Bono (Musician)

First Avenue's 20 best concerts: The complete list

Related:First Avenue: An archived history via flyers, riders & contractsFirst Avenue's 40 years of rock 'n' rollTop 20 best Minnesota musicians: The complete listFirst Avenue is undoubtedly among the premier rock clubs in the country -- possibly the world. Since 1970, the building at the interse ... More >>

First Avenue's 20 best concerts: #10-1

Related:Slideshow: First Avenue: An archived history via flyers, riders & contracts First Avenue's 20 best concerts: #20-11First Avenue's 40 years of rock 'n' rollTop 20 best Minnesota musicians: The complete list10. Basement Jaxx, First Avenue, 10/08/01Basement Jaxx's first appearance in Minne ... More >>

U2 releases crazy-detailed panoramic photo of the crowd from Saturday's show

​Sometime between meeting with Somali Minnesotans to help solve the famine crisis in Africa and performing under pummeling rain in front of thousands upon thousands of fans at Dinkytown's TCF Bank Stadium, U2 found time last weekend to go ahead and revolutionize the concert experience by snapping ... More >>

U2 at TCF Bank Stadium, 7/23/11

Photos by Tony Nelson​U2 with InterpolJuly 23, 2011TCF Bank Stadium, MinneapolisThese reviews are inevitably for fans, yet I find myself writing for U2-haters. One friend left a message during the show on Saturday wondering why I was there. Would anyone at the TCF Bank Stadium that night have aske ... More >>

Bono, K'naan meet with Somali activists in Minnesota

Photo courtesy ONE​In addition to braving a downpour of rain to perform in front of nearly 60,000 fans on Saturday night at the University of Minnesota's TCF Bank Stadium, U2 frontman Bono took time on Saturday afternoon to meet with singer and rapper K'naan and several Somali activists from Minne ... More >>

Critics' Picks: Death Cab for Cutie, Man Man, Bruce Cockburn, and more

Photo courtesy ONE​In addition to braving a downpour of rain to perform in front of nearly 60,000 fans on Saturday night at the University of Minnesota's TCF Bank Stadium, U2 frontman Bono took time on Saturday afternoon to meet with singer and rapper K'naan and several Somali activists from Minne ... More >>

The Twilight Singers

Photo courtesy ONE​In addition to braving a downpour of rain to perform in front of nearly 60,000 fans on Saturday night at the University of Minnesota's TCF Bank Stadium, U2 frontman Bono took time on Saturday afternoon to meet with singer and rapper K'naan and several Somali activists from Minne ... More >>

Jon Stewart dominates O'Reilly in debate over Common's White House appearance

Jon Stewart says to himself: "Wow."​This past week, the White House "came under fire" - another word for the national conversation being dominated by our very loud conservative media, led by the Fox News machine - for inviting the world's least-controversial (oftentimes boring!) rapper, Common, to ... More >>

Gayngs at Coachella, Nikki Sixx phones it in at the Fitz, and more notes from the weekend

Photos by Denis Jeong Plaster​April is continuing to roar by us at a steady clip, and this past weekend our local scene was so bustling that we had to export some of our musicians out to Indio, California before the whole town overflowed.

Angelique Kidjo

Photos by Denis Jeong Plaster​April is continuing to roar by us at a steady clip, and this past weekend our local scene was so bustling that we had to export some of our musicians out to Indio, California before the whole town overflowed.

The Week That Was: Monday, October 11 through Friday, October 15

​ Last week? Last week was so several days ago. At this point - polishing off that third mug of crap, employer-subsidized coffee, valiantly procrastinating last week's leftover to-do items, beating yourself about the head and face to stay awake - you probably can barely remember what your name is, ... More >>

Metric, Heart and Mary J. Blige at Lilith Fair, 7/18/10

Metric / Alex Uncapher for City Pages​Summer means two things in the Twin Cities: going "up north" and outdoor concert season, both activities releasing all the built-up cabin fever that comes along with being a Minnesotan. From the Basilica and Luce block parties to Stone Arch and Lyn-Lake fests ... More >>

