is saying on this day, on this day I am proud to be an American. Truly one nation under God. We stand together to support our President as we move towards a new day in history. May God Bless our Country, our President

Billions of people around the world are preparing Tuesday to mark the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama as America's 44th and first black president.

New U2 single: Think Gloria Estefan meets Queens of the Stone Age

It's the first single from the most anticipated album since Moses put the 10 commandments to a dub rhythm on a limited stone pressing. OK, it's not, but a new track from Bono and co always turns a few heads, and Last.fm are today streaming Get On Your Boots for everyone to listen to.

Two quick thoughts (feel free to post your own below):

1) The chorus is thrusting and urgent, but it still reminds me of Get On Your Feet by Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine.

2) The heavy chugging guitars. It sounds like somebody's been listening to Queens of the Stone Age. With Arctic Monkeys' third album and an apparent influence on Franz Ferdinand's new sound, is Josh Homme the most influential man in rock (for Kalyr, that's mainstream rock) right now

I thought today would be a great day to bring back a song that really sets the tone for yesterday, today and tomorrow only if we agree to act upon it and return to mankind the respect that each of them deserve. I was only 11 years old when I first had a chance to read the speech by Dr King to my class. It was powerful and moving at that age and today its inspiring.

reading"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'" That day has come !

U2 guitarist, The Edge,

"It sounds like a U2 album but it doesn't sound like anything we've done before and it doesn't really sound like anything that's happening at the moment," Evans said of "Horizon," which has been scheduled for a March 2009 release.

Evans also said the album, U2's first since 2004's "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb," features two distinctive parts.

The guitarist said the rockers used their regular musical collaborators, Brian Eno and Danny Lanois, on only half the album's tracks, the BBC reported.

"It's a record of two halves," Evans said. "One half is songs that came virtually fully-formed out of sessions we did with Brian and Danny."

"Then the other half is material we've kicked around a while and went through the usual cycle of versions and incarnations."


No Line On The Horizon [Box Set] [Limited Edition] [CD/Poster/Book/DVD]

Time to Pre-Order U2 No Line On the Horizon

Great news for U2 fans; according to sources their eagerly anticipated new album (their first original work since How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb in November 2004) will be called No Line On The Horizon and will be on sale in music stores on November 14.

The band’s record company Universal has already registered the internet domain name nolineonthehorizon.com

And among the songs to be released on what many music insiders are calling the band’s best work to date are the title track “No Line On The Horizon” plus;

  • For Your Love
  • Love Is All We Have Left
  • One Bird
  • If I Could Live My Life Again
  • The Cedars of Lebanon

Earlier this week an insider said the U2 machine is gearing up for the release of one of the most keenly-awaited albums in recent years.

“The album is more or less all in the bag except for a few minor details,” the source revealed. A lot of people have been waiting a long time for this album as they do with every U2 album.

“But the word coming out is that the band is very, very happy with the end product and when U2 are happy it should be quite a piece of work. They’re not easy to please.”