The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has announced the shortlists for Original Song and Original Score vying for Oscars nominations consideration. As Variety reports, the next phase of voting begins on Jan. 27 and ends Feb. 1. The official nominees for all the categories will be announced on …
Read More »U2 Are 'Firmly Locked in the Tower of Song' Working on New Album
U2 may be celebrating the 30th anniversary of Achtung Baby this month, but their focus is on the future as they continue to work on a follow-up to 2017’s Songs of Experience. Just minutes before the Edge hopped on Zoom with Rolling Stone last week to talk about some of …
Read More »Dierks Bentley Drops Surprise 'Live From Telluride' EP Featuring War & Treaty, Larkin Poe
Dierks Bentley’s collaborative performance with Larkin Poe and the War and Treaty at the 2021 ACM Awards was too good to be a one-off. “It’d be kind of hard to suck with that band onstage with you,” he told Rolling Stone during tour rehearsals this spring. “I was like the …
Read More »U2's the Edge on 'All That You Can't Leave Behind' at 20: 'It Was a Natural Moment to Reboot'
U2 had a lot to prove when they started work on 2000’s All That You Can’t Leave Behind. The electronic experimentation of 1997’s Pop turned off many longtime fans, and the album failed to generate any genuine hits. The PopMart stadium tour may have been a technical triumph, but there …
Read More »Inhaler: How an Asthmatic Irish Band Went From Talent Shows to Interscope
Irish rock band Inhaler got their name because of lead singer Elijah Hewson’s asthma. “Everybody saw the band as quite nerdy and geeky and we thought it was cool,” Hewson tells Rolling Stone. “I had asthma for a while and people just kind of started calling us the Inhalers. It …
Read More »U2 Brings 'Love is Bigger Than Anything in its Way' to Third Man Records
U2 performed a live, stripped-down version of “Love is Bigger Than Anything in its Way” from 2017’s Songs of Experience at Third Man Records. The band stopped in to record the track, which will be available on limited edition vinyl, during their Nashville, Tennessee Experience + Innocencestopover the weekend. “‘When …
Read More »U2 Detail Intimate Apollo Theater Concert
U2 will perform a special invitation-only concert at Harlem’s legendary Apollo Theater June 11th. SiriusXM will host the concert and broadcast the performance after it happens on channel 30. The Apollo concert will be a much more intimate show than U2‘s ongoing Experience + Innocence world tour, which includes an …
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