For some people, U2's recent tour circling the anniversary of "The Joshua Tree" — a landmark rock album that goes beyond being just U2's defining album to being one of the most acclaimed LPs of all ...

Explore U2's journey through 15 studio albums, ranked from essential masterpieces to experimental misfires, celebrating 50 years of the iconic band's music.

Since the early 1980s, U2 has been a force on the international music scene: Hall of Famers who have managed to lead the alternative rock charge, reinvent its sound, then revert back to what made the ...

49 years ago, the rock band U2 came to fruition and took the rock world by storm. A group of teenagers in the middle of Dublin could never have conceived of the impact they would have when they joined ...

Three things on this dying planet are certain: death, taxes and the reliable appearance of a new U2 album every three to five years until the end of time. With a new U2 album upon us—Songs of ...

U2 have announced a new album, Songs of Surrender, for which they’ve re-recorded 40 tracks from across their back catalogue with new arrangements. Select fans have received physical photocopies of a ...

When the members of U2 decided to rediscover their past, they enlisted Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews as one of their guides. U2’s new album, “Songs of Surrender,” features radically altered versions ...

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 ...

That debut set the stage for one of the planet's biggest and best bands by tying its post-punk musical attack into a loosely structured concept album about innocence and idealism. It's a formula that ...

In some ways, U2 have had a fairytale existence unheard of in rock music. Paul “Bono” Hewson, David “The Edge” Evans, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. began making music together, with two more ...