U2 had started working on Horizon in 2006 with producer Rick Rubin, but the group soon abandoned those sessions and reconvened in May 2007 with longtime collaborators Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois.

And then there’s the record’s stunning cover. According to the band, the photograph was taken by Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto and represents “an image of the sea meeting the sky.” There’s also an ...

In between these two eras, U2 embarked on a trajectory that fans and critics found mystifying. Their dance-oriented 1997 album Pop received mixed reviews, but many fans found it too experimental, ...

Brian Eno’s influence on No Line on the Horizon is marked. Not only did he produce the album, but he also took part in the songwriting process, which explains why the majority of the songs are ...

Get On Your Boots, the first single from U2’s new album No Line On The Horizon, will be released as a digital download on February 15th with a physical format to ...

Contact Daniel Kreps on X Contact Daniel Kreps by Email There’s also talk on the U2.com message board that the band has planned a secret show in Boston. The band does have a history of bustinhg out ...

Plenty of people have already written eulogies for the compact disc now that iTunes is the number one U.S. music retailer, and CD sales are in a death spiral. But U2 is making an excellent case for ...

U2 fans are a fickle bunch. Some like every song and B-side the band has produced since they first started releasing 7-inch singles 30 years ago. Full disclosure: I think that Zooropa and Pop are two ...

U2 always has approached rock as a tradition worth honoring through acts of reconfiguration and renewal. Or, to put it another way: Draw new lines on the horizon. From the first, U2 was more fervently ...

Plenty of people have already written eulogies for the compact disc now that iTunes is the number one U.S. music retailer, and CD sales are in a death spiral. Plenty of people have already written ...

The great thing about Irish rockers U2 is their consistency; if you’re not thrilled with a progressive new album of theirs, you can always take solace in the fact that an even newer, more progressive ...

When he was 20, Brian Eno scribbled a phrase in a notebook that later proved relevant to his entire career: “The edges around nothing.” As the writer and Roxy Music biographer Michael Bracewell has ...