#NEWMUSIC: MUSE – “THE WOW! SIGNAL” NOW OUT

Today, GRAMMY® Award-winning English rock titans MUSE release their immersive new album, The Wow! Signal. Fueled by adventurous production and explosive instrumentation, the band’s tenth full-length races through a series of diverse soundscapes in a feverish quest to unravel themes of extraterrestrial communication, technological anxiety, existential wonder, and the human search for meaning in an increasingly disconnected world. Listen HERE. The Wow! Signal arrives alongside a visualizer for the standout track, “Hush” featuring Ellie Goulding. Watch HERE.

The cinematic 10-song set drops as MUSE prepare to embark on The Wow! Signal Tour. Following a July 2 headliner at Milwaukee’s Summerfest, the North American leg picks up Sunday, July 5, at the Hollywood Casino Amphitheater in St. Louis, MO, then touches down in cities across the United States — dipping briefly into Canada for dates including the Festival d’été de Québec — before wrapping up at Los Angeles’ iconic Hollywood Bowl on Monday, August 31. Along the way, the band will be supported by Bloc Party and Portugal. The Man on select dates, and The Temper Trap at all shows. MUSE will then head to the U.K. and Europe for a 16-date arena run. Find their itinerary below, and tickets HERE.

Arriving toward the end of The Wow! Signal, “Hush” hits like a last desperate grasp for connection between two souls in the midst of an apocalyptic event. Matt Bellamy and Ellie Goulding both make pleas to “forget the world together” over a score that moves from soaring raw riffage to minimal passages powered by spare piano and a four-four beat that kicks like a pounding heart. Eventually, their voices meet on the massive chorus: “It’s getting too loud, don’t let it drown us out (ooh hush) / It’s you and me now, there’s chaos all around / So lose yourself, free yourself, and feel / Take a breath and … hush.”

MUSE shared a strikingly varied set of singles ahead of The Wow! Signal, which now come together to create a single sonic universe. Most recent was the deliriously urgent “Nightshift Superstar,” which incorporates French House to create what Kerrang! called “a shimmering slice of OTT disco-rock.” And last month brought the towering “Hexagons,” “a vibrant, stratospheric expedition into the most technically bold and audaciously beautiful components of the band’s sound,” according to Rock Sound. Before that was “Cryogen” — hailed by NME as “a blast of classic MUSE harking back to their ’00s days with wailing riffs [and an] arena-destroying chorus” — and the hopeful “Be With You,” which earned 3 million streams in its first week and became the #1 Most Added at Alternative Radio, where it since climbed to #5.

The band originally stirred up rampant album rumors and acclaim last year with “Unravelling.” With arpeggiated synths that crash into a colossal wall of barbed riffs, the single racked up praise from an array of outlets including Rolling Stone (“transcendent”) Guitar World (“endlessly gratifying”), and DIY Magazine, who lovingly called the song “balls-to-the-wall maximalist.” The same could be said of The Wow! Signal, which includes writing and production by Dan Lancaster (Bring Me The Horizon, Blink-182) — who performs keys/additional guitar in the MUSE live band — plus additional production by Aleks Von Korff and BloodPop®, choir vocals, and strings from the London Metropolitan Orchestra.

The Wow! Signal takes its name from one of the most compelling interstellar mysteries of the last century: a powerful 72-second radio burst detected in 1977 originating from the constellation Sagittarius with a bandwidth and intensity that suggested a possible extraterrestrial source. The astronomer who discovered the anomaly famously circled the now-iconic sequence “6EQUJ5” and wrote “WOW!” on the printout beside it — giving the signal its name and cementing its place in scientific and pop-culture lore.

It’s an apt reference point for an album that thrums with mystery, awe, hope, and anxiety. Dive deep into the world of The Wow! Signal now, and connect with MUSE in person at one of the dates below.

