For whatever reason, both St. Vincent and U2 posted covers of Led Zeppelin's so-iconic-it's-cliché "Stairway To Heaven" yesterday. It's like the inverse of that scene from Wayne's World where Mike Meyers is forbidden from playing the song's intro riff in a guitar shop -- just an abundance of "Stairway," more "Stairway" than anyone needs.

Comedians Scott Aukerman and Adam Scott, aka the Scotts, discussed the entirety of U2's discography in their popular U Talkin' U2 To Me? podcast, and then went through R.E.M.'s catalog in R U Talkin' R.E.M. Re: Me?. At the beginning of the month, they launched a third band-themed podcast, R U Talkin' RHCP RE: Me?.

David Byrne isn't really the kind of guest that Saturday Night Live books anymore. Their musical selection typically trends towards artists that became popular in this millennium, or at least huge legacy artists that are promoting a new album (see Foo Fighters and U2 in 2017). But Byrne returned to the show last night for…

As the classic U2 song goes, "all is quiet on New Year's Day." Maybe everyone's sleeping off the wreckage of the night before, but the first day of the year bears a certain fragile symbolism -- new beginnings, a moment of delicate (and increasingly delusional) hope that this year might be better than the last.

Last month, U2 released the new single "Ahimsa," a collaboration with the great Bollywood composer A.R. Rahman. The song's title is named after the doctrine of doing no harm and respecting all living things. Last night, U2, on the final date of their long global Joshua Tree anniversary tour, came to Mumbai's D.Y. Patil Stadium.