Coldplay News

Listen to three new tracks by the English band from the Midtfyns Festival.   Coldplay visited the Midtfyns Festival Wednesday evening, and Musik.dk was close by during the whole concert. Musik.dk is the first website in the universe to get legal permission to stream three tracks from their coming album, "A Rush of Blood to the Head." The three tracks are "Politik," "In My Place," and "God Put a Smile on My Face."   Press the links to the top right to see/hear the three tracks being performed, an

This fall, Coldplay's 'Viva La Vida' World Tour returns to North America and they have partnered with Oxfam in their fight against many global issues. Here is your chance to join other Coldplay fans in standing up to poverty, hunger, and social injustice.   Bid now on pairs of VIP tickets to the upcoming shows here and read the feedback from previous buyers here [thanks JR1015]   Did you know...   - 40% of the people on our planet--more than 2.5 billion--now live in poverty, struggling to surviv

Coldplay are to donate all proceeds from the digital release of "Fix You" in the USA to help the thousands of people affected by Hurricane Katrina.   The band, who were forced to cancel a show in Tampa last night after Chris Martin lost his voice, will donate BMG, Capitol and Apple's profits to the fund.   The proceeds of the release will go to the American Red Cross Hurricane 2005 Relief and the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences' MusiCares Hurricane Relief Fund.   "Fix You"'s US

Radiohead are known for helping invent a sub-genre of indie rock (the falsetto-laden, space-age ballad), while Coldplay have described themselves as “incredibly good plagiarists.”   Both make excellent yet similar music, and both stand a chance at bringing home the Grammy for Best Album next week at the 51st Annual Grammy Awards. Radiohead are nominated for In Rainbows, the album they released after emancipating themselves from their old record company, EMI. Coldplay are nominated for Viva la Vi

Coldplay, The White Stripes and The Tears are all gearing up for the biggest chart battle in years as all three release hotly-anticipated albums today.   Coldplay celebrate the release of third set 'X&Y' with an intimate gig at London's Koko club tonight (live on Radio 1), and fans were queuing at the crack of dawn outside the club to buy tickets which only went on sale today.   The White Stripes' fifth album 'Get Behind Me Satan' is also released today, though the band are still on tour in

Several people have noticed the similarity between Coldplay's 'The Scientist' and Sum 41's 'Pieces'.   Take a listen for yourself here

Coldplay want Beyonce Knowles to star in the video for their next single Fix You, because their fans deserve more "gorgeous girls".   The band aren't confident people like their promo for Speed Of Sound, the first single from their new album X+y - but they think they are naturally disadvantaged because there are no women in the group.   Frontman Chris Martin says, "I think the only way for us to get a video that does really well is for us to get Beyonce in it. I'm not sure how we're going to do

Coldplay wants to live in Norway. The boys, who lives in London, are planning to buy a house in Kristiansand, Norway.   We love this country. The air is so clean, the water so clear and its so beautiful here. Last time we played at Quartfestival Guy remembers how fell in love with this place. We stayed up all night, we had a bath in the sea and saw the sun coming up. I was burned by a sea nettle.   Now they got serious plans about buying a house here. We have been thinking about buying a house h

According to SirenDisc website, the new Coldplay single is Talk. To be released on January 23, 2006.   [Thanks LifeLight]

Manchester is the place to be next summer, as Coldplay, U2 and Oasis are all set to rock the Stadium.   According to reports, Coldplay are busy putting the finishing touches to their hotly-anticipated third album and are scheduled to play in June. But we're sure they'll still belt out Yellow, don't worry.   You can discuss this story here   Source: MegaStar.co.uk

There is still time to order from the official Coldplay shop in time for Christmas.   There is a huge range of exclusive and fantastic items that are sure to make any fan’s Christmas, including limited edition artwork lithographs, clothes, CDs, DVDs, tour merch and more.   Click here to go to your local Coldplay online store.

Coldplay sets the first leg of a projected 150-date tour...   As announced earlier, Coldplay's 'Viva La Vida' world tour -- which will land in North America, Europe and Japan -- is set to begin at Philadelphia's Wachovia Center on June 29th and extend well into next year. Tickets will be priced from $50-$85. Didn't see your town? Don't worry. Billboard reports that there will be 50 North American dates, so this intimate little get-to-know-Coldplay-again tour will be a beast. The world trek will

The Orchard, the world's leading supplier of independent music, today announced a worldwide digital distribution partnership with Fierce Panda Records, the pioneering UK-based independent record label.   Through The Orchard's unparalleled distribution capability, Fierce Panda artists such as Coldplay will be digitally distributed to and actively marketed across all the legal digital music services in the United States and Europe, including eMusic, iTunes (in the US, UK and Europe), Napster, Musi

