Bambi Lee Savage has been one of the music industry’s best-kept secrets for nearly three decades. A Florida native, she played with a string of underground punk bands during the ‘80s before moving to Berlin, where she worked as an audio engineer on landmark albums like U2’s Achtung Baby and Nick Cave and the Bad [...]

Last night at the The Living Room in New York City, U2 frontman Bono dropped in on his fellow Irishman Glen Hansard, and joined him for a song. Uber-music fan Billie Joe Sheehan was one of the lucky few who caught the Bono guest appearance. Here’s her report. Over the years, I’ve seen hundreds of [...]

The mesmerizing 37-minute jam session recently posted on Neil Young’s website is in fact “Horse Back,” a hodgepodge of songs performed by Neil Young and his backing band, Crazy Horse. Neil Young has now confirmed that he has completed an album with the band, and expects a spring release. Ben Kweller tells the New York [...]

U2 From The Sky Down (Interscope) Rating: U2 is clearly again at a major crossroads in its career and has entered a self-evaluation process. To compound the sense of revisionism, the group has released a film on DVD entitled From The Sky Down, which received its theatrical debut at the Toronto Film Festival. Directed by [...]

We’re giving away a copy of From The Sky Down (in stores January 24), which documents the creation of U2′s groundbreaking 1991 album Acthung Baby. All you have to do is enter the contest below, and tell us your favorite U2 song or lyric and why. You’ll be eligible to win a copy of From [...]

Various Artists The Best of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame & Museum Live (Time/Life) Rating: Three songs into The Best of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame & Museum Live, the soul comes out, via one Rev. Al Green. He gives the performance of his life on “A Change is Gonna Come,” [...]

During a hometown show on December 31, 1989, Bono took a minute to air his band’s dirty laundry. U2 had entered the final stretch of the Lovetown Tour, launched earlier that year to help promote Rattle And Hum, and the guys were beyond exhausted. There were family issues to deal with; Bono’s wife had given birth to [...]

Hello, hello. If you’re a U2 fan, you’ll want to enter this contest before you can count to catorce. We’re giving away one copy of U2′s Achtung Baby Deluxe Edition, which includes the original album and a second disc of bonus tracks. Click the button below for contest details.  

British rock journal Q will release a tribute to U2′s Acthung Baby, in conjunction with the album’s 20 year anniversary reissue. Among the artists covering songs from the landmark album are Third Man Records impresario Jack White and Irish folk singer Damien Rice, who tackle “Love Is Blindness” and “One,” respectively. Listen to their covers [...]

In conjunction with U2′s Achtung Baby 20th Anniversary reissue that’s coming down the pike, Q Magazine has commissioned an album of corresponding covers, featuring the likes of Patti Smith (“Until The End Of The World’), Damien Rice (“One”), Jack White (“Love Is Blindness”) and Depeche Mode (“So Cruel”). Says Bono: “It’s strange, because when I [...]

Most know Achtung Baby as a turning point for Irish megastars U2. The band’s seventh studio album, produced by Daniel Lanois, Brian Eno and Steve Lillywhite, won a Grammy for Best Rock Performance and propelled U2′s career into the ’90s. Now approaching its twentieth anniversary, the October 31 reissue of Achtung Baby features previously unreleased [...]

In 1981, U2 played Vanderbilt’s Underwood Stadium. Then, they took a break. Until 2011, that is. On July 2nd, U2 played their second-ever gig in Music City. And it was a doozy. If there was ever a time when Bono was in better voice, or the band sounded fuller and more on their game, we’re [...]