Monday, July 20, 2009

Muse to release new album, play at the MTV Video Awards and tour with U2

British trio Muse have finished recording their fifth album, entitled The Resistance, which will be released on September 15th by Warner Bros. Records. 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.

Muse will perform at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards on September 13th, two days before The Resistance is released in the U.S. In addition, the band will open select shows for U2, including two shows at Giants Stadium in New York, this fall. Please see below for tour dates.

For the last few years, Muse, which is vocalist/guitarist Matthew Bellamy, bassist Chris Wolstenholme, and drummer Dominic Howard, have played to sell-out crowds throughout the U.S., Asia, Australia, and Europe in support of their previous album Black Holes and Revelations, which debuted at Number 9 on Billboard’s album chart in July 2006. In the U.S., the band, which hails 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. Filmed and recorded at London’s Wembley Stadium over two nights in June 2007, the DVD captures the exuberant spectacle of the band performing their Modern Rock chart hits “Knights Of Cydonia,” “Starlight,” and “Supermassive Black Hole” before sell-out crowds of nearly 150,000 ecstatic fans. “Supermassive Black Hole” is 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 upcoming U.S. tour dates with U2 are as follows:

September 24 New York, NY Giants Stadium
September 25 New York, NY 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

http://www.muse.mu/

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