U2 have joined fellow rocker Bruce Springsteen in releasing songs in response to current events in America, including the shooting death of Renee Good by ICE agents in Minneapolis. Titled Days of Ash, the Irish rock band’s new six-song EP is described in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. U2 just pulled a Bruce Springsteen. The band has released its first collection of new songs in nearly a decade, the six-song EP Days of Ash. The songs include a tribute to Renée Good ...

On January 28th, 2026, Bruce Springsteen released “Streets of Minneapolis,” a protest song he’d written “in response to the state terror being visited on the ...

In late January, Bruce Springsteen released "Streets of Minneapolis," memorializing Minnesota residents shot by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials, weaving "ICE Out Now" chants into a chorus of Trump-era resistance. A few weeks later, U2 ...

Politics is the enemy of art. When art is conscripted into a cause, it risks shrinking into instruction. This is not a novel idea. Albert Camus warned that art pressed into ideological service forfeits its moral force, while music philosopher Theodor W.

U2 have joined fellow rocker Bruce Springsteen in releasing songs in response to current events in America, including the shooting death of Renee Good by ICE agents in Minneapolis. Titled Days of Ash, the Irish rock band’s new six-song EP is described in ...