U2 is again on the streets, this time in Mexico Metropolis the place the legendary Irish rock band is taking pictures a brand new music video.
Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. have been snapped within the Mexican capital the place they’re taking pictures a music video for the brand new observe, “Road of Desires,” lifted from their yet-to-be introduced subsequent studio album, due for launch later in 2026.
The Rock Corridor-inducted band was noticed Tuesday, Might 12, rocking out on prime of a faculty bus, graffitied by native artist Chavis Mármol, with tons of of followers gathered for the particular occasion.
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It’s not the primary time U2 has introduced the streets to a standstill. Within the late ’80s, the group famously recaptured the spirit of the Beatles’ “Get Again” with a efficiency on a rooftop in downtown Los Angeles, footage of which seems in Meiert Avis’ music video for “The place the Streets Have No Identify.” The clip went on to win the Grammy Award for greatest efficiency music video on the thirty first Annual Grammy Awards, and its mum or dad album, 1987’s The Joshua Tree, was a monster, confirming U2 as a hitmaker, a stadium act and, with out argument, the largest band of its time.
This week additionally sees Mexico Metropolis host the 2026 Road Baby World Cup, with 30 groups from throughout the globe on the town for this 12 months’s event that kicked off Might 6, and wraps up this Thursday, Might 14. “It’s slightly NGO with an enormous kick for teenagers with all the expertise and not one of the entry,” chimes in U2 drummer Mullen. “Our band are proud supporters.”
U2’s subsequent album is the followup to 2023’s Songs of Give up, which debuted at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 and No. 1 on the Official U.Okay. Albums Chart.
The group has been notably energetic of late, and with the discharge in April of the Easter Lily EP, Bono shared an replace on that subsequent file. “We’re within the studio, nonetheless working in direction of a loud, messy, ‘unreasonably vibrant’ album to play LIVE… which is the place U2 lives. We nonetheless look to vivid rock n roll as an act of resistance in opposition to all this awfulness on our small screens. These are for positive ‘wilderness years’ for therefore many people trying on the mayhem on the market on this planet,” the singer defined in a written assertion.
The Dublin fourpiece “will try hoopla and fanfare at a later date to remind the remainder of the world we exist however within the meantime,” Bono continued, “that is between you and us.”
U2 has landed 34 songs on the Billboard Sizzling 100, together with two leaders, together with eight No. 1s on the Billboard 200 chart. Induction into the Rock And Roll Corridor of Fame got here in 2005. U2 had the honors of being the primary band to play the Sphere in Las Vegas, which they inaugurated in September 2023 with the residency, U2:UV Achtung Child Dwell at Sphere.
