Subject: Coldplay

• Q&A with Ahmir ?uestlove Thompson of the Roots

  May 28, 2008

• 45 Second Reviews: Inhale Exhale, My Brightest Diamond, Katy Perry, Teddy Thompson

  July 7, 2008

• 45 Second Reviews: Blind Pilot, Hit the Lights, Killer Mike, the Maine

  July 9, 2008

• Live Review: The Ideal Fathers, I’m a Boy, the Bluebird Equation at Larimer Lounge

  July 11, 2008

• Rearview: The Week in Review (7/5/08-7/12/08)

  July 11, 2008

• Top Sellers: Twist & Shout

  July 29, 2008

• Top Sellers: Twist & Shout

  August 6, 2008

• Over the Weekend: Will Smith, Coldplay and various drunk people rock Denver

  The weekend has evaporated, as weekends tend to do. After the jump, a user's guide to what you (probably) missed. -- Joe Tone

  November 24, 2008

• Coldplay at the Pepsi Center

  Photo: Chad Fahnestock Coldplay, Jon Hopkins, Sleeper CarFriday, Nov. 21, 2008Pepsi CenterBetter Than: A rock show where the band stays rooted in one spot.Making an arena rock show personal may seem like an impossible task, especially for any band playing to thousands of fans in the airy expanses of the Pepsi Center.But Coldplay defied the inherent limitations of its grandiose setting Friday night, offering a performance full of immediacy and intimacy despite the large venue. Even with a complex

  November 24, 2008

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, November 24 edition

  Round 'em up. Today in Backbeat Online: • Chris Martin, seen here, is at the center of our live review of Coldplay at the Pepsi Center. • Eric Eyl's Mile High Makeout experiences a renaissance. • Hotties provide an important element in Synthetic Elements' new video. Today in Cafe Society: • A tough month for Colorado kitchen disasters. • A taste test of Snowbound Ale. • A Milking It review of Incredible Berry Crunch! • Hosea Rosenberg dodges a bullet on Top Chef. • Santa Fe

  November 24, 2008

• Eno, electronic music history and pop songs summarized

  Stuck at work or bored at home, these three links should keep you busy for the rest of the day, either way. Fist up, enjoy these one-line summaries of the meaning behind some of the biggest pop songs in history.Second, electronic music pioneer and legendary producer (U2, Talking Heads, Coldplay, et al) Brian Eno explains how singing keeps you young and makes you a better person.Finally, a ten-part audio documentary on the earliest history of electronic music from the '40s to the '70s.-- Cory Ca

  November 28, 2008

• Joe Satriani suing Coldplay for plagiarism

  Guitar virtuoso/noodler extraordinaire Joe Satriani is suing Coldplay, claiming the band's song "Viva la Vida," title tack from their latest opus, lifts a riff from his 2004 track "If I Could Fly." I can't be the only one who finds this utterly bizarre. Admittedly, my knowledge of both Satriani's guitar histrionics and Coldplay's epic mopiness is fairly limited, but it seems pretty hard to believe that Coldplay is ripping him off. Bends-era Radiohead, yes, obviously. But Satriani? Really? Seems

  December 5, 2008

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, December 5 edition

  Join us for a few cups of blog. Today in Cafe Society: • Izakaya Den (pictured) joins the lunch bunch. • What Denver restaurants would you recommend to Food & Wine? • Charlie Master could be getting back in the game. • Candy Girls sink their teeth into Flake and Curly Wurly bars. Today in Backbeat Online: • Mile High Makeout's Eric Eyl says, "Let's get small!" • Joe Satriani sues Coldplay for plagiarism. Today in The Latest Word: • Santa and NORAD: The unholy alliance. • Is

  December 5, 2008

• Top Ten Pop Songs of 2008

  Over the next couple of weeks, Backbeat will feature some Top Ten lists from around the Village Voice Media chain. Click here for previous year-in-review coverage from Backbeat and VVM.Pop music often gets a bad rap for being disposable or vapid, and in many cases that's true. (Katy Perry, Danity Kane and the Pussycat Dolls, step right up!) But every year, a few irresistible bits of innovative ear candy rocket up the charts and seep into our subconscious. The following ten singles saturated the

  December 29, 2008

• Backwash

  June 14, 2001

• The Fray's new album panned in Rolling Stone

  Well, the first review is in. Two stars. In the brand-new issue of Rolling Stone, which just hit stands over the weekend, the mag gives the Fray's forthcoming full-length, the hotly anticipated, self-titled followup to How to Save a Life, due in stores next Tuesday, two stars out of five. Review highlights: "No big changes are afoot for Disc Two: The band's piano rock suggests a more earnest, less arty Coldplay." Coldplay...hmm...now, that's a fresh take. 

