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NIN, Coldplay, Björk, more craft April Fool's Day gags
April Fool's Day is no longer just about telling your family you are getting married or phone calls announcing you've just won an all-expenses paid trip to Nowheresville; it's about bands and the fake news they put up on the good old Internet. On April 1, it's hard to believe everything you see around the web, and bands are taking it to another level. Here are a few of the best music-related pieces of faux-news Paste found today.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsAll Points West 2009 line-up features Coldplay, Tool, more
The weekend of July 31 will be the All Points West festival's first birthday, but this party won't be of the ice cream cake-and-piñata variety. Plans are well underway for the festival's second year to include Beastie Boys, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Tool and Coldplay. There may not be party hats or favors, but loads of overpriced alcohol and the view from Liberty State Park should more than make up for it.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsColdplay announces more summer dates
To the annoyed reader responding to our last Coldplay tour announcement, upset that the band wasn't hitting Atlanta, her wishes have been granted. And, probably a lot of other people's have, too. The British quartet recently added 25 more dates for the U.S. and Canada in the months of May and June.... read more
Found in: NewsColdplay announces tour dates, gets 60 Minutes treatment
You know you're kind of a big deal in music when CBS news program 60 Minutes decides to run a segment on you one hour before you're to compete in the Grammys. Guess that's what happens when a band is nominated for seven Grammy awards, sells nearly eight million copies of its latest album and, oh yeah, is frequently found on playlists of kids and their parents.... read more
Found in: Music, News2009 Grammy Awards Live Blog
As we said in our Grammy Predictions, we have a love/hate relationship with the Grammys. But hey, we love music, so we're watching to see what happens. Could be a big year for Lil Wayne (did you see his interview with "Miss" Katie Couric?). Could be a controversial night if Coldplay's alleged Joe Satriani rip-off grabs some hardware ("Viva La Vida" by Coldplay and Satriani's "If I Could Fly"). But plenty of great artists are nominated (M.I.A., Allison Krauss/Robert Plant, Radiohead, Gnarls Barkley, Daft Punk, Brazilian Girls....we could go on), so as always, it'll be worth watching, especially for the... read more
Found in: Blogs, Ctrl-VLil Wayne, Coldplay, more to perform at Grammy awards
Lil Wayne will celebrate a successful year with a live performance at the biggest music award show on the planet. After walking away with eight Grammy nominations in December (the most of any performer), the MC was a shoo-in to perform at the Feb. 8 show.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsJoe Satriani accuses Coldplay of plagiarizing "Viva La Vida"
First, it was a Brooklyn-based band that was raining on the Coldplay hit parade. Creaky Boards lead singer Andrew Hoepfner posted a YouTube video claiming the U.K. group's title-track single "Viva La Vida" bore a "striking" similarity to a Boards song entitled (strangely enough) "The Songs I Didn't Write."... read more
Found in: Music, NewsColdplay - Washington, D.C. - Verizon Center - 10/31/08
Photos taken at Verizon Center by Rob Inderrieden... read more
Found in: Blogs, 1000 WordsColdplay remixes with Jay-Z, schedules Prospekt EP
Coldplay fans almost have to consider themselves spoiled rotten, given the band's announcement of a new EP just months after its latest, Viva La Vida. Chris Martin and crew have finally locked in a release date for said EP, Prospekt's March: Nov. 25. And that's not all: just two weeks prior, on Nov. 10, the band will digitally release a four-track version of its Viva La Vida song "Lost!," including one remix featuring Jay-Z.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsActivision unveils Guitar Hero: World Tour line-up
For months now, Guitar Hero diehards have been hanging on... read more
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