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 ...

U2’s catalog ranks right up there with the best of any rock band in history. Even on albums that were relatively middling (at least compared to the imposing standard set by some of their masterworks), ...

U2's new album How To Re-Assemble An Atomic Bomb debuts on a trio of charts in the U.K. this week, just after How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb returned. (MANDATORY CREDIT Koh Hasebe/Shinko Music/Getty ...

Shortly after the release of 2004’s How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, I asked Bono about U2’s place in contemporary music. “We’re a wedding band now,” he said decisively. Before I could inquire about ...

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 ...

U2 albums have long involved drawn-out sessions and an excess of material – a lot of it hears the light of day but enough from 2004's How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb's sessions to birth a whole ...