Coldplay and Jay-Z, A Marriage of Musical and Image Opposites
Yes, Jay-Z has released a redux version of Coldplay’s “Lost!” from their latest album Viva la Vida. Yes, the track is nothing more than Jay-Z talking over the vocal-less parts of the song that gained fame and drew ire for being featured on an iTunes commercial. Yes, there is much to argue about this [...]
Coldplay @ Washington, DC Verizon Center 03/08/2008
25 August 2008
WASHINGTON – For music fans concerned about who will continue the arena rock tradition once the veterans have walked away from the stage for good, now would be a good time to turn your attention to Coldplay. Is their music and cultural impact as timeless as The Rolling Stones or Bruce Springsteen? No. At least not [...]
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Coldplay’s Strong Sales Buck Industry Trend
25 August 2008
Near the beginning of Coldplay’s free concert at Madison Square Garden on Monday night to promote its new album, ”Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends,” Chris Martin, the lead singer, joked with the crowd: ”I understand there have been some complaints about the ticket price.” The roar of 11,500 fans suggested they [...]
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Review: Coldplay’s ‘Viva La Vida …’
25 August 2008
The trappings surrounding Coldplay’s fourth album, “Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends” (Capitol), telegraph the driving emotion behind it. Its title isn’t actually a title, but a choice between two possible titles. There are two different versions of a song called “Lost” — one boldly rhythmic, another mildly acoustic. And the most [...]
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Coldplay, Whistling Toward the Middle of the Road
25 August 2008
Coldplay’s new single, “Viva la Vida,” is already ubiquitous - at least, 30 seconds of it. That the song is patently inoffensive in its wallpaper-like omnipresence on radio and television is a new wrinkle for the band. With a gentle, string-propelled melody and Chris Martin’s plangent voice - for once not creaking through a falsetto [...]
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Blown away by Coldplay’s ‘Viva La Vida’
25 August 2008
American culture is overflowing with ex-convicts rapping about society's evils, so it doesn't come as much of a surprise that music carrying any kind of legitimate meaning is becoming far less familiar.
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The Overwhelming Success of Coldplay
25 August 2008
Chris Martin learned piano as a youngster and began playing in bands at fifteen, with music serving not only as a passion but also as a way of facing down his shyness. The foursome met at University College London in the mid-1990s. Martin and Jon Buckland started writing songs together and from the start believed [...]
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