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Sean Ross, music and programming vice president with Edison Media Research, an opinion and marketing research firm, says concerns about the corporate silencing of topical music are overblown.

He points to such songs as Handlebars, Coldplay’s Violet Hill, Green Day’s Holiday, Black Eyed Peas’ Where Is the Love?, Pennywise’s The Western World, Pink’s Dear Mr. President, John Mayer’s Waiting for the World To Change, Carrie Underwood’s Just a Dream and Song Trust’s Bring Him Home, Santa as tracks that implicitly or explicitly address social issues yet still received airplay in recent years. [Read more]

Coldplay is playing at the United Center tonight and tomorrow. I’ve already seen them twice, and it’s more of a couples thing anyway, so I decided to pass. I did try to get Chris Martin on the phone to talk about soccer. No luck. He probably didn’t like what I said about their last album…

http://blogs.chicagosports.chicagotribune.com

We complain, and rightfully so, about the many concert tours that skip Pittsburgh.

Radiohead, Coldplay, My Morning Jacket, Jack Johnson, Madonna, New Kids on the Block, Stone Temple Pilots and Robert Plant and Alison Krauss are just some of the major acts ducking the ‘Burgh this year.

http://www.timesonline.com

The monoculture – the force that united mass audiences around a TV or fostered a clear-cut consensus on the ’song of the summer’ – is dead. In another guise, however, its flattening effect on non-Western culture is, sadly, thriving

So where is this year’s hot, hazy hit? Although New York magazine last month handicapped eight potential summer songs (including Lil Wayne’s “Lollipop,” Leona Lewis’s “Bleeding Love” and Coldplay’s “Violet Hill”), a leading contender has yet to emerge. And at this point, we’re starting to run out of summer.

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Q: Who’s your favorite band right now?

A: I’m a huge Coldplay fan. That new album is great, you know? I like James Morrison. I just like any singer that sings with passion. Adele, she’s great. There’s people that have those voices that are so unaffected.

http://news.cincinnati.com/

Coldplay have sold over millions of albums worldwide.  Despite this fact, bandmembers Chris Martin and Jonny Buckland insist that they have stayed pretty normal.

“(Chris) As much as we’re wanted by a lot of people to go and play lots of places, we’re still kind of the same people and still go shopping and wash-up and (Jonny) Fly by helicopter.”

Coldplay’s latest album Viva la Vida has already sold over one million copies since its release.

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This snippet from Bob lefsetz was written nearly 3 years ago…

Coldplay… One has to ask, is Coldplay selling out because it’s such fantastic
music or because people need a rallying point? To feel SOME connection to the
mainstream?

But Coldplay is irrelevant. Let’s just say there will be a COUPLE of new
bands that will break through and sell tickets for a year or two (if you think
Coldplay’s gonna be doing 20,000 a night three years from now, you’re dreaming,
or else they’re going to make a quantum leap in recorded material, since “X&Y”
is so bland, so repetitive, so WEAK as to be laughable to anybody truly
listening).

Are you eating your words now…?

http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2005/08/22/the-future/

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I’ve got to give Chris Martin credit, he’s doing his best to poke fun at both himself and his act. And he worked with Eno, that’s cool. But couldn’t he find A NEW ENO? A thirty year old Eno? That’s playing it a bit safe in my book. Anyway, my point here is…the media owns the act now, overpromoting it, chewing it up and spitting it out. Everybody knows there’s a new Coldplay album, we can’t avoid it, AND THAT’S WHY WE HATE COLDPLAY! Get in bed with the media, which beats a story to death, and you’re going to get backlash, no matter WHAT your music sounds like.

http://lefsetz.com/

Maybe Coldplay can land with a splash and continue to sell. But most acts cannot. That’s all we’ve got, a thin layer of acts that stay in the public eye/mind/consciousness, and those that are quickly forgotten. Coldplay’s got the benefit of being the sole rock act with current validity, the media is championing them. As for the has-beens… No one even wants to hear their new music. You’re driven to the show by nostalgia.

http://lefsetz.com/

“I could never work out how to unbutton trousers.” COLDPLAY star CHRIS MARTIN jokes about why he didn’t lose his virginity until he was 22.

http://www.contactmusic.com