Yesterday my roommate Joel and I were having a conversation about Coldplay. With the release of Viva La Vida they are sort of everywhere. Joel was saying how with every passing day he couldn't stand Coldplay more and more. He use to really like them during the Parachute and Rush Of Blood To The Head days. I was saying how I feel like the general population says they can't stand Coldplay, yet th...
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As The Queen's Princess alerted us last week, Coldplay released the brand new video for "Viva La Vida." It's a gorgeous video with vibrant colours and dramatic videography. Today, however, an alternate version popped up at OnSmash and it's completely different than the "official" version. Where the 1st video is intensely high quality, this 2nd one is intentionally grainy. And the story-line...
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Due to productions issues... Coldplay have had to postpone their U.S. tour in support of Viva La Vida. Originally scheduled to launch on June 29th, the Colplay's U.S. summer tour will start two weeks later on July 14th in Los Angeles."The band have experienced some production delays which mean that the show simply won't be ready for June 29. It's very frustrating but they promise you a show wor...
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Apple came out victorious after a ruling in Washington yesterday (October 2nd) by the US Copyright Royalty Board that froze the royalty rate for songs purchased via iTunes for the next five years. The National Music Publishers Association wanted to increase the royalty fee from 9 cents to 15 cents per track. However, the CRB rejected the hike request, leaving publishers to only get 9 cents per ...
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Coldplay are on course to earn their first ever number one single in the UK. Early sales figures for their latest release, Viva La Vida show the group to be edging out the lot, reports the BBC.Although the song has caused a bit of controversity... sort of.As previously reported, Brooklyn-based Creaky Boards claimed they were the true authors of Coldplay's new successfu single. A video posted on...
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The Ceasers, Yael Naim and Jet. What do they all have in common? They were all virtually unheard of before their singles were picked up to plug an Apple product. I was watching the NHL hockey playoffs last night (triple overtime! what a game!) when all of a sudden a new iTunes commercial comes on. It's Coldplay singing the title track off Viva La Vida to a cosmic background.It made me think, "...
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Coldplay are teaming up with director Anton Corbijn for the 2nd time. The director made waves last year with the amazing Ian Curtis/Joy Division opus "Control" and recently agreed to direct a video for Coldplay's next single, the title track "Viva La Vida" from their forthcoming new album Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends. According to NME.com, the vid will be shot on a beach in Holla...
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If you can still remember your MySpace log in info then you are in luck because Coldplay will be streaming their new album Viva La Vida in its entirety tonight, June 6th, 2008. But there is a BUT. The album will only stream in select countries and the U.S. of A is not one of them. Lucky for me I'll be spending the weekend in Canada, one of the countries Coldplay have agreed to spin the album vi...
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Two years ago, it was probably "Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley. Last year, it was probably "1234" by Feist or "Young Folks" by Peter Bjorn and John. What is the most overplayed song of this year? I suspect many of us don't frequent the traditional forms of mainstream music too often- Top 40 radio, iTunes Top 10 singles, MTV Music Awards, Forever 21, The Limited, Gap, The Mall..., but there are othe...
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is the title of an article at Techdirt that does an end-around regarding the subject of the Satriani v. Coldplay lawsuit. I've not watched the videos, but I figure I'll laugh. :)"The whole Coldplay/Joe Satriani copyright fight is pretty silly for a a variety of reasons. Yes, there are some similarities, but there's a ton of stuff in music that sounds the same. There's a great chapter in James B...
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Coldplay have issued a statement denying they ripped off the title track from the 'Viva La Vida 'album from Joe Satriani. This is Joe Satriani we are talking about. Coldplay are clearly in trouble over this but by the tone of their statement, also in denial.
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Now that Bush is out of office, I'm going out on a limb (only slightly) and while trying to remain objective, I can't say that I miss him (or Darth Sidious, I mean Dick Cheney). In the closing years of his administration, lots of music (or at least lyrics) seemed to be inspired by him and his cronies. My first example comes from Coldplay's Viva La Vida album and the song of the same title:I u...
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On their Friday night / Saturday morning radio show "freak night" this weekend, Dutch presenters Giel Beelen and Gerard Ekdom received a rather bizarre phone call from 19-year old Otto, who claimed to be a terminally ill cancer sufferer hours away from committing assisted suicide (some forms of euthanasia/assisted suicide are legal in The Netherlands).He requested Coldplay's song "Viva La Vida"...
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Coldplay wanted to thank all their fans for their support over the past year, and so they gave away a free remix of the Thin White Duke remix of Viva La Vida (it's available until January 5th). Givei t a download below to get your Christmas Eve started properly!! Coldplay - Viva La Vida (Thin White Duke Mix) **Check out a film of the band performing Jingle Bells ...
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