During a hometown show on December 31, 1989, Bono took a minute to air his band’s dirty laundry. U2 had entered the final stretch of the Lovetown Tour, launched earlier that year to help promote ...
In The Alternative Number Ones, I'm reviewing every #1 single in the history of the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks/Alternative Songs, starting with the moment that the chart launched in 1988. This ...
When Apple released the iTunes Store to the public in 2003, everything about the way music was consumed rapidly changed. A digital space where one could discover and purchase any song they wanted, the ...
Within the band’s ranks, though, the mood wasn’t so joyous. Rattle and Hum might’ve been a commercial success, but it was also the closest U2 had come to a critical flop. Audiences didn’t know what to ...
It’s been a little while since U2 last scored a No. 1 hit on the Billboard charts, but the band is back on top with their latest release. The group’s new single “Atomic City” has become an instant win ...
Chris Stafford became entranced with the music of Bono and U2 while watching the rock band on MTV in the 1980s. "I discovered the U2 (live) album, 'Under a Blood Red Sky,'" the 55-year-old Plain ...
NEW YORK — U2, one of the few bands ever to maintain underground credibility while remaining popular enough to fill stadiums, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame here Monday by Bruce ...
Looking back has never been U2’s thing. They were always about the future, or at least the present, craving to be the best and biggest band in the world. But with the release of Songs Of Surrender—a ...
Jazmin Kylene is a Miami-bred writer and editor with a decade-long career that spans all editorial genres, though she has a particular passion for music journalism. Upon graduating Florida Atlantic ...