Coldplay gearing up for X & Y release...

[PrimeX]

Just a heads up for my fellow Coldplay diehard bruthas and sistas...New album due in June, but DAYUM PrimeX is all over the bit torrent sites looking for a bootleg of this mini-concert.

Coldplay Unveils New Tunes In Los Angeles

Coldplay unveiled five songs from its hotly anticipated third album, "X&Y," Saturday night at Los Angeles' Universal Amphitheatre as part of a benefit for radio station KCRW. The night before, the U.K. group debuted the new songs during a surprise show at the city's intimate Troubadour club.

On first listen, Coldplay seems to be utilizing its 2002 smash hit "Clocks" as a launching pad for the new songs, several of which echo that track either in structure or feel.

The Chris Martin-led act opened the KCRW benefit with the new song "Square One," which the singer previously described as "designed to be played live." The energetic tune was marked by the lyric "You wonder if your chance will ever come / or if you're stuck at square one."

Like "Clocks," the chorus in "White Shadows" did not immediately arrive. But the payoff was large in the single "Speed of Sound," the most overtly Coldplay-ish of the new songs. The piano ballad "What If," the verses of which each begin with the title phrase, closed the main set.

Sprinkled in between the new tracks were such past favorites as "In My Place," "The Scientist," an audience-hushing "Sparks," the aforementioned "Clocks," "Politik" and the closer "Yellow," for which the house lights were turned on.

Coldplay will not return to the United States until an April 29 club gig in Las Vegas, the night before the band headlines the first day of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio, Calif.

Backstage, KCRW music director Nic Harcourt saluted Coldplay for making a special trip across the Atlantic for the event. "I feel really blessed for a band of that stature to come back and play for us," he told Billboard.com. "It helps us continue to brand ourselves as a station that breaks great music."

Earlier in the evening, the crowd was treated to a surprise set from singer/songwriter Joseph Arthur, who opened the Troubadour gig on Friday. The event also featured performances from up-and-coming female rock trio the Like, U.K. rock act Aqualung, Latin rock act Cafe Tacuba, singer/songwriter Nellie McKay and the Blue Nile's Paul Buchanan, whose set included a cover of the Frank Sinatra-popularized "Strangers in the Night."

[Viper in Vancouver]

Coldplay, is one of my favourite bands, so I'll be picking up that album

[The Assassin]

Im seeing them at Coachella. Cannot wait

[scritti]

i am so getting that album when it's out...props for the 411.

[patsy stone]

COLDPLAY NEW ALBUM / SINGLE DETAILS...

Coldplay's new album X&Y will be released by Parlophone on 6th June, preceded by the single Speed Of Sound on 23rd May.

The follow up to 2002’s Brit and Grammy award winning ‘A Rush Of Blood To The Head’, X&Y was recorded over the past year at studios in the UK and has been produced by Danton Supple (Morrissey, Elbow), Ken Nelson (Badly Drawn Boy, Kings of Convenience) and the band.

“We wanted to try new things out, to move our sound along,” says Jonny, “but the focus remains on the songs, and Chris’s voice is sounding amazing. Everyone is playing at the top of their game.”

Following the release of X&Y the band embark on their biggest world tour yet, starting with dates in Europe. Support Acts confirmed for the UK & Eire leg of the tour include Doves, Supergrass, Elbow, Interpol, and Morning Runner.

(Who wants to go to Europe with me?!?!?)

The European dates are as follows:
Wed 15th June HAMBURG VOLKS PARK
Fri 17th June KOLN FUELINGER
Sun 19th June – BERLIN WUHLHEIDE
Wed 22nd June DUBLIN MARLAY PARK
Support Acts: Interpol, Morning Runner
Mon 27th & Tues 28th June LONDON CRYSTAL PALACE NATIONAL SPORTS CENTRE
Support: 27th Supergrass, Morning Runner
28th Interpol, Morning Runner
Fri 1st & Sat 2nd July GLASGOW BELLAHOUSTON PARK support: Supergrass, Morning Runner (both shows)
Mon 4th & Tue 5th July BOLTON REEBOK STADIUM
Support: 4th Elbow, Morning Runner
5th Doves, Morning Runner
Thu 7th July ARNHEM GELREDROME
Sat 9th July MUNICH COUBERTIN PLATZ
Sun 10th July VIENNA ST POLTEN OPEN AIR
Mon 11th July VERONA OPEN AIR

Additional European gigs will be added at a later date. US tour dates to be announced in the coming weeks.

(Please come here...please come here...)

[lovebuzz]

yeah, RACK SlimeX for the 411 and for his decent taste in music too.

i think him and patsy should invite us all over for a listening party

i saw coldplay live, about 3 years ago, at the Fox Theatre here in detroilet.
small venue, excellent show and *sniffle* yes, i cried.
but mainly because the 450lb dork that shoved his way into our front row, kept stepping on my damned right foot!

[patsy stone]

Coldplay X&Y Album Artwork and Tracklisting Revealed!



As you will already know Coldplay's new album X&Y will be released on 6th June, preceded by the single Speed Of Sound on 23rd May.

The follow up to 2002’s Brit and Grammy award winning ‘A Rush Of Blood To The Head’, X&Y was recorded over the past year at studios in the UK and USA and has been produced by Danton Supple (Morrissey, Elbow), Ken Nelson (Badly Drawn Boy, Kings of Convenience) and the band.

We can now reveal the tracklisting for the album is as follows:
1. Square One
2. What If
3. White Shadows
4. Fix You
5. Talk
6. X&Y
7. Speed of Sound
8. A Message
9. Low
10. The Hardest Part
11. Swallowed In The Sea
12. Twisted Logic

[Bizzarofelice]

X & Y... chromosomes that determine boy as opposed to girl (X & X)?

[Funkywhiteboy]

X & Y... chromosomes that determine boy as opposed to girl (X & X)?

Or... one of those dreaded high school geometry tests.