The Edge, Adam, Bono

U2 have finished recording their new album, the follow-up to 2009′s No Line On The Horizon, and are currently mixing in New York City with producer Danger Mouse, according to reports, after three members of the band were spotted in NYC, most notably Bono outside Electric Lady Studios.

U2 are saying that recording of the new album is done and dusted, with a
playback happening last week. Tweets from Island Records head Chris Blackwell( posted earlier)
seem to confirm this, with the honcho saying “Listened to some new
music at Electric Lady Land studios earlier with U2 and Danger Mouse
#betterthanever”. Blackwell has since deleted the tweet. ( Yea wonder why )

Globe journo Brad Wheeler added fuel to the fire, sharing quotes from former Daniel Lanois, who produced The Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby
amongst other U2 records. Lanois seems to have sat out of production
duties this time around but has heard the new material, with Wheeler
tweeting “Lanois tells me Bono dropped by his house in LA and that the
new U2 album sounds ‘amazing’ and ‘big’, with some Achtung Baby adventurism”.

Sounds pretty promising, considering Bono confirmed that band were working on lucky album number 13
back in January, but the frontman also warned us not to hold our
breath, stating that the band didn’t care if it took 10 years to get the
album right.

Warning the following posts are direct from the twitter account of Brad Wheeler we have no way of confirming the truth of the information.  We have reached out to Brad for a comment. No word yet. We will continue to check into comments.Lanois says…

Reports out of  Dublin suggest that we could have some new U2 music very soon. We have already reported about the “Leaked U2 Jam Session (2010-2013)” which the video can be found on our facebook page ( U2TOURFANS). If you remember early this year Bono commented on a Dublin radio station (Sunshine 106.8FM) that they have been working on #13 and that a title was in the works. We have heard “10 Reasons to Exist” could be the title or at least right now its the working title.

Two other songs that are rumored to possibly be part of the new album
are “Soon” and “Winter.” “Winter” was featured in two movies, Brothers
and Linear, while “Soon” was used as an intro to concerts in 2010.

“U2 is on the verge of irrelevancy,” Bono told Fashion and Style
magazine recently.  “We have to do something on this next album that is
very, very special in order to have a reason to exist.”

“U2 has been beating the odds of being irrelevant for close to 20 years,
since Rattle and Hum, and we had to find ways to keep ourselves fresh
yet loyal to our fans which we love so much. We are still hungry and not
ready to give up our spot as the biggest and best band in the world
because we feel like we have much to offer…we are still as cool as we
were in 2004 and even 1994.”

Reports coming in from Dublin – Again this could all be rumors – Heck until the machine starts we really have to go with what we hear.  Bono ? Any comment

The group collaborated with the American country singer in 2003 to record ‘Slow Dancing’, which was written by Bono.While a live version of the track, which featured on ‘The Essential Willie Nelson’ album, surfaced online, no official footage was previ…

Right now most U2 fans are asking the same question. What the heck is taking so long?  We all seem to be asking the same questions. If most of the songs have already been played before what seems to be taking them so long? So long ? Really now why…