U2 Books Weeklong Letterman Gig

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Performances, Upcoming Releases, Rock

U2 will be making up for lost time.

Next month the band will be performing not once, not twice…but five times on the Late Show with David Letterman. The appearances, which come almost eight years after the group’s last visit to the program, will all happen over consecutive nights. This is a first for the CBS show.

The gigs have been scheduled for the week of March 2-6. Not so coincidentally, the band’s next album, No Line on the Horizon, will be released on March 3.

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U2’s New Album Cover and Tracklist Revealed

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Upcoming Releases, Rock

UPDATE: The first digital track was released earlier than scheduled. It can now be purchased on iTunes.

U2’s twelfth studio album has now been given an image to go with its name. No Line on the Horizon - with art courtesy of Japanese artist/photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto - marks the first time since 1993’s Zooropa that the band does not appear on the cover.

The LP’s first single, “Get On Your Boots,” can be purchased as a digital download beginning February 15th. Horizon will then be available on five different formats just two weeks later (March 3). Digipack versions will also include a film directed by Anton Corbijn.

A track listing for the new album can be found after the jump.

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U2 Set to Release New Album

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Concerts / Tours, Upcoming Releases

Next spring, U2 will show us all what they’ve been working on since dismantling a bomb.

Although the group had originally planned to complete its next project by the end of 2008, their 12th studio album is now scheduled for a March 3 release. (No Line on the Horizon will be available internationally on March 2.) The band’s desire to add more tracks is the reason for the delay.

“I met with the guys in U2, and they say to me, ‘You know what? This album needs two more songs, and it will be exactly what we have in mind.’ I go there and I listen, and I agreed with them,” Interscope-Geffen-A&M chairman Jimmy Iovine stated.

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