Three, music heavyweights, a superstar hip hop duo and a few indie darlings in the spotlight today, which means more New Music to look forward to in the coming months. So let’s take a quick peek at a most excellent batch of new music in the pipeline.
Way back in December 2008 we reported on Joe Satriani’s lawsuit against Coldplay, claiming that their title song “Viva La Vida” was plagiarized from an instrumental he composed in 2004, entitled “If I could Fly.”
Well, looks like the guitar hero versus the British rockers copyright dust-up is kaput; Satriani’s lawsuit alleging copyright infringement has been dismissed. Billboard reported earlier that details of the case remain sealed, but a financial settlement between the two parties may have been reached. Coldplay will not be required to admit to any wrongdoing.
Beastie Boys fans and kind-hearted people – you may relax now. Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys is safe at home resting after undergoing a surgery for his cancerous tumor.
Yauch sent his fans a message via e-mail saying that the surgery was over a week and half ago and in actuality, he only spent one night in the hospital. At home, he to go “have home cooked food and hang out with the family.” It’ll be just a few weeks when he’ll start radiation treatment.
Lately when you see the name Coldplay in a headline you might think someone is accusing the band again for helping themselves to a melody or two. But no, today’s news is something altogether more positive and rather momentous – in a digital music sense.
Coldplay have become the first artists to sell more than one million full digital albums in the US, according to Nielsen SoundScan data. This number adds to the band’s already big total of more than two million complete albums sold worldwide.
Coldplay are currently touring North America – tour dates below.
That was fast. A little over a month ago Cat Stevens unleashed the hounds of copyright upon Coldplay for allegedly stealing the melody of one of his tunes for their big hit “Viva La Vida.”
But now the singer-songwriter, who goes by the name Yusuf Islam, has forgiven Chris Martin and Coldplay’s musical misbehavior – even though he totally knows they ripped him off.
BeatCrave is always ready to get down with new music. Especially when it’s coming from a quartet of artists like we’re featuring today. Upcoming albums from Elvis Costello and Interpol’s Paul Banks, a live CD and download courtesy of Coldplay and a wild remix of Depeche Mode by The Japanese Popstars definitely fits the bill. Let’s take a quick peek at an eclectic batch of new music in the pipeline.
Elvis Costello’s new album “Secret, Profane & Sugarcane” is set for release June 2 and features four songs that revisit the singer-songwriters unfinished opera about the life of Danish author Hans Christian Andersen.The tracks are from Costello’s “The Secret Songs,” originally a commission by the Royal Danish Opera. The new album, produced by T-Bone Burnet, also includes a pair of tunes Costello wrote for Johnny Cash.
The hit song “Viva La Vida” has become quite the lightning rod for Coldplay.
Yusuf Islam, the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens, has said that he believes the melody of “Viva La Vida” is a direct take-off from his 1973 tune “Foreigner Suite,” which clocks in at 18-minutes.
“There’s been this argument about Coldplay stealing this melody from Joe Satriani, but, if you listen to it, it’s mine! It’s the Foreigner Suite, it is!,” Yusuf told Britain’s Sun Newspaper.
With recent free downloads from greats like Bob Dylan and Dave Matthews Band, it’s been one of the most free-music-filled spring seasons to date – and now Coldplay is getting in on the action. But there’s a catch: You have to buy concert tickets to get the goods.
Chris Martin and company have confirmed that they will give away a live album entitled, “LeftRightLeftRightLeft“, to fans attending shows on their latest tour. The album will be available as a free download from the official Coldplay website starting May 15. Check out the tracklisting below the jump…
We already reported on Trent Reznor’s joke for April Fools’ Day, but other artists have gotten into the act, as well.
Most prominent among them is Coldplay, who posted on their site that they would record their next album in zero gravity aboard a Boeing 727. Brian Eno would help them to record the album on a 1969 analog cassette player, while the band would wear cosmonaut suits. Chris Martin said that the band had “been searching for the right environment to record the perfect snare drum sound for many years now,” and that zero gravity might just be the place.
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