Loading ...Like U2’s manager, Paul McGuinness, Bono firmly believes that all problems can be solved by haranguing people in power and pleading for charitable donations, rather than actually changing economic models. But one thing Bono won’t do is dis Radiohead, one of the few successful bands with any critical cachet whatsoever. So when McGuinness decided to call the Internet release of In Rainbows a failure, Bono felt it necessary to send a letter to NME making clear that while their manager doesn’t want the RIAA to consider these upstarts’ hair-brained schemes, U2 thinks the band are “courageous and imaginative,” etc., smooch smooch, let’s photo op with Barack sometime.
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Why Is Chris Martin Determined To Embarrass Everyone Who Likes “Viva La Vida?”
Wed Jun 11 2008 by anthonyjmiccio
Jessica Simpson Is Country Now, Y’all!
Wed May 28 2008 by anthonyjmiccio
Jessica Simpson’s always been a bit of Daisy Duke (yes that is ZZ Top with her above), but it’s still a little surprising to hear her abandoning pop, twanging up her voice and surrounding it with steel guitars on her new single, “Come On Over” (gee, that title seems oddly familiar). The song is blandly competent, but I just can’t get over the opening line, “Leave your dishes in the sink/ leave your ice cubes in your drink/ just come on over. Leave my ice cubes in my drink? As opposed to where, my nipples?
Wed May 28 2008 by anthonyjmiccio
The original line-up of Simple Minds, responsible for such presumably classic albums as Real To Real Cacophony and Sons And Fascination/Sister Feelings Call, is reuniting to record a couple songs and “see what happens.” More »
Wed May 28 2008 by anthonyjmiccio
The original line-up of Simple Minds, responsible for such presumably classic albums as Real To Real Cacophony and Sons And Fascination/Sister Feelings Call, is reuniting to record a couple songs and “see what happens.” More »
The Top Ten Not-Bonos
Wed May 28 2008 by anthonyjmiccio
The social conscience and strident voice of Bono has influenced many a singer over the last few decades. The U2 frontman successfully melded the earnest social conscience of Bruce Springsteen with the self-glorifying pomp of European arena acts, realizing that both the Common Man and King Dick were below Jesus on the food chain. Sure there was precedent, but Sting is handicapped by his ego (and jazz bass), while Ian McCullough wanted to be a romantic poet/sex object more than the messiah. Here are ten singers who, at their best (or worst), have aspired to the Almighty’s throne.
Coldplay’s iTunes Ad Somehow Not Worst Thing On TV
Thu May 22 2008 by anthonyjmiccio
Part of the reason I took my DVR recording of American Idol off fast-forward during the the above ad was to make my girlfriend groan about how much she hates Chris Martin and his stupid face. But the title track of Viva La Vida is actually getting stuck in my head in a more than pleasant way. Somebody’s figured out how to mix the Arcade Fire’s ornate bombast (it might be about the French Revolution!) with the usual Bonosity, and, well, maybe I was too quick to assume the new album was bound to stink. Then again, there are only two other singles by the group I can actually get all the way through. (And “Clocks” ain’t one of them.)
David Cook To Transform Into Bono For 90 Seconds Tonight
Tue May 20 2008 by Maura
A few more spoilers have started to trickle out about tonight’s American Idol pre-finale, including word that David Archuleta will reprise “Imagine” and David Cook is planning on singing U2’s “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For”–the first time a U2 song has been cleared for an Idol performance. (Perhaps this means that Bono is the big star Nigel Lythgoe was crowing about yesterday?) Also: Unlike last year, when Blake Lewis was forced to gut out “This Is My Now,” the two Davids have been given leeway to pick their own coronation songs from the songwriting contest’s top ten vote-getters. Their rumored picks, and other news bits, after the jump.
Fate Of EMI May Rest With Coldplay’s <em>Viva La Vida</em>. Bye-Bye, EMI!
Mon Apr 14 2008 by anthonyjmiccio
Record labels think of a “career act” as a reliable chart-topper with a rich catalog. Meanwhile, bands define themselves as “career acts” by spending six months in South American churches recording songs with Brian Eno that are named after Frida Kahlo paintings. This darling schism may not bode well for the folks at EMI records, who are praying that Coldplay’s upcoming album will sell at least as much as 2005’s X&Y. Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends doesn’t really ring like The Joshua Tree, and phrases like “indulging experimentation” probably aren’t what the label wants to hear either.
“Sonny Bono Assassinated!” Say FBI Agent, Tabloid
Fri Apr 4 2008 by anthonyjmiccio
Law officials, Sonny Bono’s family, and Eminem were all satisfied with the story that the Congressman and ex-Cher consort died after colliding with a tree while skiing in 1998. But according to former FBI agent Ted Gunderson, Bono may have been beat to death by “ruthless assassins” to keep him from releasing information that linked government officials to weapons dealers. Law & Order, Francis Ford Coppola–somebody get on this!
