U2 films 'Street of Dreams' video on a graffitied school bus in Mexico City

Back on the streets

U2 has been turning heads in Mexico City this week. Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. were spotted on Tuesday, May 12, shooting a music video for their new track "Street of Dreams," according to Billboard. The setting was nothing subtle: the four-piece performed on top of a school bus decorated by local artist Chavis Marmol, with hundreds of fans gathered around them.

The song is lifted from their next studio album, which has not yet been officially announced but is due for release later in 2026. It will be the follow-up to 2023's Songs of Surrender, which debuted at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 and reached No. 1 on the Official U.K. Albums Chart.

A nod to their own history

The rooftop-style spectacle draws an obvious line to one of the band's most iconic moments. In the late 1980s, U2 filmed the video for "Where the Streets Have No Name" on a rooftop in downtown Los Angeles. That clip, directed by Meiert Avis, won the Grammy Award for Best Performance Music Video at the 31st Annual Grammy Awards. Its parent record, 1987's The Joshua Tree, remains one of the defining albums of that decade.

Fitting, then, that the band would return to a similar format decades later and in a city that clearly embraced them.

The bigger picture in Mexico City

The timing of the shoot is not accidental. Mexico City is also hosting the 2026 Street Child World Cup this week, a tournament that kicked off May 6 and wraps up May 14, with 30 teams from across the globe competing. Mullen addressed the connection directly: "Our band are proud supporters."

Where the album stands

Bono offered a candid update on the new record back in April alongside the release of the Easter Lily EP. "We are in the studio, still working towards a noisy, messy, 'unreasonably colourful' album to play LIVE," he wrote, adding that the band sees "vivid rock n roll as an act of resistance."

U2 was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005 and holds the distinction of being the first band to play the Sphere in Las Vegas, which they inaugurated in September 2023.