Their sixth album For Love of Grace & the Hereafter was released on 29 May 2026.
On March 17, 2026, the band announced that After the Astronaut would finally be released on June 26 by Sunset Boulevard Records. The album’s announcement came with the release of the single “Jet Fighter”.
In January 2026, to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of Adore Life , the band released two previously-unreleased songs from the original album sessions: a cover of Black Sabbath ‘s ” Paranoid “, and the original song “Prayer”. Following the album’s anniversary, it was later confirmed that the band had officially…
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In December 2025, the song “Human Cannonball” from Locust Abortion Technician was featured in Chapter 7 of the fifth season of Stranger Things .
On September 23, 2025, Haynes, Leary, Coffey and Pinkus reunited at Los Angeles’ Egyptian Theatre to perform a brief set as Butthole Surfers for the first time since October 2017, following the West Coast premiere of the documentary film The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt .
On September 5, 2025, Bruce Loose died from a heart attack at the age of 66.
On 15 July 2025, Audrey Golden ‘s book Shouting Out Loud: Lives of the Raincoats , the first comprehensive biography on the band, was released.
It was released on 9 May 2025 via Mike Patton ‘s Ipecac Recordings .
In May 2025, the band released the live album Live at the Leatherfly on Sunset Blvd Records.
In 2018, Wire released multi-disc special editions of their first three albums. Each album was housed in a book containing lyrics and other information about the album. The three releases collected non-LP singles and the demo sessions from this era along with remastered versions of the original albums. Also in…
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