The La’s ‘Callin’ All’ 4CD, 91-track box set to feature unreleased rarities, live cuts

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The short career of enigmatic Liverpool indie-pop act The La’s will be celebrated this spring with Callin’ All, a four-disc, 91-track box set that compiles singles, b-sides, unreleased outtakes and live material — and no fewer than six versions of ‘There She Goes,’ the band’s signature tune.

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U2 shipping ‘Artificial Horizon’ exclusive remix CD to fan-club members

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U2 today informed fans that it has begun shipping copies of ‘Artificial Horizon,’ the free remix album being sent to paying members of the band’s website.

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U2 taps Interpol, Lenny Kravitz, Fray to open 360° Tour in North America this summer

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U2 today announced that Lenny Kravitz, The Fray and Interpol will open most of the band’s 360° Tour stadium concerts in North America this summer when the massive trek returns for a second round.

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U2 announces ‘final’ North American 360° Tour concert in Salt Lake City

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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.

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Grammy shut out: Depeche Mode, U2, Pet Shop Boys, Elvis Costello denied awards

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Rough night for the handful of ’80s college-rock vets nominated for Grammy Awards this year: Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys, U2, Elvis Costello, David Byrne and Brian Eno, and Ministry all were shut out tonight for trophies in their respective categories, losing, in most cases, to more current acts.

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Video: U2’s The Edge soundchecks solo in this ‘It Might Get Loud’ deleted scene

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Last year’s six-string doc “It Might Get Loud” was a must-see for fans of U2’s The Edge, Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin or The White Stripes’ Jack White — or anyone, really, who appreciates loud rock guitar. The film’s out on DVD now, and here’s one of the deleted scenes that appears as bonus on the disc: It’s four minutes’ worth of The Edge soundchecking solo, running through concert staples “Until the End of the World,” “Pride (In the Name of Love”) and “Bad” alone on guitar, with just the aid of his foot-triggered console of effects.

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‘And may your dreams be realized…’

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The Cure, Pixies, U2, Morrissey, Depeche Mode top list of most-viewed stories of 2009

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[tweetmeme]As we start a new year, it’s worth one last look back at 2009, the inaugural year for Slicing Up Eyeballs. This site launched Feb. 20, so we don’t yet have a full year of data — although there were 396 posts during that period. Listed below are the top 10 most-viewed stories of the [...]

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Vintage Video: U2 rings out the 1980s with New Year’s gig at Dublin’s Point Depot

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[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 [...]

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U2 ‘Artificial Horizon’ fan club CD features 13 remixes by likes of Trent Reznor, Jacknife Lee

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U2 today announced that its upcoming fan club CD will be titled Artificial Horizon and will feature 13 remixes of the band’s latter-period work by the likes of Trent Rreznor and David Holmes — including some that haven’t been released previously.

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