  January 26, 2009

• Week in Review: 1/26/09 - 1/30/09

  In terms of music news this was a slower week in the Mile High City. The biggest items were news of Overcasters being invited to perform at South By Southwest on the heels of a particularly harrowing trip to the East Coast a few weeks ago with the Fluid, followed closely by DJ Vajra's inclusion in a Serato Scratch ad in BPM Magazine. This week, the first review of the Fray's new record also came down from Rolling Stone, who panned it and tossed in a Coldplay comparison for good measure. Beyond

  January 30, 2009

• Coldplay

  September 12, 2002

• Meet the Fraysayers

  Dull. Boring. Formulaic. Uniformly bland. Uninteresting. Calculated. Inoffensive. Forgettable. These are just a few of the adjectives that various critics from across the country have used to describe the Fray's self-titled sophomore release. As observed in this column last week, the band is clearly resonating with its fans -- earlier this week, the outfit checked in at number one on Billboard's Top 200, besting the Boss, no less -- while taking just an absolute beating from the critics. After t

  February 12, 2009

• Backwash

  June 12, 2003

• The Fray

  February 19, 2004

• Coldplay

  July 17, 2008

• Freeloader

  Bringing you the best in free, artist-approved downloads.

  July 31, 2008

• What's So Funny weighs in on this year's Grammy nominations

  February 5, 2009

• Micky Manor

  Backfield in motion.

  December 13, 2007

• Brain Food

  May 8, 2008

• The Fray Hits the Rocks

  Denver's hometown heroes are larger than Life.

  August 9, 2007

• The Archive

  Larimer Lounge

  April 26, 2007

• Ron Sexsmith

  Kiefer Sutherland comes to this singer-songwriter's rescue.

  January 25, 2007

• Jay-Z vs. Stallone

  A pop-quiz in honor of Hova and Balboa both coming out of retirement.

  December 14, 2006

• Umbrellas

  Illuminare (The Militia Group)

  August 31, 2006

• The Lavellas

  Friday, August 18, Bluebird Theater, 1-866-468-7621.

  August 17, 2006

• Snowed In

  Snow Patrol climbs out from an avalanche of comparisons.

  May 18, 2006

• XLNT

  Junkie XL uses Today to get back to basics.

  May 11, 2006

• No Kidding Around

  Kid rocks, the Colorado Convention Center doesn't.

  April 27, 2006

• David Gray

  Monday, March 13, Fillmore Auditorium, 303-830-8497.

  March 9, 2006

• Left Out in the Coldplay

  Fiona Apple and Chris Martin have their games down Cold.

  February 23, 2006

• Coldplay

  Sunday, February 19, Pepsi Center, 303-830-8497.

  February 16, 2006

• Pop Rocks

  Ten albums that will snap and fizz in your earbuds all winter long.

  December 29, 2005

• The Frames

  Friday, October 7, Bluebird Theater, 303-322-2308.

  October 6, 2005

• Critical Fatwa

  September 15, 2005

• Dressed to Kill

  Apparently, Dressy Bessy is electrifying compared to Coldplay.

  September 8, 2005

• Sound Bites

  July 21, 2005

• Coldplay

  X&Y (Capitol)

  June 9, 2005

• Outlaw Celebrations

  Americana music gets its due from this duo.

  June 2, 2005

• Keane

  Friday, May 13, Fillmore Auditorium, 303-830-8497.

  May 12, 2005

• Made With Love

  Rosanne Cash is the friend who will say, or sing, what you can't.

  April 10, 2003

• Head Trip

  Chris Martin expects people to hate him. So why is Coldplay feeling so much love?

  January 30, 2003

• Various artists

  Now That's What I Call Music! 6 (Epic)

  April 26, 2001

• Last Night's Show: The Rouge at Red Rocks

  Kiernan Maletsky Imagine that you are a member of the Rouge. You've just completed your first tour. One of the stops was at L.A.'s Knitting Factory, where you played for six labels and a couple of them showed interest. Less than a week later, you come home and play Red Rocks, which I hear is a big deal.  Imagine the feeling of stepping onto that stage, hollowed ground, only a couple years removed from living in a tent in your friend's backyard in Baker. Can you imagine what that would feel l

  July 8, 2009