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Tebow, Bono, & Jesus
January 10, 2012 · 4 Comments
After skidding to an 8-8 regular season record and enduring mass media scrutiny from Saturday Night Live comedians to sports statisticians, Tim Tebow and the Denver Broncos were expected to fall hard at home in the Wild Card round of the NFL playoffs. Everyone predicted them to be bloody Bronco meat, losing at the feet of defending AFC champion Pittsburgh Steelers. Instead, Tebow, the Denver Broncos, and their legion of fans are praising God after reaching the mountaintop of a another mile high miracle in a 29-23 overtime... [Read the full story]
U2 News
Bono Announces the Beginning of the End of AIDS
December 3, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Bono finally made an appearance on the Daily Show, but it wasn’t to talk about the Achtung Baby rerelease. For World AIDS Day this year, we couldn’t turn on our television without seeing Bono on a variety of programs, on just about every channel. Collaborating with celebrities, corporate leaders, and the last three US presidents under the umbrellas of the ONE and (Red) campaigns, Bono announced what he’s calling the beginning of the end of AIDS. Bono explained the moment to CNN, “Thirty years, 30 million funerals... [Read the full story]
U2 Shows
Bono & Edge Busk For Bill Clinton & Other Bigshots At The Hollywood Bowl
October 26, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Officially tagged “A Decade of Difference: A Concert Celebrating 10 Years of the William J. Clinton Foundation,” the former US President invited the likes of Lady Gaga to perform at this gala event in the Hollywood Bowl back on October 15. U2’s frontman and guitarist gave this gig their all in a stripped down “Irish busker” mode that included lots of buzzed Bono banter and the live debut of “A Man And A Woman” that, like the rest of the set, included an intoxicated and improvisational vibe and a bleepy backing... [Read the full story]
Concerts/Festivals
Angel of Georgia: Lizz Wright Live
October 10, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Georgia-native Lizz Wright lights up rooms with her smile, style, and sound. Tapping jazz, rock, folk, soul, R&B, and social justice freedom songs to create a fluid repertoire, Wright mixes nighttime sultry and slink with her Sunday’s best altar-call alto to take listeners to the brink of utter brilliance. Raised with roots in the southern church, gospel music and the gospel give her a natural gravity and grace, blending terrestrial and celestial grooves and moods in a seamless secular-sacred stew of stunning flavor... [Read the full story]
Intermedia: Reviews/Views
Wake Up Weary & Sleepy! The Foxes Are In Town!
November 1, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Sleepy Eyed Fox strike a chord at the core of all that music wants to be and could be and never quite achieves unless we’re willing to believe. Five folks (three of them siblings) and eleven songs are suddenly all that we need. Dropped from the heavens in a gesture of apparent effortlessness yet obviously sweaty effort, Weary Hearts wakes tired sleepers so sick of another generation of great musicians going down the dark alley that their ancestors warned them about. Dropped onto disc at a studio near Nashville in a folksy,... [Read the full story]
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U2 Commentary, Essays, & Analysis
Tebow, Bono, & Jesus
After skidding to an 8-8 regular season record and enduring mass media scrutiny from Saturday Night Live comedians to sports statisticians, Tim Tebow and the Denver Broncos were... [Read more]
Holiday Message: Love Rescue Me
Edtior’s note: We were thrilled to stumble across this Christmas Day tribute to the song “Love Rescue Me,” reprinted here by permission of the author and blogger Joshua M.... [Read more]
More Real Than The Better Thing: Of Achtung Baby Myths & Meanings
“And this of course is at the heart of the idea of redemption: to begin again. . . . I wish to begin again on a daily basis. To be born again every day is something that I try... [Read more]
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U2 News, Reviews, & Shows
Bono Announces the Beginning of the End of AIDS
Bono finally made an appearance on the Daily Show, but it wasn’t to talk about the Achtung Baby rerelease. For World AIDS Day this year, we couldn’t turn on our television... [Read more]
Bono Envy And The Box Office
Editor’s Note: In addition to making its rounds on DVD, online, and on pay-per-view TV, the new film Killing Bono, based in part on the writing of Neil McCormick, is enjoying... [Read more]
Bono & Edge Busk For Bill Clinton & Other Bigshots At The Hollywood Bowl
Officially tagged “A Decade of Difference: A Concert Celebrating 10 Years of the William J. Clinton Foundation,” the former US President invited the likes of Lady Gaga to perform... [Read more]
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Intermedia: Reviews, Views, Etc.
Sleepy Eyed Fox strike a chord at the core of all that music wants to be and could be and never quite achieves unless we’re willing to believe. Five... [Read more]
People can change, musically. There was a time when, if it didn’t have a double-bass drum beat or wild guitar solos, I was not interested. That is to... [Read more]
No, it’s not some sort of tongue-in-cheek inside joke. Pearl Jam front-man Eddie Vedder has called his second solo album Ukulele Songs because that’s... [Read more]
The review-as-press-release-quipping-common-wisdom concerning the rock kings of the Kentucky hills on their sixth studio release implies that it’s the... [Read more]
Featured Shows and Festivals
Georgia-native Lizz Wright lights up rooms with her smile, style, and sound. Tapping jazz, rock, folk, soul, R&B, and social justice freedom songs... [Read more]
‘Ole Ole Ole Ole… Red Hot, Red Hot’ With non-stop chants and constant clamoring, 45,000 people greeted the Red Hot Chili Peppers back... [Read more]
In the three years that Bon Iver has been on the scene, front man Justin Vernon has implanted his sound in the collective consciousness of people across... [Read more]
Trekking down to Manchester, Tennessee for another music festival touches the body and soul like embarking on a mission trip or a fishing trip or a combat... [Read more]