Coldplay will be on David Letterman (30 June), Jay Leno (17 July) during their warm up to their first leg of a US Viva La Vida tour. More details to come, but times are as follows:   David Letterman: Network : CBS Date : 2008/06/30 Time : 11:35 PM ET   Jay Leno: Network : NBC Date : 2008/07/17 Time : 11:35 PM ET   More on this here [thanks maricircus]

The Atlanta Music Midtown festival, which ended in 2005 after a mostly successful and frequently buzzed-about 11-year run, will return Saturday, September 24th, at Piedmont Park - and Coldplay will headline, the official site has confirmed today. Catch all the latest discussion and previews to this new festival date at the Coldplay Live forum now [thanks LiTii & _Tash]   Here's Anchorman's announcement: We're pleased to report that Coldplay will headline this year's Music Midtown festival,

Coldplay are giving their fans a free live album – and missing out on a fortune in the process, according to music business experts. In an online article at The Mirror this morning, it is calculated that releasing the record in the normal way could have netted Coldplay at least £10million in album sales alone.   But the album, recorded over the past year in various cities, will not please bosses at the band’s struggling label EMI which has relied on their success for its revenues. Terra Firma ac

Various media sources are focusing on the fact that Coldplay will not abandon choruses for the new album due out in June.   They say that Chris Martin has promised Coldplay fans that the group's new album will not be too much of a departure from their previous material. Rumours have suggested that the new LP could be less commercially-friendly due to its experimental nature, which was influenced by producer Brian Eno. However, frontman Chris insisted: "We're still obsessed with making songs that

Coldpatrix found an article which confirmed that Coldplay were to play at Glasto 2007.   We have the confirmation that Coldplay are one of the bands that will take part to Glastonbury 2007 Festival, the most important UK live event in Pilton Farm (England). The event will be in June, maybe from 22nd to 24th of 2007.   Chris Martin’s band will perform at Pyramid Stage along with White Stripes, Kylie Minogue, Elvis Costello, New Order e Kaiser Chiefs.   Other bands are: Razorlight, Kasabian, Ian B

Things have been relatively quiet on the Joe Satriani vs. Coldplay front since the guitarist filed a copyright-infringement lawsuit against the band in December, claiming that Coldplay's "Viva La Vida" was too similar to the melody of his instrumental "I Just Wanna Fly"... until this week.   Reports surfaced on Wednesday that Satriani was so fed up with the band allegedly dodging his attempts to serve them with papers in the suit that, according to Fox News, he planned an ambush at this Sunday's

Coldplay have been added to the list of performers at the 2009 BRIT Awards, joining the likes of U2 and Kings Of Leon who will also play on the night.   Coldplay are also poised to cap their record-breaking comeback at this year's Brit Awards after being nominated for a leading four awards. They were nominated for Best Album, Best Group, Best British Single and Best Live act after this year's nominations were announced at Camden's Round House in London, Tuesday. This year's nominees were voted b

Unconfirmed reports say internationally renowned bands like Coldplay and the Killers will perform in Bogota before the end of this year and that promoters are doing their best to get Metallica to include Colombia's capital in their upcoming tour.   According to Colombian music magazine Shock, Coldplay are close to confirming a show in Bogota, and if all goes well, this gig will be taking place sometime the end of this year.   The same magazine reports that it is 97% certain that alternative rock

Coldplay will release their as-yet-untitled forth album with EMI records, their manager Dave Holmes has said.   The confirmation comes a month after Holmes said that the group were “in no hurry” to release the record following controversial takeover plans at the label. "When all that was going on we were over here in [in London] in the studio, so we kind of steered clear of all that," he told Billboard. "We've got a great plan in place."   Coldplay were among a number of acts, including Robbie

In breaking news, according to the Music Feeds Aus website, it has been revealed that Coldplay will be touring Australia later this year on the back of their latest album Mylo Xyloto.   Promoter Michael Gudinski let news of the upcoming tour slip when speaking with Triple M Melbourne’s Eddie McGuire. Eddie revealed the information on his Hot Breakfast show this morning: "I was sitting next to (promoter) Michael Gudinski last night and he said Coldplay are coming out later this year."   Coldplay

Coldplay scooped the award for 'Best Artist Download' at the Digital Music Awards 2004 (DMAs) last night.   Their cover of Chrissy Hynde's '2000 Miles' won them the award at the star-studded ceremony in London.   Coldplaying.com was in the running for 'People's Choice Award For Best Unofficial Music Award'. We'll let you know what position we came soon.

Just announced, Coldplay have won both Best Band and Best Album at the Brit Awards 2003.   Well Done Chris, Will, Jonny and Guy!