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There are two things you should know about Brianna Walker if you want to have a great conversation with her.   She's a huge sports fan, and she's a big music lover.   "I see tons of concerts," she adds. "I've seen Coldplay, Dave Matthews several times and David Gray recently. But Coldplay was by far the best concert I've ever seen. They were amazing live. A friend of mine told me Def Leppard is coming to Riverbend with Journey and I think it would be fun to see them."MUSIC What new song or albu

How Does The Chart Work?   The chart has been compiled using a pro-rata points formula based on a No. 1 album receiving 100 points for each week at the top. Points for all other positions vary based on the size of the chart for a particular week. Bonus points are also given for each week an album is at number one. The chart compilation and points formula calculation are ©2004-2006   1. Queen - ‘Greatest Hits’ 2. Meat Loaf - ‘Bat Out Of Hell’ 3. Simon And Garfunkel - ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’

Tech Leaders Come Together to Fight Global AIDS and Extreme Poverty with ONE: the Campaign to Make Poverty History   The Campaign to Make Poverty History announced its new website today, continuing an unprecedented campaign to reach and engage millions of Americans in the fight against global AIDS and extreme poverty at one.org.   "For the first time in history, we have the ability to beat global AIDS and extreme poverty, all we need is the will to do it," said ONE CEO Paul Dioguardi. "These lea

Snow Patrol release the first single from their new album on April 24th.   'You're All I Have' is taken from the bands fourth studio album 'Eyes Open' which is released on May 1st. A sensational introduction to the new album, 'You're All I Have' is classic Snow Patrol - guitars hook you straight away and the three part vocal which immediately transports you into a sparkling other world, all done with increased bigness and boldness from their last album, the 4x platinum 'Final Straw'.   Already

More details have arrived about little Moses‘ birth! The firstborn son of Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin was born in NYC at Mount Sinai Hospital — but there’s no official word on his method of egress (i.e. scalpel or pushing).   He weighed in at 8 pounds, 4 ounces on 4/8 (ooh… the numbers are the same!) — checking in at about 9:00 in the morning. For what it’s worth, big sister Apple was nearly a pound and a half bigger at birth: she weighed 9 pounds, 11 ounces when she was born on May 14, 200

The Sundance Channel is currently featuring a really interesting documentary titled In The Sun, which was created to remind Americans about the ongoing struggles of the survivors from Hurricane Katrina. The film also takes a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the In The Sun EP, currently available on iTunes. All proceeds from the sale of the EP go to Mercy Corps, which is devoted to those still suffering in the wake of the hurricane.   The film was collaboration between Michael Stipe [pictu

One feature of soppy, anthemic rock is the notion of redemption it seeks to nurture; a manly hug that says, 'We've all made mistakes but it's going to be OK.'   Soppy, anthemic rock appears able to redeem entire careers, too. Take Embrace. Around the time of their 1997 'All You Good Good People' single, they were pegged as the new Oasis. Eventually plummeting out of favour, they were rescued commercially in 2004 by a Coldplay song.   Snow Patrol started life 10 years ago as a likeable if ineffe

The great thing about the Charlatans is they never became too big.   No doubt about it, they have some great tunes, but they have fired enough blanks to ensure the superstardom enjoyed by the likes of Oasis and Coldplay has never come their way. This has afforded them an offbeat, underdog feel that fans love. And it also lends itself perfectly to another of Xfm Manchester's Acess All April gigs at the Night and Day Café.   The five-piece barely fitted on stage - I had a better view than drummer

If you could improve the life of a Colombian coffee farmer or a Ghanian cocoa grower by just changing brands, would you?   Millions of people worldwide have, simply by strolling into a supermarket in London or Berlin or Los Angeles or Sydney, and buying a Fair Trade product.   The blue-and-green Fair Trade mark appears on products as an independent guarantee that disadvantaged producers in the developing world are getting a better deal.   High-profile people promote the cause. Coldplay lead sing

Are you a music fan? Do you fancy yourself as a budding journalist? Would you like the chance to meet and interview world-class artists? Then the Daily Mirror have the competition for you!   Mirror.co.uk has teamed up with Bacardi rum to celebrate the launch of Bacardi B-Live, a new musical concept taking the UK by storm. Bacardi B-Live pushes the boundaries of musical entertainment through collaborations of world-class DJ’s, musicians, live vocalists and percussionists. Performing together thes

Do you worry? You look like you do. Worrying is the way the responsible citizen of an advanced society demonstrates his virtue: He feels good by feeling bad.   "In all probability billions of people are going to die in the next few decades. Our poor, abused planet cannot take much more. ... If we decide to put the planet first, then we ourselves are the pathogen. So we should let as many people die as possible, so that other species may live, and accept the destruction of civilization and of eve

Ten years in the cold is enough. Time to warm up and rock out the stadiums. Scottish stadium rockers Simple Minds have turned out to be one of the comeback stories of the year, selling out arenas and winning new fans with its acclaimed album Black And White 050505.   Maybe Coldplay is the stadium standard these days for the super-size anthem.   But take nothing away from Simple Minds' frontman Jim Kerr who can still hit the mark with those emotive highs and of course, sidekick Charlie Burchill

