.......The always dramatic U2 lay into Maggie's Farm.....As Dylan's fans from the world of folk music were busy condemning Judas for betraying them, their foolish braying deafened them to a true angry protest rant. Seen as a loose amagalmation of several earlier folk tunes with a healthy dose of Dylan's wry paranoid humor..Its a song of personal protest, a scream against loosing one's identity ...
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Protesters in Ireland rallied outside of the Department of Finance crying fowl against U2's decision to situate their tax affairs in the Netherlands, reports the Irish Times. The move would grant the Irish rockers an avoidance of paying harsher taxes on their royalties in their homeland. Organizing the event the Debt and Development Coalition Ireland (DDCI) which campaigns on issues related to ...
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U2 were on Saturday Night Live last night (9/26) and performed "Breathe" and "Moment of Surrender" off of their album No Line On The Horizon (Buy on iTunes, Amazon MP3, CD) and closed with "Ultraviolet (Light My Way)" off of their classic album Achtung Baby (Buy on iTunes, Amazon MP3, ...
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Those few words give me hope. Tremendous hope. As some of you may know, I like music/rhythm games (Rock Band, Guitar Hero, etc.), except for Dance Dance Revolution in which I played the other day at the movie theater and got my ass handed to me. But that stuff isn't even music... it's like Japanese bubblegum acid trippin techno. Blah. Anyway, I bought The Beatles Rock Band when it was released ...
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If you really wanna feel old, think about how it's been 20 years since U2 released their epic Joshua Tree album. To celebrate the two decades since its release U2 will release four different reissues of the album on November 20th.A single remastered CD will be available, as well as a 2-CD set that will come in a hard back case, a 2-CD/1-DVD collectible box with band liner notes and additional p...
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Bono recently shed some more info on what the new U2 album, the one that the band began working on in Morocco earlier this year, would sound like to The Independent."All the band went to an amazing religious music festival in Fez with some incredible sufi singers," Bono said of the band's initial foray. "It was a real humbling thing for a punk rock shouter, listening to these people who just cl...
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U2 couldn't let Giants Stadium be demolished with out setting one more record. Their Thursday night show last week had 84,000 in attendance, breaking the record held since 1995 by Pope John Paul II. Bono even gave Bruce Springsteen a shout out, acknowledging the size of the crowd, saying "Sorry Bruce. We know it's your birthday and all."Lucy Vooden, who will forever be known as the inspirat...
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U2 are headed on a monolith world stadium tour in support of this week's release No Line On The Horizon. Sure there'll be a fair share of $250 seats, but the band are promising to keep at least 10,000 tickets to each concert at $30 a pop. In addition to the $30 ticket the band will be offering GA floor seating at $55, according to Billboard.The band will play in a 360 floor set-up allowing for ...
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Here's the first single off the upcoming U2 album, No Line On The Horizon, due out March 3.
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It was just an airy comment thrown about in Anna's listening station today, but it got me thinking, always a dangerous thing. See, I used to love U2. Their early albums were key in my adolescent development. Recently, Bono's over-the-top hectoring and their retreading over musical styles they've overgrown has dampened things a touch, but I think the older material still holds muster.Anyway, we ...
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For all of the complaints that U2 singer Bono has an inflated sense of his own importance and that the earnest, spectacularly successful Irish rock band is overrated, I've always thought that they were among the greats.And any growling about U2's lack of humor should be squelched by the funny, self-deprecating bits they've done during their unprecedented week-long residence on the platinum-stan...
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U2 have joined the promotional leagues of Madonna. Bono and Co. have signed a 12-year deal with music conglomerate Live Nation, the company who last year "inked a groundbreaking $120 million, ten year, three album deal with Madonna.":http://mog.com/Mackenzie_P/blog_post/117447U2 will however continue to release its records and publishing commitments with Universal Music Group. The deal covers t...
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MUSIC NEWS - Now currently on the North American portion of their 360 Degree Tour, U2 has confirmed their fall 2010 European Tour dates. Twelve stops, hitting Germany, Denmark, Finland, Russia, Austria, Greece, Turkey, France, Spain, and Portugal. Tickets for many of the shows are already on sales, other presales scheduled for October 5th-7th. Visit U2.com for all the informatio
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Ah, remember the days when MTV used to air videos? Now, scan even further back, and remember the very first years of MTV. They didn't have a large catalog of music videos, so in order to make the programming work, they showed full-length concerts every Saturday night. Some of the concerts were pretty good (Squeeze jumps to mind), some were forgettable (Rainbow ... yikes!)Some shows, however, we...
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$495 had been raised today, as of 10 AM EST, in a petition effort to get U2 frontman Bono to "retire from public life."Started via ThePoint.com, a Web site that lets anyone start a campaign. the petition's goal is "to get Bono to retire from public life (so he'll stop leading misguided counter-productive philanthropy efforts) ....and, simultaneously.... ...
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