New MUSE Album, and They'll Open for U2 !

     MUSIC NEWS - The British trio Muse have announced they're done recording their fifth album, entitled The Resistance, (due for a September 15 release by Warner Bros. Records). Full tracklist below.  Produced by Muse, the album was mixed by famed audio engineer Mark ‘Spike’ Stent, who is known for his work with U2, Depeche Mode, No Doubt, and Oasis, among many others.  In perfect timing, Muse will perform at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards on September 13, and the band will open several U2 shows (a daunting task), including two shows at Giants Stadium in E Rutherford, NJ (NYC market), this fall (tour dates listed below).

For a few years now, Muse, vocalist/guitarist Matthew Bellamy, bassist Chris Wolstenholme, and drummer Dominic Howard, have played to sell-out crowds throughout the USA, Asia, Australia, and Europe in support of their previous album Black Holes and Revelations. In the USA, the band, which comes from the tiny town of Teignmouth in Devon, England, performed at the Lollapalooza Festival, the Austin City Limits Music Festival, Las Vegas’s Vegoose Festival, and KROQ’s Almost Acoustic Christmas and sold out New York City’s Madison Square Garden and The Forum in Los Angeles.

 

In April 2008, MUSE  released a live CD/DVD entitled HAARP (order below thru MNN). The release was filmed and recorded at London’s Wembley Stadium on two nights in June 2007, the DVD captures the spectacle of the band performing their hits “Knights Of Cydonia,” “Starlight,” and “Supermassive Black Hole” before sell-out crowds of nearly 150,000 fans.  And if you forgot, “Supermassive Black Hole” was also featured on the soundtrack to the blockbuster 2008 film Twilight.

 

 

 

 

The track-listing for The Resistance is as follows:

"Uprising"

"Resistance"

"Undisclosed Desires"

"United States Of Eurasia (+Collateral Damage)"

"Guiding Light"

"Unnatural Selection"

"MK Ultra"

"I Belong To You (+Mon Coeur S'Ouvre A Ta Voix)"

"Exogenesis: Symphony Part I (Overture)"

"Exogenesis: Symphony Part II (Cross Pollination)"

"Exogenesis Part III (Redemption)"

 

Muse’s USA tour dates with U2 :

 

September 24 &25      E Rutherford, NJ (New York, NY area)       Giants Stadium

September 29             Washington, DC        FedEx Field

October 01                 Charlottesville, VA,   Scott Stadium

October 03                 Raleigh, NC              Carter-Finley Stadium

October 06                 Atlanta, GA              Georgia Dome

October 09                 Tampa, FL               Raymond James Stadium

October 12                 Dallas, TX                New Cowboys Stadium

October 14                 Houston, TX             Reliant Stadium