Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. The majority of musicians release songs and albums on Friday, as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. U2 surprise-released 'Days of Ash' on Ash Wednesday, February 18, 2026. Credit: Petr (Happy24) via Wikimedia Commons. U2 chose Ash ...

U2 stunned their fans on Wednesday afternoon by dropping the six-song EP Days of Ash, which tackles heavy topics like Israel, Ukraine, and the U.S. government’s assault on immigrants via ICE. They ...

U2 chose Ash Wednesday to release a quintet of songs that are among the most potent in their heady catalog. The band surprise dropped “Days of Ash,” a collection of five songs and a poem, on Feb. 18, ...

U2 chose Ash Wednesday for this because subtlety was never the point. Today, the band surprise-dropped Days of Ash, a six-track release that is less “new era.” More “we’re done pretending everything ...

U2 is back with new music. On Feb. 18, the band dropped a surprise EP with songs inspired by ongoing societal and political issues. Titled Days of Ash, the project includes five songs and one poem.

These days, U2 tend to take a long time between new releases, and when they do drop something, they give it a proper promotional lead-up. Not this time: Today (February 18), the legendary Irish ...

On their first collection of new songs since 2017, the quartet have a crispness that has been lacking in their 21st-century material, as they nimbly react to shocking news stories News: Bono lambasts ...

There have been some occasions in music history when a band’s popularity sometimes hustles ahead of its pop chart success. Foreign bands trying to break out in the United States often encounter this ...

U2 are back. All guns blazing — target acquired, no prisoners taken. Bono is focused, passionate, driven, The Edge’s guitar is soaring, Adam’s bass driving relentlessly, and Larry Mullen Jr is back to ...

Irish rock band U2 invoked Renee Nicole Good — the anti-ICE agitator gunned down by federal agents in Minnesota last month — in their new song “American Obituary,” while calling for a “rise against ...

Irish rockers U2 became the latest high-powered musical act to condemn the federal immigration raids with the surprise release Wednesday of a six-track EP that kicks off with a song for slain ...