Muse Blow the Power at Summerfest, Recover with a 24-Song Tour Opener

Muse launched their 2026 North American summer tour at Milwaukee’s Summerfest on July 2 with a 24-song set that paired material from their new album, The WOW! Signal, with a forceful selection from their early-2000s peak. The show opened with the live debut of “Hexagons,” the third single from the June release, then crashed immediately into “Hysteria.” That sequencing—new single followed by a bass-driven warhorse—set the template for much of the night.

Five of the evening’s songs came from The WOW! Signal, including “Cryogen” and “Unravelling.” They were clustered among a combined 11 tracks from Absolution, Black Holes and Revelations, and The Resistance, a period that still defines the band’s live identity. A brief power outage after “Resistance” knocked out the stage, and frontman Matt Bellamy chuckled as he walked off into the dark, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. The problem was fixed quickly, and the set rolled into a midsection dominated by “Stockholm Syndrome,” “Psycho,” “Plug in Baby,” and “Time Is Running Out.”

Later, “Uprising,” “Knights of Cydonia,” and “Starlight” led into a single-song encore of “Take a Bow.” The near two-hour performance offered no radical rethinking of Muse’s catalog, but it did demonstrate how comfortably the new material sits alongside the old. The tour continues July 5 in St. Louis and runs through the end of August, finishing at the Hollywood Bowl. For a planned European leg, the band has also mentioned trying to build a spaceship.