Listening Post: 'U2 3D' Brings Hyperreal Arena Rock to the Multiplex
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A stunning new concert film captures the Irish rockers in all their stadium-filling glory. The film might be even better than the real thing. Commentary by Eliot Van Buskirk.
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It may be a small, $149 step, but Apple Computer&#39;s introduction of a U2 &quot;digital box set&quot;--a downloadable compilation of every song the band has ever recorded--could portend a shift in online-music pricing.
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Christopher Breen  takes us on a tour of Apple TV that begins with downloading the software update and ends with the big questionââHowâs it look?â To which Breen responds, âDarned good.â After renting Live Free or Die Hard. Breen reports that â the picture is great on my 42-inch Panasonic plasma display. With a digital audio cable connected to my AV receiver the movie caused the receiverâs 5.1 Dolby Digital Audio light to glow and the resulting sound was bigger than anything Iâve heard come out of the box previously.â
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Tycho:  We grabbed a couple demos yesterday afternoon to see if we were missing anything, specifically Tenchu Z and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, and came away with the expected comic materials.  I think Tenchu Z may get explored in a more robust fashion in Monday's strip, but after the loading is complete the demo flashes up one of those screens that is completely grown over with control instructions.  It wasn't even an especially bad one, and there are very, very bad ones, like the one in the demo for StarFire Saga V: Laserion.  It was merely an assault on the mind, paralyzing in its way.
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NASHVILLE (Billboard) - Irish rock band U2 is set to  explode on the road at the end of March, just in time for a  beleaguered concert industry desperate for a major  buzz-generating tour.
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Steve Jobs, Bono and the Edge Tuesday ushered in what Apple&#39;s CEO and the two members of U2 called a new era of digital music.
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LOS ANGELES  - Despite its recycled title, HBO's new late-night series feels reasonably fresh. "Bono and the Edge: Off the Record" is a preview of the interview show hosted by producer and Eurythmics mainstay Dave Stewart, who has heard every question a musician could get and uses that experience to get U2's famous duo talking about the studio, the songs, the road and the road to stardom.
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The new iPod Photo is surely cool, but it's Apple's new music deal with U2 that might set off big waves in the e-music business. -washingtonpost.com
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The videocassette in film: an unsettling innovation, a romanticized artifact, an LP in an MP3 world.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- At a special music event featuring Bono and The Edge from rock group U2 held here this week, Apple Computer took the wraps off the IPod Photo, a color IPod available in 40GB or 60GB storage capacities.
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You don&#39;t need to buy a new black and red limited edition U2 iPod to get your hands on the collection of the Irish band&#39;s tunes designed to accompany it.
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Tycho:   One of the questions during a a panel at PAX had to do with the italicised line at the end of each day's post.  They're almost always song lyrics, and back before we were paying for bandwidth (and before RIAA rape gangs were prowling the web) these lines used to link directly to the MP3.  I maintained the practice afterward because it's sort of like a song of the day, and I like the idea that someone might be struck by a strange turn of phrase and seek out a piece of music.  It also serves as a gauge of my mental state at the moment.  Today's song, for example, is Stan Rodgers' incredible live version of the sea shanty "Rolling Down To Old Maui," which Pandora kicked out after about a week of tuning the station.  I've listened to it about thirty times today.    The person who asked the question at the con complimented my musical tastes, and I accepted the compliment, but I'm almost always late to the scene.  I just bought Interpol's "Turn On The Bright Lights," for chrissakes.  I'm mostly lucky to know people who do have unique library.  I told him I would mention a few of my favorite bands on the site, but then I forgot.  Essentially, it's music that cool people were listening to a decade ago (where applicable).  I am a musical carrion bird.    He wanted me to list off a few bands, and I said I would last week, but then I forgot.  These are the first ten albums I could think of.    "Starless" by Shiner
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Tycho: Have you heard Weird Al's new song? It's pretty much required listening for Internet Enabled Citizens - made even easier to recommend by the addition of a video animated by Bill Plympton.(CW)TB
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com October 12, 2004, 3:15 PM PT. It was a beautiful day for Apple Computer on Tuesday, as the company kicked off a new advertising campaign featuring rock superstars U2.
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Irish rock band U2 will play live at the Grammy awards show in the US next month.
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Take a VR tour of the world's most powerful particle accelerator courtesy of panoramic photographer Peter McCready.
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Would-be rock gods get to play awesome riffs using a new gizmo on show in Las Vegas