With this album, U2 cemented their reputation as a ‘political band.’ ...
With the surprise release of brand new music from U2 — the EP, “ Days of Ash ” — it feels self-indulgent to be thrilled that all four members of the band, including Larry Mullen Jr. (who had been ...
U2 frontman Bono holds The Beatles in the highest regard, even comparing them to legendary figures like Bach, Beethoven, and Picasso. But how does his band stack up? Find out the surprising truth.
It's taken a while for the latest Pet Shop Boys concert film to be released on CD and DVD, but the wait ended a few days ago. The Dreamworld: ...
U2 scores a new top 10 hit as “American Obituary” from the Days of Ash EP debuts on Billboard's Alternative Digital Song Sales chart.
Bono and The Edge formed U2 in the post-punk era and gradually moved towards a more refined, anthemic sound. Once, Bono revealed “perhaps the greatest” U2 song.
U2 is now up to 18 appearances on the Official Singles Sales chart, the most competitive of all sales rankings for individual ...
And so the band set to work on a new album, and with Rosanna in the bag, felt certain that they had something they could ...
This year, two arena-filling artists returned to the older civic function of song. Bruce Springsteen’s “Streets of Minneapolis” and U2’s elegiac “American Obituary,” written in response to immigration ...
While U2 have since become one of the biggest rock acts in the world, Bono once recalled how their early years were spent performing terrible covers.
Why, in an era when music's biggest stars are more outspoken than ever, does it feel like we're still waiting for the contemporary political anthem?
“We can be in the middle of the worst gig in our lives, but when we go into that song, everything changes,” said Bono in Visnja Cogan’s 2008 book U2: An Irish Phenomenon. “The audience is on its feet, ...