Coldplay

Rihanna and Coldplay sing together on the group's latest album, and they'll do so again at next month's Grammy Awards. Rihanna, who is nominated for four Grammys including album of the year for "Loud," tweeted the news to her followers Wednesday night, calling it "BONKERS. " Coldplay is up for three awards. Paul McCartney was announced Thursday by The Recording Academy as another performer on the Feb. 12 broadcast. McCartney is being honored during Grammy week as the MusiCares person of the year.

The Conversation With Amanda de Cadenet 11 p.m., Lifetime Who is Amanda de Cadenet? And why are people like Gwyneth Paltrow, Lady Gaga, and Jane Fonda visiting her new weekly talk show on the Lifetime network? You may have heard de Cadenet's name over the years in various capacities: She was once Mrs. John Taylor (the dreamy bassist of Duran Duran), is currently married to Nick Valensi of the Strokes, used to pal around with Courtney Love, and is apparently Demi Moore's best friend.

Coldplay will livestream a concert from Madrid just as the band is releasing its fifth album. The concert will be streamed live on YouTube from the Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas on Oct. 26 (4 p.m. ET). The concert, part of the ongoing online series "American Express Unstaged," takes place two days after Coldplay releases "Mylo Xyloto. " "Until we can come to a video as good as 'Single Ladies' by Beyonce, we have to rely on just the meat and vegetables of playing songs live," says Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, speaking from Cape Town, South Africa, where the band played Wednesday.

To hear Jack Steadman tell it, his band is already seasoned. Bombay Bicycle Club released "A Different Kind of Fix," its third full-length album in just two years, last summer. Before it ever put out any sort of record, the indie-rock quartet won a competition and played at the V Festival in its native England. And now a headlining tour in the United States has sold out dates across the country, including Friday night's show at the Middle East Downstairs. Only at the end of a recent interview is it apparent how impressive all that is. Steadman, who fronts Bombay Bicycle...

The third album is, historically, a watershed in a band's career. Think Springsteen's "Born to Run" and Tom Petty's "Damn the Torpedos. " Coldplay's third album, "X&Y," isn't one of those career-defining discs. Career-sustaining is a more apt description of this endlessly likable and occasionally lovable set of songs. Coldplay will never be known as groundbreaking, nor does it aspire to the cutting edge, and that's part of the band's charm. It knows what it is -- a popular music group in the most literal sense and, even more notably, what it isn't -- a band that would never want to...

MANSFIELD - For the casual fan seeing Coldplay live for the first time since the band performed at the Paradise in Boston many years (and many millions of accumulated fans) ago, last night’s triumphant two-hour performance at the Comcast Center was like seeing your younger family members for the first time in years. You just can’t stop marveling at how big they’ve gotten. In a set that reached back to their 2000 breakout album Parachutes, where they first sewed the seeds of their anthemic Brit-rock grandeur, Coldplay flipped through the pages of a hit-rich...

As a title, "Mylo Xyloto" doesn't mean anything. It's not slang or some clever turn of phrase in a language you don't know. Google those words, and every result leads you back to Coldplay. That's exactly why the English quartet gave its new album that name. Frontman Chris Martin has said in interviews that the fabricated title marked a clean slate for him and his bandmates. He's right, too. "Mylo Xyloto," which was released today, is not the album you put on when you crave a classic Coldplay experience.

Friday the 13th was not unlucky for the 2,000 fans who smiled their way into Avalon last night to see Coldplay. Avalon owner Patrick Lyons said he had more ticket requests to this than for any other show in his history there -- and that includes past dates by a few folks named Prince, Eric Clapton, and Bob Dylan. Coldplay is H-O-T. The British band has sold 16 million albums and won four Grammys in the last five years. And recently, its new single, "Speed of Sound," entered Billboard's Hot 100 at No. 8 -- the first time a British group accomplished that...

It's hard to dislike someone who's determined to please you. So for all you Coldplay haters - and your numbers are strong - here's a bit of advice: See the band live before you judge. No one wants you to love Coldplay more than lead singer Chris Martin. With a perpetual bounce in his step, he worked hard at TD Banknorth Garden Wednesday night, bounding like a clumsy toddler down the two side stages that led into the audience. On the swooping chorus of "In My Place," he swept his arms out to the crowd, midriff exposed, as if he had just hit a home run. And when the...

