Oct 14, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Coldplay have announced a new world tour in support of their upcoming album, Music of the Spheres, which will be out tomorrow (Oct. 15) via Parlophone/Atlantic. The tour will feature H.E.R. as a supporting act, with London Grammar playing at selected dates. Tickets will go on sale at 10 a.m. local time on October 22. More

Sep 30, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Coldplay are releasing a new album, Music of the Spheres, on October 15 via Parlophone/Atlantic. Last week they shared its third single, “My Universe,” which is a collaboration with K-pop superstars BTS. Now the song has an ambitious music video that finds both bands singing the song in space, with aliens. Dave Meyers directed the video. More

Sep 24, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Coldplay are releasing a new album, Music of the Spheres, on October 15 via Parlophone/Atlantic. Now they have shared its third single, “My Universe,” which is a collaboration with K-pop superstars BTS. More

Jul 23, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Coldplay are releasing a new album, Music of the Spheres, on October 15 via Parlophone/Atlantic. Now they have shared its second single, the 10-minute-plus album closer “Coloratura.” It’s a song partly about space that name-checks the astronomer Galileo, the asteroid Oumuamua, and the star Betelgeuse. More

May 06, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Coldplay have shared a brand new song, “Higher Power,” via a video for the single. The song was launched via the International Space Station and a video chat between the band and French ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, who is currently on board the station. More

Apr 15, 2021 By Mark Moody

Yesterday, U.K.-based environmental charity ClientEarth launched the Playlists For Earth campaign. The initiative seeks to bring awareness and activism around the need for support in the global battle over the climate crisis. More than 60 artists, record labels, publications and other creatives have submitted playlists in support of the cause, including Under the Radar. Artists ranging from Brian Eno, Anna Calvi, to Squid, Coldplay, and Hot Chip are participating. More

Mar 12, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Coldplay released a new album, Everyday Life, last year via Parlophone/Atlantic. Now they have shared a video for the album’s “Trouble In Town” that’s inspired by George Orwell’s 1945 dystopian novel Animal Farm and features anthropomorphic animals. More

Mar 09, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Coldplay released a new album, Everyday Life, last year via Parlophone/Atlantic. Now they have stopped by NPR Music to perform five songs as part of their Tiny Desk Concert series, including a cover of Prince’s “1999.” They were joined by a nine-person choir. More

Dec 09, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Coldplay released a new album, Everyday Life, last month via Parlophone/Atlantic. Now they have shared a video for the album’s title track, “Everyday Life.” Karena Evans, a 23-year-old Toronto native, directed the video, which was filmed in South Africa, Morocco, and Ukraine. More

Nov 22, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Coldplay have released a new album, Everyday Life, today via Parlophone/Atlantic. Now that the album is out, you can stream the whole thing here. The band have also been performing two live-streamed concerts from Anman, Jordan, and the embed of that stream is also here. More

Nov 20, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Coldplay are releasing a new album, Everyday Life, this Friday via Parlophone/Atlantic. Now they have shared two new songs: “Daddy” and “Champion of the World.” The latter has a co-writing credit from the late Scott Hutchison of Frightened Rabbit and the former is accompanied by a video produced by Aardman Animations (Wallace and Gromit, Shaun the Sheep). More

Nov 04, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Coldplay are releasing a new album, Everyday Life, on November 22 via Parlophone/Atlantic. On Friday and this weekend there was a flurry of Coldplay activity: they shared an amusing fake press conference with Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein playing all the journalists, shared the album’s title track “Everyday Life,” and also performed it and “Orphans” on Saturday Night Live. More

Oct 31, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

British actress Jodie Whittaker, who plays the first female Doctor in the long-running British sci-fi show Doctor Who, and has covered Coldplay‘s hit “Yellow” with members of the actual band for a new charity album, Got It Covered. Video of the session and Whittaker being surprised by the band has been shared. More

Oct 25, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to another Songs of the Week. It was another light week, in terms of compelling new songs this week. Hence, just like last week’s list, we only have a Top 8 again. The top two were pretty much a tie. We’re as surprised as you about our #1. More

