As I do each year, I woke up at the crack of dawn (er…8:00) to make the rounds of Record Store Day in Seattle. For those not in-the-know, Record Store Day began in 2007 for independent record stores to come together internationally and “celebrate the art of music.” Since the industry has lost so many [...]
Today’s Huffington Post features a surprisingly favorable review of Artificial Horizon and U2 in general. Pop Culture Critic James Sims, famous for publicizing a NY snowball fight in December, writes “there are plenty of gems to be found,” on the members-only CD, specifically citing one version of “Staring at the Sun.” He goes on to [...]
As a new moderator when No Line on the Horizon was released in 2009, I witnessed many passionate conversations on our forum about this album. There was no middle ground. Fans either loved it or despised it. I immediately belonged to the camp who loved it. U2 promised us something different, something special. To me, [...]
An interview with author Andrea Morandi about his book on U2′s lyrics, U2:The Name of Love.
And you thought “desert island disc” discussions were only appropriate for U2 forums, didn’t you? Turns out, even the Vatican has some opinions on the topic. Saturday’s edition of L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, published what it calls a “semiserious” list of “classics to pack for a desert island.” And making the Holy See’s list: [...]
NPR recently had one of its interns — a young guy, but they don’t say exactly how young — listen to The Joshua Tree for the first time. Yep, for the first time. It sounds strange, but I have to confess that there are a lot of classic rock albums from the ’60s and ’70s [...]
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