Upcoming U2 collection features new song & Green Day collaboration

U2 will release a compilation album on November 21st featuring a brand new song, as well as the band's studio collaboration with Green Day on a cover of "The Saints Are Coming" by Scottish act the Skids. According to a posting at U2's website, the yet-to-be-titled collection will be available in regular and "deluxe" editions and include "16 of U2's best songs." The Skids cover and the new song, which has also not been named, were both recorded last month at Abbey Road Studios in London with producer Rick Rubin.


"The Saints Are Coming" was released to radio this week and will arrive as a download at the end of this month, with a CD and vinyl single to follow on November 6th. All proceeds will go to Music Rising, the charity led by U2 guitarist The Edge to replace instruments lost after Hurricane Katrina.

The two bands performed the song at the September 25th reopening of the Superdome in New Orleans, which was nearly destroyed by Katrina. The live version is available to download at rhapsody.com until October 30th.

U2's last compilation, The Best Of 1990 - 2000, came out in December of 2002.

The group is working on material for its next album and will resume its Vertigo world tour on November 7th in Australia.