U2 & NASCAR: What’s up with that?

U2 on a NASCAR TV commercial? That’s the question on a lot of people’s minds these days. Our Marylinn Maione wondered about it in her OTR column last night. Fans in our forum are asking WTF? Heck, even the LA Times is blogging about it:
Pop & Hiss has reached out to the U2 camp for [...]

Who Needs A Playlist?

While traveling to Durham for the U2 Conference yesterday, Jet Blue had a wonderful selection of satellite music for me to take advantage of. For a U2 fan who didn’t feel like hitting “random” on her personal music device, the airline’s XM Radio did a great job in finding obvious and obscure tunes by U2 [...]

U2 @ 30 - RTE Retrospective-30 years of U2 clips 1978 to 2009

RTE has put together 30 moments of U2 in an extensive range of video and audio clips. These are taken from appearances on Irish television and radio.
1978 to 1986
1986 to 1993
1994 to 2009

Like comparing Apples to…Blackberries?

Sean Fallon over at the Gizmodo blog makes a strong case about how the new Blackberry U2 ad, currently appearing in movie theaters and on network television, strongly resembles a certain Coldplay Apple ad.
View the two videos (click the link above) and weigh in on the similarities in our comments field.

New Blackberry Loves U2 Ad

I just caught this ad for the first time today watching Wimbledon tennis coverage. Guess the PR campaign has started. Special thanks to Jaime for sharing this on YouTube.

Edge v. Malibu

I said a month or two in an OTR column that this “Edge vs. Malibu” story wasn’t gonna go away anytime soon, and that Edge would have to start giving his side of the story. Seems that’s exactly what he’s doing. CNN was reporting the news today….

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