Subject: Bono (Musician)

• Somewhere, Bono Is Screaming...

  November 10, 2006

• Fuck-off Friday: It’s Too Hot to Work Anyway

  August 10, 2007

• “Thunderstruck” on I-45

  August 22, 2007

• ACL Fest: Where the Streets Have No Name

  September 13, 2007

• Drenched In Blog: Bob Dylan, Robert Earl Keen, Billy Joe Shaver, Wilco and My Morning Jacket Round Out the Weekend

  September 17, 2007

• Drenched In Blog: Sir Mick's Greatest "Hits"

  October 4, 2007

• Get Lit: Fame Us: Celebrity Impersonators and the Cult(ure) of Fame, by Brian Howell

  January 20, 2008

• U23D Marq-E = OK

  February 11, 2008

• Ted Nugent Reloads, and Lots of Gun Songs

  May 30, 2008

• XM Nation: Catching Up and Moving On

  September 8, 2008

• Your Election Night Soundtrack

  November 4, 2008

• Aftermath: Coldplay at Toyota Center

  Photos by Mark C. Austin The problem with Chris Martin isn’t the fact that the Coldplay frontman writes lyrics that resemble something that might come from the diary of a seventh grader who sniffs magic markers (snow, it turns out, is white after all). No, it’s the fact that he almost forces people to take him so goddamn seriously. And the reason is simple: He is a a) rock star; b) a celebrity (or at least married to one); and c) a social activist. People often compare Martin’s motiv

  November 19, 2008

• Gazing Ahead into 2009, Part 2

  [Note: see here for Rocks Off's previous prognostications.]   U2 (March) Best Case Scenario: Armed with the backing of Live Nation, they release their best album in over a decade and Bono shuts his face as they sell out Reliant Stadium in two minutes. Worst Case Scenario: The recession (finally) hits the touring industry hard; people stay home and listen to The Joshua Tree drinking beer in their garage.

  December 31, 2008

• Retro Active: U2 Will Be With You Again

  Bono and Luciano Pavarotti, "Ave Maria" Every year, at almost exactly this time, if you're like me, you can't get U2's goddamned "New Year's Day" out of your head. And, if you're like me, it drives you insane, not because of the quality of the song, but ... well, yeah, it is the quality of the song. It's a great, stupendous and amazing song, full of life and optimism and righteousness and all that stuff that made us pay attention to U2 in the first place. But this year, as the publicity/market

  January 2, 2009

• U2 Lace Up Their Dirty "Boots"

  Among, you know, a few other things, the past 24 hours have been the start of a very, very big year for the band Rocks Off affectionately refers to as the Best Band Ever. U2 appeared alongside Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, "One" pal Mary J. Blige and many more as Barack Obama's opening acts at yesterday's massive "We are One" concert on the National Mall in Washington D.C. "Restraint" is not a word normally associated with Bono and the boys, but they showed it yesterday. Not so much in th

  January 19, 2009

• Rotation

  March 6, 1997

• Rich Stuff

  May 8, 1997

• Tonight: Windsor Drive EP Release at Fitzgerald's

  Windsor Drive Bridges EP www.myspace.com/windsordrive The second EP, Bridges, from local indie darlings Windsor Drive (currently signed to Ping Pong Music) drops this Saturday at what promises to be a spectacular show. Luckily, Rocks Off managed to snag an advanced copy in electronic form so you readers can know just what to expect. Produced by Stephen Short, who has worked with artists ranging from legends like Queen, Echo & The Bunnymen, and Paul McCartney to emerging artists like

  March 7, 2009

• St. Patrick's Day Special: Sinead O'Connor, "You Made Me The Thief Of Your Heart"

  Fun Fact: This song was written by Bono and his childhood friends Gavin Friday (Virgin Prunes) and Maurice Seezer, and featured in the 1993 Jim Sheridan film In the Name of the Father. It lost the 1994 Best Original Song - Motion Picture Golden Globe to Bruce Springsteen's "Streets of Philadelphia."

  March 17, 2009

• Remembering Martin Luther King Jr. in Song

  January 15, 2009

• Down Payment Blues: Musicians With Tax Trouble

  Finished that tax return yet? Not to worry: you've still got a few hours until midnight, and the post offices are open late. Over the years, these musicians have gotten in hot water with their countries' internal-revenue collectors as well... Bono Forever a proponent of all things charitable, Bono took some flak from just about everybody when, following the implementation of Ireland's new $319,000 salary cap on tax breaks, he moved U2's publishing company to the Netherlands in 2006. He was

  April 15, 2009

• U2

  Rock’s biggest ego gets the biggest screen treatment

  June 26, 2008

• Being There

  The Sixth Annual Austin City Limits Festival feels like home...almost

  September 20, 2007

• Tony Bennett

  August 23, 2007

• KOBAIN

  ITALIAN MARGARITA

  June 21, 2007

• The Killers

  Sam's Town

  November 9, 2006

• The Orange Show

  Spain Colored Orange takes home four Press Music Awards

  August 10, 2006

• Dreams of Syndication

  June 1, 2006

• Year of the Concept

  Green Day opens the Idiot-ic floodgates

  January 12, 2006

• Walk Away, Walk Away

  And we will follow as local music figures recall tales of U2

  October 27, 2005

• Bono for Pontiff

  The only problem: Who could possibly replace him in the arena-rock pantheon?

  April 28, 2005

• Karachi Rock

  Haven't heard of Junoon? They've sold 20 million albums, and they're at the Meridian this week.

