Coldplay Announce 2009 North American Summer Tour Dates :: w/ Dallas & Houston Shows

If you saw the Grammy's last night, you saw Coldplay win a bunch of awards, three in total, including Rock Album of the Year for "Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends". Chris Martin performed "Lost" with Jay-Z and then joined the rest of his bandmates onstage for "Viva La Vida". Watch the video here.

We missed Coldplay last year when they came to Texas, so here's our chance. We have no excuse now, they're playing both Dallas and Houston. Tickets for the public go on sale on Valentines Day at 10am.  The Dallas show does have a presale that starts on February 13th at 10 am.

The rest of their North American Summer tour dates are down below.

[Coldplay Myspace]

[Coldplay Official Site]

Coldplay 2009 North American Tour Dates:
07/10 - Portland, OR @ The Amphitheater at Clark County !@
07/11 - George, WA @ The Gorge Amphitheatre !@
07/13 - San Francisco, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheatre !@
07/16 - San Diego, CA @ Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre !@
07/18 - Carson, CA @ Home Depot Center !@
07/21 - Dallas, TX @ Superpages.com Center !@
07/22 - Houston, TX @ Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion !@
07/24 - Maryland Heights, MO @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre !@
07/25 - East Troy, WI @ Alpine Valley Music Theatre !%
07/29 - Toronto, ON @ Molson Ampitheatre !%
08/03 - Mansfield, MA @ Comcast Center !%
08/06 - Raleigh, NC @ Times Warner Cable Music Pavilion !%
08/07 - Charlotte, NC @ Charlotte Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre !%
08/09 - Tampa, FL @ Ford Amphitheatre !%

! w/ Kitty, Daisy, and Lewis

@ w/ Amadou and Miriam

% w/ Elbow

Coldplay: "Life In Technicolor II" Video

Everyone from Kanye West to Beck seems to love puppets playing them in their videos.  Now you can add Coldplay to the list.  On their latest single, "Life In Technicolor II" off their Prospekts March EP, they enlist puppets to play them in front of a group of elementary schools students to make an amusing video.

[Coldplay Myspace]

[Coldplay Official Site]

Last Night: Coldplay at The Pepsi Center: Denver, Colorado

Text: Randy Washington Photos: (iPhone) Robert Castro

AWD and Coldplay's Viva La Vida Tour found itself at the Pepsi Center friday night; home of the Avs, Nuggets, Mammoth, Crush, and the the dirtiest old man for a bartender we have ever seen.

The Viva Tour opener was an El Paso band called Sleepercar. We have a bit of an affinity for bands from Texas but Sleepercar is just an amazing band. When hearing them start up, it made me wonder how this very Texas sound had any connection with Coldplay's very...um..."non-Texas" sound. Turns out that Sleepercar's founder Jim Ward (of At the Drive-In and Sparta), met the band in LA in 2000 at KROQ's Almost Acoustic Christmas. While on a European tour with Coldplay in 2001, At The Drive-In cancelled the last bit of tour dates and still hung around with the band. Ward and Coldplay frontman Chris Martin knew that it was a proper fit when Sleepercar's album dropped.

Jon Hopkins took the stage after Sleeper Car. Under a single white spotlight and in front of a large projection screen, he started out his musical/video morphing set with looping animated clips behind him. His innovative electronic show was seamless and captivating. Hooked up by producer Brian Eno, Hopkins has known the band for about two years now and collaborated with them on a number of tracks on Viva La Vida as a producer and playing a couple of instruments. The Viva La Vida tour reaches all the way back to June 29th and will roll deep in to 2009. Running off three already rooted albums and being boosted by the summer release of the album of the same name, the VLV show is incredible. Without knowing that they have been on tour already for close to six months, it wouldn't have been unreasonable to think that this was the first stop of their tour.

