Playing Back the 80s (A Decade of Unstoppable Hits) by Jim Beviglia Jim Beviglia – Playing Back the 80s (A Decade of Unstoppable Hits) (Rowman & Littlefield) It’s hard to condense the music of an entire decade into a concrete and meaningful listing. That goes doubly for an adventurous and musically rich era like the 1980s. I could probably easily come up with a list of hundreds of the greatest songs of the decade, so it’s pretty impressive that music journalist Jim Beviglia

U2 – Wells Fargo Center – Philadelphia, PA – June 13, 2018 – Photo by Chris Sikich © 2018 U2 – Wells Fargo Center – Philadelphia, PA –...

U2 – The Forum – Inglewood, CA – May 16, 2018 Scroll through concert photos below! Photos by Jim Rinaldi © 2018 #losangeles #AdamClayton #TheEdge #2018 #U2 #ExperienceInnocenceTour #ConcertPhotography #May16 #PopEntertainmentcom #BonoVox #TheForum #Inglewood #LarryMullenJr #bono #CA #ConcertPhotoAlbum #TheLosAngelesForum #ConcertPhotos

U2 – Lincoln Financial Field – Philadelphia, PA – June 18, 2017 Scroll through concert photos below! photos by Jim Rinaldi © 2017 #AdamClayton #TheEdge #June18 #U2 #ConcertPhotography #JimRinaldi #PopEntertainmentcom #PA #philadelphia #LarryMullenJr #bono #ConcertPhotoAlbum #ConcertPhotos #2017

U2 with Bruce Springsteen – Madison Square Garden – New York, NY – July 31, 2015 Photos by Jim Rinaldi © 2015. All rights reserved.

U2 – TD Garden – Boston, MA – July 15, 2015 Photos by Jim Rinaldi © 2015. All rights reserved.

I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution by Craig Marks and Rob Tannenbaum (Dutton) Craig Marks Wants His MTV! by Jay S. Jacobs Legend tells us the MTV blasted off on television on August 1, 1981 with the Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star” – a song that was like a shot off the bow of the staid music world and became the channel’s own personal mission statement.  However, while that was true, that is only part of the story.  It turns out that there

RED HOT AND BLUE (1991) Starring David Byrne, Neneh Cherry, Jimmy Somerville, Jody Watley, Salif Keita, Erasure, Sinead O'Connor, The...

Live 8 Live 8 (Capitol Records-2005) The television coverage for the massive Live 8 concerts on MTV and VH1 was awful. It was all about...

U2 – Pop U2 – Pop  (Island) Now three albums into their flirtation with techno, U2 have finally figured out how to make a consistently listenable album out of it. As signified by the album title, the band wants to wallow in the kitsch of modern life.  Pop  gets off to a bit of a rocky start with the clanky swirling Zooropian single "Discotheque," but things soon get back onto course. The techno aspects of the band's new map click into place with the haunting "Do You Feel Love

Passengers – Original Soundtracks 1 Passengers – Original Soundtracks 1   (Island) Remember when U2 actually recorded songs? I do, but it's becoming hazy. Calling themselves Passengers and giving producer Brian Eno full band member status, this album eases further down the bumpy musical road that led to  Zooropa.   Soundtracks  is a group of techno songs that were supposedly used as background music in a bunch of imaginary movies you've never heard of. Many of the songs are i