Coldplay News

Each year as part of the Grammy Awards tradition, a compilation album featuring the top nominees is released for music fans to savour. This year's 52nd annual edition of the big awards show is now different, as the 2010 Grammy nominees CD features some of the top 2010 Grammy nominated artists in the business.   The 2010 Grammy Nominees CD album features a who's who of top musical acts including Beyonce, Black Eyed Peas, Taylor Swift, Green Day, U2 and Coldplay. It's 20 tracks deep and sure to of

Coldplay, Stone Temple Pilots, Soundgarden, Soul Asylum, Lenny Kravitz, Smashing Pumpkins, Dave Matthews, The White Stripes and Green Day are just a few of the Grammy winning artists who will be featured on a new rock CD honoring the 50th anniversary of the Grammy Awards.   In celebration of the award ceremony’s golden anniversary, the recording Academy is planning a series of seven discs, each concentrating on a specific genre of music.   They’ll release discs dedicated to contemporary R&B

PBS will air Austin City Limits featuring Coldplay on December 17, 2005.   More details on show times, video clips from the show and artists interviews at pbs.org/klru/austin/   [Thanks Jenny, klru.org]

For over a decade, the “Pickin’ On” series from CMH Records has let the best bluegrass musicians put a rural spin on rock’n’roll. This album showcases these unique interpretations of rock’s most diverse cast of superstars [thanks Jon].   The punk-blues of the White Stripes, Beck’s hip-hop and folk mutations, and the angular anthems of Franz Ferdinand are but three acts that made a mark on pop culture. When modern hits are interpreted as old-time bluegrass, new moods are found in the music and th

Status Quo have been recognised as the hardest-working band in the British music industry, but the Performing Rights Society list also included Cliff Richard And The Shadows, Take That, Coldplay and Kings Of Leon, who took the second, third, fourth and fifth spots respectively, according to BBC News. PRS is the body that collects royalties for songwriters.   The list was compiled based on the number of fans bands performed to in the UK during 2009. Status Quo played to 250,000 people at 27 arena

A live double CD, "Radio 1's Live Lounge", featuring Coldplay has been released and is now widely available.   Radio 1 DJ Jo Whiley has compiled 20 tracks as performed in the Live Lounge segment of her show. A popular part of Jo's programme partly down to the fact that Artists usually perform two tracks, one of their own plus a cover. Coldplay have taken part a couple of times, the last being December 22nd 2005 (where they did an extended performance) & have treated us with 2 Christmas cove

Coldplay, Radiohead, Beck, The Kooks, and Oasis are among the artists that will be featured on War Child: 10, a new compilation that will be released Dec. 1 through Universal. You can discuss this news here at the Coldplay forum now.   The collection marks the 10th anniversary of War Child's founding in Canada, and features some covers of classic songs by the likes of Bob Dylan, Neil Young and others. It also features a new recording of Patti Smith's "People Have The Power" by Friends Of War Chi

Coldplay albums Viva La Vida and A Rush Of Blood To The Head [pictured] have been featured in Times Online's top 100 pop albums of the noughties published this week. You can see the full countdown here now. Below are the two Coldplay entries, at positions 71 and 17 respectively. If you want to add your comments about the countdown in full you can do so now at the Coldplay forum...   71. Rush of Blood to the Head - Coldplay (Parlophone, 2002) Proving that their debut was no fluke — and that there

UPDATE: Coldplay played the Open'er Festival in Poland last night (30th June) - however no reviews are available, and only one photo has surfaced. The setlist was the same as Glastonbury and Where The Action Is festivals. For more on this concert visit the Coldplay Live forum. Next stop: BELGIUM!   Coldplay were due to headline the RXP TaKLIBERTY Festival in New Jersey on 18th September, that is until the radio station WRXP scrapped the event, according to various reports tonight. No reason was

As part of Coldplaying's Erasmus boat trip excursion for Coldplay's Christmas Lights video last month, Coldplay roadies Matt McGinn and Miller, along with fifth member Phil Harvey were able to provide some excellent online Q&A to Coldplayers who were on the boat (and some who weren't). Second up to answer our questions, is Coldplay's 'fifth member, Phil Harvey, who talks about LP5 & the recording process, memorable Coldplay moments, song archives... and more! You can discuss the Q&A

In case any of you havent heard this yet, they filmed the video last friday in the Florida city of St Petersburg. I live in st pete, and I work only blocks away from where they filmed it. If ony I knew they were there last friday. I would have tried to see them.   Tour Journal: "Hardest Part" Video Shoot. "Making the Video" "Hardest Part Video Shoot" 3rdMarch, 2006   The guys are making the video for "The Hardest Part" today. We arrive at the shoot early in the afternoon. The "Talk" video was s

Coldplay have begun filming the new video for Princess Of China in Los Angeles on Thursday 22nd March, various sources are confirming on Twitter in the last few hours. The video will feature Rihanna, and she posted some behind-the-scenes images from the music video shoot.   In one of the pictures, Rihanna is dressed up in a gothic-style outfit while 'flipping the bird' at the camera with a long gold nail. The other close-up photo shows Rihanna blowing smoke out of her mouth, while showing off he

