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canada.com: For more than two decades, Irish rockers U2 have made a ritual of mapping out different musical trails for themselves with each new album, sometimes with mixed success, but always sounding fresh and reinvigorated by the journey.

That's no small task for a band formed in the late 1970s, its members now in their mid-40s, most with families in tow, and with years of commercial and critical success having already assured them a perch in rock 'n roll history. [arrow more]


onlypunjab.com: The African Well Fund is pleased to have been designated recipient of all net proceeds from @U2’s Swinging to the Music pre-release listening parties which take place this Sunday, November 21st in Seattle, St. Louis and Boston. The parties are set to celebrate the release of U2’s new album How to Dismantle An Atomic Bomb. Those in attendance will have the opportunity to listen to the new album, which will be played at all three parties. [arrow more]


washingtonpost.com: Almost everything you may have heard is true. Already much discussed, downloaded, advertised and mythologized, "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" isn't the best album of U2's career -- a distinction that still belongs to "The Joshua Tree" -- but it's the band's finest work in more than a decade. [arrow more]


undercover.com.au: Next week's Australian chart is shaping up for a battle between U2 and Kylie Minogue from the number one position.

U2 has the edge midweek with 'How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb' in front of 'The Ultimate Kylie' but Gwen Stefani is also showing good form with her 'Love Angel Music Baby' album looking like it will have the third highest debut of next week. [arrow more]


canada.com: For more than two decades, Irish rockers U2 have made a ritual of mapping out different musical trails for themselves with each new album, sometimes with mixed success, but always sounding fresh and reinvigorated by the journey.

That's no small task for a band formed in the late 1970s, its members now in their mid-40s, most with families in tow, and with years of commercial and critical success having already assured them a perch in rock 'n roll history. [arrow more]


Dienstag, 23. November 2004
usatoday.com: Of 16 nominees up for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, U2 is the surest bet to make the class of 2005. So why is the front-runner hoping to be shoved to the back burner? [arrow more]


u2promogigthewmurchannel.com: A surprise mini-concert was held Monday in New York by the band U2.

U2 performing at Fulton Ferry Landing Park, New York.

It was held under the lights at a waterfront park beneath the Brooklyn Bridge.

Thousands showed up even though the MTV-organized show hadn't been publicly announced or advertised. Most people said they heard about the show through word-of-mouth or postings on U2 fans' Web sites. [arrow more]


Montag, 22. November 2004
u2.com: The rumours are true - the band are set to appear in a few hours time in New York City. Details below.

U2 will make a brief TV taping at The Empire, Fulton Ferry State Park, east side of the East River, just north of Brooklyn Bridge. [arrow more]


msnbc.msn.com: Sometimes a rock band can worm its way into your cranium and remain there throughout all the significant moments of your adult life. Most people have an angel on one shoulder and a devil on the other, each whispering in one ear, each vying for attention. With me, U2 has always been the group playing in the background while that battle for my soul raged. [arrow more]


timesonline.co.uk: A TINY technology firm set up by U2 is taking on Microsoft, the software giant, in an American court. Burst.com, which is partly owned by the band, alleges that Microsoft routinely destroys legally sensitive internal documents.

The company is suing Microsoft for theft of its patented technology and for anti-competitive practices. It alleges that Microsoft “as a matter of institutional policy has decided to destroy e-mails in anticipation of litigation”.

U2 invested $2m (€1.3m) in Burst.com more than a decade ago. The band used its data-streaming technology to broadcast its 1997 PopMart concert over the internet.
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szon.de: «Hello, hello»: Vier Jahre haben die Fans der irischen Erfolgsband U2 auf ein neues Album gewartet; vier lange Jahre Warten auf einen neuen Trend, einen neuen Sound?