Oct 25, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Coldplay are releasing a new album, Everyday Life, on November 22 via Parlophone/Atlantic. Yesterday they shared its first two singles: “Orphans” and “Arabesque.” Now, as promised yesterday, they have shared a video for “Orphans.” More

Oct 24, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Coldplay are releasing a new album, Everyday Life, on November 22 via Parlophone/Atlantic and now they have shared its first two singles: “Orphans” and “Arabesque.” More

Oct 21, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Coldplay have seemingly announced a new album entitled Everyday Life via some postcards sent to fans. It is an experimental double album. More

Nov 02, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

At Father John Misty‘s concert at De Roma in Antwerpen, Belgium last night he ended his set by jokingly covering Coldplay’s 2002 hit “Clocks.” Josh Tillman’s backing band performed a competent cover but when he took the mic he kind of mumbled or scatted his way through the lyrics, before then joking: “This is my walk-off music from now on.” More

Oct 03, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Tom Petty, the singer/songwriter/guitarist who found success in the 1970s and 1980s with his band as Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, died Monday night after suffering cardiac arrest Sunday night in his home in Malibu, Los Angeles. He was 66. At Coldplay’s concert at Portland, OR’s Moda Center last night the band, alongside special guest Peter Buck of R.E.M., took a minute of silence for Petty before covering his 1989 hit “Free Fallin’.” More

Aug 29, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Coldplay were due to play in Houston last Friday, but cancelled their show due to Hurricane Harvey, which has since wrecked havoc on the Texas city, causing widespread flooding. So last night at their show at Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium the band performed a brand new song, “Houston #1,” which they dedicated to the people of Houston and everyone else affected by the storm and the flooding. More

Jul 21, 2017 By Stephen Mayne

It’s the half-year Trump anniversary so we’re leading with that this week. Mix in a little summary of his various misdeeds, and a collection of protest tracks the man has inspired and we’ve got ourselves a column. More

Jul 17, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Coldplay released their seventh album, A Head Full of Dreams, back in December 2015 via Parlophone/Atlantic and released a new EP, Kaleidoscope EP, digitally last Friday (July 14) via Parlophone/Atlantic (and on CD/vinyl August 4). Now they have shared a video for “Miracles (Someone Special).” More

Jul 13, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Coldplay released their seventh album, A Head Full of Dreams, back in December 2015 via Parlophone/Atlantic and are releasing a new EP, Kaleidoscope EP, digitally tomorrow (July 14) via Parlophone/Atlantic (and on CD/vinyl August 4). Now they have shared another song from it, “Miracles (Someone Special).” It features Big Sean. More

Jul 06, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Coldplay released their seventh album, A Head Full of Dreams, back in December 2015 via Parlophone/Atlantic and are releasing a new EP, Kaleidoscope EP, digitally on July 14 via Parlophone/Atlantic (and on CD/vinyl August 4). Now they have shared another song from it, “A L I E N S,” which was written with Brian Eno, who co-produced the song with Markus Dravs. More

Jun 15, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Coldplay released their seventh album, A Head Full of Dreams, back in December 2015 via Parlophone/Atlantic and are releasing a new EP, Kaleidoscope EP, digitally on July 14 via Parlophone/Atlantic (and on CD/vinyl August 4). More

Jun 09, 2017 By Stephen Mayne

Welcome back. This week we have Death Cab for Cutie guitarist Dave Depper discussing his new solo album and the place of protest music in the Trump era, plus James Comey slamming the President, election surprises in the U.K., the Manchester benefit show, and two ongoing rows amongst musicians. More

Jun 05, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

The One Love Manchester benefit concert took place yesterday at Manchester, England’s Old Trafford cricket ground. It was organized by Ariana Grande to benefit the victims of the terrorist bombing at her concert at Manchester Arena that killed 22 people. More

