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Chris Martin will feature on the new Kanye West album, the hip hop icon has revealed. The Coldplay star appeared on “Beach Chair,” a track on Kingdom Come, Jay-Z’s return to the hip-hop world, last year. Kanye has now revealed that he and Martin have recorded a song called “Homecoming,” which is scheduled to be the first single from the follow-up to Late Registration. The LP is provisionally titled Graduation and is tentatively due for release towards the end of 2007, reports Billboard. Kanye is also currently working on a TV show with Rick Rubin and Curb Your Enthusiasm mastermind… Read more »

We know Coldplay are capable of wooing Gwyneth Paltrow, creating a media circus in Toronto and selling out concert halls in a matter of seconds. But it turns out the British softies are also responsible for a declining profit from EMI Group, their record company. Reuters reports British-based EMI, the world’s third-largest music company, said its full-year profit fell after delays in two key albums from Coldplay and the animated band Gorillaz. According to The New York Daily News, EMI’s stock plummeted 16 per cent in one day when the company announced the latest releases by Coldplay and Gorillaz would… Read more »

After months of speculation and a smattering of semi-secret “buzz gigs” throughout North America, Coldplay have finally confirmed a full slate of dates in support of their upcoming third album, X&Y. The Twisted Logic Tour kicks off August 2 in Toronto and will hit an additional 35 cities before coming to a close on September 30. Punky alt-country act Rilo Kiley will serve as the opening act. Tickets go on sale June 4 for all shows except the September 23 gig in Dallas – those will be available on June 11 – and fans who are registered at Coldplay.com will… Read more »

UNIVERSAL CITY, California – Chris Martin only forgot the words once. After taking more than a year off from performing, Coldplay returned to the stage over the weekend, headlining influential public radio station KCRW-FM’s annual A Sounds Eclectic Evening concert on Saturday at the Universal Amphitheatre and warming up the night before at the Troubadour in West Hollywood. And while Martin stumbled through the opening of “Politik” during the encore of the KCRW show, the singer more than made up for it by treating fans to five new tracks from X&Y, due June 7, and six old favorites. “When you… Read more »

Media reports say that Coldplay are having mixed feelings about getting up onstage again after their long recording break. So they started out slowly on March 4 playing a small gig in London where lucky fans and industry people got to preview new songs from the upcoming album. Coldplay debuted three new songs from their currently untitled record that should be out this June. The tracks “Speed Of Sound,” “A Message” and “What If” were all played. Another new song “Fix You” had to be cut from the set list due to time. Coldplay have also said that the songs… Read more »

Singer Robbie Williams, R&B artist Ms. Dynamite and the alternative band Coldplay won honors as Britain’s top musicians at the Brit Awards Thursday. Two Americans – rapper Eminem and singer Pink – were named best international male and female solo artists in the British version of the U.S. Grammy Awards. Ms. Dynamite, who emerged recently and has become one of the country’s top music stars, also won best British urban act, and Coldplay got best British album for “A Rush Of Blood To The Head.” Eminem won best international album for “The Eminem Show.” Ms. Dynamite performed a retooled version… Read more »

Coldplay is working on a live DVD of backstage, onstage and “stupid stuff,” according to the band’s bassist and de facto cameraman, Guy Berryman. “We want to make it good, not do it for the sake of doing it,” Berryman says. “I know a lot of bands go, ‘Oh, let’s just do a DVD,’ and get a film crew and they film it and record music and stick it out. I’d like to do something a bit more interesting than that.” Berryman, the man behind the camcorder, has been gathering footage as the U.K. band tours behind its latest album,… Read more »

Coldplay heads to Boston’s Paradise club Tuesday (August 6) for the second night of its brief U.S. club tour to preview its next album, A Rush Of Blood To The Head. The tour, which was scheduled to kick off Friday night (August 2) at the Vic Theatre in Chicago, will find the band in small venues in eight cities overall, culminating on August 20 at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles. If all goes well, Coldplay’s latest U.S. trek will be far more successful than the first time the band came to play in the States. Coldplay frontman Chris… Read more »

Coldplay will visit the United States in mid-August to preview songs from its upcoming album, A Rush Of Blood To The Head, which arrives August 27 from Capitol Records. Seven shows are currently scheduled, all in major cities, beginning August 6 at the Paradise in Boston. Coldplay has already started making live appearances surrounding its second album back home in the U.K., including a show Monday (July 1) at the Glastonbury Festival. That show showcased both new songs and highlights from the band’s 2000 debut, Parachutes. The complete set list was: “Politik,” “Shiver,” “Spies,” “Daylight,” “Trouble,” “One I Love,” “Don’t… Read more »