Grammy-winning Muse — bringing its elaborate European stage production to Oracle Arena in Oakland on Monday — could be the brainiest outfit in rock. Buoyed by frontman Matt Bellamy’s esoteric songwriting, the prog-leaning British power trio’s  sixth CD, “The 2nd Law,” initially was inspired by the second law of thermodynamics. Yet treatises such as “Madness,” “Supremacy” and “Survival” morph into a larger metaphor for the world’s current financial crisis. Read More