Opening the set out with Life in Technicolor, things started big and stayed big. Each song was its own moment. I'm not saying that the stage was lit a different color for each song. I mean that each song had a different back drop, had different video elements, and took place at different parts of the arena. Five giant LED globes bobbled up and down from the lighting grid projecting live video in a rad fisheye manner. The grid itself was mobile, constantly dropping and twisting. The backdrop changed from solid black to giant banners to video. All the while the band switched between instruments and stages throughout the Pepsi Center.

One of the more memorable moments of the show took place at the bottom of the stage left catwalk. When the band got down there, the bottom section glowed like a nasty 70's disco dance floor and held an electric piano and a drum machine. The boys went on to play both God Put a Smile on your face and Talk in the illest synth versions. Later on in the show, after playing new track Lost!, the ensemble made their way clear to the back and top of the venue where yet another stage was waiting for them.

"We just wanted to make the people on the floor feel like they totally overpaid," Martin joked before launching into an acoustic version of The Scientist.

"Ladies and gentlemen, Will Champion on drums." Martin introduced. Champion sweetly played a light song called Death Will Never Conquer.

When the cheapseat set was over, a phone waving rave broke out during the Viva La Vida remix giving plenty of time to let the band walk al the way back to the big stage and slam into Politik.

During Lovers in Japan a blizzard of millions of paper butterflies fell from the celling covering pretty much every seat in the house.

With four major albums and lengthy, pricey tours, I was expecting this to a standard stadium tour show. You know, like, no matter where you are sitting, the band is still a million miles away....they come on and perform all the favorites and do an encore and call it a night. This Coldplay show was the exact opposite. These four were having a blast on stage and wanted everyone in the venue to join in. They played the perfect mix of old and new and not at one point in the show did Martin phone it in. Coldplay may be the most gracious and fan-driven band of this caliber. Because they were so thankful, I'll thank them back by making sure to never miss a show that comes through town. If you've never seen them live, you should. You will not be let down.

Coldplay Reveal Details / Artwork On Prospekts March

2008 has been Coldplay's year. After releasing Viva La Vida and selling out many, many venues all over the world, you think the band would have to be satisfied, right? No. Their recording sessions with Brian Eno proved to very productive. On November 25, Coldplay plans to release a new EP, entitled Prospekts March. The album art features another painting by French artist Eugene Delacroix called Battle of Poitiers.

The new EP will also be featured in a Viva La Vida deluxe edition.

From Coldplay:

We are very proud of these and excited to release them. They have each been the subject of many discussions and arguments. Some might be considered too catchy or too heavy for Coldplay songs but in our minds they complete the Viva La Vida picture. You can see Coldplay's first ever performance of "Glass of Water" (featuring Albert Hammond Jr.) played in Antwerp, Belguim on October 4th by going here.

Tracklisting:
1. Life In Technicolor II
2. Postcards From Far Away
3. Glass of Water
4. Rainy Day
5. Prospekts March / Poppyfields
6. Lost + (with Jay-Z)
7. Lovers In Japan (Osaka Sun Mix)
8. Now My Feet Won't Touch The Ground

Prospekts March EP will be released on the following dates:
Wednesday, November 19 - Japan (digitally, physical to follow in January), Sweden (digitally on Nov 21)
Friday, November 21 - Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, South Africa
Saturday, November 22 - Australia
Monday, November 24 - UK, rest of the world
Tuesday, November 25 - USA, Canada, Spain
Tuesday, December 9- Argentina

[Coldplay Official Site]
[Coldplay Tour Dates]

Coldplay to Release New EP in December

Coldplay have revealed they will release an new EP at the end of this year. The forthcoming EP will be called Prospects March and should see a release date sometime in December.

They also have plans to put out a new album in December 2009 to "end the decade" as they put it.

The foursome were rumoured to have some tracks left over from their sessions for recent chart-topping album Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends, including a song called "Luna" featuring Kylie Minogue, and were planning to release them. [Via NME]

[Coldplay Official Site]

Coldplay On The Daily Show

John Stewart invited Coldplay on The Daily Show to perform a couple of songs off their new album Viva la Vida, AKA the #1 album in the country this week. The first video is for "42" (I really like this song).

