The Christian musicians Sir Cliff Richard and Roy Castle appeared on the bill in 1979, when the festival was based at Odell ...

U2 struggled with 'No Line on the Horizon', and Larry Mullen Jr later described it as feeling "miserable" to make because it ...

Many artists try their best to make a song as good as they can, but The Edge knew when U2 had been pushed far enough in the ...

Ahead of Oasis’s sold-out Croke Park shows on August 16 & 17, we’re taking a deep-dive into the Hot Press archives.

What is the best of U2's many fantastic LPs? We make the case for three classics before choosing the champion.

Wisconsinite drummer Butch Vig, Nebraskan guitarist Duke Erikson, and Minnesotan guitarist Steve Marker met in the late ’70s ...

More and more artists are stepping into the conversation on Gaza, with U2, Madonna, Olivia Rodrigo, and Radiohead recently ...

U2's lengthy statement on Gaza has drawn swift backlash as critics dub it a 'car crash' and 'word salad' as the band is ...

Bono’s Gaza response drew fierce backlash, but his decades of activism on Aids and poverty tell a more complicated story ...

Lindsay A. Fleming explains why, 60 years after the Beatles popularized the stadium tour, fans are still obsessed.

Some musicians created some of their best work by writing about real people who had distinguished themselves in some way.

In 1975, Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt published Oblique Strategies, a set of cards to help one escape writer’s block. Here are some examples: “Simple subtraction,” “Retrace your steps,” and “Repetition ...