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July 27, 2011 –
U2's documentary From the Sky Down will premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, which happens September 8-18. The movie, directed by Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth), chronicles the making of the band's classic 1991 album Achtung Baby, SPIN's pick for the Best Album of the Past 25 Years. …
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June 27, 2011 – It was an action-filled weekend in rural Somerset, England, for the annual Glastonbury Music and Arts Festival, the world's largest outdoor music event with more than 100,000 fans.
Highlights included headlining sets from U2, Coldplay, and Beyonce, who recruited British trip-hopper Tricky to guest on "Baby Boy." The pop diva also covered songs by Alanis Morrissette ("You Oughta Know"), Kings of Leon ("Sex on Fire"), and Prince ("Beauti …
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June 14, 2011 – No stuntmen were harmed in the recording of this, the cast soundtrack to beleaguered megamusical and late-night talk-show punching bag Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, featuring arena-rock tunes supplied by U2's Bono and the Edge.
The collision of Broadway cheesiness and Bono cheesiness is indeed fearsome to behold. …
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May 23, 2011 – Saturday night U2's 360 tour kicked off the rescheduled leg of its American tour in Denver, and became the biggest event the city has seen since the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
After a solid 60-minute set from hometown act the Fray, David Bowie's "Space Oddity" came over the PA and the four members of the world's biggest rock band entered 80,000-capacity Invesco Stadium through the same tunnel that the Denver Broncos use on ga …
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May 16, 2011 –
Kings of Leon's Caleb Followill tied the knot with Victoria's Secret model girlfriend Lily Aldrige on May 12 in Santa Barbara, CA. Followill's bandmates, Coldplay's Chris Martin and wife Gwyneth Paltrow), and other celebrities attended the ceremony. "It was a perfect day," Followill said. …
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May 3, 2011 –
Not even Bono can convince the Pixies to record a new album. In an interview, guitarist Joey Santiago reveals that the U2 frontman begged the group to work on new music — their first since the 2004 single "Bam Thwok." "Bono even asked," Santiago said. …
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April 27, 2011 –
One month after releasing Angles, the Strokes are already back in the studio working on their fifth record -- or at least bassist Nikolai Fraiture has begun. "Super excited to go to the studio today and work on some new ideas!"he posted on Twitter, before clarifying: "For the Strokes, of course!"
Death Cab for Cutie have announced a 34-date North American Summer tour with Atlantic Records label mates Frightened Rabbit. …
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April 18, 2011 –
After playing a benefit show for Sound Strike and doing a short tour of South America last year, Rage Against the Machine are booked to play a show on July 30 in Los Angeles with Rise Against and Muse, according to the Coachella Facebook page. The fest organizers, Goldenvoice, posted a "Save the Date," and said that more bands would be announced to the bill. …
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April 10, 2011 – On Saturday night as U2's 360 Tour became the highest-grossing show of all time ($558 million and counting, surpassing the Rolling Stones' A Bigger Bang tour in 2005-2007), money was not on anyone's mind as the sonic exoskeleton spider crawled into São Paulo's Morumbi Stadium with a heavy heart. …
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April 8, 2011 –
When U2 kick off the second leg of their U2360° Tour on Saturday in Sao Paulo, it is expected to be the highest-grossing tour in history. U2 will pass previous record-setters the Rolling Stones, whose A Bigger Bang Tour earned $558 million from 2005-2007. U2's trek is also estimated to earn roughly $700 million by the time it wraps on July 30. …
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Big Eyes, Almost Famous
Japanther, Eat Like Lisa Act Like Bart
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats, Mind Control
Pure X, Crawling Up The Stairs
pacificUV, After The Dream You Are Awake
Destroid, The Invasion
Marques Toliver, Land of CanAan
Gene The Southern Child & Parallel Thought, Artillery Splurgin'
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Human Eye, 4: Into Unknown
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