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Book Review

U2's The Joshua Tree: Planting Roots In Mythic America

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U2's The Joshua Tree: Planting Roots in Mythic America Bradley Morgan 216 pagesISBN: 1493061178 Backbeat 2021 Popular music, like books or visual arts, is often one of the best ways we have through which we can view our own cultural orientation and the times we live in. The artistic and experimental shifts in music have often reflected the changes that have occurred in our societies. In this regard, we can view popular music ...

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Album Review

U2: All That You Can't Leave Behind 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (2CD)

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The music of U2 on All That You Can't Leave Behind is very much in keeping with the austere black and white graphics, preserved throughout the graphic design of this digipak as well as its enclosed twenty-four page booklet within. A distinct move away from the density of production experimentation on their three previous studio albums—Achtung Baby (Island, 1991), Zooropa (Island, 1993) and Pop (Island, 1997)— the sound produced by Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois on this 2000 project is ...

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Live Review

U2 at Mercedes-Benz Arena in Berlin

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U2 Mercedes-Benz Arena Berlin November 13, 2018 There is a popular adage about the value of perseverance that says it doesn't matter how many time you get knocked down but what matters is how many times you will get back. That certainly applies to the malady that hit U2 during their concert in Berlin during the second concert (01.09.2018) at the start of the last leg of their world tour Experience and Innocence in the ...

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Album Review

U2: Songs of Experience: Deluxe Edition

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It's perfectly fitting so many of the song titles on U2's Songs of Experience sound like self-help aphorisms (at worst) or quick excerpts from an individual's inner dialogue (at best). “Love Is Bigger Than Anything In Its Way" and “You're The Best Thing About Me," to name just two, are parceled over the course of a baker's dozen tracks, the sequence of which at large plays off against a search for personal identity against a newsreel of current events.

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Album Review

U2: Songs of Experience

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By blending a dazzling array of musical influences and directions for more than 4 decades now, Irish band U2 has come to represent one of the boldest rock bands in both genre-blending style and lyrical impact. 40 years since U2 was formed, the band continues to develop and refine the template they essentially created with surprisingly positive results. Several decades forward and U2 remains the world's preeminent rock band. There is literally nobody else in rock music these days that ...

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Interview

Steve Averill: U2's Joshua Tree is Still a Strong, Exciting, and Relevant Album

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Album art has always played an important role in how certain music was received. The best album covers are often as much a part of the whole work as the music itself. They are not only a marketing tool but an extension of artistic intent as well as they create a visual representation of the music i.e. it sets the stage for what the listeners would experience. Graphic designers have been creating works of art that obviously have transcended mere ...

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Film Review

U2: Innocence + Experience: Live in Paris

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U2 Innocence + Experience: Live in Paris Interscope 2016 Music's soothing powers in times of tragedy and upheaval have proven to give comfort, inspire dialogue and open people's minds. Giving succor to victims of tragedies and terrorist attacks is in a way music's noble employment. Music always provides time and space for reflection. In the aftermath of the terror attacks in Paris in November 2015, when terrorist squads attacked various locations in ...

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Video / DVD

Conan O'Brien Launches Erase U2 App [video]

Conan O'Brien Launches Erase U2 App [video]

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Music Industry

U2 Working with Apple on "New Digital Music Format" That Assures Artists Get Paid Again

U2 Working with Apple on "New Digital Music Format" That Assures Artists Get Paid Again

Source: HypeBot

U2 is working with Apple to create a new digital music format that would assure that songwriters and artists get paid for creating music. Their plans “might just save the music industry," according to a preview of a Time Magazine cover story posted online Thursday morning. Time reporter Catherine Mayer spent the last week with the band, including travelling to Cupertino for their Apple album giveaway and performance. But that's just the start of what they have planned, according to ...

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Event

U2 Manager Calls Google "Monopoly", Spotify "Promotional Medium" #midem

U2 Manager Calls Google "Monopoly", Spotify "Promotional Medium" #midem

Source: HypeBot

From Cannes by Stuart Dredge for Midem content partner Music Ally. Find them at musically.com and @musically. Google's role in the recent campaign against the proposed SOPA anti-piracy legislation in the US came in for a sustained attack by U2's manager Paul McGuinness this morning, at the Midem conference in Cannes. “Why are they not trying to solve the future in a more generous way?" he asked. “Ultimately it is in their interests that the flow of content will continue. ...