Doch was Charismatiker Bono und seine Band mit «How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb» abgeliefert haben, ist weniger als das und doch viel mehr: Ein Rock-Album, das die Rock'n'Roll-Herkunft der Band aus den 80ern mit ihrem unterkühlten, verzerrten Sound der 90er versöhnt - dazu die über allem erhaben schmachtende Stimme von Bono. Eine Rückkehr zu alter Stärke - und ganz nebenbei möglicherweise die Rettung des Pop. [arrow more]


news.bbc.co.uk: U2, who release their 13th album in 25 years in the UK on Monday, are stubbornly clinging to their status as one of the biggest bands in the world.
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suntimes.com: Twenty-eight years after forming in Dublin, U2 has become the Rolling Stones. Both superstar acts have larger-than-life frontmen whose posing and preening is both their strength and their weakness. Both boast perpetually cool guitarists who serve as the groups' musical engines, and both have secret weapons in the form of deceptively simple but amazingly powerful drummers. [arrow more]


ekklesia.co.uk: Famous U2 lead-singer Bono is reported to have said that he didn't want to perform his famous ‘God’ line again for the new Band Aid record, according to news agency API.

The singer revealed that he wanted some different lines this time, because he had hated recording the lyric ‘Tonight, thank God it's them instead of you’ for the original Do They Know It's Christmas? record in 1984.

‘I begged them not to make me do it, saying, “Isn't there another line you could take?” Because, last time, I recorded the whole song," he was quoted as saying.
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newsday.com: Bono called U2's last CD, "All That You Can't Leave Behind," its re-application for the title of "world's best rock and roll band." U2's new CD, "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" (Interscope), shows that the Irish band not only got the job, but it spent the past few years making sure no one can take that title away.
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nyunews.com: Keep your ears open tomorrow as you walk around Washington Square Park for a distinct Irish wail.

Rumors are flying that U2 will play a surprise show in the park tomorrow afternoon.

A Web log about the band, U2log.com, posted that the concert will begin anytime from 1 to 3:30 p.m. A New York City spokesman confirmed that the area around the park is booked for a block party or street activity, though the official said he had no information on who booked the area. [arrow more]


philly.com: Musikalische Sprengkraft: 0. Politische Sprengkraft: 0. Emotionale Sprengkraft: 100. Mit ihrer heute erscheinenden neuen CD «How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb» führen U2 ihren Zurück-zu-den-Wurzeln-Kurs fort. [arrow more]


chron.com: It must be grand being a member of U2 and knowing that every album you put out will be a success. Albums released by the Irish supergroup almost immediately become a standard by which other rock albums are measured. While younger bands struggle to find ways to expand their sound without alienating a fickle fan base, U2 goes anywhere it wants and confidently tells its listeners, "This is what you need." [arrow more]


netmusiccountdown.com: U2's Bono and The Edge helped celebrate the opening of the Clinton Presidential Center last Thursday, November 18, in Little Rock, Arkansas. The pair performed a three-song set before former President Bill Clinton took the stage to address the more than 30,000 people who turned out for the dedication ceremony.
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Sonntag, 21. November 2004
itunesu2collactivewin.com: Apple will make the U2 digital box set available through iTunes on November 23, when the band releases its next album. 'The Complete U2' is a digital box set that includes U2’s 15 official albums. It contains over 400 songs alongside 25 rare, previously unavailable tracks. The set includes a PDF with band photos, album art and song lyrics. [arrow more]


sbpost.ie: Accounts for Not Us, the holding company for the U2 corporate vehicle, show a firm with debts of more than €18.5million.

Fortunately for the biggest band in rock music today, it happens to own most of the companies owed money by Not Us.

Such is the complex nature of U2's finances. The accounts for last year, which were filed last week, reveal a complicated web of subsidiaries, trusts and inter-company loans. Large sums of money flow between 19 corporate entities, most of which posted a loss in the 2003 fiscal year. [arrow more]


cleveland.com: It took 25 years, but the members of U2 finally have done it: They've become AC/DC.

OK, not quite. But singer Bono, guitarist the Edge, bassist Adam Clayton and drummer Larry Mullen Jr. are about to rock on their hotly anticipated new album - and for this, we salute them. [arrow more]


philly.com: If Bono showed up on my doorstep in his cowboy hat and yellow-tinted shades, and wouldn't stop dropping the names of famous people he'd been working with to save the world unless I divulged my favorite U2 album, I'd have to say Achtung Baby. [arrow more]


channelnewsasia.com: Almost a quarter of a century since Irish band U2 bounced onto the music scene, the group on Monday releases its latest album, and it looks like Bono and crew are going back to their roots.

