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Results for U2U2 put rock to work for revolution. A post-punk Irish band that was formed in 1976 before punk actually reached Dublin, the quartet of Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen, Jr. has maintained an edgy political undertone to its music throughout its p-punk, America-influenced and electronic glam-rock phases. Frontman Bono's causes, political passions and memberships have gone a long way towards keeping the band in the public eye, but it's the music that exerts U2's gravitational pull....more
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by Paul Williams•June 18, 2008•
In the future, perhaps, everything will be digital, and we’ll be able to order videos of individual songs, which will be instantly transferred over phone lines to our combination personal computer/music disc/video disc player (and billed to our credit accounts at the same time). There will be a broadcast service, so we can be exposed to new product in the first place, but they’ll figure out some way that you can’t copy
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by Eric Weisbard•May 14, 2008•
Use Your Illusion, then, arguably marked the end of rock in the weird shape it had taken when the sixties ended: Mass culture masquerading as oppositional culture
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by Paul Williams•April 9, 2008•
What kind of a fan am I today? In some ways I’m unchanged, and I still look for and sometimes find in the music exactly whatever it was I hungered after when I was 16 (proof that the world is a passionate place; a friend in the lonely night; release for my anger, confusion, idealism, desire fear and love).
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by Mike Conklin•April 2, 2008•
It's been a pretty weird month for the music industry. Artists sued record labels, bands continued to release records in unusual new ways, giant soft-drink companies taunted dinosaur rock acts, one of the world's biggest bands signed a revolutionary new contract
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by Matt Gewolb•March 19, 2008•
"intelligent use of electronics in rock music"
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5/7/2007
RE: Shredders versus Jimi Hendrix
Excellent discussion, I regret joining after all the action - most likely, no...
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4/20/2007
Some comments, some questions, some thanks.
Great to see the downloads finally arrive with, to say the least,...
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4/9/2007
First... wow oh wow... just found this place. AMAZING. Thanks a million times!
Second... sorry if this is a repeat,...
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4/9/2007
How about a U2 forum?
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3/16/2007
I just wanted to say - that I think this is a fantastic idea/site... and the few shows I've listened to have been...
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