{"id":2374052,"date":"2026-04-15T08:46:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T08:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2374052"},"modified":"2026-04-15T08:46:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T08:46:54","slug":"massive-attack-tease-new-tom-waits-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/massive-attack-tease-new-tom-waits-collaboration\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive Attack tease new Tom Waits collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-905339\">\n<div class=\"featured-img\"><\/p>\n<p>(Credits: Robert Sebree \/ Warren Du Preez)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<div class=\"article-meta-left\">\n<p> <time datetime=\"2026-04-15T09:43:50+01:00\">Wed 15 April 2026 9:43, UK<\/time> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/tags\/massive-attack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Massive Attack<\/a> have announced their new single, which appears to feature the one and only Tom Waits.<\/p>\n<p>The new track, titled \u2018Boots on the Ground\u2019, was confirmed on Instagram by the trip-hop pioneers on April 14th, which was quickly shared by Waits and hastily deleted.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-grvmedia-grv-video GRVVideo GRVPrimisVideo\"\/>\n<p>However, a pre-save link for the forthcoming track is available to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/tomwaits.ffm.to\/bootsontheground\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">view here<\/a>, which seemingly confirms that Waits has teamed up with Massive Attack for \u2018Boots on the Ground\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The single will mark Waits\u2019 first release in eight years, and comes after he was recently announced as a contributor for a new <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/bruce-springsteen-tom-waits-johnny-depp-confirmed-shane-macgowan-tribute-album\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">tribute album<\/a> in memory of the late Shane MacGowan.<\/p>\n<p>In that time, Waits has continued to express his creativity, preferring to channel his artistry into his poetry and acting.<\/p>\n<p>He recently starred in the Jim Jarmusch movie, <em>Father Mother Sister Brother<\/em>, and his upcoming roles include Martin McDonagh\u2019s <em>Wild Horse Nine<\/em>, as well as the animated Netflix movie <em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/scarlett-johansson-tom-waits-star-brad-birds-new-animated-movie-ray-gunn-netflix\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Scarlett Johansson and Tom Waits to star in Brad Bird\u2019s new Netflix animated movie, \u2018Ray Gunn\u2019\">Ray Gunn<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Massive Attack, who last released music in 2020, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/massive-attack-confirm-new-music-wont-be-available-spotify\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">confirmed last November<\/a> that they would return in 2026, but ruled out that it would be made available on Spotify.<\/p>\n<p>They wrote, \u201cFrom next year we will release a cache of work created in the recent past. Tracks will be available physically and digitally via a new label with a Spotify exception.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/massive-attack-confirm-new-music-wont-be-available-spotify\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Massive Attack confirm plans for new music which won\u2019t be available on Spotify\">Massive Attack previously condemned<\/a> Spotify after its then-CEO and founder Daniel Ek invested in Helsing, writing, \u201cIn light of the (reported) significant investments by it\u2019s CEO in a company producing military munition drones &amp; Al technology integrated into fighter aircraft, Massive Attack have made a separate request to our label that our music be removed from the Spotify streaming service in all territories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hear a taste of \u2018Boots on the Ground\u2019 below.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-9-16 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"16.04 #MassiveAttack #IceOut #NoWar\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uYfl15F9EtQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"article-follow preferred-source\" style=\"display:flex;justify-content:flex-start\">\n<div class=\"article-sharing google-follow\" style=\"\"> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"fw\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" style=\"\"> <span>ADD AS A PREFERRED SOURCE ON GOOGLE<\/span> <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"28\" height=\"28\" src=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/themes\/far-out-magazine\/img\/google-discover.svg\" alt=\"\"\/> <\/a> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"incontent-container\">\n<div class=\"incontent-content\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h6>The Far Out Music Newsletter<\/h6>\n<p>All the latest music news from the independent voice of culture.<br \/>Straight to your inbox.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source faroutmagazine.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Credits: Robert Sebree \/ Warren Du Preez) Wed 15 April 2026 9:43, UK Massive Attack have announced their new single, which appears to feature the one and only Tom Waits. The new track, titled \u2018Boots on the Ground\u2019, was confirmed on Instagram by the trip-hop pioneers on April 14th, which was quickly shared by Waits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2374053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[375683,338957],"class_list":["post-2374052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-massive-attack","tag-tom-waits"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Massive-Attack-tease-new-Tom-Waits-collaboration.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2374052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2374054,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374052\/revisions\/2374054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2374053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2374052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2374052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2374052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}