Forget the dance rhythms and the electronic sounds of U2's experimental phase in the 1990s, their 14th album "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb", the first for four years, is good ol' guitar rock. [arrow more]


Samstag, 20. November 2004
u2inu2spiegel.de: Die PR-Maschine für das neue Album der irischen Popband U2 rollt auf Hochtouren. Ein norddeutscher Radiosender lud 30 Gäste ein, die elf Songs in der Hamburger U-Bahn vorab anhören durften - in der U 2. [arrow more]


reuters.co.uk: With about 115 dates already slotted, U2's 2005 world tour will likely surpass its last outing in capacity and money.

The group's 2001 tour grossed 56 million pounds ($104 million) from 106 shows worldwide, according to Billboard Boxscore. The top gross was 3.4 million pounds ($6.4 million) from four sellouts at Chicago's United Centre. [arrow more]


u2.com: USA Today praises the new album, as Edna Gunderson interviews all four band members on the eve of release.

‘How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, U2's 11th studio album and first since 2000, arrives Tuesday amid more anticipation than any release this year. The blissful and aggressive "Vertigo," No. 1 at modern rock stations, is the band's hottest U.S. single to date and just knocked Eminem off the top of the U.K. chart. [arrow more]


usatoday.com: How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, U2's 11th studio album and first since 2000, arrives Tuesday amid more anticipation than any release this year. The blissful and aggressive Vertigo, No. 1 at modern rock stations, is the band's hottest U.S. single to date and just knocked Eminem off the top of the U.K. chart.

Despite Internet piracy, retailers expect a monster opening week and huge holiday sales, and promoters predict instant sellouts for a world tour starting March 1 in Miami. [arrow more]


canoe.ca: On the one hand, there are those who prefer the band's earthy, earnest emotional arena-rock. On the other hand, there are those who favour their esoteric, ethereal experiments. Which is to say: No matter what kind of an album Bono and co. make, somebody always seems to end up bummed.

To their credit, though, U2 are good enough to give each side a decade to call their own. The rockers got to lay claim to the '80s, when Bono lit The Unfogettable Fire and waved the white flag for Sunday Bloody Sunday. [arrow more]


contactmusic.com: Veteran rockers U2 wanted there new album HOW TO DISMANTLE A BOMB to sound like a live band playing in a studio, because they were desperate to capture the sound of youthful energy.

Previously famed for their heavily-produced sound on albums including ZOOROPA, the BONO-fronted legends wanted to get back to being a band again after listening to records by younger groups THE HIVES and THE LIBERTINES.

Bassist ADAM CLAYTON says, "It was really down to making the songs work with the three or four musical elements. On previous records we tended to do a live take but then there would be overdubs to get something out of the song. So this is raw and that was the intention. [arrow more]


yahoo.com: U2 has sold more than 120 million albums worldwide and won 14 Grammy Awards during the course of its 26-year career, so you would think that there would be a level of ease that comes with a new release.

Not so, says the Irish band's longtime manager Paul McGuinness.

"There is absolutely no resting on our laurels," he tells Billboard. "I say to people we have to break the band every time we put out a record."

And this is with an album that McGuinness expects to debut at No. 1 in "32 or 33 countries." [arrow more]


mirror.co.uk: Twenty-two years ago, in a small Scottish hotel, Bono Vox told me how his band was going to conquer the world. Young wannabes with big ideas weren't unusual and Bono was just a little-known Irish singer with a slightly ridiculous name. Yet something about him and his band - the charisma, the self-belief, the ability to sweep up others in their dreams - was different.

So it proved to be. Over the course of their career, U2 have consistently re-energised their belief in the redemptive power of rock 'n' roll. Nothing seemed beyond their reach - songs tackling politics, spiritual hope, abandonment, love and terror. They played shows with live links to a war zone and gained access to great and not always good political powerbrokers. [arrow more]


dolomiten.it: Die Ankündigungen von Bono, Sänger von U2, ließen aufhorchen: Das nächste Album seiner Band wäre rau, kompromisslos und von Gitarren getrieben, ließ der Ire in Interviews wissen. [arrow more]


itv.com: The new Band Aid 20 video has been shown for the first time - with pop queen Madonna reminding people "none of us can forget".