For the first time since people started buying records, the charts are full of music mum and dad and even granny and grandad want to hear.   People in their 50s and 60s are buying more records than teenagers. Yes, mum rocks! And granny, too! But what hacks me off is that some punters think folk in their 50s only listen to Neil Diamond or Neil Sedaka.   Nothing wrong with that, I don't want to offend their fans. But my husband is in his 50s and wouldn't be seen dead with their albums. His iPod

Senior executives at EMI, the British record label, and its American rival Warner Music Group are preparing for preliminary talks that could lead to the creation of the world’s third-largest music company.   Sources close to both groups said the firms’ on-off discussions would resume in earnest within months, with advisers on both sides being briefed to prepare for merger talks.   EMI, which counts Coldplay among its top artists, is understood to have lined up Citigroup and UBS to assist it, whi

To Turn Winston Churchill's famous comment about Clement Attlee on its head, Gary Lightbody is a modest man with a lot to be immodest about. Since the release of Last Straw in 2003, the unassuming Irishman and his band Snow Patrol have scaled the Olympian heights of rock music, selling more than two million records, touring with U2 and being widely hailed as the new Coldplay.   Yet the group's singer and main songwriter remains refreshingly free of pop star swagger, and seems to have checked hi

DISBELIEF greeted the revelation that Jonathan Ross gets £720,000 a year - for just three hours work a week. But Wossy's whopping wage seems like chickenfeed compared with the earnings of others in our Showbiz Rich List.   We can reveal that the top earner on TV is 46-year-old Simon Cowell.   He is joint ninth overall and the highest-placed non-musician in the Daily Mirror's Rich List of stars whose finances are based in Britain and Ireland.   Rock/pop Bands Annual income from records, tours et

Back in 2002, the Crocodile had a perfect storm of a show, and not-yet-Seattlest was lucky enough to be in attendance for a bill whose lineup still gets followed to this day.   The earnest indie rock of Mellowdrone, followed by the Brit-rock-with-tender-voices of both South and Elbow prompted Seattlest to spend more on merch at that show than has been spent since.   As album release cycles go, they all still tend to hit Seattle on tour around the same time (Elbow two weeks ago, Mellowdrone soon)

The full results of the top 100 Greatest Albums Ever (as declared by Irish musicians) is found in the current issue of Hot Press - and each day we'll reveal a little more of the list on hotpress.com.   Take a look below to see how the list is shaping up, and keep checking back to find out how it progresses!   79. Coldplay - Parachutes   More on this here [thanks Ondes Martenot]

Embrace played their first major date before a home crowd on Monday - a long time coming, according to lead singer Danny McNamara.   The charismatic vocalist repeatedly thanked the 2,000 fans who packed the Victoria Theatre, Halifax, for their loyalty and support.   A tour through past and recent classics included songs from "Out of Nothing'', the superb "Gravity'', penned for the band by Coldplay's Chris Martin, and "Ashes'', an uplifting spirit-soarer that wouldn't be out of place as a World C

As the scion of a showbusiness legend, Kiera Chaplin has entertainment in her blood. At the tender age of 23, the granddaughter of Charlie Chaplin and great-granddaughter of the Irish playwright Eugene O'Neill has already forged a successful career in film and fashion.   And this weekend, she will be named as one of the wealthiest young entertainers from the UK by The Sunday Times Rich List, which estimates her personal fortune at £30m.   The model and actress, who also has a 30 per cent stake

Gwyneth Paltrow makes her directorial debut with “Dealbreaker,” a short comedy about the little things that can kill a relationship. Fran (Arija Barekis) reflects on the many faux pas that ended all her previous relationships, like the dude who admitted to liking the Spin Doctors or the bizarre baby-talker. However, the killer event is the one that snuffs Fran’s current relationship—a Farrelly Brothers-style gross-out involving poor bathroom etiquette. The film’s little more than a Cosmo article

The hoopla around the birth of Tom and Katie's brand new kitten (Suri!) may be the most watched celebrity nativity of our time: Tom's going to eat the placenta! She has to suck a pacifier! But they are hardly the first celebrities to have the birth of their child right smack in the center of the media spotlight.   6. Apple Blythe Alison Martin May 14, 2004   Hippy-dippy Gwyneth Paltrow planned to have baby Apple at home, but was advised against it by her midwife, so she and husband Chris Martin

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

The Church’s Steve Kilby must really, really hate Coldplay’s Chris Martin, and not like the usual “God, I can’t stand that putz in Coldplay” sort of thing, either. Yeah, he gets to you and me, with his goofy haircut, his holier-than-thou super-hot wife and his constant string of boasting about writing the greatest albums of his generation. But he must really stick in Kilby’s craw: He’s one-upped The Church’s only claim to fame.   Things were going just great until a little band called Coldplay h

Mission: To find some San Jose funk. Accomplished.   If there is one thing my experience reporting has made clear, it is that a story can be wheedled out of just about anyone, anything, anywhere. And my random adventure to The Record Shop is a case in point.   So, take Bus 22 into Downtown San Jose. Hop off somewhere in the middle of the main drag. Walk a few blocks, and you just may be fortunate enough to encounter a unique urban boutique. Crossing the store's threshold, a mini metropolis of CD