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Adam Dons Jacket, Talks Art

By on October 25, 2010 in Adam

The friendship between Adam Clayton and Michael Hoppen, a leading London-based dealer of art photography, was profiled by Hugh Montgomery for The Independent‘s “How We Met” series. It’s a great, short read, in which Adam tells us Hoppen got him interested in Japanese photography, and Hoppen says what he and Adam share is not a [...]

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U2 In The School Books

By on September 30, 2010 in Miscellaneous

(Egghead alert! Wonky music talk ahead. For realz.) Last week I wrote about Kevin Dettmar’s great new college textbook on rock and roll, which features a nice section on U2. I mentioned his book isn’t the first rock and roll textbook, though it does give more attention to U2 than the ones before his. The [...]

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The Edge a Key Term in New Rock Textbook

By on September 21, 2010 in Edge, Miscellaneous

A snazzy new college textbook on rock and roll is out from Kevin Dettmar, Professor of English and cultural studies at Pomona College and keeper of a great blog on contemporary culture, aptly named Fake Chinese Rubber Plant. Yes, a textbook on rock and roll.  (Feel old, much?) Dettmar’s is not the first of its [...]

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Cleveland To Turn It Up To 2011

By on July 23, 2010 in In the News...

Achtung rock history geeks! I’ve got nothing specifically U2-ey here to say, but man, oh man is this music to my ears. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, OH, plans to open a long-awaited library and archives that will make more of its stuff available to students, teachers and the [...]

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Carney Talks, Plays on Yesterday’s World Cafe

By on July 22, 2010 in Miscellaneous

Marylinn M. and I both caught the interview with Carney on NPR’s World Cafe yesterday and thought it was worth at least a mention.  Maybe you heard it too, but if not you can listen to the 26:18 minutes here. Reeve Carney, who will be Peter Parker in the already notorious (David Dye just had [...]

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“Streets” Cover by Derek Webb

By on July 20, 2010 in U2's Music

Here’s an interesting one: mandolin, piano, marching drum rolls and Derek Webb.  I like it. You can listen and download it for free at SoundCloud. It’s track #6 on Webb’s  Democracy Vol. 1 CD, which is a recording of covers chosen by votes from his fans and is available for $6 here. Webb has been [...]

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