Jun 05, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

The One Love Manchester benefit concert took place yesterday at Manchester, England’s Old Trafford cricket ground. It was organized by Ariana Grande to benefit the victims of the terrorist bombing at her concert at Manchester Arena that killed 22 people and featured performances by Grande, Katy Perry, Black Eyed Peas, Miley Cyrus, Pharrell, and others. More

May 30, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Last Monday night a suicide bomber killed 22 people, including children and teenagers, at the Manchester Arena in Manchester, England after Ariana Grande finished her concert. More

Mar 02, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Coldplay released their seventh album, A Head Full of Dreams, back in December 2015 via Parlophone/Atlantic. Now the band have announced a new EP, Kaleidoscope EP, and shared a lyric video for its first single, “Hypnotised.” More

Oct 07, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Coldplay released their seventh album, A Head Full of Dreams, back in December 2015 via Parlophone/Atlantic. Now the band have announced a bunch of 2017 tour dates. More

Jul 18, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Last night Coldplay played the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. At the request of frontman Chris Martin’s son, the band played two covers of songs featured in the all-time classic 1985 time travel comedy Back to the Future, the favorite film of both Martin and his son. More

May 16, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Coldplay released their seventh album, A Head Full of Dreams, back in December via Parlophone/Atlantic. Now the band have shared a new video for “Up&Up” and it’s probably one of their most visually striking videos to date. Vania Heymann and Gal Muggia directed the clip, which juxtaposes different images and sizes in interesting and amusing ways. More

Apr 26, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Prince passed away at his home last Thursday and the Prince tributes and covers have been fittingly constant ever since. On Sunday Chris Martin of Coldplay performed at the Chords 2 Cure benefit concert in Santa Monica, CA in order to raise money for pediatric cancer research. More

Jan 29, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Coldplay released their seventh album, A Head Full of Dreams, back in December via Parlophone/Atlantic. Now the band have shared a new video for “Hymn for the Weekend,” a track that features Beyoncé, who also appears in the video. The clip was filmed in Mumbai, India, and features Chris Martin and band performing on the street for local kids and going to see a Bollywood film (which includes footage of Beyoncé and features a cameo from Bollywood star Sonam Kapoor). More

Jan 28, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Coldplay released their seventh album, A Head Full of Dreams, back in December via Parlophone/Atlantic. Now the band have announced a tour of U.S. stadiums in July, August, and September. The full list of their dates are below, followed by the crazy video for the album’s first single, “Adventure of a Lifetime,” as well as the video for “Birds.” More

Dec 03, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Coldplay are releasing their seventh album, A Head Full of Dreams, tomorrow (December 4) via Parlophone/Atlantic. Now it’s been announced that the band will be headlining the Super Bowl 50 halftime show on February 7 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, according to The Wall Street Journal. More

Nov 06, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Coldplay have announced their new album, their seventh, and shared its first single. A Head Full of Dreams is due out December 4 via Parlophone/Atlantic and features several special guests: Beyoncé, Noel Gallagher, Tove Lo, and Merry Clayton. Below is the album’s first single, “Adventure of a Lifetime.” More

May 22, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

As we reported earlier in the week, a “Game of Thrones: The Musical” skit was produced for Red Nose Day, the charity special that aired on NBC last night and was set up by Comic Relief to mirror the annual charity TV specials that air on the BBC in England. More

May 19, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Red Nose Day, an annual charity special airing on the BBC and set up by Comic Relief, has been a fixture of British television for decades. Basically various comedians get together and have a good time and raise money for charity. More

Feb 09, 2015 By Mike Hilleary

Shortly after winning Album of the Year at the Grammy Awards last night Beck performed a special rendition of his Morning Phase track “Heart Is A Drum.” More

Feb 04, 2015 By Laura Studarus

This Sunday, Feb 8, The Grammys will air, golden statues will be handed out—and then the next day we’ll all take to Twitter to complain about how much the music industry sucks. More

Dec 11, 2014 By Laura Studarus

So Coldplay may breakup after their next album. Then again, does anyone really break up these days? More

