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| I missed the awards, but I did see CP's performance on youtube. They rocked it out!  I'm so glad they did VLV! 
Coldplay on Kimmel tonight!  Did you guys hear the entire album got leaked today? 
Quote: Another 'Secret Gig' Confirmed - This Time In Paris
On Thursday June 19th, Coldplay will perform another secret gig, this time in France, live for 200 people in the studios of the Plaine-Saint-Denis (Seine-saint-Denis). You can win two tickets, and enter between June 4th and June 15th 2008. The draw will occur on June 16th.
The concert will be broadcast on June 27th on W9 for the show 'Concert privé'. To be one of the lucky attendees, you only need to subscribe on www.w9.fr and answer the question below.
Q. Where is the band Coldplay from?
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Quote: Coldplay's Viva La Vida: Everything To Everyone
Who's going to like Coldplay's new record? Everyone who liked their previous records.
On The Record: Coldplay Get Massively Minimal on Viva la Vida
Given everything contained within, it's fitting that Coldplay decided to saddle their new album with two seemingly disparate titles (it's called Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends, in case you weren't aware). Because if anything, it's the most bipolar thing they've ever done.
Lyrically, it's obsessed with the duality of, well, everything, full of ruminations on life and death, corporeal pleasure and spiritual anguish, the emptiness of wealth and the reverence of poverty (all sung by a millionaire rock star with an Academy Award-winning wife, of course). Musically, it's Sagrada Familia-massive and quark-microscopic, all strings and church bells one moment, tiny tack piano and shimmery joules of synthesizer the next (and surprisingly organic for an album produced by an electronic legend like Brian Eno). And thematically, it's hyper-focused on both the celebration of living and the bloody business of revolution, two yin/yang ideals that sort of make sense as one unified concept when you think about it long enough. In keeping with that (non) ideal, the album takes its title from a sunny Frida Kahlo painting, yet features an overwrought Eugène Delacroix work on the cover.
Basically, there are about 15 albums buried somewhere within Viva, each about wildly different things, and each of varying degrees of quality. And this is not necessarily a bad thing, though it does make "reviewing" it in any real context next to impossible.
So rather than attempt to do just that, perhaps the best approach is to consider the album in a vacuum, completely devoid of any context whatsoever. This isn't a review of Viva la Vida, since: A) to review is to contextualize, and an album of this scope, depth and breadth can't really fit into any single set of conditions; and B) since when would any Coldplay fan be swayed by a review anyhow?
(In other Coldplay news, read about our reporter's sorta-lunch with Chris Martin before the MTV Movie Awards.)
So here's what's good about the album: It opens and closes with a single piece of music, a pretty and shiny bit of bookend-ry the band co-wrote with electronic artist Jon Hopkins. It is worldly and mature without being overly so. From Martin's decidedly lower singing range to Jonny Buckland's churchly and majestic guitar work, Viva sounds very much like a band stretching its legs, having earned the right to do so, yet in a testament to Coldplay themselves (or perhaps Eno), there's also a level of self-awareness that only comes with the realization that most records that feature a band "stretching its legs" are terrible.
The songs display scope and execution, whether it's the Bolero guitars below "Cemeteries of London," the stomping build of "42," or the twisting, R&B middle of "Violet Hill." And there are three tracks on the record that effortlessly combine two songs into one: "Lovers in Japan/ Reign of Love" starts off with a spacey player piano and morphs into a dainty minuet; "Yes/ Chinese Sleep Chant" begins with swoony strings, switches into a horny take on a Spiritualized jam and concludes with Martin's voice trapped behind a wall of ice; and "Death and All His Friends/ The Escapist" closes the record with pretty pianos, a big, pounding exercise in drums and finally the same spacey bit that opened the album, this time with Martin singing, "And in the end/ We lie awake and we dream of making an escape."
And since we're on the subject, Martin writes with both an alarming openness and a disarming obtuseness on the record. In the case of the former, "Lost!" sees him keening, "Just because I'm losing doesn't mean I'm lost"; "Yes" has him singing, "When it started we had high hopes/ Now my back's on the ropes" in one bit, then "It's not easy when she turns you on" in another; and "Violet Hill" features him pleading, "If you love me/ Won't you let me know." In the case of the latter, there's "Viva La Vida," which seems to be sung from the perspective of deposed French monarch Charles X; "Death and All His Friends" has him begging, "So come over, just be patient, and don't worry" to no one in particular; and "42" is full of mentions of ghosts denied entry to heaven and "those who are dead ... living in my head." (I told you dude was bipolar!)
As for the bad, well, it's basically all the same stuff that's good about the album. There's an awful lot of ground to cover — Viva really, truly sounds like a band trying to be all things to all people — but when you're a band as massive as Coldplay, that's just covering your bases since, you know, "all people" is your core demographic.
