"The job of art is to chase away ugliness", Bono tells Chuck Klosterman for the cover story of the new ...

'Ireland's biggest boy band' performing on 'Friday Night With Jonathan Ross' tonight.

'How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb' has gone straight to the top of the US chart, the fifth time U2 have been at No.1 simultaneously on both sides of the Atlantic.

Edge, Adam and Bono were among the glitterati in London this evening, at the opening night of the first London exhibition by painter and lifelong U2 friend Guggi.

'How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb' has entered the UK charts at No.1.

USA Today praises the new album, as Edna Gunderson interviews all four band members on the eve of release.

'How to ...

Which explains U2's 'brilliance', according to a glowing review of the new album in Rolling Stone.

'Vertigo' is now at the top of the charts in the UK, Ireland, Denmark and Italy.

The album reviews are coming in thick and fast and, guess what, MOJO love the new record!

'Classic', 'Masterstroke', 'Breathtakingly modern', 'Brilliant'. NME thinks the new record is quite good!


'Buy the new ...

Bono, writes for the 2004 NME Year Book, about his year in politics. Extract here.

The Sunday Times in the UK carries a monster U2 feature this weekend, great reading in the countdown to the ...

'That post-irony purple patch shows no sign of ending.' Q loves the Bomb.

It's black, it has a stunning red 'click wheel', it was launched by Bono and Edge this week - ...

From the 'Unbelievable But True Department' : a Digital Boxed Set of 'The Complete U2' is set for release through iTunes.

As well as 'Vertigo', U2 gave a world premiere performance to two other new songs tonight - 'All Because of ...

Vertigo has gone straight to No.1 in the UK official download chart - and has broken weekly download records in the US.

U2 were in London this afternoon, to receive the 'Q Icon' Award.

'It's Such a Personal Record, It May Just Be Our Best,' claims Bono in the new edition of Q ...

'A great song is like a salad dressing'. Edge waxes philosophical and culinary in a handwritten postcard to the ...

"Songwriting really is a mysterious process,' explains Bono to Robert Hilburn of the LA Times.

Make AIDS and global poverty central in the US convention season, writes Bono in the Boston Globe this weekend.

Two more clues about the new record have sneaked into the public domain.

Perhaps the strangest book yet, in the burgeoning genre of U2 literature.

Never underestimate the value of the odd survey to fill a gap when waiting for news on an album.