Last night Carnegie Hall hosted the biggest assortment of megastars this side of the Orpheum for a (RED)NIGHTS charity show, benefiting the Global Fund's efforts against the African AIDS epidemic.…   Read Story »

Bono and the Edge are composing music and lyrics for Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, opening on Broadway 2/18/10. This is a smart fall-back for U2 plan since the whole writing rock songs thing isn't…   Read Story »

War Child's latest covers compilation is shaping up to be the second best charity album of the year. Which is not that impressive since it's only January, but Heroes is still something to be excited…   Read Story »

Barack Obama was the eighth most frequently tagged "artist" on Stereogum in the past twelve months. That makes him even more popular than Animal Collective around here, and deservedly so: Animal…   Read Story »

Long before Bono began drunk blogging for the Times and investing $100 million in Palm Pilots, he fronted the U2s. They're still very, very popular. As mentioned here last month, the band's 12th…   Read Story »

The first of Bono's six Op-Ed donations to the NY Times (he's doing it free of charge) ran yesterday, using his relationship with Frank Sinatra and the Chairman's "My Way" as a platform to discuss…   Read Story »

U2's mouthpiece has been hired to write six to ten Op-Ed pieces for the Times in 2009. He'll reportedly be covering subjects like poverty, Africa, and Frank Sinatra. Of course, he's doing it for free.   Read Story »

Take our ink-stained hands and join us at the OldStand, where Jon McMillan goes to remind everyone what an honest-to-goodness music magazine is supposed to look like. Rolling Stone's second issue of…   Read Story »

It's (Consumer Electronics) Show time in Vegas, and last night's keynote address came packing a pop culture-savvy video designed to give some morale back to the John Hodgmanized ranks of the…   Read Story »