With a mouth full of Novocaine, I walked into Rose Records on Achtung Baby’s release day, close to mid-afternoon. One side of Jamie’s store was plastered in photos of U2 while the other was covered with a displaced Garth Brooks promo poster from an earlier fall release.

November 14, 2011: Welcome to this week's podcast of This Week in U2 History where I will discuss the highlights, and low lights, of the video portion of the 20th Anniversary Super Deluxe release of Achtung Baby, plus a look at AMP Visual's designer Shaughn McGrath's blog about creati

November 7, 2011: Welcome to this week's podcast of This Week in U2 History where I will discuss the audio portion of the 20th Anniversary Super Deluxe release of Achtung Baby, headlines around the U2 globe, including Neil McCormick's blog about the band's status, and of course, gig o

November 1, 2011: Welcome to this week's podcast of This Week in U2 History where I will discuss the year of great records released in 1991, headlines around the U2 globe and of course, gig of the week.

I always knew that if you wanted to become great at your craft, you had to know the masters, or were lucky enough to be a prodigy. I will say it straight out that I’m no prodigy, therefore, I had to learn my craft of being an art director from the ground up. That’s right, watching Sat

I am sitting at my desk with our dog curled up on his bed, lying next to me, as I write this brief blog today. I’m safe. No one is knocking on my door bothering me. I have no child in my house crying because of lack of food. All of my family are in pretty good health. Lastly, my wife

I found this photo on-line the other night and have been enamored with it ever since. I think it’s the look, that one split second, between these two great people, which makes the image. If we didn’t know who these two individuals were we would think it was older brother congratulatin

Music is my lifeblood. It’s a plain and simple fact. From Bowie to The Cure to Nirvana to U2 and well beyond, I listen to a very eclectic group of genres. However, I’m no longer a consumer of music like I was in my post-college years. I still “listen” to newer bands, but have not been

I was cruising the web tonight, visiting the usual sites that I do at 9 p.m., when I found out about Bono’s singing for Desmond Tutu on his 80th birthday. I decided to dig deeper into Tutu’s background by visiting an expansive dossier on Wikipedia. It’s no wonder tha