U2 [ tickets ] performed "Vertigo" and three other songs from their forthcoming album, "How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb," during a brief Wednesday (11/17) gig for 30 radio contest winners in Dublin.

The Radio 1 contest winners joined the band--which concluded its set with "Beautiful Day"--at its rehearsal space, which will soon be demolished.

"How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" is due in stores on Tuesday (11/23).

Singer/songwriter John Mayer [ tickets ] stars in the new VH1 special "John Mayer Has a TV Show," which premieres on Dec. 9.

The half-hour program, shot during Mayer's summer tour, is described in a press release as "one part documentary, one part travelogue and one part sketch comedy."

A funeral for rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard [ tickets ]--whose real name was Russell Jones, was held Wednesday (11/18) in New York City. ODB collapsed and died in a New York recording studio last Saturday (11/13); the cause of death is still under investigation.

Motion picture director Johathan Demme will direct the video for the Steve Earle [ tickets ] track "Rich Man's War."