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Here comes all the news about the upcoming U2 album (lots of pictures and images!)

January 11, 2023January 11, 2023 Alan Cross 0 Comments New Album, Songs of Surrender, U2

It’ll be called Songs of Surrender and will feature 40 songs from U2’s past re-recorded and re-imagined. Whether this exercise

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Music News 

We might get a new U2 album any second now (Okay, not quite. But soon.)

January 9, 2023January 9, 2023 Alan Cross 1 Comment New Album, Songs of Surrender, U2

U2 fans worldwide are freaking out as a select number of them started receiving letters–actual physical in-the-mailbox letters–introducing a new

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Recommended Music 

Peter Gabriel reveals a single from an album that’s been in the works for twenty years

January 6, 2023January 8, 2023 Alan Cross 5 Comments I/O, New Album, Panopticon, Peter Gabriel

Peter Gabriel fans have been waiting for a new album for a couple of decades. His most recent record featuring

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Poll 

This week’s survey question is a hard one about U2

August 29, 2022August 29, 2022 Alan Cross 3 Comments New Album, U2

U2 has been a going concern since September 1976 when a bunch of schoolboys gathered in Larry Mullen Jr’s parents’

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Music News 

Rumours about TWO new albums from U2 pick up steam

July 29, 2022July 29, 2022 Alan Cross 2 Comments Las Vegas, New Album, Re-worked Songs, Songs of Surrender, U2

Earlier this month, the Red Hot Chili Peppers announced that they were going to release a second album in 2022

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Music Industry 

Are we getting a brand new album from Kate Bush this fall? Hear me out.

July 12, 2022July 13, 2022 Alan Cross 4 Comments Hidden Pearls, Kate Bush, Muspy, New Album

Kate Bush is all the rage today, thanks to the resurrection of “Running Up That Hill” via Stranger Things. In

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Recommended Music 

Muse is still in a dystopian mood with their new single, “Compliance” (and the album looks dark, too)

March 17, 2022March 18, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Authoritarianism, Dystopian, Matt Bellamy, Muse, New Album

Matt Bellamy apparently had a rough time with COVID and is most concerned with the rise of authoritarianism around the

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Music News 

Arcade Fire is teasing music in a REALLY clever way

March 4, 2022March 4, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Arcade Fire, Marketing, New Album

Arcade Fire knows a thing or two about marketing, especially when it comes to building hype around a new release.

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Recommended Music 

Green Day continues to tease new music involving the “1972” project

February 25, 2022February 25, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1972, Green Day, New Album

Green Day has been posting clips of them working in the studio, so it’s safe to assume that we’ll see

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Music News 

KIALLA is releasing a coronavirus album created in real time

March 24, 2020March 24, 2020 Amber Healy 0 Comments Coronavirus, Epidemic Music Group, KIALLA, Kovid-19 Marathon, Music, New Album

We’ve all seen the artists live-streaming performances in the past week, an effort to remain sharp and creative while providing

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Cool! 

Stoked for Ozzy’s new album? Prove it with ink

February 8, 2020February 7, 2020 Amber Healy 0 Comments Montreal, New Album, Ozzy Osbourne, Tattoo, Toronto

It’s the kind of media stunt that’s so obvious and so good, you wonder why it didn’t happen earlier.  Ozzy

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