Stereogum — After noisily spamming your iTunes account with Songs Of Innocence, their turgid chore of a new album, U2 have quietly slid a few vinyl copies of the LP to a few independent retailers, just in time to qualify for next year’s Grammys. The album’s ... more info

MTV.co.uk News — Actor passes the buck to Oscars host over his tipsy antics... more info

The Independent — Their free iTunes album release might have played a part in Apple’s “PR disaster”, but U2 are determined to storm through the backlash with a 2015 arena tour. more info

NME — The band's last major tour was the ambitious U2 360° Tour of 2009 to 2011 more info

NME — Jim Sabey says that record sales are still "really important" more info

Nialler9 — In a world in which U2 give away an album and Beyoncé releases an A/V album, it’s natural other established musicians with fanbases eager to hear material will do something similar. In Thom Yorke’s case, given Radiohead’s background of experi... more info

NME — Drummer Larry Mullen Jr. embraces his son in black and white shot more info

Stereogum — U2′s test press album art for Songs Of Innocence was always meant to be temporary, and now the band has revealed the official artwork for the physical release of their thirteenth studio album. It’s a black-and-white photo of drummer Larry Mullen ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Jonathan Dick 'I grabbed hold of it, and the rhetoric of change was rock and roll, the platform for change was rock and roll, the desirability, the inevitability of change was rock and roll.' Bob Geldof and The Boomtown... more info

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