Via RollingStone.com: "Most every show on U2's 360 world tour has ended with "Moment Of Surrender," but before walking offstage last night in Nashville Bono saw a blind fan upfront holding up a sign saying he wanted to play a song for his wife. "What do you want to play?" Bono said to him. "Get a guitar for this dude. Gents, we have a surprise guest."
James Blake is on some other shit. Shit that makes it perfectly normal to start talking in the middle of this track and make you think it's the best break you've ever heard. Shit that had me humming one of the most depressing lyrics from Stevie Wonder's "They Won't Got When I Go" all afternoon."There ain't no room for the hopeless sinner/who will take more than he can give." Blake borrows the lyri
To keep writer's block at bay, every night, a friend answers the following question: "What's the best thing that happened to me today?"He says it's the one thing he can write about daily because no matter how bored he is with what he *has* to write about (city commission meetings right now) it helps him remember what matters most. My music writing of late consists of the occasional tweet and a yea
In 2003, Bono was honored at MusiCares' Person of the Year tribute concert, where artists including No Doubt and David Bowie covered U2 songs. I remember joking with an editor about what lengths we'd have gone to to get copies of the performances. Most U2 covers I've heard sound like bad interpretations of the originals and lack any sort of creativity.Therefore, I've made my own list of artist...