Coldplay News

According to Hip Hop DX today, The Viva La Hova tape from 2008 comes back to life with two new songs, and professional overhaul on the mastering. The new edition can be downloaded here and read more about it at Mick Boogie's blog page.   Cleveland, Ohio native Mick Boogie and partner Terry Urban released Viva La Hova in October of 2008. The mixtape arrived at a time when Jay-Z and Coldplay's Chris Martin maintained a very public friendship and were collaborating on stage and in the studio. More

'4 Can Keep A Secret If 3 Of Them Are Dead' is available to download now   Apparatjik, the band featuring Coldplay's Guy Berryman, have announced details of a free EP. Called '4 Can Keep A Secret If 3 Of Them Are Dead', the three-track digital release is the combined work of Berryman, A-Ha's Magne Furuholmen, Mew's Jonas Bjerre and Martin Terefe.   '4 Can Keep a Secret if 3 of Them Are Dead' features three numbers -- 'Antlers,' 'Look Kids (Premix AA) Diskjokke A' and the title track. Available f

Three Coldplay demos from circa December 2005 have surfaced online this weekend - Bloodless Revolution, Lovers In Japan and a day later came St. Stephen. They came from the early Viva La Vida era, prior to the band travelling to North America, Canada, Australia, Singapore, Japan and Hong Kong in 2006 and Latin America for the tour in Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Mexico in February and March of 2007. This means that Lovers In Japan is now nearly fours years old!   You can hear the demo for Bloodl

You can now download LeftRightLeftRightLeft now. Coldplay's free live album is now available online at the official site. Here's Anchorman with more details:   The free download of Coldplay's new live album, LeftRightLeftRightLeft, is now available here on Coldplay.com. Click here to download your free copy. Today is also the day of the band's first North American tour date, in West Palm Beach, where the first copies of the LRLRL CD will be given away. The CD will then be handed out to all fans

Courtesy of Domino Records, you can now download the track which bookends Coldplay's album. Here's Anchorman with more details:   At either end of Coldplay's current album, you can hear a snippet of a track called Light Through The Veins by Jon Hopkins, the band's friend, collaborator and frequent support act. That track will be released in full on Hopkins' terrific new album, Insides, on May 4th. But its nine minutes of electro loveliness are currently available to download for free by clicking

You can now download the digital bundle of Coldplay's new single 'Life in Technicolor ii', along with the two B-sides - 'Life in Technicolor ii' (Live from the 02 Arena, London) and 'The Goldrush'. They are available online to purchase now at the 7Digital website.   Coldplay recently announce that Life In Technicolor ii would be Coldplay's next UK single. The B-side of the 7-inch - The Goldrush, is a song previously unheard and unperformed. Will Champion takes lead vocals on The Goldrush, simila

IQ magazine’s December issue is now available in a free PDF format and contains a world exclusive behind the scene report on Coldplay’s Viva la Vida World Tour, entitled Life, Death And Butterflies. To save the online magazine, right click then save as here. You can also get the previous versions of the magazine (issues 1-20 also online here). Here's the synopsis of the Coldplay article:   Life, Death & Butterflies is a 16-page feature chronicling the Viva la Vida tour, sanctioned by Coldpla

IQ magazine’s December issue is now available in a free PDF format and contains a world exclusive behind the scene report on Coldplay’s Viva la Vida World Tour, entitled Life, Death And Butterflies. To save the online magazine, right click then save as here. You can also get the previous versions of the magazine (issues 1-20 also online here). Here's the synopsis of the Coldplay article:   Life, Death & Butterflies is a 16-page feature chronicling the Viva la Vida tour, sanctioned by Coldpla

Coldplay's Lost! EP has been released digitally today, as a four-track, download-only product. Here is the exclusive news from Coldplay.com:   Good morning. The Lost! EP is released digitally today around the world. You can buy it from all good digital retailers. Click below for some iTunes links:   iTunes UK | iTunes France | iTunes Germany | iTunes Spain | iTunes Italy | iTunes Australia   Folks in the UK can also download the whole EP on MP3 from 7 Digital for just £1.50 here. We'll add the N

Download Viva La Hova via vivalahova.com or directly here   DJs love Jay-Z, and Jay-Z loves them back. The earnest affection all started four years ago when Danger Mouse geniusly blended Hova's The Black Album with The Beatles' The White Album to create the forever infamous The Grey Album.   The mash-up project instantly went down as an Internet classic, especially after The Beatles' record company EMI attempted to terminate its distribution. Jay-Z kept the wheels rolling with his own collaborat

Coldplay’s official video for new single Lost! is now available to download from iTunes here. If you're after screenshots from the video we've uploaded them to the Coldplaying gallery, which you can access here.   After some expensive looking high concept videos for their last few efforts Coldplay went back to basics and where it all started from with their new video “Lost!” from the top selling album Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends. The video is a performance piece with the band rock

Coldplay's concert last week in Munich was aired tonight on UK's Absolute Radio, minus Speed Of Sound and Yellow. If you missed it, or want to hear it again, you can, via the Absolute Radio website below:   Links:   Part One: http://www.absoluteradio.co.uk/player/6047/live_in_munich__part_1_.html Part Two: http://www.absoluteradio.co.uk/player/6048/live_in_munich__part_2_.html

