At the center of the Louder Than Words: Rock, Power and Politics special exhibit currently showing at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, is U2 and its long-standing interest in using the power of rock to change the world. The exhibit greets visitors with a video of Bono talking about his motivation for […]
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Adam Clayton: “We Might Not Want to Connect With Other People.”
There’s a lot I enjoyed in Steven Hyden’s interview with Adam Clayton for Grantland, which Hyden embedded in his review of the start of the tour in Vancouver and his analysis of the highs and lows of U2’s career thus far. For example, point to Hyden for thinking of Proust when thinking of Bono: Here’s a […]
What do smart college students listen to? U2!
A music news website, Consequence Of Sound, has just reported on a study involving colleges and universities. In the article “Smart people listen to Radiohead and dumb people listen to Beyoncé, according to study,” Alex Young reviews the data gleaned by the “Music That Makes You Dumb” project in which SAT scores from 1,352 institutions of […]
AUDIO: New U2 Album Song Leak or Old Soundcheck Jam?
The U2 interwebs have been buzzing for the past 24 hours about this song-length clip that a fan named Chad S. uploaded yesterday to YouTube. Have a listen, and then we’ll talk afterward (i.e., below the video): In the video, Chad says he found it on a Japanese fan site and labels it a “mysterious […]
U2's Best Guitar Songs
Gibson has named 10 Great U2 Guitar Songs in a recent feature. Predictably, “Mysterious Ways” and “With Or Without You” made the cut, but the rest of the selections are painfully mainstream. On my personal list, I would have included “The Fly,” “All I Want Is You” and “The Electric Co.” What would have made […]
VIDEO: Bono Sings Unreleased "Walk On" in June 2000
Here’s a great find from U2Valencia.com: video of Bono singing an unfinished demo version of “Walk On” about four months before the song was released on All That You Can’t Leave Behind. The video is from June 23, 2000, when a group called TROCAIRE organized a small birthday party/event in Dublin in honor of Aung […]
LISTEN: U2's Acoustic "Walk On" from Burma Soldier
It looks like this slipped our radar entirely back in May 2011, when songwriter/producer Paul Brill collaborated with U2 on an acoustic version of “Walk On” for a documentary film called Burma Soldier. The soundtrack came out on May 17, 2011, and the track sounds to me like it was (at the time) completely new […]
Worst U2 Cover Ever?
NME recently posted this question with a link to a video showing judges from The Voice singing “Beautiful Day.” The real highlight of Saturday night’s The Voice was this opening performance of U2’s ‘Beautiful Day’, which involved all four of the judges bellowing the song into submission, in the manner of a pack of mountain […]
And They Called Him Bono English version available now
The English-language version of And They Called Him Bono, containing U2 interviews by Dutch journalist Bert van de Kamp, is now available in online stores. At the moment it’s only available on Lulu.com, but in a few weeks you’ll also be able to buy it from Amazon. This version contains the original English-language interviews. If you’d like […]
Miss Sarajevo
Inela Nogic was just 17 when she participated in the Miss Besieged Sarajevo pageant. She became an iconic figure due in part to the song “Miss Saraajevo,” which also used her picture on the single sleeve. In a recent interview in The Washington Post, Nogic talks about how she became an “accidental icon.” Nogic’s magical […]