Several songs on Coldplay's fourth album, "Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends," out next Tuesday, find frontman Chris Martin obsessed with the idea of coming close but not quite getting all the way to heaven. And that's about as good a summation as there is of the British pop-rock quartet's attempt to stretch out. Martin and his cohorts take some entertaining detours from the platinum-plated, arena-anthem formula of their previous releases, but the brass ring of total creative nirvana just scrapes by their fingertips.

David King, a London-based international theatrical producer interested in the power of music, recently commissioned a survey of the most depressing songs of all time. Read the titles and weep: "Everybody Hurts" R.E.M. "Candle in the Wind" Elton John "The Living Years" Mike + The Mechanics "I Will Always Love You" Whitney Houston "Nothing Compares 2 U" Prince, or Sinead O'Connor "Hallelujah" Alexandra Burke, or Jeff Buckley "My Heart Will Go On" Celine Dion "Fix You" Coldplay "Seasons in the...

Rihanna and Coldplay sing together on the group's latest album, and they'll do so again at next month's Grammy Awards. Rihanna, who is nominated for four Grammys including album of the year for "Loud," tweeted the news to her followers Wednesday night, calling it "BONKERS. " Coldplay is up for three awards. Paul McCartney was announced Thursday by The Recording Academy as another performer on the Feb. 12 broadcast. McCartney is being honored during Grammy week as the MusiCares person of the year.

British band Coldplay is withholding its latest album, "Mylo Xyloto," from all-you-can-listen streaming services such as Spotify and Rhapsody — making it the biggest band yet to express reservations about a system that pays artists a fraction of a penny every time someone listens to a song. The decision for the hot-selling album, released Tuesday, is a blow to such services, which have millions of tracks available but rely on new tunes to keep listeners interested. Consumers typically pay $10 a month for the right to pick any track or album from a library of millions and...

As a title, "Mylo Xyloto" doesn't mean anything. It's not slang or some clever turn of phrase in a language you don't know. Google those words, and every result leads you back to Coldplay. That's exactly why the English quartet gave its new album that name. Frontman Chris Martin has said in interviews that the fabricated title marked a clean slate for him and his bandmates. He's right, too. "Mylo Xyloto," which was released today, is not the album you put on when you crave a classic Coldplay experience.

SAN FRANCISCO - Apple Inc. memorialized cofounder Steve Jobs, who died Oct. 5, with a celebration for employees that featured a performance by Coldplay and tributes from company leaders. Coldplay could be heard just outside the company's Cupertino, Calif., headquarters, where Apple hosted a memorial yesterday. Singer Norah Jones also performed, and chief executive Tim Cook and director Bill Campbell made remarks, according to postings on Twitter by people who said they attended or watched the event.

Coldplay will livestream a concert from Madrid just as the band is releasing its fifth album. The concert will be streamed live on YouTube from the Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas on Oct. 26 (4 p.m. ET). The concert, part of the ongoing online series "American Express Unstaged," takes place two days after Coldplay releases "Mylo Xyloto. " "Until we can come to a video as good as 'Single Ladies' by Beyonce, we have to rely on just the meat and vegetables of playing songs live," says Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, speaking from Cape Town, South Africa, where the band played...

It's hard to dislike someone who's determined to please you. So for all you Coldplay haters - and your numbers are strong - here's a bit of advice: See the band live before you judge. No one wants you to love Coldplay more than lead singer Chris Martin. With a perpetual bounce in his step, he worked hard at TD Banknorth Garden last night, bounding like a clumsy toddler down the two side stages that led into the audience. On the swooping chorus of "In My Place," he swept his arms out to the crowd, midriff exposed, as if he had just hit a home run. And when the house...

MANSFIELD - For the casual fan seeing Coldplay live for the first time since the band performed at the Paradise in Boston many years (and many millions of accumulated fans) ago, last night’s triumphant two-hour performance at the Comcast Center was like seeing your younger family members for the first time in years. You just can’t stop marveling at how big they’ve gotten. In a set that reached back to their 2000 breakout album Parachutes, where they first sewed the seeds of their anthemic Brit-rock grandeur, Coldplay flipped through the pages of a hit-rich catalog.