U2 this morning announced a “final” concert on this summer’s second North American leg of its massive 360° Tour: June 3 in Salt Lake City, a date that now becomes the opening night of the Bono and Co.’s 2010 return to the U.S.

[tweetmeme]Few things are more reminiscent of ’80s pop culture than the type of celebrity do-goodery that sprouted up in the aftermath of the earthquake that smashed Haiti last week, particularly in the form of “Hope for Haiti,” Friday’s star- studded, multi-network telethon featuring George Clooney in the Bob Geldof role, and old hands Bono, Bruce [...]

[tweetmeme]For a lot of us, the go-to New Year’s song is, somewhat unimaginatively, U2’s “New Year’s Day.” Yet while I’ve always associated U2 with New Year’s, it’s for a very different reason: my nearly worn-out bootleg of the band’s Dec. 31, 1989, concert at the Point Depot in Dublin, which was broadcast live across Eastern [...]

[tweetmeme]As you may have seen, the Sundance Channel’s talk ‘n’ roll show “Spectacle: Elvis Costello With…” returned for a second season last week with a top-notch episode featuring U2’s Bono and The Edge. To mark the occasion, the fine folks at Sundance have generously provided Slicing Up Eyeballs with the following prize pack to give [...]

[tweetmeme]The second season of Elvis Costello’s excellent rock ‘n’ talk show “Spectacle” premiered this week on the Sundance Channel with a pair of very special guests: U2’s Bono and The Edge. True to form, the host and guests took the stage together and separately, most raucously on a show-closing mash-up of the former’s “Pump It [...]

As U2 played the final notes of “Moment of Surrender” to close its Rose Bowl webcast tonight, the band’s management unveiled the second North American leg of its colossal 360° Tour: 12 concerts in U.S. and Canadian stadiums next June and July.
The band will open the 2010 portion of its global tour June 6 in [...]

Stadium headliners U2 did something pretty unusual last night: Bono and Co. served as a backing band for longtime friend Gavin Friday at the Irish singer’s AIDS fundrasier “An Evening With Gavin Friday and Friends” at New York’s Carnegie Hall. Above, you can see the night’s finale, as Friday — former leader of goth-punk act [...]

[tweetmeme]U2’s 25th anniversary reissue of The Unforgettable Fire will include a pair of tracks left over from that album’s 1983 sessions, as well as b-sides, remixes, material from the Wide Awake in America EP and a DVD of videos and live performances.
Due out Oct. 27 in the U.S., the 1984 album  — like 2007’s expanded [...]

U2’s colossal 360 Tour made its U.S. debut last night in Chicago, but for some of the band’s brainer fans, the real intellectual action starts next month at U2: The Hype and the Feedback, the world’s first academic conference devoted to the Irish megaband.
Set for Oct. 2-4 at North Carolina Central University in Durham, N.C., [...]

While U2 still hasn’t unveiled the tracklist for its forthcoming deluxe reissue of The Unforgettable Fire, Bono and The Edge did discuss the project publicly for the first time — and preview one of the set’s unreleased tracks — during a visit to BBC Radio 1 this week.
Until this week, the band had only announced [...]