U2 postpones Minneapolis date

​U2's entire US tour, including their stop in Minneapolis at the TCF Bank Stadium on June 27, is being postponed until 2011 due to Bono's recent back injury. Bono was discharged from a hospital in Munich today after undergoing emergency back surgery last Friday, and will be entering a rehabilitati ... More >>

Bono back injury puts MPLS U2 concert date in jeopardy

David ShankboneThe professional difference-maker himself​News has come out of Berlin (via MPR) that Bono of U2 and Africa-centric charity fame has hurt himself "preparing for" the band's upcoming tour. No specifics of how the injury occurred were released, but at age 50 the number of ways you can ... More >>

Bassekou Kouyate and Ngoni Ba

David ShankboneThe professional difference-maker himself​News has come out of Berlin (via MPR) that Bono of U2 and Africa-centric charity fame has hurt himself "preparing for" the band's upcoming tour. No specifics of how the injury occurred were released, but at age 50 the number of ways you can ... More >>

U2 to rock the U?

Sounds like there may be an unforgettable fire at TCF Stadium next year. Stay tuned.

Twin Cities soldier shot in Fort Hood attack

According to the Kansas City Star, Bono, 21, was shot in the back and had injuries to her face. She was going to deploy to Iraq next month.

The Morning After the Summer of Love

According to the Kansas City Star, Bono, 21, was shot in the back and had injuries to her face. She was going to deploy to Iraq next month.

Foreign Born

According to the Kansas City Star, Bono, 21, was shot in the back and had injuries to her face. She was going to deploy to Iraq next month.

The Songs We Can't Escape

According to the Kansas City Star, Bono, 21, was shot in the back and had injuries to her face. She was going to deploy to Iraq next month.

April preview and quarterly Top 10s

5. Trama, Mr. T ziptape, out as a free download on April 14: Comedic highlight: "If I Was Emo," in which our hero croons, "I would get great reviews in the hip-hop local news/because I'm not seen as a threat, and my rhymes make you boo-hoo-hoo/If I was emo, I wouldn't have to wear gold/and my fake f ... More >>

4th Annual Thin Lizzy Tribute Night

5. Trama, Mr. T ziptape, out as a free download on April 14: Comedic highlight: "If I Was Emo," in which our hero croons, "I would get great reviews in the hip-hop local news/because I'm not seen as a threat, and my rhymes make you boo-hoo-hoo/If I was emo, I wouldn't have to wear gold/and my fake f ... More >>

U2 to score upcoming Spiderman musical

At last, the gulf between the comic geeks and the aging rock enthusiasts has been bridged.

The Songs We Can't Escape

At last, the gulf between the comic geeks and the aging rock enthusiasts has been bridged.

The Killers Bring Vegas to the Northrop

Inaugural Bike Valet

Electric Arc Radio Show: A Very Brady Christmas

Russian Tea House a homey St. Paul delight

Free Will Astrology

Film Highlight: U2 3D

Culture Jamming

August Rush

Rock & Roll & Cannes '07

NoDak politicos show Bono no love

12/19 Morning Communiqué

11/13 Morning Communiqué

8/8 Morning Communiqué

6/8: Morning Communique

In My Life: New John Lennon exhibit in Paris

10/14: Morning Communique

All That You Can't Leave Behind

They were hobbits. They were pot smokers. In 1981, they were just kids called U2.

Bono is Respectable, by Amelia Huff, Age 10 1/2

They were hobbits. They were pot smokers. In 1981, they were just kids called U2.

All we want to know is:
is Bono okay?

They were hobbits. They were pot smokers. In 1981, they were just kids called U2.

Sunday Boring Sunday

How I stopped worrying and learned to dislike U2's 'Bomb'

Christmas of the Pod People

What are those little white boxes with wires telling us to do?

Real Life Rock Top 10

Special absurdity of the media present, ineffability of the aesthetic past edition

The Importance of Being Earnest

U2 goes forward and backward with Pop.

Stargazers in Cyberspace

Confessions of an On-Line Fan Club Junkie

Let's Get Lost

As part of Brian Eno's Passengers, U2 get a chance to escape themselves.