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Glastonbury festival organizer Michael Eavis announced that Muse and Stevie Wonder will be joining U2 as headliners of the greatly anticipated UK summer concert. Muse is rumored to play on Saturday night but festival bosses have yet to officially confirm Stevie. The organizers said “It is very much a possibility but he’s still only on Michael Eavis’ wish list – so not 100% confirmed, it’s pending.” The music fest, which is set to take place on June 23-27 on Worthy Farm, is already sold out. Other acts confirmed to be performing include the bands Hot Chip, Vampire Weekend and Dizzee Rascal.

It seems Rihanna’s problems do not revolve only around her incident with Chris Brown… what a surprise, huh? The singer has not talked with her father in over a year, even though she claims to have done her part in trying to reestablish the connection. This is what Rihanna said on the matter: “I’ve been the one trying to reconcile with him forever. I haven’t heard from my father in over a year. I try though, I reached out to him. I did my part. Now it’s on him.” Of course her father is saying exactly the opposite. Wow, it looks like Rihanna’s family is a really be tight unit, doesn’t it? Didn’t they all get along better when she was still in a relationship with Chris Brown?

U2 have confirmed via video blog that their sold-out concert at the Pasadena Rose Bowl in California, Sunday 25th October 2009 will be streamed free, in full and live on YouTube. It’s the first time a show of this size will be streamed live.

The Rose Bowl show is the penultimate U2 show this year – with more to come in 2010 – and already is set to host the venue’s biggest ever audience of over 96, 000 fans. The 360˚ Tour, which has been critically acclaimed and “re-invents rock’n’roll”*, will now boast unique access for fans worldwide – as fans in territories yet to be visited by the tour, or not at all, will be able to enjoy the whole show online. Managed in partnership with Live Nation, this sell-out tour has broken attendance records in most venues it has visited – its success due in part to increased capacity coupled with a lower ticket price and great sight lines afforded by the stunning in-the-round stage set. Visit U2.com or youtube.com/u2official for details of how to join in this ground-breaking on-line event.

U2 manager Paul McGuinness said – “The band has wanted to do something like this for a long time. As we’re filming the LA show, it’s the perfect opportunity to extend the party beyond the stadium. Fans often travel long distances to come to see U2 – this time U2 can go to them, globally.”

YouTube will be streaming live across five continents. The show will be available in the usual You Tube way, as video-on-demand, following two full replays – after the live stream – on both U2.com and You Tube.

“YouTube is thrilled to be able to provide our global audience with a live streaming performance from one of the world’s greatest bands” – Chris Maxcy, Director of YouTube Partner Development. “We are always looking for new ways to connect fans around the world with their favourite artists, and this is the perfect opportunity to do just that.”

U2 Announces European Tour Dates for 2010
In the midst of the North American leg of their 360° Tour, U2 has announced their fall 2010 European Tour dates. The 12-stop tour will hit Germany, Denmark, Finland, Russia, Austria, Greece, Turkey, France, Spain, and Portugal. Tickets for many of the shows went on sale as early as this week, with more presales scheduled for October 5th-7th. Visit U2.com for all the information.

Also new on the U2 website are some pictures from the band’s most recent tour stops. Check out the photo gallery here.

U2’s twelfth studio album No Line on the Horizon, as well as their I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight Remix EP are available now on iTunes.

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EUROPEAN TOUR DATES

8/10/2010 Frankfurt, DE – Commerzbank Arena

8/12/2010 Hannover, DE – AWD Stadium

8/15/2010 Horsens, DK – Casa Arena

8/20/2010 Helsinki, FI – Olympic Stadium

8/25/2010 Moscow, RU – Luzhniki

8/30/2010 Vienna, AT – Ernst Happel Stadium

9/03/2010 Athens, GR – Olympic Stadium

9/06/2010 Istanbul, TR – Ataturk Olympic Stadium

9/15/2010 Munich, DE – Olympic Stadium

9/18/2010 Paris, FR – Stade De France

9/29/2010 Seville, ES – Olympic Stadium

10/02/2010 Coimbra, PT – Stadium

U2 Releases New Video Clips from 360° Tour

U2 kicked off the North American leg of their 360° Tour on September 13th, and cameras have been rolling during the shows and behind the scenes. Visit the official U2 YouTube channel to see video clips of songs from the concert, including “Your Blue Room” and “Vertigo” from the Chicago shows, a radio interview in Toronto, and an advance screening of an exclusive U2.com chat with the Edge.