  April 14, 2005

• How to Dismantle an Atomic Mom

  A critic debates the merits of U2's latest with his mother

  November 25, 2004

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  August 12, 2004

• The Walkmen

  Bows + Arrows (Record Collection)

  March 11, 2004

• Nine Inch Nails

  And All That Could Have Been (Nothing)

  March 21, 2002

• Reach for the Sky

  The selfishness of Hands Up Houston nourishes Space City's beleaguered indie scene

  November 1, 2001

• Playbill

  Cowboy Mouth

  January 18, 2001

• Ethnical Questions

  Plus: Shimmying with Mary Jane on the Washington Avenue shuttle

  May 26, 1994

• Idol Beat: The Top Three

  Disclaimer: Thanks to technical difficulties brought about by the crap DVR capture feature of our limp-ass new cable box/provider, I missed the first 15-20 minutes of Tuesday's episode of American Idol. Please feel free to attempt to conjecture about whatever you think I would have said - had I been able to watch - in the comment section. Or just call me a homophobe, or get all up in my grill for screwing something up! Whatever. So I have no idea what song the American Idol judges decided

  May 13, 2009

• Texas Spider-Man Fans: You Could Be A Broadway Star! (Or, Maybe Not)

  Spider-Man geeks, rejoice!! You may not only get to live out your fantasy -- being Peter Parker and his alter ego -- but you can be a Broadway star!! Or, on the other hand, you can participate in a huge publicity stunt. They're making a musical out of Spiderman, complete with a new (to us, anyway) hyphen in the name. (Hey, a little research shows he's always had the hyphen. Who knew?) Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark has music and lyrics by Bono and The Edge, otherwise known as the two U2 dude

  May 22, 2009

• The Quotable Bono

  October 8, 2009

• U2 and Muse Set Lists from Cowboys Stadium in Arlington Monday

  Pete Freedman/ DC-9 at NightIndependence Day in Arlington? Nah, just U2's ginormous 360 "Claw" stage.​ It's a little less than 36 hours and counting until U2's 360 Tour stops at Reliant Stadium, and Rocks Off is starting to get excited. Really excited. Bono and the boys were in Arlington at Cowboys Stadium Monday night. "For about two hours, the U2 members sang and played with passionate precision," writes Mario Tarradell in the Dallas Morning News. "They backed up the spectacle with plenty of

  October 13, 2009

• Five Great U2 Songs Even the Band Has Probably Forgotten About

  Well, now you've seen the set list from Monday's U2 Dallas show, and it's pretty short on both pre-Joshua Tree songs and surprises in general. This will be Rocks Off's eighth U2 show since 1992, and we can't remember ever having seen the band do "The Unforgettable Fire" live, but besides the No Line on the Horizon stuff, everything else we have. So instead of cuing up "One" - which we fully expect to be played at our funeral - or "Where the Streets Have No Name" for the 16 millionth time,

  October 13, 2009

• Kick 'em While They're Down: The Worst Songs Ever Recorded For Charity

  Please take this thing away from me. Please.​ When Rocks Off received an email touting Sting's new MySpace charity video for the Prince of Wales' Rainforest Project, we almost chipped a fingernail hurriedly clicking on the link, which promised oodles of celebrities such as Olivia Newton-John, Richard E. Grant and, of course, Pelé. Naturally, we were hoping for a new godawful charity song to horrify co-workers with; Hlavaty especially can only hiss and crawl under his desk when confronted with

  October 13, 2009

• With or Without You: Memoirs of a U2 Adolescence and Young Adulthood

  ...I may regret this.​So there was a time, not long ago by geological reckoning, that I was a U2 fan. Growing up during the pre-Internet late 70s/early 80s in a town where the only place to buy music was a Camelot Music in the mall limited your options somewhat. Nevertheless, the Edge's loud, ringing guitar on songs like "I Will Follow" (from Boy) and "Two Hearts Beat As One" (War) sought me out, appealing to that part of my adolescent male brain that liked loud, ringing guitars, and the lyric

  October 14, 2009

• Rocks Off's Self-Guided Tour of U2's Stage Setup, and Other Fun Stuff We Learned About the Most Gargantuan Tour In Rock History

  Photos by Groovehouse/ Click here for a slideshowYes, "The Claw" is really fookin' huge.​"At a certain point, the only thing you can compare it to is the Stones. I've done the Stones. This is bigger." That's Jake Berry, Production Director for U2's 360 Tour, talking about the gargantuan "Claw" configuration stagehands were in the final, well, stages of completing at Reliant Stadium Tuesday afternoon at a media preview of the tour. This "Claw" is one of three custom-built for the biggest t

  October 14, 2009

• Aftermath: U2 at Reliant Stadium - One Love, We Get to Share It

  Photos by Groovehouse/ Click here for a slideshow​A day or two before U2 (and love) came to town, a friend emailed us a joke. At least we think it's a joke. It really doesn't have anything to do with U2, except that it has everything to do with U2. "I was so depressed last night thinking about the economy, terrorism attacks, World War III, global warming, my retirement savings, Social Security, my job, national health care and my credit card debt that I called Lifeline. "Got a freakin' call ce

  October 15, 2009

• This Week In Deliciousness

  Smallpox vaccination scars are sexy as hell.​Welcome back to the weekly roundup at Eating Our Words, where we never roll less than three sous-chefs deep, y'all. Paul Knight started off the week by attending the Grand Opening of Lucky Strike Lanes and sampling their grub. We'll spare you the inevitable bowling puns. Get it? "Spare"? No, come back. That's it, we promise. All further bowling puns will be stricken from the record. (Get it?) Olivia Flores Alvarez spent $13 at Kojak's Timberbro

  October 16, 2009

• Season of the Witch

  October 22, 2009