Muse The Resistance (Warner Bros.)
With its titanic guitar solos, symphonic suites, and multi-layered melodies, Muse’s fifth album operates under the assumption that bigger is better. The album takes its cues from Queen, its lyrics from science fiction novels and its delivery from rock opera.

Big Star Keep an Eye on the Sky (Rhino)
Big Star gets the box set treatment: four discs containing every song the band cut in the ’70s, a clutch of solo songs from both Chris Bell and Alex Chilton, a handful of pre-Big Star cuts by Icewater and Rock City and topped off with a live recording of a three-set stint at Memphis’ Lafayette’s Music Room in 1973.

Pete Yorn/Scarlett Johansson Break Up (Atco/Rhino)
Scarlett Johannson is cast as Brigitte Bardot to Yorn’s Serge Gainsbourg. When will the actors stop trying to be musicians?

Q-Tip Kamaal the Abstract (Battery)
R&B, Alternative Rap

Café Tacuba Yo Soy (Warner Music Latina)
Foreign Language Rock, Rock en Español
Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe Brother’s Keeper (Shanachie)
Contemporary R&B, Clubjazz
The Dodos Time to Die (French Kiss)
Indie Rock, Alternative Folk
Gordon Gano Under the Sun (Yep Roc)
Alternative Pop/Rock
Mark Knopfler Get Lucky (Nonesuch)
Singer/Songwriter, Folk-Rock
Living Colour The Chair in the Doorway (MRI)
Alternative Metal, Alternative Pop/Rock, Heavy Metal, Hard Rock
The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir …And the Horse You Rode in On (Bloodshot)
Indie Pop
Simian Mobile Disco Temporary Pleasure (Wichita)
Club/Dance, Techno