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Rock couple Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale and their son Kingston have topped a new magazine poll to find Hollywood's Best Looking Family.   The Rossdales beat Coldplay star Chris Martin, Gwyneth Paltrow and their two kids and Smiths Will, Jada Pinkett, Willow, Jaden and Trey to top the new In Touch Weekly list.   In crowning the Rossdales the top family, In Touch editors say, "Whether the clan is going to their son Kingston's christening or a sporty family outing to the local tennis courts, th

Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. (SCEA) announced today the release of SingStar Rocks!, available exclusively for the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system. Developed by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe's London Studio, SingStar Rocks! is an innovative new title that invites players to step into the spotlight and exercise their vocal chords in an engaging, social experience that encourages even the shyest singer to unleash their inner rock star.   SingStar Rocks! features 30 full

Chris Martin’s band has been a punchline since that first fresh-faced beach walk, and there are some good reasons for that, writes Stereogum, following the release of Coldplay's latest song, Magic. Read on for the article, and discuss it at the Magic sub-forum now [thanks ihaveabono]   Stereogum continues: When your debut album sounds less like a spongy facsimile of Bends-era Radiohead than a facsimile of Travis, themselves a spongy facsimile of Bends-era Radiohead, you invite ridicule. When yo

There may be no Glastonbury this year, but it will still be difficult to avoid an outdoor festival. Up to 250 festival organisers are hoping to attract the crowds in the next few months - and some fear that the summer is already saturated.   Six years ago Neil Greenway set up efestivals.co.uk, a website packed with information and festival discussion forums. He said the market was overserved. "It was always a bit of an underground thing and now it's gone overground. And there are an awful lot of

There may be no Glastonbury this year, but it will still be difficult to avoid an outdoor festival. Up to 250 festival organisers are hoping to attract the crowds in the next few months - and some fear that the summer is already saturated.   Six years ago Neil Greenway set up efestivals.co.uk, a website packed with information and festival discussion forums. He said the market was overserved. "It was always a bit of an underground thing and now it's gone overground. And there are an awful lot of

A comprehensive review of Coldplay's concert at the Olympiastadion, Stockholm, Sweden (22nd August 2009) has emerged online, courtesy of Rock Revival. Here is the review and some of the photos, more of which you can see at their blog (links provided):   Before Coldplay walked on stage they played U2’s Magnificent over the PA, followed by Jay Z’s I Just Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me) during which one of their roadies came out on the catwalk break dancing! What a great way to get the crowd fired up!

It is looking as though Chico Time has come around far too quickly for queen of pop Madonna.   The ex goat-herder is giving Madge a run for her money as his new single flies off the shelves of record stores nationwide.   Early week predictions are estimating Chico will knock Madonna’s new hit Sorry down to number two after just one week at the top of the charts. Not only is cheeky Chico looking to take over the pop world, he is also trying to add some showbiz names to his address book.   Robbie

SAN FRANCISCO - As a first-year student at Stanford Graduate School of Business, Jeff Fluhr and a classmate entered a competition for the best new business plan. Their entry, called "NeedATicket.com," envisioned a centralized Web site where people could auction off extra tickets for sporting events and concerts.   Utterly convinced the concept would work, Fluhr withdrew the entry and dropped out of school to launch the business. "It was definitely something that my mother was not thrilled about,

Sugababes are about to head out on a UK tour, which will see the girls performing a single Scottish date at Glasgow's Clyde Auditorium on March 20, before guesting on Take That's reunion tour.   It's bound to be an exciting year, but Keisha admits she was gutted that her group failed to win a single Brit award - despite selling more than 700,000 copies of their recent album Taller In More Ways.   "The girls will turn around and say they didn't mind but I was disappointed," she confessed. "I wa

Summer’s just around the corner and its time to go online or pick up the phone and buy your festival tickets.   But it’s just not as easy as that anymore and festival tickets are going on sale earlier and earlier. This year the V Festival tickets were even available in March – a full five months ahead of the event. But is this really such a good thing for the fans?   With amazing line-ups at this Summer’s festivals, including Radiohead at V and Coldplay at the Isle of Wight, there’s no way you’

Summer’s just around the corner and its time to go online or pick up the phone and buy your festival tickets.   But it’s just not as easy as that anymore and festival tickets are going on sale earlier and earlier. This year the V Festival tickets were even available in March – a full five months ahead of the event. But is this really such a good thing for the fans?   With amazing line-ups at this Summer’s festivals, including Radiohead at V and Coldplay at the Isle of Wight, there’s no way you’

UK - Summit Steel is supplying production rigging plus two automation systems and control for the European and UK sections of the current Coldplay Viva la Vida world tour.   Summit's Jay Call has co-ordinated the project from its Kent HQ, liaising closely with the touring crew including head rigger Gabe Wood and production manager Craig Finlay.   The supply includes a 26 way Kinesys variable speed automation system with K2 control and a 10-way Kinesys fixed speed automation system with Vector co

Back in 2008, when Coldplayer locust7 declared that he had already heard the (then) new single Violet Hill two weeks before it was actually released, reactions were, "yeah, right... prove it," and "liar, liar, your bum's on fire." Well, of course he couldn't 'prove it' and his bum wasn't really on fire, but when his written review of Violet Hill matched the song precisely when it was finally made public a couple of weeks later, everyone started to take notice of his posts. He followed this up wi

