Muse blew the power during their July 2nd opening date for their North American summer tour at Milwaukee’s Summerfest, which featured a set of songs from their new album mixed with the band’s time-tested material particularly from their 2000s albums Absolution, Black Holes and Revelations, and The Resistance.
The celestial rock band kicked off the 24-song set with the live debut of “Hexagons,” the third single from their latest album, The WOW! Signal, before going into one of their biggest hits, the bass-line driven “Hysteria,” smashing together the new and the classic from the band’s catalogue. “Cryogen,” another single from their newest release, preceded “Supermassive Black Hole,” yet again a Muse classic side-by-side with a tune from this year.
“Resistance” came before “Unravelling,” and, fitting with that title, the show unravelled for a moment. The power on the stage went out. Singer and guitarist Matth Bellamy chuckled and walked off stage in the darkness, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported, before the momentary outage was fixed, and the band kicked back in.
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During the midway section of the set, Muse blasted through “Stockholm Syndrome,” “Psycho,” “Plug in Baby,” and ended this middle portion with “Time is Running Out.” The latter part of the set began with “Uprising” followed by “Knights of Cydonia” and ended with “Undisclosed Desires” and “Starlight” before an encore of “Take a Bow.”
With the near two-hour set, Muse played five songs from The WOW! Signal and a combined 11 songs from Absolution, Black Holes and Revelations, and The Resistance.
The band starts “The WOW! Signal Tour” proper on Sunday July 5th in St. Louis at Hollywood Casino Amphitheater. The band hits Cincinnati, Toronto, Tinley Park outside Chicago, Atlanta, and Dallas among other cities. They end the tour August 31st in Los Angeles at the Hollywood Bowl.
Fans can look for tickets here.
Muse released The WOW! Signal in June. The band also revealed they’re trying to build a spaceship for their Europe and UK tour.
Setlist:
Hexagons
Interlude
Hysteria
Cryogen
Supermassive Black Hole
Resistance
Unravelling
Stockholm Syndrome
Kill or Be Killed
Be With You
Psycho
Madness
Plug In Baby
Hanging in Victory Square
Time Is Running Out
Uprising
Knights of Cydonia
The 2nd Law: Isolated System
Nightshift Superstar
Algorithm
Undisclosed Desires
Prelude
Starlight
Take a Bow
Muse 2026 Tour Dates:
07/05 — St. Louis, MO @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheater *~
07/07 — Noblesville, IN @ Ruoff Music Center *~
07/10 — Tinley Park, IL @ Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre *~
07/11 — Cincinnati, OH @ Riverbend Music Center *~
07/13 — Clarkston, MI @ Pine Knob Music Theatre *~
07/15 — Toronto, ON @ RBC Amphitheatre *~
07/17 — Québec, QC @ Festival d’été de Québec
07/18 — Mansfield, MA @ Xfinity Center *~
07/22 — Holmdel, NJ @ PNC Bank Arts Center *~
07/24 — Saratoga Springs, NY @ Albany Med Health System at SPAC *~
07/25 — Wantagh, NY @ Northwell at Jones Beach Theater *~
07/28 — Columbia, MD @ Merriweather Post Pavilion *~
07/29 — Camden, NJ @ Freedom Mortgage Pavilion *~
08/10 — Charlotte, NC @ Truliant Amphitheater #~
08/12 — Atlanta, GA @ Lakewood Amphitheatre #~
08/14 — Dallas, TX @ Dos Equis Pavilion #~
08/15 — Austin, TX @ Germania Insurance Amphitheater #~
08/18 — Greenwood Village, CO @ Fiddler’s Green Amphitheater #~
08/20 — West Valley City, UT @ Utah First Credit Union Amphitheatre #~
08/22 — Ridgefield, WA @ Cascades Amphitheater #~
08/23 — Auburn, WA @ White River Amphitheatre #~
08/26 — Wheatland, CA @ Toyota Amphitheatre #~
08/27 — Mountain View, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheatre #~
08/29 — Chula Vista, CA @ North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre #~
08/31 — Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl #~
* = w/ Bloc Party
# = w/ Portugal. the Man
~ = w/ The Temper Trap