And to that point, everything I just wrote is null and void. Who's going to like Coldplay's new record? Everyone who liked their previous records, which is to say pretty much everyone on the planet. Blog snobs? Check (they'll begrudgingly admit to liking Parachutes and A Rush of Blood to the Head). Sorority girls? Yep (huge fans of "Fix You," think Chris Martin is hot). Business guys who love to cut loose on the weekend? Count them in (saw band at rock-radio fest, own iPod because of "Viva la Vida" commercial). The Coldplay army is massive and loyal. They will follow you to the ends of the earth. And buy, buy, buy — no matter what.
And you get the feeling that's also why Viva is so, well, everything. Happy, sad, cavernous, claustrophobic, beautiful, depraved ... it all depends on which version you're hearing this time around. Is the record great? Yeah, parts of it. Is it better than X&Y? Definitely. Rush of Blood? Maybe, but probably not. Then again, you might disagree. Long live life, indeed. But also, let's hear it for death. Depends which part of the demo you're in.
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Quote: Justin Timberlake Inspires Coldplay Album
US hip-hop megastar Justin Timberlake was the inspiration for Coldplay's new album Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends, according to frontman Chris Martin.
The band's drummer Will Champion is such a fan of Timberlake's hit track Cry Me A River, he used it as inspiration for one of their's tracks, Lost! Martin says, "One song we're always trying to chase is Cry Me A River in terms of the beats and everything.I know that is one of Will's favourite songs. And he did all the drums on Lost!"
Timberlake recently said if there’s one band that he is desperate to perform with, it would be Coldplay. The Sexy Back singer insists that Coldplay are the ‘modern Beatles’, and that’s why he would give an arm and a leg to duet with them. And, even in the band Timberlake knows just who he wants to jam with – Gwyneth Paltrow’s hubby Chris Martin. "Coldplay are the modern Beatles, so I’d love to do a duet with them — especially Chris Martin," The Sun quoted him, as saying.
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Quote: Coldplay Add LA show - 15th July - The Forum (Inglewood, CA)
Anyone who feared that British pop-rockers Coldplay [ tickets ] would skip over the Los Angeles area during their soon-to-launch US tour can breathe a sigh of relief.
New to the group's schedule is a July 15 concert at The Forum in Inglewood, CA. The stop fills a crack in the itinerary for the first leg of the band's North American tour, which gets underway in New York City later this month with a free show at Madison Square Garden, and runs through early August.
A second North American leg is set to kick off in late October.
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Exclusive: Coldplay Complete Video For New Single - Lovers In Japan
Coldplay have completed recording the video for the new single (heavily rumoured to be Lovers In Japan), Coldplaying.com can reveal.
The video was directed by Mat Whitecross, who you may remember also directed the unofficial Dancing Politicians video for Coldplay’s new single Violet Hill, the mini Amazon-clips and the Rough Cut of Life In Technicolor.
Here's all we know about the new video so far: "Following his hugely successful viral video for Violet Hill, Mat Whitecross has just wrapped the shoot for Coldplay's next single from their new album. Watch this space for more details." |
Quote: Coldplay Covers Pussycat Dolls @ MTV Awards Rehearsal
Despite the fact that they’re one of the biggest rock acts on the planet — so much so that they made selling 10 million copies of their last album seem unassuming — Coldplay keep a surprisingly low profile.
Fast-forward about an hour — rehearsals take a long time, after all — and Coldpay are standing onstage, dressed like French Revolutionaries, keyboards and timpani drums scattered around them. Various members of the production crew are prattling about, and since there’s nothing better to do, Martin walks over to one of ‘boards, and begins plinking out the opening notes of PCD’s hit “Don’t Cha,” singing the opening lines in a loving tribute … “Don’t Cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me,” he warbled, as stagehands and producers in headsets giggled and applauded.
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Quote: Guy Berryman: "There's A Second Album Ready To Go"
Three years ago Coldplay singer Chris Martin told the Record their fourth album would be "the greatest piece of music ever made".
Thirteen days from now the world will find out as Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends is released on a Thursday no less. The last time a huge Brit band did this was Oasis in 1997.
Viva La Vida was made in the band's new permanent HQ, a former bakery tucked down an alley opposite a north London estate. Brian Eno, the long-time U2 producer and Markus Dravs, who was an engineer on Arcade Fire's Neon Bible were brought in as producers. While it still has the soaring melodies of classic Coldplay the band have stretched themselves musically.
The band also wanted to make a shorter album which has meant they've got another album's worth of songs. Guy Berryman added: "I think one the first goals was to make a short record. The last record, X&Y, was a little bit too long. We have a lot of songs we didn't use. They're very good, they're not B-sides. We're still deciding what we're gonna do with those songs. I'd say there's another album ready to go."
Read the full article here | source: coldplaying.com __________________ just another day at the crashdown.liz&maria
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Gotta see this! 
I have no will power! 