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Recording

Leni Stern Digital Single Evokes U2; New CD Sabani Planned for Fall

Leni Stern Digital Single Evokes U2; New CD Sabani Planned for Fall

Source: Seth Cohen PR

Stripped Down African Trio Album by Leni Stern Manages to Create an Epic Austerity, Gets Digital Single Preview via Powerful Track, 'Still Bleeding' 'Sabani' CD to Showcase Guitar, N'goni Ba, Calabash and Tama; Single is First Song Stern Has Ever Written on N'Goni Ba On her upcoming, stripped down African trio EP Sabani, acclaimed Global Music artist Leni Stern creates an epic austerity evocative of U2's powerful ballads such as “One" and “Red Hill Mining Town." Stern will preview the ...

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Performance / Tour

U2 Reschedules North American Dates

U2 Reschedules North American Dates

Source: JamBase

RESCHEDULED NORTH AMERICAN RUN BEGINS MAY 21 IN DENVER, COLORADO

U2 U2 have announced the rescheduled dates for their postponed U2 360--North American Tour. The tour, previously postponed due to Bono's emergency back surgery, begins May 21 at Invesco Field in Denver, Colorado, and continues on through Salt Lake City, Seattle, Oakland, Miami, Chicago, and other cities. All 2010/2011 dates are available below.

All tickets for the postponed 2010 dates will be valid at the rescheduled 2011 dates. On sale ...

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Music Industry

U2 and Christina Aguilera Postpone Summer Tours

U2 and Christina Aguilera Postpone Summer Tours

Source: Michael Ricci

Between the time most pop music fans ended their workdays on Monday and clocked in the next morning, two of the summers biggest tours vanished from the calendar: U2 postponed 16 shows, and Christina Aguilera put off 20.

Cancellations and postponements happen every year. But the loss of two prominent tours prompted a quick response from fans, gossipmongers and even Wall Street analysts. Live Nation, the promoter of both tours, merged with Ticketmaster earlier this year, and as it begins ...

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TV / Film

"Hope for Haiti Now" Telethon Jay-Z, U2, Young Raise $58 Million

"Hope for Haiti Now" Telethon Jay-Z, U2, Young Raise $58 Million

Source: JamBase

“Hope for Haiti Now" Telethon Featuring: Jay-Z, U2, Beyonce, Springsteen Neil Young, Dave Matthews, Stevie Wonder And More Raise More than $58 million

Last Friday (January 22), the “Hope for Haiti Now" telethon aired on national and cable television, raising over $58 million, a record for a disaster-relief telethon.

Hosted by George Clooney, the night featured a plethora of super stars, including Bruce Springsteen, Coldplay, Stevie Wonder, Christina Aguilera, Madonna, Sting, Shakira, Justin Timberlake, Mary J. Blige and ...

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Event

U2, Boss, Clapton, Simon, Wonder: MSG Shows for R&R Hall of Fame

U2, Boss, Clapton, Simon, Wonder: MSG Shows for R&R Hall of Fame

Source: JamBase

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary with Two Huge Concerts U2, Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, Simon & Garfunkel, Metallica, Paul Simon Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Crosby, Stills Nash & Friends and Eric Clapton Along with Special Guests Set to Perform in Concert at Madison Square Garden

Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Music's biggest stars - Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, U2, Paul Simon, Metallica, Eric Clapton, ...

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Performance / Tour

U2 “Spider-Man” Musical Swinging onto Broadway February 2010

U2 “Spider-Man” Musical Swinging onto Broadway February 2010

Source: All About Jazz

The planned Spider-Man musical, featuring music and lyrics by U2’s Bono and the Edge, will make its Broadway debut in February 2010.

Previews of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark start January 16th, with the musical’s official starting date February 18th at the Hilton Theatre. Julie Taymor, director of film musical Across the Universe, is set to direct.

Bono and the Edge assuredly had no shortage of material to contribute to the musical — they’re incredibly prolific these days, penning 50 ...

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Recording

Last.FM Denies Handing U2 Leak Listeners to RIAA

Last.FM Denies Handing U2 Leak Listeners to RIAA

Source: Billboard Magazine

Last.fm founder Richard Jones responded forcefully today (Feb. 23) to accusations that the company had given user data to the RIAA in order to track illegal downloads of U2's upcoming album, “No Line On the Horizon." Jones’ refutation follows a similar denial made by the RIAA on Saturday. The controversy started with the leak of U2's “No Line On The Horizon" last week. The album appeared on file-sharing sites after Universal Music's Australian arm accidentally began selling downloads two weeks ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

All That You Can't...

Universal Music Group
2020

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Songs of Innocence

Island Records
2014

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U2: Songs of...

Interscope
2014

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U2: Achtung Baby 20th...

Island Records
2013

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No Line on the Horizon

Interscope Records
2009

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