{"id":973866,"date":"2019-12-04T08:49:15","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T15:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=921941"},"modified":"2019-12-04T08:49:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T15:49:15","slug":"u2-are-getting-their-own-siriusxm-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/u2-are-getting-their-own-siriusxm-station\/","title":{"rendered":"U2 Are Getting Their Own SiriusXM Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/u2-siriusxm.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/u2\/\" id=\"auto-tag_u2\" data-tag=\"u2\">U2<\/a> are getting a channel devoted exclusively to their music on SiriusXM sometime next year. \u201c[U2X Radio] will feature music from U2\u2019s acclaimed decades-long career,\u201d the company said in a statement. \u201cNever before heard interviews and live concert recordings; favorites and surprises from the archive; band curated playlists sharing personal influences both new and old; plus content celebrating their Dublin roots and much, much more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The band will join the Grateful Dead, Tom Petty, Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam, Frank Sinatra and a handful of other artists that have their own channels on the satellite radio network. \u201cGenerally when I open my mouth, people prefer if I\u2019m singing,\u201d Bono said in a statement, \u201cbut on U2X RADIO, maybe they\u2019ll forgive me the odd interruption.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In statements, the other members appeared ambivalent about the news. \u201cI\u2019m not entirely sure what this, is but what it isn\u2019t is an opportunity to hear some bass solos,\u201d Adam Clayton said. \u201cU2 24\/7. Welcome to the last 43 years of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt all sounds exhausting to me, but if people really want to listen to us for 24 hours a day,\u201d said Larry Mullen Jr, \u201cthis is the way to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I get to sit around having a laugh with my musician friends and playing our favorite music,\u201d said The Edge. \u201cAs I always say, I have the best job in the world!\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>U2 made the announcement onstage at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan. They play again at the venue tomorrow before heading to South Korea and the Philippines. The tour wraps up December 15th with the group\u2019s first ever show in Mumbai, India.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/u2-siriusxm-station-921941\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U2 are getting a channel devoted exclusively to their music on SiriusXM sometime next year. \u201c[U2X Radio] will feature music from U2\u2019s acclaimed decades-long career,\u201d the company said in a statement. \u201cNever before heard interviews and live concert recordings; favorites and surprises from the archive; band curated playlists sharing personal influences both new and old; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 09:11:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}