Spinner.com — Filed under: News Today, Oh Boy!Spinner.com: U2's tower-building plans have been shelved due to the global financial crisis. Plans to construct the 120-meter tower housing the band's studio on Dublin's docklands have been suspended for up to 12 mont... more info

Guardian Music — So much for Bono's bird's-eye view. The vaunted U2 Tower – a massive development planned for the Dublin docklands – was shelved on Friday, as Ireland slumps further into recession.After six years of negotiation and three rounds of archi... more info

Monsters and Critics — Liam Gallagher has blasted Kings of Leon for sounding like U2. more info

E! Online - Count U2 among the list of global economic casualties. more info

Guardian Music — It's often said that music doesn't divide into genres, that there is only good music and bad. There is one more operational subdivision: big music and its opposite. As a scurvyish guitar band, Razorlight started out making the latter. Their taut, pav... more info

E! Online - Count U2 among the list of global economic casualties. more info

AngryApe — Ireland's tallest building is temporarily stopped more info

Topix — The Dublin Docklands Development Authority said it remains committed to building the long-planned U2 Tower, but a souring economy at home and abroad means the project must be shelved. more info

AP - Plans to build the tallest building in Ireland — with new recording studios for Irish supergroup U2 on top — were suspended Friday because of Dublin's slumping property market and slide into recession. more info

Yahoo! Music — AP - Plans to build the tallest building in Ireland — with new recording studios for Irish supergroup U2 on top — were suspended Friday because of Dublin's slumping property market and slide into recession. more info