Coldplay are apparently filming tonight's Barcelona concert for a live DVD, Spanish media newspapers are widely reporting this morning. 63,500 tickets for tonight's concert at Barcelona's Olimpic Stadium have been sold since April and the venue is now a total sell out.   According to the sources, the filming process will take place with a sophisticated camera system that includes a very high crane installed outside the stadium to capture aerial views of the show.   It is as yet unknown whether t

Coldplay are working with King Creosote's producer Jon Hopkins on their new album, it has emerged.   Kenny Anderson, who is behind Creosote, said his producer was in the US playing keyboards for the record. Coldplay have also been working with Brian Eno and, from Anderson's account, it appears the album is nearly finished.   Anderson said: "It was just him and Chris Martin. There he was with the main man sitting having breakfast together and what have you. He had done a mix of a song for them, I

MANSFIELD, MA [6th August 2005]: The buzz is that England's Coldplay hopes to be -- and just may become -- the next U2. That's a grand goal that may border on hubris, but Coldplay stayed on that course Saturday with a thoroughly magnificent show that pulsed with themes of spiritual hunger and human connectedness -- the two essentials of any great U2 performance.   Coldplay's effort in front of a sold-out crowd of 19,900 (the Tweeter Center manager said it was the hottest show of the summer in te

Coldplay have been forced to postpone the final US show of the Viva La Vida tour at the Ford Amphitheater in Tampa tomorrow night. Reviews from Coldplayers arriving back from last night's show at Charlotte's Verizon Wireless Ampitheater noticed that Chris Martin sounded sick and didn't take part in as much crowd interaction that he has done at preceding shows. The news on the postponement broke earlier on Coldplay.com:   We're sorry to report that Coldplay have been forced to postpone their show

On Tuesday June 17th, Coldplay are playing a free show at the Espacio Movistar in Barcelona, Spain, and Coldplay have opened up the competition to win a chance to attend.   If you'd like to win a pair of tickets, please fill out the form here, before 11.59pm on Monday June 9th. If you're one of the winners, Coldplay.com will let you know by email on Wednesday June 11th. Good luck!   Meanwhile, look out for a very exclusive Coldplaying competition, of particular interest to Coldplayers in the UK

Frontman of Coldplay, Chris Martin celebrated the 80th birthday of Glastonbury founder, Michael Eavis the other night, as the Devonshire born singer belted out his rendition of 'I Feel Good". Mr Evis was certainly feeling that way, as Chris bounced around the stage next to him!   This comes a week after The Sun reported that Coldplay will be headlining Glastonbury 2016 and with Coldplay's lead singer celebrating with Glasto's organiser, this will only solidify their announcement.   Here's an I

Coldplay were snubbed at the Brit Awards with the band leaving empty-handed despite being nominated for four gongs.   Although the group bagged a handful of Grammys they failed to live up to their hype on this side of the Atlantic. Their latest album Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends topped the global sales chart last year with 6.6 million copies. But it lost out to Duffy's Rockferry while the title single also missed out to Girls Aloud's The Promise.   While their commercial success is

Not quite the fastest track of Live 8 to hit the internet (that was U2 & Paul McCartney) but this is one you might treasure for a long long time.   Download Coldplay's collaboration with Richard Ashcroft - Bitter Sweet Symphony here   [Thanks Mackey]

Coldplay [pictured] have been left fuming after learning tickets for their shows in Las Vegas has been selling for a whopping £700 ($1,260) online.   Ticket prices for the February 3 concert at Sin City's MGM Grand started at £28 ($50), but some internet sites have been selling seats for up to 25 times their face value.   A source said: "Coldplay never charge much for gig tickets because they want them to go to genuine fans. They are very strict about it. They could charge loads more for them,

As first reported on billboard in August, Coldplay will return to North America for a spring 2006 tour, beginning Jan. 25 in Vancouver. Set to run through early April, the trek is gradually being unveiled on the Web site Talkthetour.com, where a new show is confirmed for every 33,000 hits. At deadline, half of the 26 shows had been announced.   Fans who register with the site will have the opportunity to win a phone call from Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, front row seats to a show and tickets

Chris Martin has spoken to Yahoo! Music about the "fear" he's experienced as a father, on the eve of the release of the new Coldplay album "X&Y".   In an exclusive interview, Martin spoke about his daughter Apple and the impact she has had on the music of the band and his relationship with wife Gwyneth Paltrow.   As the band release their comeback single "Speed Of Sound", Martin also revealed the other pressures and inspirations that fuelled the band's follow-up to the globe-conquering "A Ru

Coldplay are to appear live on UK radio today and will make the one-off performance available to watch over Christmas.   The band are set to perform a 'live lounge' for Jo Whiley [pictured left, with Will] on BBC Radio One, which will feature a selection of classic tracks from the group plus a festive song. Apparently the five-track show will also be filmed and then screened on digital TV from December 23, reports the NME.   The set will be accessible via 'on demand' digital TV and available to

Chris Martin got heated about equitable trade ahead of a Paris gig on Thursday, telling journalists that it was an issue about which "everybody should be concerned. We live on the same planet as everybody else.... It will affect all of us, whether you are Coldplay or Jacques Chirac," he said.   Chris, who has taken his 'Make Trade Fair' campaign on the road with him wherever Coldplay play, said a January trip to Ghana reinforced his frustration with the protectionism of rich countries.   "I ta