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Posted: 3:51 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011

97X Music News for October 25, 2011 

By Joel

U2 frontman Bono is uncertain of his band's future. He spoke with Rolling Stone:

"I'm not so sure the future hasn't dried up," says Bono, who's been irritating his bandmates lately by publicly questioning U2's relevance – despite the fact that they just finished the highest-grossing tour of all time. "The band are like, 'Will you shut up about being irrelevant?'" he says. But Bono can't help himself – even though U2 have been in and out of the studio with various producers recently, he raises the possibility that the band may have released its final album. "We'd be very pleased to end on No Line on the Horizon," he says, before acknowledging the unlikelihood of that scenario: "I doubt that."

U2's future plans are not set. "It's quite likely you might hear from us next year, but it's equally possible that you won't," says the Edge. Adds Bono, "We have so many [new] songs, some of our best. But I'm putting some time aside to just go and get lost in the music. I want to take my young boys and my wife and just disappear with my iPod Nano and some books and an acoustic guitar."

 

Oasis' former frontman Liam Gallagher would love to reform the band to comemmorate the 20th anniversary of their breakthrough album (What's The Story) Morning Glory?. Taking a slight jab at his brother, Liam told Rolling Stone, "In 2015, if we can put our [expletive] aside, we can tour and play the album in its entirety for the 20th anniversary. I’d be up for that, if it’s on our terms. There’s got to be two-way respect.”

Just two months ago, Noel Gallagher mentioned that he regretted ending Oasis because they would miss that album's milestone. When asked for comment about Liam's reunion hopes Noel said, “I left that band for a reason and that reason still stands.”

Noel Gallagher quit Oasis in 2009, saying he couldn't put up with his brother anymore. Liam announced the band's breakup a month later.

Is this Liam's way of trying to make amends?

 

Coheed & Cambria fans know frontman Claudio Sanchez is a comic book creator. His latest effort is Key Of Z, about a zombie apocalypse in Manhattan.

Yellowcard performed a mostly-acoustic Foo Fighters cover while on a 10-hour layover in Shanghai, China. Check out "My Hero" below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv5wsU1Jgdw 

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