Dec 05, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Just months after releasing their latest LP Ghost Stories, Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has revealed that the band is already back in the studio working on the group’s seventh record. According to Martin however, this forthcoming album, tentatively titled A Head Full of Stars, will likely be the band’s last. More

Nov 26, 2014 By Cody Ray Shafer

Coldplay have just debuted a new interactive video for their song “Ink,” from Ghost Stories. The video, directed, and beautifully animated by Blind, lets the viewer choose the direction the narrative will take. More

Nov 17, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

In an effort to battle the ongoing outbreak of Ebola, numerous musical artists have contributed to a brand new rendition of the classic charity single “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” for Band Aid 30. More

Aug 22, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Coldplay frontman Chris Martin clowns around in an inflatable fat suit in the band’s new video “True Love.” More

Jul 07, 2014 By Cody Ray Shafer

When Zach Braff reached out to Chris Martin of Coldplay to record a new song for his upcoming film Wish I Was Here, Martin apparently thought the best course of action would be to enlist the cautious vocals of Cat Power. You can hear the result over at NPR. More

Jul 03, 2014 By Michael Wojtas

Welcome to Under the Radar’s weekly playlist, where we compile the best and most exciting tracks to debut online in the last week (give or take). Because it’s a short work week and a holiday weekend, less new tracks of note debuted this week. So this mix features some of the last week’s best new tracks, but also features other tracks from recent months that we liked. Included are songs by Wye Oak, Wunder Wunder, Ashrae Fax, Titus Andronicus, The Rosebuds, Ice Cream Cathedral, Ought, Childhood, Slow Club, Boxed In, Coldplay remixed by AlunaGeorge, Anand Wilder (of Yeasyer), and more. More

Jun 30, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Due to open for Coldplay at London’s Royal Albert Hall July 1 and 2, AlunaGeorge have premiered a brand new remix of “Magic,” taken from Chris Martin and co.‘s newly released album Ghost Stories. More

Jun 19, 2014 By Cody Ray Shafer

Coldplay have just debuted a new music video from their latest LP Ghost Stories. More

May 21, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Coldplay pretty much took over Los Angeles recently. More

May 13, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Next week on May 19 Coldplay will release their anticipated new album Ghost Stories. More

May 07, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Last night Coldplay stopped by The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon. More

May 05, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Over the weekend Coldplay were welcomed as the musical guest on Saturday Night Live, making it their fifth appearance in Studio 8H. More

Apr 29, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Just a few weeks away from the release of their Mylo Xyloto follow-up Ghost Stories, Coldplay have shared a brand new track off the effort titled “Always In My Head.” More

Apr 23, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Hey, did you hear that Coldplay has a new album coming out? More

Apr 21, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Soon to release their newest album Ghost Stories next month, Coldplay have premiered a remix of their cut “Midnight” by dance music pioneer Giorgio Moroder. More

Apr 17, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Coldplay is hitting the road in support of their new album Ghost Stories (due out May 19). More

Apr 07, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Poised to release their newest LP Ghost Stories on May 19, Coldplay have shared a silent film-era inspired music video for their lead single “Magic.” More

Mar 27, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Zach Braff has just confirmed some of the details of his forthcoming film Wish I was Here (his directorial follow-up to Garden State). The soundtrack alone might give you a flashback to when Scrubs was big, indie was cool, all anyone ever wanted was for Natalie Portman to come along and change your life with a Shins song.

Mar 12, 2014 By Sam Cleeve

Long gone are the days when SXSW was just a modest showcase for upcoming bands. Folowing the announcement of forthcoming album Ghost Stories, Coldplay recently premiered two new songs—“Always In My Head” and “Another’s Arms”—during a performance as part of the iTunes Festival at the Austin, TX event. More

Mar 03, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

As many assumed would happen following the surprise premiere of their new track “Midnight” and its music video, Coldplay have announced the release of their next full-length album Ghost Stories. More

Feb 25, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Coldplay have come out of the blue today to premiere a music video for a brand new song titled “Midnight.” More

