U2 will be playing tons and tons of shows on a cool, “innovative” stage that will apparently rotate and give all fans an unobstructed view. The “360″ tour is running through Europe and the U.S.A., and whether you liked No Line or not, I’m guessing you’ll love the U2 live experience. Everyone else does.
Click on for tour dates and locations…the tour’s website hypes up affordable ticket prices as well. Continue reading →
Not quite sure what to make of this one.I’m surprised P4K didn’t give them a U.2.
Their critic Ryan Dombal calls No Line On The Horizon a “a defensive gesture, and a rather pitiful one at that.”
U2 has been getting both a lot of love and, well, a lot of more love lately.
What do you guys think? Have you heard No Line On The Horizon yet (if not, it’s streaming on U2’s MySpace)? Does it deserve praise or criticism?
PMA’s review will be up very shortly, probably early in this week.
Just like Kanye’s VH1 Storytellers, this will also be epic.
The much-rumored Julie Taymor/Bono collaboration on a Spiderman broadway show was finally confirmed a few days ago by Pitchfork.
Called “Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark,” the musical could either be great or terrible. Taymor is slated to direct, and Bono (along with The Edge) will write the music and lyrics. Let’s just hope that they don’t take the show too seriously (think Spider-Man 2, the best of the three movies). Taymor has an excellent resume, with her Broadway show The Lion King and her movie Across The Universe (although Videogum would beg to differ).
Previews will start on January 16, 2010, and the show’s opening night will be February 18. In all likelihood, the talented Evan Rachel Wood (who so well-covered The Beatles in ATU) will play Mary Jane.
Pitchfork really does put it best: “Even if this thing turns out to be a shit sandwich, it will most definitely be a spectacularly over-the-top shit sandwich.”
In my gut, I don’t think it will be a shit sandwich. How about you?
This is one of those crappy Youtube videos that’s just going to make you jealous of people who were actually at this concert, but it’s DEFINITELY worth the post. Three of our generation’s biggest rock stars (all with correspondingly big egos) performed together the other night at a War Child benefit concert, playing arguably the Killers’ best song, “All These Things That I’ve Done.” A high-quality video has yet to surface, so now we’re stuck with 3 or 4 crummy ones on Youtube. Watch the video below (my personal favorite of the crap), and allow Chris Martin, Bono, and Brandon Flowers to make you wish you were at this concert. Oh, and Gary Barlow too. Thanks to twentyfourbit.com for the pic.
That’s right: No Line On The Horizon is live on U2’s Myspace as you read this. Two tracks in, it sounds like vintage U2 to me- I’m thinking this will be a pretty well-received album, if that wasn’t already evidenced by Rolling Stones’ five-star review. Check out the album HERE (make sure to click on No Line’s album cover) and let PMA know what you think!
Thanks to Pop Candy for the tip.
I enjoy cover posts, its always fun to relive your favorite songs through the voice of someone new and fresh. Here is a handful of covers I found floating around my iTunes Library.
MP3 | Maximo Park – Like I Love You (Justin Timberlake Cover) *DOWNLOAD OR DIE*
MP3 | Arctic Monkeys – Diamonds Are Forever (Shirley Bassey Cover)
MP3 | Bono – Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (Beatles Cover)
MP3 | Lil Wayne – Help! (Beatles Cover)
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