learned, there is a war going on against UGC on Youtube® and other places that think it is copyright infringment. That's complete b.s. in my opinion because they're killing the creative juices that we've slowly been losing as a species. It's also not really copyright, as someone Larry Lessig from TED (Watch this!) adequately put, the land people own also consists of the space above it, yet airplane's can still fly over your house. This is the same thing with the copyright people cracking down on ser generated-content. Plus people aren't doing it for money, they're just doing it for fun. I could understand punishment if it was for profit, but since it isn't, Youtube® just looks like a Nazi.
The strange part is, mixing music is not illegal, yet people get money for doing it. I find it strange that the non profit people that create these imaginative videos are the ones that have to suffer. Hopefully we can eventually get Youtube® and other Nazi corporations to change their mind, haha.

Muse

Muse is probably my favorite band. I almost have their entire discography and there isn't one song by them I don't like and that's over 100 songs. As I said, all their songs are amazing, but none of them really sound the same, but they still feel right with the band. Some song are R&B influenced but they use really distorted guitar and give it their own edge. Muse is truly one of the best bands, and unlike most bands now a days, they are great live. I suggest, if you haven't heard them, go download or buy Black Holes and Revelations, Absolution, and Showbiz, plus they have tons of EP's and a couple live albums.
Now let's get to the heart of what Muse is. Muse is a British rock band formed by Matthew Bellamy (vocals,guitar, piano, keyboards, synth, and programming), Christopher Wolstenholme (bass, back-up vocals, synth, and double bass), and Dominic Howard (percussion, synth, and programming.) Matt uses an armada of pedals to get many, many, many sounds out of his guitar. His guitar also has an effect pad on it (for more information on his guitars check them out, they're really cool, http://www.mansonguitars.co.uk/Muse%20gallery/index.htm). Matt's voice is a combination of falsetto's and a pretty much constant vibrato. I've also been told "his voice makes me want to jizz in my pants", if you listen to them you'll understand. Chris is mostly the bass player, but he's not and average bass player. They use effects on it. Mostly distortion but sometimes they use other stuff, but it sounds reeeeally cool, listen to Hysteria and Time is Running Out if you would like to hear it. Dominic's a good, solid drummer, they do have some difficult drum parts though, like in Assassin (particularly the intro), which is a great kind of hardcore influenced song. They have a few of those Drop-D gems (Assassin, Dead Star, Stockholme Syndrome are some great examples).
They recently came out with a new album, The Resistance, I haven't yet had a chance to listen to it though so if you have, let me know about it. They have an almost countless number of albums and EPs. From first to most recent: Muse EP, Muscle Museum, UNO, Cave, Sunburn, Unintended, Plug In Baby, New Born, Origin of Symmetry, Bliss, Feeling Good/ Hyper Music, Dead Star/ In Your World, Hullabaloo, Stockholme Syndrome, Time Is Running Out, Absolution, Hysteria, Sing for Absolution, Butterflies and Hurricanes, Supermassive Blackhole, Blackholes and Revelations, Starlight, Knights of Cydonia, Invincible, Map of the Problematique, HAARP (Live from Wembley Stadium), The Uprising, The Resistance, and Undisclosed Desires. Most of those are singles but still, that's a very large armada of music and not one bad song, in my opinion.