Pages tagged “u2”

Stop Covering These Ten Songs

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We’ve got nothing against cover songs. In fact, we love a good unexpected cover. But certain songs should be retired after a couple hundred versions. We hereby declare a moratorium on covering the following ten songs....  read more

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U2's Spider-Man musical holding open casting calls

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If you've ever:a) Dreamed of frolicking around onstage as a lead role in a Broadway musical, b) yearned for those musical numbers to be blessed by Bono himself, or c) spent your alone time pretending to shoot spiderwebs out of your fingers and making out with your Mary Jane pillow, then your stars have aligned. ...  read more

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U2 announces more tour dates

With a new album often comes a tour. For many bands, this means spending a summer crossing the country in a stinky, over-crowded van without air conditioning. For U2, it means amphitheatres brimming with screaming fans and 360° views of flashing lights and pyrotechnics....  read more

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Paste's St. Patrick's Day Playlist

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Dump loads of green dye into your local river, get gussied up in an overwhelming amount of green apparel, drink your weight in Guinness, regret that decision tomorrow morning and pop on this playlist: It's Saint Patrick's Day! Even if you aren't Irish, chances are you know someone who is, and it would be selfish not to celebrate their heritage, so we're here to help. Today is all about Irish beverages (car bombs, Guinness, Jameson), the color green, luckiness, shamrocks, general Irish pride, and of course, music about all of the above. Maybe that's not all today is about, but...  read more

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Prince to play Jay Leno three nights in a row

First, it was Conan O'Brien who devoted piles of airtime to bands like the White Stripes, The Strokes and U2. Then just last week, David Letterman invited U2 to play five nights in a row. Now, Jay Leno, the final third of the Late Night Host Triumvirate, is getting in on the action....  read more

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U2 announces 360° world tour dates

After taking over Late Night with David Letterman for a whole week and free streaming their new album on MySpace a week before its official release, those fellas in U2 seem more than ready to hit the road for a world tour. Fittingly enough, the Irish rockers just announced their tour dates and a new stage concept that promises no bad seats....  read more

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Next U2 record, Songs Of Ascent, to be a reggae album?

Around Paste HQ, we usually shy away from gossip, but sometimes it's hard to stop ourselves. Here we go, then, making our foray into the wild world of European tabloids with a question that will be sure to boggle music lovers' minds across the world: Is U2 making a reggae album?...  read more

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WRXP celebrates U2's Day with all-day streaming

Listen up, U2 fans. Today is your day. Or, rather, U2's day, if we're going to get technical about it. In honor of the band's brand-new album, No Line On The Horizon, New York-based radio station WRXP has deemed today "U2's Day," and is celebrating appropriately....  read more

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U2: No Line on the Horizon

With each passing studio release U2 has increasingly...  read more

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U2 and Spider-Man join hands for...musical?!?

U2 is helping bring Marvel's first musical to Broadway this year. That's right, Spider-Man will finally get to show his "spirit fingers" and project those thought bubbles into lyrical outbursts and/or subdued dramatic stage-whisper monologues....  read more

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