What you don’t want to do, if you’re as big as Coldplay, is to suddenly start writing new material just when you’ve agreed the release date for your album and the world tour has been slotted into everyone’s diary, reports the Sunday Times.   The wheels of big business are rolling and they won’t wait for your new songs. Coldplay’s way of dealing with this is Prospekts March, an EP that rounds up the material that wasn’t finished in time to get onto Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends. There

Coldplay.com talked to Juanita Stein from Coldplay's latest support act. With Howling Bells set to open at all the North American shows from May 15th to June 21st, they called up the indie-rockers' frontwoman for a natter.   Hello Juanita, how are you? I'm good, thanks. I'm in New York. I got here a few days early to catch up with some friends and hang out in New York for a bit, before meeting up with the guys in Florida.   Have you had fun in New York? Yeah, it's been great. We had a really go

Elbow have announced that they will support Coldplay on several US tour dates this summer. The Mercury Prize-winning band will also play a handful of headlining shows during the North American jaunt.   They'll kick things off with their own gig in Los Angeles on July 22 before teaming up with Coldplay in Wisconsin three days later. They'll hit cities including Toronto, Montreal, Charlotte and Atlanta, before concluding the tour in Tampa, Florida on August 9. The band are supporting their most re

Faced with a photo of a fly-encrusted child, the natural reaction should be to reach out and help.   Instead, I start hearing Bono and Coldplay in my head. It's the most mind-mangling act of branding in history. I agree with what they are saying - I just wish THEY weren't saying it. How can I open my wallet while my fists are curled with rage?   Take Bono's special edition of the Independent. It's incredibly annoying. You're trapped in a windowless room with the usual tedious sods who apparently

Faced with a photo of a fly-encrusted child, the natural reaction should be to reach out and help.   Instead, I start hearing Bono and Coldplay in my head. It's the most mind-mangling act of branding in history. I agree with what they are saying - I just wish THEY weren't saying it. How can I open my wallet while my fists are curled with rage?   Take Bono's special edition of the Independent. It's incredibly annoying. You're trapped in a windowless room with the usual tedious sods who apparently

She wasn't even born when her fellow countrymen The Beach Boys released California Girls.   But it seems the spirit of the band's most famous track is alive and well on Gwyneth Paltrow's current beach holiday.   The 33-year-old actress swopped the breakers of her birth place California for some rather more tame water near the home of her husband Chris Martin's parents in Cornwall. Not only were the waves smaller, but the sky was surely a little greyer and the air a spot colder than back home.

NEW YORK — Swizz Beatz hasn't had a problem making a hit record for the streets or pop charts since he did the beat for N.O.R.E.'s "Banned for TV" almost a decade ago.   Everybody knows how he recently gave Beyoncé some platinum smashes for her B'Day album (see "Beyonce Hitmaker Swizz Beatz Defies Radio Rules With Two-Minute Single""), not to mention his credentials from working alongside top notch MCs such as Jay-Z, DMX and T.I. (see "New T.I. Songs Leak — Swizz Beatz Calls Track With Tip 'A W

“Kanye went out his way to give me a verse,” Beatz said. “He called me about it. I didn’t have to bug him. It was cool. [Turning him down,] I think that would have been rude.   If Coldplay could have been on the album, Kanye could be on the album. I’m honored to know he felt my sh– is hot to even wanna rock with me like that.   He could have made it competition, but he’s like, ‘Yo, Swizzy, I got you, let’s get ‘em.’ ”   Source: MTV  

There are many things Coldplay's frontman, Chris Martin, is uncomfortable discussing in interviews. Rumours of a rivalry with fellow supergroup U2 and his marriage to actress Gwyneth Paltrow are two.   Yesterday, it was whispers the band have been secretly rehearsing with John Farnham for a duet at the Sydney Sound Relief Concert on Saturday. Last week Coldplay's drummer, Will Champion, let slip that he had been learning Farnham songs, with the band seguing into the chorus of You're The Voice at

Coldplay really have become the biggest band in the world. The colossal commercial success of their latest release, 2008’s Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends, means they can charge $140 a ticket and still be able to sell out stadium shows with their legion of fiercely loyal followers – and that’s exactly what they’re doing this week. Returning for their first Australian visit since 2006’s Twisted Logic tour, the British supergroup are playing five packed-out shows at Sydney’s Acer Arena,

There is nothing more life affirming for a music fan than falling in love with one of their favourite bands all over again. And about 18,000 Coldplay fans staged an infectious love-in for the all-conquering rock band at their opening Sydney concert at the Acer Arena last night.   While the self-deprecating band - which frontman Chris Martin refers to as soft rock - may insist they remain U2s understudy, Coldplay have put the Irish super group on notice that their crown can be taken. The British

You probably saw it coming: Coldplay hitting the stage with all guns, or at least sparklers, blazing. Not just because they are one of the world's biggest rock bands; more because of their faintly ridiculous home-made garb.   It's all military jackets and multicoloured frayed sashes, which, along with current fourth album Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends, appears to take at least some influence from the Spanish Civil War.   The Brit four-piece's self-confidence knows no bounds in terms