MUSE, The Wow! Signal

1. “The Dark Forest”
2. “Nightshift Superstar”
3. “Shimmering Scars”
4. “Cryogen”
5. “Be With You”
6. “Hexagons”
7. “The Sickness In You & I”
8. “Unravelling”
9. “Hush” ft. Ellie Goulding
10. “Space Debris”

MUSE – The Wow! Signal Tour Dates

Jul 02 – Milwaukee, WI @ Summerfest ^

Jul 05 – St. Louis, MO @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheater * ~

Jul 07 – Noblesville, IN @ Ruoff Music Center * ~

Jul 10 – Tinley Park, IL @ Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre * ~

Jul 11 – Cincinnati, OH @ Riverbend Music Center * ~

Jul 13 – Clarkston, MI @ Pine Knob Music Theatre * ~

Jul 15 – Toronto, ON @ RBC Amphitheatre * ~

Jul 17 – Québec, QC @ Festival d’été de Québec ^

Jul 18 – Mansfield, MA @ Xfinity Center * ~

Jul 22 – Holmdel, NJ @ PNC Bank Arts Center * ~

Jul 24 – Saratoga Springs, NY @ Albany Med Health System at SPAC * ~

Jul 25 – Wantagh, NY @ Northwell at Jones Beach Theater * ~

Jul 28 – Columbia, MD @ Merriweather Post Pavilion * ~

Jul 29 – Camden, NJ @ Freedom Mortgage Pavilion * ~

Aug 10 – Charlotte, NC @ Truliant Amphitheater – ~

Aug 12 – Atlanta, GA @ Lakewood Amphitheatre – ~

Aug 14 – Dallas, TX @ Dos Equis Pavilion – ~

Aug 15 – Austin, TX @ Germania Insurance Amphitheater – ~

Aug 18 – Greenwood Village, CO – Fiddler’s Green Amphitheater – ~ +

Aug 20 – West Valley City, UT @ Utah First Credit Union Amphitheatre – ~

Aug 22 – Ridgefield, WA @ Cascades Amphitheater – ~

Aug 23 – Auburn, WA @ White River Amphitheatre – ~

Aug 26 – Wheatland, CA @ Toyota Amphitheatre – ~

Aug 27 – Mountain View, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheatre – ~

Aug 29 – Chula Vista, CA @ North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre – ~

Aug 31 – Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl – ~

Sep 19 – Las Vegas, NV @ iHeartRadio Music Festival 2026 ^

Nov 12 – Manchester, UK @ Co-op Live

Nov 13 – Manchester, UK @ Co-op Live

Nov 15 – London, UK @ The O2

Nov 16 – London, UK @ The O2

Nov 18 – Berlin, Germany @ Uber Arena

Nov 20 – Milan, Italy @ Unipol Dome

Nov 21 – Milan, Italy @ Unipol Dome

Nov 24 – Düsseldorf, Germany @ PSD Bank Dome

Nov 25 – Düsseldorf, Germany @ PSD Bank Dome

Nov 27 – Paris, France @ Paris La Défense Arena

Nov 29 – Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Ziggo Dome

Nov 30 – Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Ziggo Dome

Dec 03 – Montpellier, France @ Sud de France Arena

Dec 04 – Montpellier, France @ Sud de France Arena

Dec 07 – Zürich, Switzerland @ Hallenstadion

Dec 08 – Zürich, Switzerland @ Hallenstadion

^ festival

• support from Bloc Party
• support from Portugal. The Man

~ support from The Temper Trap

• non-Live Nation date

ABOUT MUSE

MUSE are Matt Bellamy, Dominic Howard, and Chris Wolstenholme. Their previous album, Will of the People, debuted at #1 in multiple territories globally and marked the band’s seventh consecutive LP to debut in the UK top spot. Their 2015 album, Drones, went on to win a GRAMMY Award for Best Rock Album, the band’s second. Since forming in 1994, MUSE have released nine studio albums, selling over 30 million units worldwide. Widely recognized as one of the best live bands in the world, MUSE have won numerous music awards including two GRAMMY Awards, an American Music Award, five MTV Europe Music Awards, two Brit Awards, eleven NME Awards, and seven Q Awards, among others.