Muse, MGMT and Oasis were some of the big winners in Tuesday, February 25th’s Shockwaves NME Awards night, held in the O2 Academy Brixton in London.

According to NME.com, Oasis was awarded as Best British Band, while Noel Gallagher, guitarist, was awarded as Best Band Blog.

Muse’s “HAARP” was awarded with Best Album Artwork as well as Best Live Band. Matt Bellamy, the frontman for Muse was named as the Sexiest Male. Hayley Williams of Paramore was named Sexiest Female.

The band MGMT also won two awards. They were named as Best New Band and for “Time To Pretend” won Best Track award.

The Killers were named Best International Band and Pete Doherty won the honors for Best Solo Artist.

Other Shockwaves NME winners included Elbow for Outstanding Contribution to British Music, Kings of Leon for Best Album and Best Video went to Last Shadow Puppets. “Live At The Apollo” by Arctic Monkeys won Best DVD award.

Best Venue went to London Astoria and Best Live Event was Glastonbury 2008.

Tim Burton presented The Cure with the award for Godlike Genius. According to a report from Billboard, Burton said that the only thing saving him while he was working unhappily as a Disney animator was the band’s music.

The NME’s were closed out by a live hit filled set by The Cure, including “Killing An Arab,” “Boys Don’t Cry,” “In Between Days,” “Friday I’m In Love,” and “Lullaby.”

Organizers for the Street Scene Festival in San Diego have announced this fall’s lineup. It will feature Muse, Arctic Monkeys, and The Killers among many other performers.

The outdoor event will beheld September 22-23 at the Del Mar Fairgrounds. The roster will also include Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Spoon, Ozomatli, Air, Social Distortion, and Panic! at the Disco, among other artists. The complete performers lineup is listed on the MySpace event page at myspace.com/streetscene.

The festival, which was first established in 1984, also will feature vaudeville acts and a comedy stage, according to the event’s organizers who are promising “interactive festival processions” as well.

The event last year featured a total of six different performance stages. The lineup of over 50 acts included Queens of the Stone Age, My Chemical Romance, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kanye West and Tool.

The Del Mar Fairgrounds, which also includes the adjacent facility of Del Mark Racetrack, is a new location for the festival. Earlier Street Scene versions were held in Gaslamp Quarter in downtown San Diego before they moved over to Qualcomm Stadium in 2005, the home of the NFL football team San Diego Chargers.

This July Muse, rockers from the UK, will be crossing the Atlantic for a three week trek to support “Black Holes and Revelations,” the band’s fourth studio album that was recently released.

The band will be kicking off their tour of 14 cities in San Francisco on July 18. The tour will be visiting selected U.S. major cities as well as two forays into Canada. On July 30th Muse will be in Toronto and in Montreal on July 31.

On July 11 “Black Holes and Revelations” was released to stores. The album is a follow up to their 2003 album “Absolution,” which gave the band their significant breakthrough in the U.S. In their homeland Muse is considered to be a major act. They are compared often to bands like Radiohead. In the UK “Blackholes” has hit the No. 1 spot on the album charts already.

In their press release vocalist/guitarist Matthew Bellamy stated that they went from Europe where they played in massive arenas to the US where they were playing in pokey holes with 200 people in them. That’s the price you pay for getting too comfortable with the large stage. But it was great being treated like we were a new band and having the feeling of being re-discovered over there.

Links on the MySpace page for Muse at myspace.com/muse has previews of the album.

The new album for the band will ship in the US in the format of a dual DVD/CD. There is an extra disc included that contains highlights from the 18th month “Absolution” tour.