Penguin Random House Bono has a new award to add to his trophy shelf. The U2 frontman’s memoir, Surrender, won Audiobook of the Year at the 2024 Audie Awards, which took place Monday, March 4, at the Avalon Hollywood in Los Angeles. Surrender, which was released in November 2022 and featured the subtitleRead More →
Caitlin Mogridge/Getty Images Former President Donald Trump recently played the Sinéad O’Connor classic “Nothing Compares 2 U” at rallies in Maryland and North Carolina, and her family is not at all happy. In a statement to Variety, the singer’s estate denounced the use of the song, demanding Trump and hisRead More →
Courtesy of Live Nation U2 wrapped their Las Vegas residency, U2: UV Achtung Baby Live at Sphere, this weekend with two special shows — and a couple of special guests. Rumors had suggested that U2 drummer Larry Mullen, Jr., who sat out the residency as he recovered from surgery, wouldRead More →
Fish People Kate Bush will be the ambassador for the U.K. edition of Record Store Day 2024. In a statement, the “Running Up That Hill” artist calls the title a “huge honor.” “It really is a great privilege,” Bush says. “Isn’t it great to see how the resurgence in vinylRead More →
Roberto Serra – Iguana Press/Getty Images R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe has donated some handwritten lyrics to help raise money for a good cause. The rocker has contributed a signed lyric sheet for the track “Nightswimming” to the Art for Gaza auction. The money raised is going to Doctors Without Borders. TheRead More →
Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic, Inc It’s been a while since the members of R.E.M. have been out together publicly, but that all changed on Thursday, February 8. Photos and videos posted to social media show Michael Stipe, Mike Mills, Bill Berry and Peter Buck at the 40 Watt Club in their home city of Athens, Georgia, where they made aRead More →
ABC/Randy Holmes U2 shared a performance of their latest single, “Atomic City,” at the Grammy Awards on Sunday, and they followed that up by releasing another new remix of the tune, this time by DJ/producer David Guetta. This is the second “Atomic City” remix U2 has released. The first, from producer Mike WiLL Made-It, droppedRead More →
Courtesy CBS/The Recording Academy The 66th annual Grammy Awards, hosted by Trevor Noah, aired live from the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on CBS Sunday, February 4. Here’s the complete list of winners: Record of the Year “Flowers,” Miley Cyrus Album of the YearMidnights, Taylor Swift Song of the YearRead More →
ABC/Michael Yada Looks like U2 is enjoying their down time in Sin City. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that Bono and The Edge were seen at The Golden Tiki, an off the strip bar in Vegas’ Chinatown area, on Wednesday, January 31. The rockers turned up at the tiki bar around 1 a.m. after they finished headlining their residency, U2:Read More →
ABC/Michael Yada After a six week break, U2 returned to Las Vegas for their U2: UV Achtung Baby Live at Sphere residency on Friday, January 26, and treated fans to a song they’ve never performed before. Fan-shot footage posted to YouTube shows the Irish rockers performing an acoustic cover of Crowded House’s classic “Don’t Dream It’sRead More →
