My favorite Irish rockers have been spending time writing and rehearsing for a new album, and drummer Larry Mullen Jr. said in a recent interview that there should be something new from U2 this year.  “I’d say we will be finished by the summer — and hopefully we will have something released by September.  That’s what we want to do.”  Singer Bono has said that there are six songs already written and the album is tentatively titled “Ten Reasons to Exist.”  It would be the first new studio album from U2 since 2009′s No Line On The Horizon.

Mike Anthony