It's called Promo Bono and media outlets around the world are claiming this promotional puppet of the U2 singer has been sent to 'VIP reviewers' of the band's new album.

According to REM's official web-site, Michael Stipe is a big fan of the new U2 album, having heard some of ...

U2's All That You Can't Leave Behind is racing to the top of the charts across the world.

'U2's tenth studio album and third masterpiece, All That You Can't Leave Behind, is all about the simple melding of craft and song.

Prising themselves free from their mid-90s fixations with irony and Las Vegas glitz, U2 have circled back to what they've always done best.

Its beauty is in subtlety rather than extravagance.

Catch up with what the band said during their AOL / Compuserve online chat.



Bono: Cead mile Failte! It's ancient ...

You've got to stay on your toes to keep up with Bono. In an era when fame is often portrayed ...

U2's first single in two years has gone straight in at No.1 on pop charts across Europe.

The 2000 Sydney Olympics are becoming more and more Beautiful. Following our recent report that Beautiful Day had ...

Track by Track Guide to the New U2 Album, All That You Can't Leave Behind By Larry Flick.

Hearing all U2's brightest songs in one sitting can be a dazzling experience...... Any album which gathers together U2's greatest hits ...

'...four driven musicians ... highlighting social injustices, the enigma of superpower America, and generally laying balm upon the wounds of ...

Among the holiday season's biggest sellers is a double-disc set by the Irish rockers U2, but it may be the ...

(U2 have) relaxed sufficiently to allow a certain funk into their music...

U2 have not reinvented themselves so much as rediscovered themselves...

Legendary Irish poet Brendan Kennelly was invited by U2's magazine Propaganda to review their 1997 album 'Pop'.

Zooropa is not the next great U2 album but a postcard from a Dublin studio...

Zooropa is a plugged-in, spaced-out dispatch from the blinking LED eye of the multimedia storm....

Zooropa sounds mostly like a band shedding its skin, trying on different selves for size.

More influenced than ever by co-producer-conceptualist Brian Eno, their music now parallels his in its pursuit of ambience.

In 1992, U2 along with Public Enemy, Big Audio Dynamite II, and Kraftwerk held a "Stop Sellafield" concert for Greenpeace

Here we all were, fretting over the parlous state of rock and help was on the way even while we were dithering. All of a sudden there's a clutch of superb albums out there: Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes' Better Days; Robbie Robertson's Storyville; Van Morrison's Hymns to the Silence. And now, to put the capper on the company, U2's dashing, demanding Achtung Baby.

Despite its awful title, Achtung Baby is an admirable record. Surprisingly introverted and complex.....

These Irishmen have proven that the same penchant for epic musical and verbal gestures that leads many artists to self-parody can, in more inspired hands, fuel the unforgettable fire that defines great rock & roll....