Music Notes: Muse album release date, Modest Mouse to tour

Early edition of Music Notes today — I'm still in the recovery stages of whatever I caught last week, but I plan on attending a Regina Spektor show tonight. Review to follow.

- Muse have announced the release date for their next album The Resistance, via their website. The album is set to come out on Sept. 14 (so let's assume that's Sept. 15 for those of us in the US). [Muse.mu]

- Modest Mouse will tour, starting this August in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Jim Fairchild (formerly of Grandaddy, currently of All Smiles) will fill in for Johnny Marr. [Pitchfork]

- Blink 182 will play a new track, "Up All Night," while on tour. [Billboard]

- There's a nice Best of Bonnaroo gallery over at SPIN. [SPIN]

- Rolling Stone has coverage too. [Rolling Stone]

- Kings of Leon plan to launch their own record label. [NME]

- Kristen Stewart (Twilight) has been meeting with Joan Jett in preparation for portraying the rock icon in The Runaways. The NME quotes Stewart as saying, "I'm just listening to her music all the time. I'm trying to just make myself aware of the time period and what she was going through. It's one of the most immense responsibilities to play a real person. Her story's important. It's an incredibly triumphant feminist story really." [NME]

- Aw, here's an appropriate picture to match that last item. [Jezebel]

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Music Notes: Muse announce newest album title, Scarlett Johansson does more music...

- Muse announced the name of their new album via Twitter. The album, The Resistance, should be out this September. [NME]

- Scarlett Johansson and Pete Yorn have teamed up, and plan to release a collaborative album that may have been inspired by Serge Gainsbourg's duets with Brigitte Bardot. The project, Break Up, was recorded a couple of years ago. It's supposed to come out September 8. [USA Today]

- The Noisettes plan to release their latest album Wild Young Hearts stateside in August. They also plan to announce US tour dates in the next few weeks. [NME]

- Eminem's Relapse is doing pretty well. Estimates indicate that the album will be the rapper's fifth consecutive Number One by next week, with 650,000 copies sold. [Rolling Stone]

And that's all for now. As I blogged earlier today, I won't really be around during the Memorial Day weekend. I'll resume posting Music Notes and other regular features on Tuesday. And the music round-up will also get posted on Tuesday, a day later than usual. Until then!

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