Can’t get enough live U2? Download the new Blackberry app that lets you get inside the new album No Line On The Horizon. The app features song previews, news, tour updates, exclusive images of the band in the recording studio and on the road, and more! Find out the specifics on the Blackberry website.

No Line On The Horizon is U2’s twelfth studio album and is available now, in stores or through iTunes.

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Your Blue Room Link and Embed Code:

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U2, arguably one of the greatest rock bands of all time, has teamed up with A-list production team Justice to bring fans a mind-altering remix of epic proportions. The pairing of super stars and super producers on “Get On Your Boots,” the first single from U2’s No Line On The Horizon, can be heard exclusively on Stereogum.com.

For more information on U2, including tour dates and news, can be found on the band’s official site U2.com.

U2.com today confirms that the U2 360¡Æ tour will open at the Nou Camp Stadium in Barcelona on 30th June. The U2 360¡Æ Tour is sponsored by BlackBerry¢ç and it is the band¡¯s first stadium outing since the Vertigo Tour 05/06 and follows the release of their acclaimed album, No Line On The Horizon. Their 12th studio album, No Line On The Horizon is already number 1 in the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Belgium, Finland, Japan and the Czech Republic with further chart positions to be announced this week.
Produced by Live Nation Global Touring, U2 360¡Æ will visit 14 cities across Europe including dates in Milan, Gothenburg, Amsterdam, Paris, Nice, Dublin, Chorzow, Berlin, Gelsenkirchen, London, Sheffield and Glasgow before finishing at Millennium Stadium in Cardiff on 22nd August. The European tour will be followed by dates in North America beginning at Chicago¡¯s Soldier Field on September 12th, 2009.

EUROPEAN TOUR DATES:

30-JUNE BARCELONA, SP NOU CAMP
07-JULY MILAN, IT SAN SIRO
11-JULY PARIS, FR STADE DE FRANCE
15-JULY NICE, FR PARC CHARLES EHRMANN
18-JULY BERLIN, DE OLYMPIC STADIUM
20-JULY AMSTERDAM, NL ArenA
24-JULY DUBLIN, IE CROKE PARK
31-JULY GOTHENBURG, SE ULLEVI

06-AUG. CHORZOW, PL SLASKI STADIUM
10-AUG. ZAGREB, HR MAKSIMIR STADIUM
14-AUG. LONDON, UK WEMBLEY STADIUM
18-AUG. GLASGOW, UK HAMPDEN PARK
20-AUG. SHEFFIELD, UK DON VALLEY STADIUM
22-AUG. CARDIFF, UK MILLENNIUM STADIUM

NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES:

12-SEPT. CHICAGO, IL SOLDIER FIELD
16-SEPT. TORONTO, ON THE ROGERS CENTRE
20-SEPT. BOSTON, MA GILLETTE STADIUM
24-SEPT. NEW YORK, NY GIANTS STADIUM

In September and October, U2 360 will also visit: Atlanta, GA; Charlottesville, VA; Dallas, TX; Houston, TX; Las Vegas, NV; Los Angeles, CA; Norman, OK; Phoenix, AZ; Tampa, FL; Washington, DC and Vancouver, BC. Complete Tour and ticketing information to follow.

Pop singer Britney Spears has warned fans that any one selling tickets to after show parties and telling them that she will make an appearance are lying and that she has no plans what so ever. The pop superstar is to begin her long awaited tour – The Circus Starring: Britney Spears – in New Orleans, Louisiana on Tuesday night.