The second video is for the song "Lost".

Coldplay Recruits Shearwater and Santogold For "Viva la Vida" Tour

[Photo by Vidiot]

Coldplay has tapped Austin's own Shearwater to play four dates on the their upcoming North American tour. The dates include the both concert dates in Los Angeles on July 14 and 15, the July 18 show in San Jose, California, and the following night (July 19) in Las Vegas.

Also joining Coldplay on the road will be Santogold. She will be opening for the group from July 23 through August 4.

Check out the rest of Coldplay's revised North American tour dates here.

Shearwater - Leviathan, Bound (mp3)
Santogold - My Superman (mp3)

Coldplay's Revised North American Tour Dates

Coldplay has moved the dates of some of the previously-announced North American shows. The band have experienced some production delays which mean that the show simply won't be ready for June 29.

All tickets remain valid, but refunds will be available from the point of purchase if you're unable to make it to the new date. So there goes our idea of seeing them in Chicago on August 4 (the day after Lollapalooza ended). The up-to-date tour dates are down below.

By the way, Chris Martin is on the cover of the new issue of

Rolling Stone this month. Click here to read a little bit of his interview with the magazine.

Coldplay 2008 North American Revised Tour Dates:
06/23 - New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden (FREE SHOW)
07/14 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Forum (SOLD OUT)
07/15 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Forum (SOLD OUT)
07/18 - San Jose, CA @ HP Pavilion
07/19 - Las Vegas, NV @ MGM Grand Garden Arena
07/23 - Chicago, IL @ United Center
07/25 - Philadelphia, PA @ Wachovia Center
07/27 - Pemberton, BC @ Pemberton Festival
07/29 - Montreal, QC @ Bell Center
07/30 - Toronto, ON @ Air Canda Centre
08/02 - Hartford, CT @ XL Center
08/03 - Washington, DC @ Verizon Center
08/04 - Boston, MA @ TD Banknorth Center
10/20 - Ottawa, ON, @ Scotiabank Place
10/21 - Cleveland, OH @ Quicken Loans Arena
10/26 - East Rutherford, NJ @ Izod Center
11/03 - Detroit, MI @ The Palace of Auburn Hills
11/07 - Orlando, FL @ Amway Arena
11/09 - Sunrise, FL @ Bank Atlantic Center
11/11 - Atlanta, GA @ Philips Arena
11/13 - Kansas City, MO @ Sprint Center
11/14 - St. Paul, MN @ Xcel Energy Center
11/16 - Oklahoma City, OK @ Ford Center
11/18 - Houston, TX @ Toyota Center
11/19 - Dallas, TX @ American Airlines Center
11/21 - Denver, CO @ Pepsi Center Arena
11/22 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Energy Solutions Arena
11/26 - Phoenix, AZ @ Jobing.com Arena

[Photo by musicxcharts]

They are gonna sell...

a ton of albums

Coldplay "Violet Hill" Video

I'm a big Coldplay fan. I've seen them 3 times in concert, have all their cds. I was a little disappointed with X & Y, so hopefully Viva La Vida will be different. Here is the new video for Coldplay's first single "Violet Hill" (which is awesome by the way).

Coldplay - Viva La Vida (mp3)

Coldplay Announces North American Tour Dates

Coldplay have just announced their plans for an upcoming tour through the U.S. and Canada. They decided to skip Austin, but are playing Dallas and Houston.

The British quartet will be promoting their new album, Viva La Vida, which drops on June 17. Supposedly, their new song "Violet Hill" has been downloaded over two million times already (I'm digging it). If you haven't heard it, you can listen to over at Cause=Time.

As of this week, you can pre-order Coldplay's new album, Viva La Vida, from iTunes Stores worldwide. This will also entitle you to two free bonus tracks, the acoustic versions of "Lost" and "Lovers In Japan". What's more, you'll be able to download the album's title track, "Viva La Vida", immediately.

