Coldplay News

Who does Gwyneth Paltrow have to bang to get to hear Coldplay's new album, Mylo Xyloto? Well nobody anymore, because according to The Sun, she's already heard it. Gwyneth confessed via Twitter back at the end of July that she has yet to listen to the new album. "Who do I have to bang to get an advance copy of the new @coldplay album? I mean, really," Paltrow said online.   Gwyneth also has to put on Coldplay albums when her husband Chris Martin is not at home because he has banned her from liste

More questions answered by The Oracle... (over 2000 questions now answered - submit yours now!)   September 1, 2011 - submitted by john, United States of America Q. Hey Oracle, did Charlie Brown leak? I heard an instrumental in this football thing and a fuller version with vocals in this trailer for some tv show. Was it leased legally? The Oracle replies: It wasn't "leaked". Charlie Brown is being used as a sound bed on tv at the moment but that can't be done without having the full approved ver

Coldplay will play a special show for MuchMusic in Toronto, Canada on Wednesday 21st September, and the show will be streamed live in Canada on muchmusic.com. More discussion on this new date is at the messageboard now. [thanks _Tash & secretspy]   For information on how to win tickets, those of you based in Canada should head over to muchmusic.com/coldplay now - or read on for their blog entry with further details...   Holy amazeballs! We have literally (I mean it, literally) been bursting

Coldplay will perform as part of the Live On Letterman webcast series, presented by AT&T, in a live concert from the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City, on Tuesday, Sept. 20 at 8pm Eastern Time, the official site and CBS have confirmed today. You can catch up on all the latest discussion on this new event at the messageboard now [thanks the_escapist]   The webcast will be shown live and/or on-demand across the world at http://cbs.com/late_night/liveonletterman. It will also be broadcast o

A reminder for U.S. Coldplayers that there is just over a week left to enter Bower & Wilkins' Sound Sessions to win an exclusive VIP trip for two to Austin, TX to meet Coldplay AND be one of the first to listen to the new forthcoming album Mylo Xyloto due for release on 24th October. Not only that, the winner will see their headline performance live at Austin City Limits on September 16th, 2011. Entry is via Facebook. Have you entered? Let us know at the Coldplay forum now! [thanks 86Timewar

More questions answered by The Oracle... (over 2000 questions now answered - submit yours now!)   August 25, 2011 - submitted by Jory, United States of America Q. Great Oracle! Here is my question, have you got the chance to hear Coldplay's unreleased single Paradise? What is your opinion about the song. Cheers! The Oracle replies: I LOVE it. Eduardo from Mexico was a little concerned that Charlie Brown was being ditched in favour of Paradise but he needn't be. The Billboard interview mentions t

Noel Gallagher has admitted that he thought Coldplay's set at this year's Glastonbury festival was 'pretty spectacular'. In an interview with 6 Music, Gallagher hailed Coldplay's headline set on the Pyramid Stage earlier this summer. "I got halfway through it and said to the missus, 'They are having the gig of their lives here. It was pretty spectacular and the way they lit up the pyramid on the Pyramid Stage, that means no-one else can ever do it now,'' Gallagher said.   Despite criticising the

Last week Billboard scored a coup by publishing the only official media article from Coldplay's Mylo Xyloto era so far. Rolling Stone meanwhile had to make do with the scraps, publishing a small article, entitled "Coldplay's new cuts: Weirder, Groovier" reviewing the live versions of the new songs heard from the festivals to date.   This included Princess Of China, which hasn't even been heard or seen in decent quality yet. How Rolling Stone can possibly review Princess Of China professionally

Singer-songwriter and member of Take That, Gary Barlow, said he was perfectly happy working behind the scenes until he listened to Coldplay's hit debut Parachutes, according to The Sun. He said: "I spent years telling everyone around that I didn't want to be an artist again. I didn't sing for six or seven years. I seldom sang on demos and if I could get someone else to sing them I would, right until I heard the first Coldplay album... I thought for the first time, "I could see myself doing that

More questions answered by The Oracle... (over 2000 questions now answered - submit yours now!)   August 16, 2011 - submitted by Matthew, United Kingdom Q. I know you can't talk about it, but this concerns Hurts Like Heaven. With the album being announced and the billboard story, there's a massive thing going around that HLH won't make it to the album. Why?! It seems to be THE song for the album, and ties in with everything that has been promoted so far (running man, graffiti, opening song to th

Tapings continue for Austin City Limits' inaugural season at the new ACL Live at The Moody Theater venue in downtown Austin, and it has been announced by the Austin City Limits blog that Coldplay will be taping on September 15th, a day before their headline appearance at the ACL festival. More on this is at the Coldplay Live forum here onwards.   “We’re thrilled to welcome back Coldplay to Austin City Limits and announce such a great surprise addition to our fall schedule – and to our new home,

Multi-platinum selling band Simple Plan recorded their version in Canada. On the other side of the world, young 11 year old guitar prodigy Yuto Miyazawa laid down his guitar solo in Tokyo, Japan. In Ireland, the lead singer from the critically acclaimed band Sweet Jane recorded her vocals at a Dublin studio. And somewhere in between—at Singapore's Ocean Butterflies Studio—over 40 artists from all over the globe did their part by recording an Asian themed version of Coldplay's "Fix You" to benefi

