Synth rock has never sounded so fresh. “Simulation Theory,” a space rock album that is theatrical, bizarre and completely unforgiving, wipes Muse’s palette clean and opens up new musical landscapes ...

Simulation theory, for anyone who hasn’t seen The Matrix, is a theory that argues reality is a complex simulation so realistic it convinces its inhabitant that it’s real. It is also exactly the sort ...

The first LP from Muse since their 2015 album Drones is a throwback to the first seven years of the Eighties. The tom-toms are cavernous like a Jan Hammer or Phil Collins production on the Miami Vice ...

The band too often struggle to find a balance between rock and electronic elements. The Good: Simulation Theory is at its best when it revels in simplicity, allowing the rock and electronic elements ...

Since the 2017 premiere of “Blade Runner 2049,” the long-awaited sequel to the film that codified the visual and audio style palettes of both cyberpunk and neo-noir genres of music and cinema, the ...

According to, well, just about everyone, hip-hop and R&B are the streaming generation’s musical genres of choice and rock is in a hard place. The new studio albums — Imagine Dragons’ fourth; Muse’s ...