If U2 is accepting an award named for folk singer Woody Guthrie, it’s a safe bet that Bono is going to use the opportunity to say a little something about music, protest, and the changing political climate. That happened Tuesday night in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when the U2 frontman and the …
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U2 shared a lengthy post on their website clarifying the band members’ individual stances on Israel and Gaza. “We are not experts in the politics of the region, but we want our audience to know where we each stand,” the Irish group wrote. Each band member—Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton, …
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“It was our Woodstock, but better,” Nile Rodgers asserts in Live Aid: When Rock ’n’ Roll Took on the World, referring to the all-star charity concerts broadcast around the world 40 years ago. Boomers may quibble, even with the presence of Mick Jagger, David Bowie, Bob Dylan, and a reunited …
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George W. Bush has kept his feelings about Donald Trump’s policies almost completely to himself over the past decade, offering little more than a hushed “that was some weird shit” at the 2017 inauguration. But the Associated Press got their hands on footage from a recent private videoconference call where …
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Two years ago, Lil Wayne released a career-spanning compilation, I Am Music. It seems like an impossible task to summarize three decades of music that dates to his febrile debut as one-half of B.G.z in 1995, spans a record-breaking number of entries on the Billboard Hot 100 as well as …
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Bono and Joe Rogan clashed over the humanitarian impact of DOGE’s cuts — specifically the planned gutting of USAID — during the U2 singer’s visit to the podcast Friday. During the episode, Bono confronted Rogan — a friend of the now-outgoing DOGE head Elon Musk — about a study that …
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Donald Trump‘s recent unhinged tirades against Bruce Springsteen have inadvertently started to shape the coolest supergroup imaginable. Bono is the latest musician to back Springsteen as the president continues to target the New Jersey legend in response to criticism about his administration. During a recent appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, …
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In the music community, support and admiration for Bruce Springsteen isn’t remotely a scoop; he’s long been admired by his peers and those he’s inspired. But Springsteen’s recent onstage comments in Manchester, England, about Donald Trump — calling the administration “corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous” —and the increasingly authoritarian state of …
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Bono called for an end to the war between Israel and Hamas at 2025 Ivor Novello Awards last night. During the awards ceremony, held at London’s Grosvenor House, U2 became the first Irish act to receive Fellowship of the Ivors Academy. Bono took the opportunity to criticize Hamas and Israeli …
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President Donald Trump has demanded an investigation into Bruce Springsteen and other artists who supported former Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign, after the singer has repeatedly told crowds at his concerts that the president is an “unfit” man running “a rogue government.” The president — who is scheduled to …
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