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Muse announce UK record store listening parties for The Wow! Signal album
11 June 2026, 18:46 | Updated: 12 June 2026, 13:30
The trio have announced the record store events, which will give fans the chance to listen to their 10th studio album before its released.
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Muse have announced listening parties for their new album.
The trio took to their Instagram stories on Thursday (11th June) to share the special events taking place in record stores across the UK for their forthcoming 10th studio album, The Wow! Signal.
Fans were sent out to a link which shared listening parties in the likes of Assai Glasgow, Crash Records in Leeds, and various Rough Trade record stores around the country.
The event takes place on Saturday 20th June, almost a whole week before the album is set for release.
Buy tickets for the event, which are selling very fast, here.
The news comes after the band unleashed another single last week titled Nightshift Superstar.
The track, which wouldn't be out of place on the dancefloor, sees the Devon trio - comprised of Matt Bellamy, Chris Wolthenstolme and Dominic Howard - lean into a funkier sound with a heavy bass beat and elements of French house.
Watch the official video for Nightshift Superstar below:
MUSE - Nightshift Superstar (Official Music Video)
The song is the latest track to be lifted from the band's 10th studio album and follows Unravelling, Be With You, Cryogen and Hexagons.
MUSE - Hexagons (Official Visualiser)
Though each song they've released so far shows a different side to the band, they all appear to match the theme of the record, which according to Muse will explore “a mix of cosmic mystery, existential hope, and the exhilarating possibility of contact with something far greater than ourselves”.
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The title of the album is inspired by a well-known cosmic mystery that saw "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."
A press release adds: “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".
The Wow! Signal is set for release on 26th June 2026. Pre-order and pre-save the album here and see its tracklist and artwork below.
The full tracklist for Muse’s The WOW! Signal is:
- The Dark Forest
- Nightshift Superstar
- Shimmering Scars
- Cryogen
- Be With You
- Hexagons
- The Sickness In You & I
- Unravelling
- Hush
- Space Debris
The WOW! Signal follows Muse's Showbiz (1999), Origin of Symmetry (2001), Absolution (2003), Black Holes and Revelations (2006), The Resistance (2009), The 2nd Law (2012), Drones (2015) and Simulation Theory (2018) and Will of the People (2022).
An Evening In Conversation With Muse
To celebrate the news of the record, Muse played an intimate date at the O2 Academy Brixton in April.
The show, where the band returned to play the historic venue for the first time in 25 years, saw them play a 20-track setlist, including some of their latest singles and their classic hits Hysteria, Supermassive Black Hole, Knights of Cydonia, Starlight and more.
Sharing a highlights video after the show, the band wrote: "Brixton. 25 years since we last performed here, you didn't disappoint 🇬🇧🤘".
Muse have also recently announced the details of a 2026 North American arena tour with Bloc Party, The Temper Trap and Portugal. The Man as special guests.
UK and European dates are expected to be announced in the near future with the band's frontman, teasing at their Brixton gig that they would “be back in November”.
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