News tagged "coldplay" on mun2

to satch a thief

daily dos

tue 12/30/2008

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Veteran guitarist Joe Satriani, who is suing Coldplay for plagiarism, just may have a case.

Weezer vs. Coldplay

versus

mon 7/7/2008

name	Weezer.	Coldplay.
hometown	Los Angeles, California.	London, England.
formed in	1992.	1997.
members	Rivers Cuomo, Scott Shriner, Patrick Wilson and Brian Bell.	Chris Martin, Will Champion, Johny Buckland and Guy Berryman.
style	Geeky American alternative rock.	Serious British alternative rock.
sounds like	Pixies, Cheap Trick and Kiss.	Radiohead, Jeff Buckley and The Verve.
previously known as	Avant Garde, Zoom and 60 Wrong Sausages.	Pectoralz.
might be	The modern-day Van Halen.	The modern-day U2.
debut album	Self-titled album referred to as the Blue Album.	Parachutes.
ticket to the bigtime	Undone (The Sweater Song).	Yellow.
extracurricular activities	Rivers Cuomo guested on "I Suck" by Mark Ronson.	Chris Martin guested on "Beach Chair" by Jay-Z and "Homecoming" by Kanye West.
they just wanna save the world	Organizing virtual food-fights with Conscious Alliance.	Supporting fair trade with Oxfam and human rights with Amnesty International.
latest album	Red Album.	Viva La Vida.
U.S. sales	Six albums, 7.5 million sold.	Four albums, 11 million sold.
the critics	Allmusic: "What set the band apart was their geekiness. None of the members of Weezer, especially leader Rivers Cuomo, were conventional rockers – they were kids that holed up in their garage, playing along with their favorite records when they weren't studying or watching TV."	Allmusic: "Coldplay quickly became one of the biggest bands of the new millennium, honing a mix of introspective Brit-pop and anthemic rock that landed the British quartet a near-permanent residence on record charts world-wide."
bet you didn't know	Rivers Cuomo had surgery to lengthen his right leg so it could be even with his left leg.	Actor Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead) is the godfather of Chris Martin's daughter, Apple.
webprops	534,482 friends on official MySpace.	444,322 friends on official MySpace.
best video moment	Parading with YouTube stars in Pork and Beans.	Walking backwards in The Scientist.

Coldplay, Lil Wayne, Usher, N.E.R.D. and Katy Perry

the music press

mon 6/16/2008

Seeing sounds. A collage of Coldplay, Lil Wayne, Usher, N.E.R.D. and Katy Perry.

Coldplay make their inevitably big return to the charts with the Brian Eno-produced Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends. The Village Voice observes "Viva La Vida is the moment where they want to be taken seriously, and they've used just about every bell and whistle at their disposal to reach that goal." The Chicago Tribune struggles to compliment the album as "a big, stadium-sized rock record" with "nuances." NME makes peace with the band's debt to U2, calling the second half of Viva "stratospheric," "magnificent" and "overreaching" -- but in a good way.
The preternaturally prolific Lil Wayne finally releases... an album: Tha Carter III. The Guardian UK gushes that "trying to keep up with Wayne's mind... is a thrill." Entertainment Weekly is less enthusiastic, lamenting it's not a "thought-out lyrical masterpiece... [t]hough it certainly way better than most rap albums in the past year." Remarking that his album proper is less cohesive than the 77 songs he released last year, the Washington Post speculates "Perhaps he's become a little bit bored by his own brilliance."
After complimenting Here I Stand, Usher's follow-up to the hit Confessions, as "consistent," the LA Times notes "Usher might be naturally gifted, but he's not a visionary like Prince or prime-time Jackson." The New Yorker magazine finds a similar vein to tap, describing the album's pleasures as "rarely raw, surprising, or complex, but they are reliable." Even BallerStatus joins the choir of "ho-hums" with the feint praise: "So here Usher stands, proving that he has every right to still be... standing."
N.E.R.D., Pharrell Williams and his on-again, off-again partner-in-crime Chad Hugo, deliver their third album Seeing Sounds. Rolling Stone takes a closer listen to the album's vocals and asks for a do-over: "[I]f they want their rhymes to keep up with the strength of their tunes, they need to dig a little deeper than this." In a review that borders on self-parody, Pitchfork wonders if "every track [is] a battle to see whether P first gets bored of his lyrics or his melodies." The BBC, however, finds more than a few moments of genius shining through calling Seeing Sounds "beautiful in places."
With her video for "I Kissed a Girl" predictably drawing millions of oglers on YouTube, Katy Perry is poised to make a big debut with One of the Boys. Billboard is positively ecstatic: "Not since Jagged Little Pill has a debut album been so packed with potential hits." Not so much is Rolling Stone which offers a tart: "Perry has a heart, but it sounds like her bustier's too tight for her to use it."

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there's the grub

daily dos

tue 6/10/2008

Nice tots. A school lunch consisting of milk, a hamburger, a cookie and tater tots.

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Chris Martin of Coldplay: "I always thought that if you were a 16-year-old and liked Coldplay you'd keep it quiet. We aren't cool and never will be." (via The Daily Swarm)

face time

daily dos

tue 4/29/2008

ID required. A polling place with no voters.

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British pop rockers Coldplay are offering "Violet Hill," the lead single from their forthcoming album Viva La Vida, as a free download on their website today.