Bono ready to focus on music again

MTV.com reports that Bono and mates are ready to get back to the music this month, despite Bono's recent work in the fight against AIDS, debt and other African struggles.

Lately, it seems like Bono has been more concerned with saving the world than making music with U2, a fact that he — and a large portion of his band's fanbase — is quite aware of.
Which is why, starting this week, he's clearing his schedule to begin working with the band on the follow-up to 2004's triple-platinum How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb.
The frontman broke the news in an interview with the U.K.'s Guardian newspaper (conducted last week while he was on a humanitarian mission in the African nation of Tanzania), announcing that as "a full-time musician and writer," he's been penning songs by the bushel and he's itching to get back into the studio with the band.

Also according to MTV, Interscope records was not aware of the band working on new songs or a new album.
Bono said he had begun writing new songs as he's learning to play the piano from one of his children's piano teachers.
Bono has mentioned in previous interviews a number of songs that were left over from the 2004 All That You Can't Leave Behind, tripple platinum release. But Bono also said during reports on the NBC Nightly News last week that he's got tons of songs he's been writing and working on - so I would expect an entirely new album with an entirely new catalog, although they could always pull one or two songs out of the ATYCLB sessions.