Be sure to tune in, Coldplay will be performing on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" on June 26 and also on the Today Show on NBC on June 27.

Coldplay Tour Dates:

06/29 - Philadelphia, PA @ Wachovia Center

07/02 - Washington, DC @ Verizon Center

07/03 - Hartford, CT @ XL Center

07/05 - Detroit, MI @ The Palace of Auburn Hills

07/06 - Cleveland, OH @ Quicken Loans Arena

07/08 - St. Paul, MN @ Xcel Energy Center

07/09 - Kansas City, MO @ Sprint Center

07/10 - Oklahoma City, OK @ Ford Center

07/12 - Phoenix, AZ @ Jobing.com Arena

07/19 - Las Vegas, NV @ MGM Grand Garden Arena

07/21 - Sacramento, CA @ ARCO Arena

07/24 - San Jose, CA @ HP Pavilion

07/27 - Pemberton, BC @ Pemberton Festival

07/29 - Edmonton, AB @ Rexall Place

07/30 - Calgary, AB @ Pengrowth Saddledome

08/01 - Winnipeg, MB @ MTS Centre

08/03 - Omaha, NE @ Qwest Center

08/04 - Chicago, IL @ United Center

10/20 - Montreal, QC @ Bell Centre

10/21 - Ottawa, ON, @ Scotiabank Place

10/26 - East Rutherford, NJ @ Izod Center

10/29 - Toronto, ON @ Air Canada Centre

10/30 - Toronto, ON @ Air Canada Centre

11/03 - Boston, MA @ TD Banknorth Garden

11/11 - Atlanta, GA @ Philips Arena

11/18 - Houston, TX @ Toyota Center

11/19 - Dallas, TX @ American Airlines Center

11/21 - Denver, CO @ Pepsi Center Arena

11/22 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Energy Solutions Arena

Coldplay Releases Single / Artwork For Viva La Vida

As we mentioned last month, Coldplay will be releasing a new cd, Viva La Vida, on June 17. The artwork is taken from the painting "Liberty Leading The People" by French painter Eugene Delacroix with a little spray paint added on. In anticipation of the new cd, you can download their new single, "Violent Hill" at Coldplay.com
It will only be available for a week.

Starting May 7 NME will be giving away a seven inch vinyl version of "Violent Hill" with their magazine.

To celebrate Viva La Vida, Coldplay will play two free shows. The concerts will be at London's Brixton Academy (June 16) and Madison Square Garden in New York (June 23). Like I said it's free and the only way to get tickets are on Coldplay.com. So check there regularly for details.

Updated with track, thanks Cause=Time


Coldplay-Violet Hill [mp3]

Coldplay Announce Tracklisting For Viva La Vida

Coldplay has announced the tracklisting for their newest cd, Viva La Vida. It'll be released on June 17.

"Life In Technicolor"

"Cemetaries of London"

"Lost!"

"42"

"Lovers In Japan/Reign of Love"

"Yes"

"Viva La Vida"

"Violet Hill"

"Strawberry Swing"

"Death and All His Friends"

[Photo courtesy of kaleidostrophic mind]

Coldplay Reveal New Album Title / Release Date

Coldplay is set to dominate the world again. The band's new record, entitled Viva La Vida, is named after a painting by artist Frida Kahlo. The title translates as "long live life". It's scheduled for release on June 17.

Frontman Chris Martin said he decided to name the album after Kahlo's painting as he found her life inspirational. Kahlo had suffered from polio, a broken spine, and chronic pain for decades. "She went through a lot of shit, of course, and then she started a big painting in her house that said 'Viva la Vida,'" says Martin. “I just loved the boldness of it."

I'm curious to hear how it sounds. I liked X & Y, didn't love it. I have to say I still think Parachutes is my favorite because it was so dark and stripped down.

**Update** According to the Coldplay.com, the new album will be entitled Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends. Seems like they were having some second thoughts.