Sep 26, 2013 By Laura Studarus

We already knew that Coldplay and The National were slated to appear on Catching Fire, the next installment of The Hunger Games film series. Now we can add a few other additional Under the Radar friendly artists to the list, including Anthony and the Johnsons, Phantogram, The Weeknd, and more. More

Sep 06, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Coldplay have premiered a brand new piece of music titled “Atlas,” the band’s first bit of material since releasing their album Mylo Xyloto in 2011. More

Oct 08, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Coldplay have debuted an animated video for “Hurts Like Heaven,” the final single from the band’s latest album Mylo Xyloto. More

Dec 08, 2011 By Mike Hilleary

Coldplay‘s Chris Martin and friends have announced that they will be emarking on an arena tour of North American from April to August in support of their latest album Mylo Xyloto. More

Nov 29, 2011 By Laura Studarus

On New Year’s Eve, why not cozy up with Chris Martin and the gang? More

Oct 21, 2011 By Laura Studarus

The taste of British rock still fresh on his tongue after his extended dalliance with Radiohead, last night Stephen Colbert invited Coldplay onto his show. We have the video. More

Oct 19, 2011 By Natasha Moningka

Coldplay‘s graces the screen with elephants in their music video for new single “Paradise.” We have the video. More

Oct 06, 2011 By Natasha Moningka

Today, Coldplay announced they will be performing at “American Express Unstaged” on October 26. More

Sep 20, 2011 By Wendy Lynch Redfern

Check out more photos from Day One of ACL Music Festival 2011 in Austin, TX including Big Boi, Bright Eyes, Fool’s Gold, Cold War Kids, James Blake, Kanye West, Kurt Vile, Mavis Staples, Santigold, Smith Westerns, and Wild Beasts. More

Sep 12, 2011 By Mike Hilleary

Following the release of their lead single “Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall,” Coldplay have unveiled yet another track off their upcoming album Mylo Xyloto, entitled “Paradise.” More

Aug 12, 2011 By Mike Hilleary

Coldplay have announced this morning the release of their fifth full-length album Mylo Xyloto (pronounced my-lo zy-letoe). More

Aug 04, 2011 By Mike Hilleary

Before flying off to Chicago to headline this year’s Lollapalooza, British stadium rockers Coldplay made an appearance yesterday on late night TV to perform on “Jimmy Kimmel Live.” More

Jun 29, 2011 By Mike Hilleary

One of the more interesting aspects about Coldplay is that behind the band’s past several releases, each one has been paired with a corresponding aesthetic. More

Jun 24, 2011 By Mike Hilleary

Leading up to the release of their forthcoming fifth LP, UK sentimentalists Coldplay have released a new stream for the track “Moving to Mars.” More

Sep 03, 2010 By Laura Studarus

So much media so little time. Below is a roundup of all the videos that have been circulating around our office in the last week including: Telekinesis, Vampire Weekend, Dead Man’s Bones and more. More

May 01, 2009 By Michele Yamamoto

As a thank you for all fans attending Coldplay’s upcoming North American tour for Viva la Vida, the band will be offering free copies of an exclusive live CD, LeftRightLeftRightLeft. More

Nov 25, 2019 By Matt the Raven

Coldplay knew what they were doing by releasing at the same time the first two singles, “Orphans” and “Arabesque,” ahead of their eighth studio album, Everyday Life. More

Dec 11, 2015 By Scott Dransfield

Coldplay‘s seventh album A Head Full of Dreams is insufferably bland at best and downright offensive at worst. Over the course of 11 tracks, Chris Martin and company repeatedly and frequently make decisions that prompt the simple question: why? More

Nov 28, 2011 By Ben Schumer

For rabid consumers of music, there’s nothing better than a good surprise and this year has held quite a few. Prior to their last album, 2008’s Brian Eno-produced Viva la Vida, Coldplay were mostly a punchline to this writer, but that album’s sonic explorations and undeniable hooks gave me good reason to take Coldplay a bit more seriously. More