The tour will have shows extensively in North America and some people are as ever present to take advantage of those shows by claiming that fans could buy tickets to such after show parties. As the word spread Britney reached out to her fans via her official website and posted a statement saying, “Despite many rumors and advertisements, as of now, Britney Spears will not be appearing at any after-parties in any markets other then (sic) Montreal. Please don’t mislead our fans.”

That’s a great way to reach fans in virtually no time. This is a great boon that the internet has given fans and people in general alike, post things on your blog or official site and the word reaches out instantly. But why even go to her concerts, 2 reasons why not to, though I can think of many.

One that Irish rock band U2 is soon going to have reduced prices for their concerts which make skipping Britney’s show worthwhile and more so because half of the time she is lip-synching so in a way she is a fake too.

Cyberspace is the place where you can get a complete copy of ‘No Line On The Horizon’, the latest album offering of the Irish rock band U2. The actual release date of the album was slated for March of 2009 but the album has been leaked onto the internet and it was caught by thousands of fans none of whom would have let go off the opportunity to have the album on their iPods and other music storage devices.

It is said that the file sharing site Pirate Bay was were the album source was available and nearly 100,000 surfers had downloaded the entire album in just a few hours after it become available online.

Yeah friends must have sent a word of mouth to other friends and it must have spread across like wild fire, just imagine that you can have a new album for download for absolutely no charge it makes you feel rich again doesn’t it.

You begin to think why I wasted all that money in the past over some really crap music albums and here I have a real gem of an album from U2 for free. I however missed out but surely now that its out in the open people would be uploading the whole thing on some other sharing sites. The album is in public domain now!

Rock superstars U2 will perform an unprecedented five nights in a row on the LATE SHOW with DAVID LETTERMAN, Monday, March 2-Friday, March 6 (11:35 PM-12:37 AM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

This will be the first time that a musical guest will perform an entire week on the CBS late night broadcast.

The band will release their 12th album, No Line on the Horizon, March 3. They performed their first single off the album, “Get On Your Boots” at the 51st Annual GRAMMY Awards last weekend, and the song is already climbing the music charts.

U2 last appeared on the LATE SHOW on Oct. 29, 2001, where they performed and Bono was also interviewed on the broadcast. On June 10, 1997, Bono appeared with Larry Mullen Jr. to talk to Letterman on the program.

The LATE SHOW with DAVID LETTERMAN is a production of Worldwide Pants Incorporated. Barbara Gaines, Maria Pope, Jude Brennan and Rob Burnett are the executive producers.

MySpace Music myspace.com/music, the world’s premier online music portal, announces the exclusive world premiere of No Line On The Horizon, the new studio album from U2. Beginning on February Feb. 20th ,MySpace U.S. users will be able to stream the album in its entirety from U2’s official MySpace Music profile at www.myspace.com/u2, giving fans a chance to preview it before the U.S. release on March 3rd. No Line On The Horizon will be available for purchase on MySpace Music starting on March 3rd.
U2 recently premiered their latest video for the hit single Get On Your Boots on MySpace Music to fans around the world. No Line On The Horizon is the group’s highly anticipated 12th studio album and their first release since How to Dismantle An Atomic Bomb came out in late 2004. Recording sessions for No Line On The Horizon were held in various locations around the world, including Fez, Morocco, the band’s own studio in Dublin, New York’s Platinum Sound Recording Studios, and Olympic Studios in London. Long-time U2 collaborators Brian Eno and Danny Lanois produced the album, with additional production by Steve Lillywhite.
For more information about U2 and to stream No Line On The Horizon, visit their MySpace Music official profile at: myspace.com/u2.

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U2 released their latest single ‘Get on Your Boots’ last week. I found it really disappointing. I was expecting so much from them. However, it seems like Europe has taken a liking to it. The single has been doing measly numbers over in the US but it has got some major ones across the pond. According to Nielsen Music control, the first two days of airplay the song got shot it straight to number 1 on Ireland’s airplay chart and number 4 in the UK. The song has reached a total audience of 12.5 million in the UK as well as 11 million in Italy and 78 million in Germany. The song is also doing well in Austria, Belgium and Holland.

