News featuring U2

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  • “Tribes: Wish to Scream – review”

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    Johnny Lloyd, mainman of Camden's Tribes, can't be accused of aiming too high. His ambition for his guitar-playing foursome is to be seen "as a band that's not going anywhere, that can deliver albums quickly". Maybe it's just British modesty – he also justified recording this album in Los Angeles on the basis it was cheaper than doing it in Liverpool – but his lack of swagger duly lowers expectations. Rightly so: Tribes' second album has the nuts and bolts of melodic rock nailed, but its diligent verse-verse-chorus constructions are the work of artisans, not artists. A few tracks favourably compare with bigger and better bands: How the Other Half Live could be U2 in bulldozingly epic mode, and Looking for Shangri-La's country twang and vaguely spiritual lyric conjure up their north London neighbours, Primal Scream. The bulk of the record, though, is epitomised by Englishman on Sunset…

    Read the complete article at www.guardian.co.uk

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Thursday 9th May

  • “The story of Manu Chao's classic album”

    It is 15 years since Manu Chao released Clandestino, an album that saw him talked about in the same breath as Bob Marley. Here the author of a new book about the singer traces the making of the record and the many stories it then spawned

    When I first set out to meet Manu Chao in 2001, I had been told the man I was looking for had a small pied à terre in Barcelona with no outside space, because the "street is my courtyard". He could, when in town, be found busking in his local bar. He owned bees but no mobile phone or watch. He was always on the move, addicted to travel, never able to spend more than a few weeks in the same place, never planning more than three months ahead. He was – as the line had it on one of his songs, Desaparecido…

    Read the complete article at www.guardian.co.uk

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  • “STREAM: Small Black - No Stranger”

    By the end of the year, Small Black shows are going to have entire crowds of people making out with each other and I don't even hate that. On "No Stranger," they practice open-hearted indie-pop that's more New Order and U2 than dudes in a bedroom. The crisp production highlights superior songwriting and production skills, as well as a real knack for melodies that will make you want to feel emotions and things. May 14 on Jagjaguwar!

    Read the complete article at rcrdlbl.com

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  • “Adele tops young musicians' rich list”

    Singer's fortune grows to £30m as women dominate the Times chart, with only two male single artists making the list

    The worldwide success of One Direction has made the boyband an estimated £25m – but they still have some way to go to pass Adele who has been named the richest young music millionaire in the latest edition of the Sunday Times Rich List.

    Read the complete article at www.guardian.co.uk

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