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The Wow! Signal is Coming
March 19th, 2026 by Traci Turner
The English rockers who can do no wrong, Muse just announced a new album and dropped the first single. The “Supermassive Black Hole” gents’ 10th album will hit the streets on June 26th and is titled “The WOW! Signal.”
The Grammy winners launched the news from space – literally! Partnering with Sent Into Space, Muse sent “a specially-designed tablet 33km up into the atmosphere” to premiere the video for the first single, “Be With You.”
What’s with the name? According to the band: “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.”
Muse’s last album, 2022’s “Will of the People,” debuted at number one globally and we expect this to be no different.
The band comprised of Matt Bellamy, Dominic Howard, and Chris Wolstenholme last toured in support of the 2022 album, so fans in the US are a wee bit anxious to see them live again. So far a new tour has not been announced, but surely that will come…
“Uprising,” “Starlight,” “Knights of Cydonia,” “Madness,” “Map of the Problematique,” “Time Is Running Out,” “Psycho,” “Hysteria,” and “Supremacy” are just a few of the songs fans go crazy for and that leads to concerts selling out quickly, so once a tour is planned, be ready to jump!
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