Bono (Musician)

5 Sweet Spots for Valentine Treats in Metro Phoenix

The Super Bowl is this Sunday, and for the anxious holiday planner that can really only mean one thing: Valentine's Day is right around the corner. Rather than half-assing it with some predictable drug store purchase of candy and a card, we suggest you show a little love to local business this yea ... More >>

Nine Ways To Actually Make Money As A Musician

Once again reminding us the record industry resembles the band on the Titanic playing as it sinks, Rolling Stone reported "9 Ways Musicians Actually Make Money Today." To be blunt, it's pretty stupid.

68: Cindy Gentry

From now 'til we publish the 2012 edition of Best of Phoenix, New Times and Chow Bella present 100 Tastemakers -- Valley residents who make the cut in our culinary scene. Some you'll know; for others, it'll be a first introduction (but likely not the last). While you're here, check out our 100 Creat ... More >>

Oprah Gives Shout-Out to Valley Confectioner Julia Baker

How to know when you've arrived? It's not Snooki following you on Twitter, your mention in a rap song/your rap song, or your video making it on Tosh.0 -- it's a shout-out from the Big O herself, Oprah Winfrey. Julia Baker, chef and owner of Julia Baker Confections, should know. The one-time statist ... More >>

What's in a Name?

The New U2 Album Will Not Be Coming Out Today

Wikimedia CommonsU2 has no Songs of Ascent for you right now.​Fans of Irish rockers U2 who are eagerly anticipating the band's next album, tentatively titled Songs of Ascent, will have to wait a while longer. The record was first expected in 2010, and in January of this year, the Germany branch o ... More >>

Bono and The Edge Spice Up 'American Idol' Finale With 'Spider-Man' Performance

​Bono and The Edge of U2 will be performing with the cast of the musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark on American Idol's live season finale Wednesday night, according to Billboard.The Spider-Man Broadway musical, for which they composed the music, has been delayed numerous times due to numerous c ... More >>

Clothes Encounters

Julie Taymor Steps Down As Director in 'Spider-Man' Musical

​Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark director Julie Taymor has finally had enough of the Broadway show's complications and has chosen to step down from her position, according to Rolling Stone.For the time being, Taymor will still be the director and co-writer of the show, but she will no longer be pres ... More >>

The 10 Stupidest Music Stories of 2010

​Every year a few ridiculous stories get squeezed in between the serious ones. In honor of the year coming to a close, it's time to poke some fun at those who entertained us by making the stupidest headlines in music news in 2010.In no particular order, here are some real winners... err, well, act ... More >>

Musicals by the Most Prominent Bands Are All the Rage

​In between stops on a seemingly never ending tour, Bono and The Edge of U2 have been composing the music and lyrics for the Broadway show "Spiderman." The idea to get involved in a musical also struck a chord with Green Day. They're currently prepping for their show American Idiot, in which Billi ... More >>

IRS Picking Up Where George Clooney Left Off; Offering Immediate Tax Relief for Donations to Haiti

www.telegraph.co.uk George Clooney at Friday night's "Hope for Haiti" fundraiser ​If George Clooney and Bono didn't woo you into donating money to the Haiti relief effort on Friday night, Uncle Sam might. The Internal Revenue Service is offering immediate tax relief for any cash  ... More >>

Roxy Music DVD Offers History of Influential Act that Mixed Art, Rock and High Style

Eagle Rock Entertainment​ Not just any band could have their praises sung by fellow musicians as disparate as Bono, Siouxsie Sioux and Chic's Nile Rodgers, but then Roxy Music were not like any other band. Emerging from Great Britain in the early 1970s, U2's lead singer remembers Roxy like ... More >>

Concert Review: U2 Gets Intimate in Glendale

Luke Holwerda​There's something inherently incongruous about the serene, relentlessly thoughtful music U2 made at its creative peak and the stadium-sized spectacle that came to Glendale last night. Sure, the band has been one of the few extant rock acts capable of (nearly) selling-out football fie ... More >>

New Vampire Weekend, Crystal Antlers at Ruby Room, Blur Reunion Video, Touch and Go Book

Electric Mustache: Photos: Crystal Antlers at The Ryhthm Room 6/8/2009 Spin: Vampire Weekend's New Record: "Higher, Lower, Faster! Spin: Blur post rehearsal footage online - video Rolling Stone: U2's Bono and the Edge Talk "Spider-Man" Musical Pitchfork: The Smashing Pumpkins Hire a 19-Year-Old ... More >>

Bloc Party Packs Them In At The Marquee

In their review of Bloc Party's latest record Intimacy, the guys over at Pitchfork went in to a long and arduous comparison between the band and U2. I didn't really see it, until last night's show at The Marquee.Playing for an impressively packed house - Sunday night shows are risky in Phoenix, whic ... More >>

31 Knots

Worried Well
(Polyvinyl)

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Jesus Christ Superstars

Choral group is bigger than Bono

Music for the Eyes

A bevy of new music DVDs, just in time for the holidays

In Honor of Thanksgiving: The Top Music Turkeys of 2007

"Weird Al" Yankovic @ Veterans Memorial Coliseum at the Arizona State Fair, Tuesday, October 16 (with cheeky interview bonus)

Chasing Cohen

He's covered

Dreams of Syndication

Mat Kearney

Holy crossover

Letters

Letters from the week of April 28, 2005

World Leaders Pretend

U2's self-invented legacy is a figment of Bono's imagination

I ♥ Bono

How to deconstruct U2's Bomb? Let Mom review it.

Joshua Treat

Achtung, baby: U2 tribute band plays The Venue

Bebel Gilberto

Portugese sensation crosses genres and the Arizona desert

The Corrs

Borrowed Heaven
(Atlantic)

Gun in the Sun

Papago's blast from the past

Magic and Gloss

Producer of geniuses Daniel Lanois whips out his pedal-steel and goes it alone on Shine

U2

The Best & B-Sides of 1990-2000 (Island)

Play Nicely

Don't ask Moby about his business

Paul Oakenfold

Bunkka (Maverick)

Nine Inch Nails

And All That Could Have Been (Nothing)

Hunger Strike

Can a non-9/11 benefit album make any noise?

Letters

From the week of November 15–21, 2001

Marketing Misery

Is Saint Durst the new, limp Bono?

The Fire and the Flame

For U2 fans feeling burned by the group's excesses, the band's latest album and tour is a soul-affirming revival

Oasis and U2

Familiar to Millions (Epic Records) and All That You Can't Leave Behind (Interscope)

Oh Bury Me Not

Johnny Cash sings of Love, God, Murder and how all three make him a legend

Molten Wax

Second Coming

Sunny Day Real Estate reunites to find that its myth has grown exponentially

Eclipse of the Sonny

Sonny Bono's 1967 solo debacle captured the moment when pop music passed him by

Bono Fide

Pop Stops the Traffic

U2 still hasn't found what it's looking for--but has it given up trying?

STRANGERS IN THE STUDIOSINATRA FANS MIGHT WONDER-WHY DIDN'T HE DUET IN THE FLESH?

Style Counseling

How to get musically postmodern without really trying