New album No Line On The Horizon out March 3rd
Listen to the new single from U2 “Get On Your Boots”
Embed the imeem player for “Get On Your Boots” here:

Get On Your Boots – U2

“Get On Your Boots,” the first single from U2’s new album No Line On The Horizon, will be released on January 19th on Interscope Records. The album is currently available for pre-order and will be released on March 3rd.
Produced by Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois and Steve Lillywhite, sessions for No Line On The Horizon began in Fez, Morocco, and continued at the band’s Dublin studio, New York’s Platinum Sound Recording Studios, and Olympic Studios in London.
The album will be released in a standard format with a 24- page booklet and in digipak format. The digipak includes an extended booklet and the album’s companion film “Linear” by Anton Corbijn. A limited edition 64-page magazine will also be available, featuring the band in conversation with artist Catherine Owens, and new Anton Corbijn photographs. No Line On The Horizon will be released on 180gm vinyl.
The cover artwork for the album is an image of the sea meeting the sky by Japanese artist and photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto.
The full track listing is as follows:

1. No Line On The Horizon
2. Magnificent
3. Moment of Surrender
4. Unknown Caller
5. I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight
6. Get On Your Boots
7. Stand Up Comedy
8. Fez – Being Born
9. White As Snow
10. Breathe
11. Cedars Of Lebanon

Rock singer Bono has a earned a whopping $84 million by the way of an investment that he made in Palm Inc., smart telephone maker. The same company had reported a loss of $506 million in the company’s most recent quarter and what is when Bono took the risk of investing $100 million as part of rescue plans.

Now the company which is the maker of Treo and Centro smart phones has just announced the launch new smart phone products this month and that prompted the market to give it a thumps up with the share prices rising by 34 per cent on Friday.

Wow man that would have even take Bono by surprise, he must have thought that he was donating $100 million cos’s when a company is reporting a loss of $500 its virtually going wipe off all of its reserves but if during such hard financial times if the company can have good products launched and investors & markets giving it a resounding ‘YES’ then Bono has for sure made a smart investment.

We should really consider him to be the next chairman of Nasdaq!

The Seattle Times recently gave an excellent review of Kanye West’s newly launched ‘Glow in the Dark’ tour. Now, the LA Times is following suit by stroking the rapper’s ego some more. Who needs awards when you have reviews like this? Esteemed critic Anne Powers reviewed Kanye’s concert saying “An apocalyptic space opera…a show that carried his braggadocio into the realm of myth itself…This was pure comic-book adventure…But the real message came through those unstoppable images. Glow in the Dark raises the bar for arena tours as no show has since U2’s 1992 Zoo TV breakthrough. It’s that innovative and galvanizing…the ridiculous, beautiful heights of West’s heroics.” He was compared to U2! You can’t beat that.

Bono and The Edge from U2, decided to go to a small event organized to raise funds for children and matures with learning disorders.
A pleasant gesture prepared by the two band members. It seems like the other two didn’t want to some…maybe they needed some honorary to show up and perform in front of the small crowd of 250 people that attended the event. No one knew they were going to be there, people were really shocked to see them and they took pictures like crazy, for many of those present this was a lifetime opportunity.
I don’t know the real reason why they decided to do this, but they certainly brought some good publicity their way, especially during this period when the group is right in a middle of a flat line.

U2’s two front men Bono and The Edge have been chosen to lead the team behind the musical version of Spider-Man. The show is still in development but the two men will work on the score and lyrics while the mind behind ‘The Lion King’, Julie Taymor is set to be the director.

Things are steadily moving along and it is reported that the production team is looking for a space. Taymor is quoted in saying that “It’s a big extravaganza which needs a huge theater.” With Bono’s presence alone, you definitely need a huge theater.

I’m excited to see what comes out from that team.