Ryan Adams News

Ryan Adams & The Cardinals will be releasing a new album next month, while they're in the middle of their current tour. Titled Cardinology, the disc should be available in the U.S. on October 28 and in Europe on October 27. Interestingly enough, this album is by The Cardinals. No mention of Ryan Adam's name anywhere except for songwriting credits...

Last fall, Adams said the band was going to work on several new projects:

20/20 : a box set of unreleased albums (that most people already have)
Cardinals III/IV: Two discs of songs that see Ryan Adams and Neal Casal splitting vocals
(Untitled RA Solo Album) : Adams mentioned that he was going to do a solo album (followed by a theatre tour) that was in a crooner style...

U2's Bono: Ordered To Lose Weight???

From what I've heard, touring takes quite the toll on a performer's body. All of the quickie meals, running around onstage for a few hours a night, going to bed late and waking up early... So it's no surprise that artists visit their physicians before a tour much like athletes get physicals before their season begins. But what is surprising is that the members of U2 have actually been ordered to lose weight before they go on the road to support their upcoming album, rumored to be titled No Line On The Horizon.

A New York newspaper is reporting that the band, who sang about how "Big Girls Are Best", will be hitting the road and appearing at arenas near you beginning in April or May of 2009. So this gives them a few months to work off those extra pounds.

So for Bono and Co., maybe they shouldn't have too much of the "sweetest thing(s)" this fall/winter. They could always go sugar-free, I hear it's even better than the real thing... (wink, wink)