Giving away free music is addicting for Coldplay. Last week Coldplay successfully released their first single "Violet Hill" as a free MP3 via their Web site and some 2 million people downloaded the track. (Even Coldplay is surprised at the number, I'm sure).
Now the band are giving away their next single "A Spell A Rebel Yell," which sorta rips off U2 "Mothers of the Disappeared."
The band is pulling a Prince, who last July released his latest album Planet Earth via the Sunday paper in the UK. Coldplay, as mentioned before, don't have those kind of balls. So they will only be releasing the single on 7" in the next issue of the UK weekly music magazine, NME.
On Coldplay's Web site, they promise fans that they will try to release "a track or two" before their new album, Viva La Vida hits stands on June 17th. But, "A Spell A Rebel Yell" isn't even on Viva La Vida...it's an outtake.
