Here are the New Releases for the week of September 15th, 2009

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Muse – ‘The Resistance’
‘The Resistance’ is the upcoming fifth studio album by English alternative rock band Muse, due to be released on 14 September 2009. The album is produced by the band and mixed by Mark Stent.  After listening to the album during an interview with the band, BBC Radio 1 presenter Zane Lowe updated his Twitter account with a description of the album as “A beautifully recorded, strong, sweeping, fighting, uplifting, rocking, and inclusive record about love.”. On July 6, 2009, Zane Lowe was speaking about The Resistance on BBC Radio 1. Lowe mentioned how he thought it is the most focused recording that Muse has ever come out with, and that he thought the 3-part “Exogenesis Symphony”, which he said fits seamlessly into the rest of the album, is the most ambitious project that the band has ever pulled off. “There are massive riffs in there, there are quirky pop songs in there, there’s all sorts of wonder in there, it is absolutely amazing”^. During the end of June 2009, an editor for the Japanese music magazine Rockin’ On went to Lake Como along with representatives of Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium and Switzerland for interviews and to have a listen-through with the album. The editor, Yukiko Kojima went on to state that the album was an “incredible masterpiece,” that “the band succeeded to express art to a high degree, which consist with accessibillity,” and even called it an “authentic miracle.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Resistance_%28album%29

Mark Knopfler – ‘Get Lucky’

Continuing a pattern of high productivity through his solo career, Knopfler began work on his next studio album, entitled ‘Get Lucky’, in September 2008 with long-time band mate Guy Fletcher, who again compiled a pictorial diary of the making of the album on his website.  Knopfler will be on tour again in 2010. Knopfler is a member of the Garrick Club in London and played an intimate solo gig there in February 2009.  The album will be released in three formats:  Standard Jewel Case CD, Limited Edition CD/DVD Digipack (which includes a tour around the British Grove Studio conducted by Mark and Chuck Ainlay), Deluxe Edition in presentation box, to include: 3 engraved Poker Chips, 2 branded Poker Craps, Guitar Tab for lead track ‘Get Lucky’, 2 180gm Vinyl, Facsimile Gig Ticket.  DVD: 1 Track Performed Live / Acoustic, Video Tour Of British Grove and Interview, DVD short 20min film.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Lucky_%28Mark_Knopfler_album%29

Other Releases:

Porcupine Tree – ‘The Incident’
Megadeth – ‘Endgame’
Every Time I Die – ‘New Junk Aesthetic’
Thrice – ‘Beggars’
Moneen – ‘The World I Want To Leave Behind’
Uncle Kracker – ‘Happy Hour’
Ace Frehley (ex-Kiss guitarist) – ‘Anomaly’
The Black Dahlia Murder – ‘Deflorate’
Living Colour – ‘The Chair in the Doorway’
Infected Mushroom – ‘Legend of the Black Shawarma’

DVD:

Protest The Hero – ‘Gallop Meets The Earth’ – Live – (CD/DVD)
Muse – ‘The Resistance’ (CD/DVD)