LONDON - We7 has added EMI Music to its ad-funded music service with tracks to be available on-demand, via ad-funded streaming and paid-for downloads.   EMI artists include the likes of current number one Katy Perry, Coldplay, Mark Ronson, the Kooks as well as We7 founder and investor Peter Gabriel.   The partnership means We7 users will be able to listen to full tracks and albums on an unlimited basis at no cost, create personal playlists, and share their favourites with their friends.   Read

The new edition of the Coldplay Messenger has sparked a rush for a download of Coldplay's free track, Death Will Never Conquer, over a month after it was first made available, Coldplaying can reveal.   Here's what Coldplay said in their messenger:   If you haven't dropped in on Coldplay.com lately, you won't know that we've been giving away a free MP3 of an exclusive Coldplay track called Death Will Never Conquer, which is unavailable anywhere else. The band have played the song throughout the f

Coldplay’s new tour is in full strawberry swing and all the little worries and glitches have been ironed out a little and hopefully the UK gigs in December will be the icing on the cake. To take a slice of the action so far, here is a gig in Philly from only last week.   Enjoy the show!   Download here or here [thanks IndieLimerick, open6l & redwax]  

Get a free MP3 to celebrate the first night of the tour   From Coldplay.com: Our tour begins tonight in LA. To say thank you to everyone who's bought tickets and supported us, we're giving away an MP3 of a new track called Death Will Never Conquer. Click here to get it.   What do you think of the track, and would you like to hear it live during the tour? Let us know your views here [thanks Jpw48]   Lyrics:   If sweet death should ever conquer me Let me know boys let me know If you hear him comi

In an exclusive interview on John Kennedy's XFM X-posure show, Coldplay's Chris Martin revealed why their new album, 'Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends' has two titles. You can download the full two hour album playback interview in four parts: [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] [Part 4]   The Coldplay Virgin Radio countdown was:   1. Yellow | 2. Fix You | 3. The Scientist | 4. Clocks | 5. Speed Of Sound | 6. Violet Hill | 7. In My Place | 8. Shiver | 9. Talk | 10. Trouble   Just outside Top 10:

Coldplay have posted a remix of Violet Hill on the official website.   They have described it as, "Completely unrecognisable, but cool."   You can find the remix here

Online retailer Play.com has today launched a store selling digital music tracks without DRM (digital rights management) copy protection, in a move it is describing as "taking on iTunes in the UK".   The website — which sells music, DVDs, toys and gifts — is offering individual tracks and albums without DRM. It claims to be to the first major UK retailer to offer digital music in a format that means buyers can move tracks between devices and play them on various music players, including Apple's

A new music download website threatens to undercut services offered by HMV and Apple's iTunes.   7digital.com is selling single tracks from 50p and claims the quality and price of its DRM-free MP3 downloads easily match or even exceed content from other websites. The site has a 3.5 million plus catalogue of music with approximately 70 per cent available in high-quality MP3 format which the company claims makes them indistinguishable from CD quality. New additions to the MP3 catalogue include Ky

Thanks for this blog entry goes to SkyNewswire.com--   Listing down all my favorite songs is something I’ll never be able to do. That would mean listening to all the free MP3 song files from all the music genres I have accumulated over the first quarter of my life using websites that offer "free unlimited MP3 downloads" (heh), without hitting the stop button.   Talking about the plenary song list’s subset, however, is relatively easier. The recent inclination towards writing about it can be attr

Steve Lamacq [pictured] has caught up with recent Coldplay events from the weekend and wrote about them in his online blog. Here goes:   So what we suspected - but weren't at liberty to confirm - turns out to be true. There will be another Coldplay album next year, currently set for release in December '09. Chris Martin broke the news during a convivial chat with REM's Michael Stipe and yours truly on BBC 6 Music on Saturday afternoon. What's more surprising is that there will be a new EP, Prosp

Coldplay sews for fun, and 'are worse than they were yesterday', reports CinemaBlend, in an article posted earlier today.   If it’s possible, Coldplay got even dreamier, more artsy and more pseudo-bohemian than ever, when AOL News reported Wednesday that the band enjoys spending their free time sewing and modifying their clothes. My man-crush on them is now complete.   “Making clothes together in our studio makes us feel complete,” Chris Martin said, philosophically stroking his stubbled chin a

Earlier this week we asked you which of Coldplay's new songs you thought was your favourite. After approximately 2100 votes on the main site and another 250 on the forums you have voted Charlie Brown as the clear favourite so far, will almost 40% of the votes. The new single, Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall has received an average of just 10% of the total cast, despite notching up 4,000,000+ viewings on YouTube via ColdplayTV in its first week.   Major Minus and Hurts Like Heaven are currently in

Coldplay's last record Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends hit stores in 2008. They dressed as French revolutionaries to promote the album, wearing military-style jackets and many buttons. Their as-yet-untitled fifth record is due to be available this autumn and the group have decided to jazz up their look again.   Having previously explained their new sound is inspired by New York graffiti, Coldplay have taken to wearing relaxed-coloured jackets, contrasting t-shirts and carrying around c