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AUSTIN, Texas — For any English band, playing this Texas hipster mecca's long-running PBS music show "Austin City Limits" is a big checkmark on the rock-and-roll bucket list, writes VH1 in a review of yesterday's Austin City Limits Taping. Here is the rest of their review along with song excellent stage set photos from JimmyD on the forums...   Coldplay got their second hash mark on Thursday night, taping a 90-minute special edition of the 37-year-old show just 24 hours before they take the stag

Michael Stipe checks in from the Powerbook about Coldplay, Austin, New York, Mr. Denton's website and his hair   Last month bert and I went on a whirlwind visit of austin texas to work with coldplay, appearing on austin city limits. I sang 2 songs with the band including the joseph arthur track ‘in the sun’. You may have caught it on your local PBS station; if not, its already in repeat.   Ive seen coldplay many times over the past few years, including the atlanta show of a few months ago. They

IT'S standing room only for egos at the Grammy Awards, the shindig that celebrates music's great, good and middle of the road in the US, report the Australian.   That is, of course, if you show up, which two of this year's event's biggest stars, Chris Brown and his squeeze Rihanna, failed to do, even though they were scheduled to perform to millions of television viewers and to the large, star-studded audience at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.   Front and centre on Monday, however, was Cold

The “Countdown To Coldplay” is almost over, and with just ten days until the first Australian concert date, performing to 17,000 fans at Perth’s Burswood Dome, Coldplay have today announced that at their request, American rock band Mercury Rev will be joining the ‘Viva La Vida’ tour of Australia.   Mercury Rev, veterans of the American rock scene, formed in Buffalo, New York in the late 1980’s and have surprised and enlightened listeners for over a decade and a half with their maverick musical

Guy “Mutto” Mutton sings Coldplay’s Clocks at the 2006 Australian Idol final.   Click here to watch it [Thanks swiift]

For a band trading in supposedly inoffensive rock music, Coldplay have an extraordinary capacity to offend. There's the malarkey that goes with Chris Martin, the lively, idiosyncratic, tabloid-magnet frontman who is married to Gwyneth Paltrow. Then there's Coldplay's music. In a genre demanding risk and ingenuity, Coldplay have frequently been laden by rock critics and fans alike with the dreaded "safe" tag.   The band's biggest crime, according to naysayers, is they sell records. Tens of millio

WASHINGTON -- The president of a Chicago-based investment fund misspent nearly $11 million in investments by Detroit area pension funds on lavish travel and entertainment and diverted some money into a company that operates a Detroit strip club, according to federal regulators.   AA Capital Partners Inc. manages $194 million in assets for six pension funds -- including $92.7 million from the Detroit-area Carpenters Pension Trust Fund and $75 million from Livonia-based Operating Engineers Local 3

Compilations, covers and live tracks can often make for cringe worthy, unadventurous and nostalgia fuelled listening and all three elements rolled into a double CD containing 40 tracks is a potential marathon yawn inducing shocker that could have you scrambling for the off button.   But following on from the success of ‘Live Lounge: Volume 1’ is ‘Volume 2’ and Radio 1 have got it pretty much bang on.   But it’s with the cover versions that the most fun can be had. But there are some tracks that

The farmer behind the Glastonbury Festival has been awarded the highest possible honour by an organisation representing record industry managers.   Michael Eavis has been inducted into the Roll of Honour of the Music Managers' Forum.   He said it was "quite thrilling to know that after 34 years of organised chaos, I am deemed worthy of this award". He added the festival - which began in 1970 - was so successful because its mix of arts and culture was unique. "We do a whole lot of expression in

The farmer behind the Glastonbury Festival has been awarded the highest possible honour by an organisation representing record industry managers.   Michael Eavis has been inducted into the Roll of Honour of the Music Managers' Forum.   He said it was "quite thrilling to know that after 34 years of organised chaos, I am deemed worthy of this award". He added the festival - which began in 1970 - was so successful because its mix of arts and culture was unique. "We do a whole lot of expression in

Gwyneth Paltrow took her baby for a three-minute stroll yesterday - and invited along the world's press.   However, there was some doubt as to whether six-day-old Apple was actually in the pram as the Oscar-winning actress paraded up and down outside her Belgravia home.   Paltrow's husband Coldplay singer Chris Martin arranged the 1pm outing to give the world's press their "one and only chance to photograph them for a very long time".The meticulously-planned event was an attempt to defuse some

They’re easy to spot. They’re the ones with the slightly too clean trainers and the “Account All Areas” VIP necktags. This summer you may well see them at T in the Park, V Music and the Isle of Wight festivals, watching Coldplay, Oasis and Gorillaz perform in front of hundreds of thousands of fans, not to mention million-strong TV audiences. But there will be something new about them this year. They’ll look like they’re having fun, instead of just putting on a brave face.   Yes, music industry e

I met Coldplay before they were big and got all their autographs… on my hat.   After seeing Coldplay play a small show (about 50 people were there) at First Avenue in Minneapolis (it was a warmup show for songs off A Rush Of Blood To The Head, which hadn’t come out yet), my friend and I were walking around the area before driving back to Madison, WI.   We walked around the corner of the club back to the car. On the far side of the backstage door was a velvet rope with about 10 people behind it.

