Topic: News
Mittwoch, 24. November 2004
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. [
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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. [
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Dienstag, 23. November 2004
thewmurchannel.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. [
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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. [ more]
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. [
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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. [ more]
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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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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. [ more]
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. [
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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. [ more]
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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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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. [ more]
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