New releases: Nov. 10

November 9, 10:23 PMPhoenix Rock Music ExaminerPatrick Trevellyan

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Live from the Royal Albert Hall (Island Records)

This week’s new music features live releases from some of the biggest acts of the last couple of years. The Killers spent two nights at the Royal Albert Hall during their recent European festival tour where they recorded Live from the Royal Albert Hall, a two-disc CD/DVD combination. Likewise, Kings of Leon—coming off of the release of Only by the Night, their first top-ten album in the US—are commemorating their recent tour with Live at the O2, filmed in London’s famed arena.

For the band’s first live DVD, the location was an easy choice. “England is really the first place we broke,” drummer Nathan Followill told Billboard.com. “We figured what better place to make a live DVD than where the fans have been the craziest the longest.” Both Live at the O2 and Live from the Royal Albert Hall are also available on Blu-ray.

Also being released this week are new albums from Bon Jovi (Circle), Dashboard Confessional (After the Ending), Flyleaf (Memento Mori), Hollywood Undead (Desperate Measures), Jason Mraz (Jason Mraz’s Beautiful Mess—Live on Earth), Tori Amos (Midwinter Graces), Switchfoot (Hello Hurricane), Wyclef Jean (Toussaint St. Jean: From the Hut, to the Projects, to the Mansion) and Echo and the Bunnymen, who are releasing The Fountain, their tenth studio album and first in four years.

In addition, various compilations are hitting music store shelves Tuesday morning, including Up to Now, a greatest hits package from Snow Patrol, and Backtracks, a three-disc collection from AC/DC that includes rare tracks, both live and in-studio, as well as a DVD filled with rare videos and making-of features.