U2 announces the release date (March 3, 2009) and the title of (No Line on the Horizon) their forthcoming 12th album.
AllMusic.com releases part two of its list of "Favorite Indie Rock Albums of 2008." Among the selected albums: Sea Lion by The Ruby Sons (which didn't quite make my own top ten, but was still quite a nice work); M83's Saturdays=Youth (pretty great shoegaze but haven't gotten to listen to it enough to really rate it); No Age's Nouns (didn't really dig it); and Chemical Chords by Stereolab (good, but not too different from the past three Stereolab albums).
Peter Jackson hires on Brian Eno to score his latest film, The Lovely Bones, an adaptation of Alice Sebold's novel about a teenage girl who is viciously raped and murdered, and watches from heaven as her family and friends deal with their grief.
Whitney Houston's stepmother sues the 45-year-old singer over a $1 million insurance policy.
A new Doors documentary, When You Were Strange, to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January.
This article appears in Dec 17-23, 2008.