U2 frontman Bono won the battle to belt out "And Tonight Thank God it's Them Instead of You" as he did two decades ago. Coldplay's Chris Martin, singers Dido and Robbie Williams have the opening lines of the song. [arrow more]


Montag, 15. November 2004
indiantelevision.com: VH1.com and MTV.com are giving visitors a chance to hear the music a week in advance of its 23 November release.

Users can log onto http://www.vh1.com to Hear Music First: U2 and http://www.mtv.com to The Leak beginning tomorrow 16 November to stream the entire album for free. Users will also have the option to pre-order the album and have it delivered on the day of release. [arrow more]


oe3.orf.at: Am Montag, dem 22. November, erscheint "How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb", das elfte Studioalbum von U2. Im Hitradio Ö3 präsentieren wir ab 15. November vier Songs daraus schon vorab. [arrow more]


thisislondon.co.uk: It was meant to be a re-creation of one of pop's finest moments, where the cream of the British music scene came together in the name of charity.

Instead it turned into a egofuelled squabble between one of rock's elder statesmen and a flashy would-be young pretender.

The 20th anniversary of Band Aid was hit by an alleged row involving U2's lead singer Bono and Justin Hawkins of The Darkness over the new recording of Do They Know It's Christmas? [arrow more]


iafrica.com: A quarter of a century into their career, most rock bands are content to wheel out a greatest hits album every now and then. Not Ireland's U2, who, according to their manager, are still getting better. [arrow more]


reuters.com: U2's new single "Vertigo" charged to the top of the UK's singles charts on Sunday, knocking last week's top tune, "Just Lose It," by rapper Eminem down to third place, the Official UK Charts Company said. [arrow more]


Sonntag, 14. November 2004
timecanada.com: Making records has always been misery for U2. But on How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, they rediscovered the secret: Fusion [arrow more]


profil.at: Die irische Band U2 veröffentlicht nach vier Jahren Pause ihr neues Album „How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb“: ein weiterer verzweifelter Versuch, mit der belastenden eigenen Vergangenheit fertig zu werden.

Wir werden dem Monster den Rücken brechen“, singt Bono Vox in „Love and Peace or Else“. Es ist die beste Nummer auf „How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb“, dem neuen U2-Album, das kommende Woche erscheint. Natürlich spricht Bono von Liebe und Frieden oder sonst was, aber es ist nicht ganz falsch, wenn man die Zeilen auf die Situation der irischen Band bezieht. Wir werden dem Monster den Rücken brechen, das könnte auch heißen: Als Stadionrocker wollen wir nicht alt werden. [arrow more]


sundayherald.com: U2 have been recording artists for longer than Elvis. They’ve sold 125 million records and their influence extends beyond pop to politics. Earlier this year their latest album was nicked. But, says Adrian Deevoy, all’s well that ends well for the world’s biggest band celebrating 25 years of holy rock’n’roll [arrow more]


msnbc.msn.com: Ignore the iPod commercial—U2 has not morphed into a hipster rave outfit for dreadlock-flipping twentysomethings. For one thing, they already tried that with 1993's "Lemon" (and it was). And anyhow, why change course when you're the biggest band in the world? [arrow more]


timesonline.co.uk: In the small hours of last Tuesday morning, Paul McGuinness stood at the end of the long counter at the Village bar in Wexford Street, Dublin, glass in one hand, wide grin on his face. Not even news that bootleg copies of the new U2 album were appearing on the internet could dampen the spirits of their manager.
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nytimes.com: Through the windows of Hanover Quay, the rehearsal and recording studio that U2 has called HQ for the last two decades, streetlights made rippling patterns on the Liffey, the river that runs through Dublin, matching the shimmering overtones coming from the Edge's guitars as the band ran through songs from its new album, "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" (Interscope). [arrow more]


u2.com: U2, Elvis, The Beatles, Bob Marley and Madonna were inducted as Founder Members into the UK Music Hall of Fame on Thursday. [arrow more]


 
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