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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Rhinestone Cowboy is trying on some more fashionable threads.
Country singer/guitarist Glen Campbell is following in the footsteps of artists such as Johnny Cash and Neil Diamond by recording a new album designed to inspire a new generation of fans.
“Meet Glen Campbell,” due in stores on August 19, features covers of tunes originally performed by the likes of the Foo Fighters (”Times Like These”), U2 (”All I Want Is You”), and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (”Walls”), his Capitol Records label said on Tuesday. Read the rest of this story »
After an Easter break, U2 is back in the studio in Dublin to work on its next album with producers Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois. “Everyone [is] still hoping the new album will be out this year,” reads a post on U2.com.
The as-yet-untitled disc will be followed by a 2009 tour, U2’s first since recently cementing a 12-year deal with Live Nation Artists.
In other U2 news, Universal has set a July 22 release for remastered, expanded editions of the band’s first three albums: “Boy” (1980), “October” (1981) and “War” (1983).
Guitarist the Edge is overseeing the reissues, which will include the original album on a single-disc, 180-gram vinyl and in a two-CD package featuring B-sides, rare tracks and live material.
The reissue program began last fall with “The Joshua Tree,” which featured a previously unreleased video for “Red Hill Mining Town” and a host of other rarities.
National Geographic is the distributor handling U2-3D, the new concert film from the legendary Bono-led band. The rookie distributor is managing to grab virtually all of the nation’s Digital 3D locations (although likely short of the number that the recent Hannah Montana from Disney opened on). There is no tracking available for U2-3D, and it’s difficult to tell how high the awareness is for this movie-going experience. I suspect that $10,000-$12,000 per location is possible, a far cry from Hannah’s $45,000+ PTA on opening weekend, but still an impressive $6M-$8M for the weekend.
Bono has insisted that the new U2 album will be “radical and uncompromising”.
The singer claimed he couldn’t give any details away but argued that it wouldn’t be worth the band’s time producing a record that was anything less than “great”.
Speaking at the European premiere of U23D, he said: “Who needs another U2 album unless it’s a really great piece of rock ‘n’ roll? You young people better watch out!
“We have to do something really extraordinary to be able to get out of bed these days.”
He added: “If I told you [about the album] I’d have to kill you. And if I did tell you they’d probably have to kill me too.”
Producer Daniel Lanois revealed earlier this week that the Irish rockers had begun work on the follow-up to 2004’s How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb.
Bono & Co. jump out to fans and foes alike in new, 3-D movie
The foremost question viewers will probably find themselves asking before putting on their special glasses and settling in to watch “U2 3-D” is: “Who is the intended audience for this movie?”
If you have never been to a U2 concert, are not a U2 fan or just find that sunglasses-at-night-wearing, globetrotting, world-saving force of nature and frontman of the world’s biggest rock band, Bono, to be extremely obnoxious, then you might be surprised by “U2 3-D.” Read the rest of this story »
The European premiere of U2’s long-awaited ‘3D Vertigo Tour’ concert film will be screened in the band’s native city tonight.
Hundreds of fans are expected to turn up to Parnell Street’s Cineworld in the heart of Dublin as speculation mounts the rock legends will put in an appearance.
The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah last month.
While it is still unclear if frontman Bono and members The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jnr will make an appearance, it was confirmed the film’s director Catherine Owens will be present.
Shot in South America, the film uses the latest technology allowing band members to appear to leap off the screen and is the first digital 3D multi-camera production.
It is being screened as part of the Dublin International Film Festival.
The world’s greatest rock band, U2, is starring in the first ever live action digital 3D film, which premieres at South Africa’s first new generation 3D digital cinemas on 22 February.
“U2 3D” will screen at Ster-Kinekor Classic the Zone in Rosebank and Ster-Kinekor Classic Gateway in Durban.
The film is described as “a unique cinematic experience that places viewers within the pulsing energy of a stadium concert given by the world’s most popular band” by Ster-Kinekor Theatres Marketing Executive Michelle Roodt. “Marrying innovative digital 3-D imagery and multi-channel surround sound with the excitement of a live U2 concert – shot in South America during the final leg of their ‘Vertigo’ tour – the film creates an immersive theatrical experience unlike any 3-D or concert film that has come before. Ushering in a new dimension of filmmaking, U2 3D takes viewers on an extraordinary journey they will never forget.” Read the rest of this story »
Following the success of the 25th Anniversary of the classic ‘Joshua Tree’ album last year, Island Records plan to kick start releasing the U2 back catalogue with ‘Boy’ on May 20.
Originally released in 1980, the Irish band’s debut album failed to reach to UK charts but it could fair a lot better this time with an extra CD available alongside a re-mastered version of the original.
Music - News - Bono: New U2 album will be extraordinary - Digital Spy
Bono has claimed that U2’s new album is going to be “extraordinary” and that it will sound completely different to anything that has been heard before.
The frontman revealed that the band’s new sound has been inspired by a visit to Morocco last year.
Bono told the Independent: “Normally when you play a U2 tune, it clears the dance floor. And that may not be true of this. There’s some trance influences. But there’s some very hardcore guitar coming out of The Edge. Real molten metal.
“It’s not like anything we’ve ever done before, and we don’t think it sounds like anything anyone else has done either.”
The singer explained that going to a religious music festival in Fez, Morocco helped them write new material. He said: “It was a real humbling thing for a punk rock shouter, listening to these people who just close their eyes for 40 minutes and sing the most sophisticated melodies.”
He added: “We have enough material for two albums but it has to be extraordinary. And I think we’ve got that.”
“The Joshua Tree will prove a braver and better record than anything else that’s likely to appear in 1987″ NME
U2’s The Joshua Tree has been meticulously remastered from the original analogue master tapes to mark 20 years since its release.
“There has been continuous demand from U2 fans to have The Joshua Tree properly re-mastered,” says Paul McGuinness. “As always, the band had to make sure it was right, and now it is.”
The album will be available in four formats:
• A standard CD featuring liner notes from Bill Flanagan, lyrics and unseen photographs from long time collaborator Anton Corbijn.
• A double 12″ gatefold vinyl format, with the original album pressed across two 180 gram audiophile discs.
• A deluxe edition including a second CD of b-sides and demos from the original album sessions.
• A limited edition box set containing two CD’s and a DVD featuring The Joshua Tree Tour live from the Hippodrome in Paris and other rare video footage.
The CD track listing is as follows: Where The Streets Have No Name, I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For, With Or Without You, Bullet The Blue Sky, Running To Stand Still, Red Hill Mining Town, In God’s Country, Trip Through Your Wires, One Tree Hill, Exit and Mothers Of The Disappeared.
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