I was at school, on a break between classes, this past week when I happened to look online on my iPhone and I discovered that there had been some U2 action.
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U2 Spotlight – Impending Announcements
So, during this past week, we finally got some information on Songs of Experience. U2songs.com has been continuously blowing my mind this summer with their coverage of the ongoing saga of U2’s forthcoming album, and they dropped some new info yesterday that totally made my week.
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U2 Spotlight – Alternate Versions of “You’re The Best Thing About Me”
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m absolutely loving all these different versions of “You’re the Best Thing About Me”. Hardly a week has gone by this month that we haven’t gotten some small release from the biggest band in the world, and they’ve mostly centered around the new single that is […]
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U2101 – You’re the Best Thing About Me
Here we are, with the first U2101 article about a song from Songs of Experience. This is an exciting time to be alive, to be sure. An old friend of mine used to say that one of the best things about U2 was that they were happening right now. I believed her then and I […]
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U2 Spotlight – The Blackout
We are now officially in the age of Songs of Experience. That era began this last Wednesday when U2 streamed a video of themselves in Amsterdam playing the brand new song “The Blackout” on Facebook. This is not the article for my review of the song – I’m saving that for the official release of […]
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U2 rocks out as it readies post-Trump album
NEW YORK (AFP) – U2 on Wednesday (Aug 30) rocked out on a guitar-charging first track of its upcoming album, which the Irish rock legends had largely finished last year but revisited following Donald Trump’s shock election victory. In the first taste of its upcoming album Songs Of Experience, the band released The Blackout, a […]
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U2 to release new album on December 1
U2 have revealed when they’ll release their new album – and it’s just in time for Christmas. ‘Songs of Experience’, the eagerly awaited follow-up to 2014’s smash hit ‘Songs of Innocence’, will be released on December 1. The record will launch on World Aids Day in conjunction with Project Red, the fundraising charity Bono set […]
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U2 Spotlight – Getting Ready For A New Album
One of my favorite things about being a U2 fan is the build-up to the release of a new album. Well, it seems that it’s about that time once again as, over the past week, we’ve had the beginnings of stirrings of promotional material for Songs of Experience.
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U2101 Special Edition – Opening Night of The Joshua Tree Tour 2017
I usually make it a habit to write these articles on one specific song or a group of songs that share a common element, but today, I thought that I’d do something different. For the past several months, since the beginning of the year, really, we’ve been building up to the opening night of Joshua […]
Read MoreU2101 – Looking Back and Ahead
So it seems that U2’s Innocence + Experience Tour is done and over with, at least for now. “What’s next for the band” is the question on all our hearts and minds, so I thought that today I’d take a stab at playing fortune teller and try to guess what the next little bit of […]
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