Music News Net — MUSIC NEWS - Neko Case's acclaimed new album Middle Cyclone, on Anti- Records has debuted at #3 on the Billboard Top 200, just behind U2 and Taylor Swift ! This marks the highest opening to date in 2009 by an... more info

Live Daily — (LiveDaily.com) It was a surreal scene: The biggest band in the world on one of the smallest stages in the Boston area, playing for a privileged room full of people whose attention was divided between rocking out to the fiery (albeit... continued more info

U2 shook a small city, and riled up a core of rabid fans, when it gave a private concert in a venue a tiny fraction of the size of the stadiums it plans to fill later this year. more info

U2 shook a small city, and riled up a core of rabid fans, when it gave a private concert in a venue a tiny fraction of the size ... more info

Guardian Music — The most expensive seats for Michael Jackson may be a modest £75, but that's irrelevant if you can only buy them at inflated pricesIt's a big year for big tours. Just last week Michael Jackson announced his "final" 10 shows at the O2 (before addin... more info

Allmusic Blog — Selling just under a half million copies in its first week, U2’s No Line on the Horizon topped the charts and became 2009’s biggest-selling album, more than doubling the sales of the previous champ, Bruce Springsteen’s Working on a Dream. It wa... more info

USA Today Music — U2 shook a small city, and riled up a core of rabid fans, when it gave a private concert in a venue a tiny fraction of the size ... more info

PopSugar UK — Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin were full of smiles yesterday, even though they're separated by continents. Chris, who is in Sydney for Coldplay's tour of Australia, has denied any rivalry with U2 by calling their album "f*****g brilliant", and Bono... more info

MTV.com News — 'We may go back to the clubs permanently,' Larry Mullen Jr. jokes following set.By Benjamin Wagner U2 perform at the Somerville Theatre in Boston on Wednesday Photo: MTV News BOSTON — "It was an unwieldy event," Bono told MTV News' Sway ... more info

Reuters — SOMERVILLE, Massachusetts (Reuters) - Irish band U2 gave a prelude to its upcoming world tour with a brief private show on Wednesday for just 950 fans who got a chance to make news by asking the band some tough questions. more info