The Billboard magazine edition featuring Coldplay (20th August 2011) is emerging online and with it, a small unseen article on the thoughts behind the choice of the next Coldplay single, and how it figures in the grand scheme of 'Mylo Xyloto' [pictured]. Below is the article, entitled "Singles vs. Sequencing - an album act in an a la carte business" which delves into the decision making of 'Paradise' over 'Charlie Brown' as the next Coldplay track to be released. After the jump are also some of

As Coldplay finishes the new album Mylo Xyloto, a candid and detailed conversation with Chris Martin, Jonny Buckland and manager Dave Holmes about harvesting the best songs, executing a bold global plan-and choosing to create without fear, writes Billboard, in one of the longest and best Coldplay articles we have seen for quite some time. The following article follows on from Chris Martin's Q&A interview seen earlier. [thanks to Katie at Billboard for permission to use the following article]

As we were anticipating since late last night, Coldplay have announced today that the fifth studio album, Mylo Xyloto (pronounced my-lo zy-letoe), will be released on 24th October 2011 (a day later in the US on 25th October) by Capitol Records. Discuss this news at the LP5 sub-forum now. Below is the Billboard article, who alongside the official Coldplay site, have reported first on the news:   Produced by Markus Dravs, Daniel Green and Rik Simpson, with "enoxification" and additional compositio

According to EMI Music Chile on Twitter, today (Friday) is the day we will find out what Coldplay will be calling their fifth album, along with the cover art for the record. EMI Chile make no reference to the release date or tracklisting. The tweet said "Mañana les contaremos como se llamará el nuevo disco de Coldplay y les mostraremos la portada del quinto disco de los ingleses. Atentos!" which roughly translates into: "Tomorrow [Friday] we will tell you the name of the new Coldplay album and w

More questions answered by The Oracle... (over 2000 questions now answered - submit yours now!)   August 11, 2011 - submitted by Laura, United States of America Q. Dear Oracle: I read somewhere that the release date of Coldplay's new album is going to be 10/10 or October 10th. I'm pretty sure this person just made that up based on the fact that MX in roman numerals is 1010. It does sound probable though. Is there any way this is true? Thanks! much love :) The Oracle replies: MX, as you say, mea

Lindsay Lohan really does believe her own hype. And by that I mean the hype she must create in her own strange mind, since the rest of us aren't impressed by any of her antics, that is according to the website Handbag, over the weekend. This week she rocked up to the UCLA Coldplay show expecting all the perks her fame should allow her. Sadly, the people in charge of the guestlist had other ideas. Aka, wanting the people backstage to actually have a good time, and not letting her in the VIP area.

Coldplay played the Lollapalooza festival in Chicago last night (5th August 2011) in the final festival appearance before they take a five week break from touring - and hopefully attention now turns to the announcement of their fifth album.   The concert was streamed worldwide live across the internet on Lollapalooza's YouTube channel. The directing was excellent - far better than the previous streamed show at Splendour In The Grass. The setlist returned to the usual festival order with Shiver,

Rumours are spreading that Coldplay will be touring Europe at the end of 2011 and into the early part of 2012, performing in arenas across the continent. According to Coldplayer lerene, the band will be taking in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Spain, Portugal and multiple dates in France and Germany. As yet all these dates are unconfirmed and the source is still unknown. Any tour dates, will of course be confirmed via Coldplay

When Coldplay take the stage this Friday to headline opening night for Lollapalooza 2011 the world will be watching. YouTube will stream Coldplay's headline set beginning at approximately 9.30pm (ET), which is 8.30pm (CDT). Catch all the latest discussion and previews to the concert at the Coldplay Live forum now (includes real-time chatroom embedded into first post!). Here's Anchorman with the details:   On Friday night this week (Aug 5th), Coldplay will headline Lollapalooza festival in Chica

Coldplay played a special one-off show at LA's UCLA Tennis Center venue last night (Wednesday, August 3rd). The net proceeds from the show, which is part of the Samsung AT&T Summer Krush concert series, went to benefit the GRAMMY Foundation's GRAMMY in the Schools music education initiative for high school students. Selected highlights from the concert (namely Charlie Brown and Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall) aired at midnight the same evening on ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live! show. Both those song

Guy Berryman gave an interview to Triple J just before their headline set at Splendour In The Grass on Sunday and gave more insight into Coldplay's fifth album. You can listen to the podcast of the interview at the Triple J website, or you can download it via our Multimedia forum now. Thanks for all your comments so far on the interview - if you haven't commented on it yet you can do so at the LP5 sub-forum now. [thanks joshtimo & SueDeNimes]   Guy confirmed that an October 2011 release is s

Coldplay are flying to LA today to finish recording and mixing the as-yet-untitled record, according to various Australian media sources today. This follows a string of promo events down under, over the past 24 hours. While Coldplay performed several songs at Splendour that are expected to make the fifth album, LP5 remains unfinished despite having an anticipated released date of October.   Guy Berryman also spoke to Triple J in which he confirmed the album would be released in October following

Gwyneth Paltrow has joked that even she cannot get an advance copy of the new Coldplay album. Despite being married to Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, the Iron Man actress confessed that she has yet to listen to the band's latest material. "Who do I have to bang to get an advance copy of the new @coldplay album? I mean, really," Paltrow tweeted on 29th July. You can actually discuss this tweet in the Gwyneth thread on the messageboard now and see a screenshot of the tweet after the jump [thanks