Badly Drawn Boy @ Hiro Ballroom: 13 Reasons Why You Must Love Damon Gough   1) Springsteen Influence #1: The T-Shirt ('Born To Run') 2) Springsteen Influence #2: The Album Title ('Born In The UK') 3) Springsteen Influence #3: The Cover (of 'Thunder Road') 4) The rip on James Blunt. 5) The rip on Coldplay. 6) The Madonna cover ('Like A Virgin') 7) The Journey cover ('Don't Stop Believin') 8) The affirmation that he is the best songwriter of the last 20 years. 9) Stopping the set at 100 minutes, a

A SWINDON band are hoping to take the music scene by storm.   Belarus have already been compared to Coldplay and the five members of the band, who are all in their mid to late 20s, are seeking national recognition after landing a deal with independent record label Precious Iota.   Richard admits they would love to replicate Coldplay's success but said they would never be as miserable as Chris Martin's band.   "It's great to be likened to them they've sold millions of albums and have global notor

A SWINDON band are hoping to take the music scene by storm.   Belarus have already been compared to Coldplay and the five members of the band, who are all in their mid to late 20s, are seeking national recognition after landing a deal with independent record label Precious Iota.   Richard admits they would love to replicate Coldplay's success but said they would never be as miserable as Chris Martin's band.   "It's great to be likened to them they've sold millions of albums and have global notor

Bands performing live at this week's Brit Awards can expect to see an explosion in their album sales, it was revealed today.   Research has shown that acts that perform live can sell a massive 270 percent more albums in the two weeks after the awards. The 2006 bash, to be held on Wednesday, will see artists such as Coldplay, James Blunt, Gorillaz and Kaiser Chiefs play.   The sales date collated by Tesco over the last three years show that last year's British Female Solo Artist winner Joss Stone

Some Independent Musicians Have Found Creative Ways to Avoid High Gas Prices on Tour   People across the country have felt their budgets squeezed as gas prices soared to near record highs over the past month. It's been a particular problem for small businesses and consumers who drive extensively for their livelihoods.   The gas gouge has had ripple effects across a wide swath of industries, and has put pressure on a somewhat unlikely group of laborers: musicians.   High gas prices probably don'

Some Independent Musicians Have Found Creative Ways to Avoid High Gas Prices on Tour   People across the country have felt their budgets squeezed as gas prices soared to near record highs over the past month. It's been a particular problem for small businesses and consumers who drive extensively for their livelihoods.   The gas gouge has had ripple effects across a wide swath of industries, and has put pressure on a somewhat unlikely group of laborers: musicians.   High gas prices probably don'

More fan reviews of Coldplay's concert at the Estadi Olimpic in Barcelona that didn't make the review article yesterday morning, have been posted at the Coldplay Live forum. Most of them feature comments on the sound problems (video) that marred parts of the concerts, as well as voice problems that Chris Martin allegedly suffered. Those who left the stadium last after the show were also left without a LeftRightLeftRightLeft CD because of short supply due to concertgoers taking handfuls. Here are

More fan reviews of Coldplay's concert at the Estadi Olimpic in Barcelona that didn't make the review article yesterday morning, have been posted at the Coldplay Live forum. Here are some more of the reviews this time focussing on the crowd, and a couple of comments from Coldplayers who didn't attend the show, but were able to give a neutral view based on what had been said before...   Hey what's going on with all those complaints?? The show was really awwwwesome!!! they were fantastic all of th

There is a highly addictive drug out on the market that leaves no prisoners. It leeches on to men, women, and children. Once sucked in one needs it from the moment they wake up to the moment they go to sleep. It is in every home and every office and it could get to you too. That drug is MySpace.com.   MySpace has swept the nation and could take over the world. Started in January, 2004 in Los Angeles by Tom Anderson, the man with over 56 million friends. The Web site that opened as a forum to pro

Last week, BBC America launched their own music section, Tunes From the Thames, and they've included several top 10 lists featuring the best of British pop music.   First thing they go and do? Launch a scathing attack on BBC's fellow coutrymen, Coldplay, whilst boringly comparing them with UK compatriots Radiohead. Never been done before, we're sure. Anyway, below is the article that will infuriate many Coldplay fans. Way to go, BBC America! You can discuss this at the Coldplay forum now.   The

Coldplay have revealed they are returning to the studio with producer Brian Eno. Since releasing Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends last year the band have embarked on an extensive world tour.   They have though, found time to work on new material. Speaking to the band's official website bassist Guy Berryman said: "When we get back into the studio we'll be able to pick up where we left off with Brian. We've worked on a few ideas in soundchecks."   As previously reported Coldplay will pla

EMI Group Plc., the world's third- largest music company, and affiliate Capitol Records, Inc. must face a suit by representatives of the Beatles claiming the companies improperly "pocketed millions of dollars'' in music royalties from the band.   New York State Supreme Court Justice Karla Moskowitz denied EMI's request that the suit for fraud and breach of contract be thrown out. The complaint seeks to reclaim rights to all of the master recordings by the defunct British rock band, said Beatles