Thus was born in Mullen's home the band U2 -- well, almost. The Irish teens didn't choose that name right away; after calling themselves the Hype and the Feedback, the quartet settled on U2, an ...

You can go too far down a musical path, even one that’s been effective for you in the past. It’s a lesson that U2 learned a few times in their career. When they applied that lesson again on their 2000 ...

U2 have announced reissues of 1985’s Wide Awake In America EP, 1997’s Pop, and 2000’s All That You Can't Leave Behind. All three are due out April 13. Wide Awake In America is a four-track EP with ...

U2 took to the streets of New York to launch "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" in 2004. WireImage for Interscope Records They still hadn’t found what they were looking for. So a desperate U2 made a ...

The new U2 album is on track to exceed industry forecasts by selling almost half a million copies during its first week on sale in the United States, according to the band's manager. By Reuters, The ...

First-week sales of U2’s “No Line on the Horizon” brought the superstar rock band back down to Earth. The album, given the band’s stature and sales history, was essentially preordained to debut atop ...

U2's The Edge has cited Led Zeppelin and Jack White as influences on the band's new album No Line On The Horizon. Speaking to Rolling Stone, the guitarist said that he is a big fan of Led Zeppelin's ...

An unfinished copy of U2’s upcoming CD disappeared while the band was posing for the album cover, in a studio outside Nice, France, raising fears it will be pirated on the Internet ahead of its fall ...