At the Hollywood Bowl last night, Coldplay revived their acoustic, piano-led cover of "(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party!)" in memory of Adam "MCA" Yauch, who passed away yesterday. Watch…   Read Story »

On last night's American Idol results show, Coldplay came through to play a couple of songs and to further extend the agony for the kids who were facing elimination. They did "Paradise" and "Every…   Read Story »

Coldplay's domination of Southern California continued as they are in the midst of an impressive run of three sold out nights at the historic Hollywood Bowl in support of their album Mylo Xyloto.…   Read Story »

Tomorrow's Record Store Day, and many of our 10 Most Anticipated Record Store Day Exclusives are finding their way to us a day early in non-vinyl form. There's been the unlikely bedfellows Feist and…   Read Story »

If you made it through all of last night's interminable Oscars ceremony, you were presumably having some trouble getting to sleep. Thankfully, Jimmy Kimmel had something to help. Whatever you think…   Read Story »

Barely 24 hours before this year's Grammy Awards ceremony began, Whitney Houston, a woman who'd once seemed like a cyborg engineered to win as many Grammys as possible, was found dead in a Los…   Read Story »

It's the 2012 Grammys! The Stereogum crew is over at my house, there may or may not be pizza and beer involved, and on the off chance you are experiencing something similar at yours, we have decided…   Read Story »

Coldplay's video for the Mylo Xyloto track "Charlie Brown" stars an adorable young couple who do parkour and steal a car, all in an effort to watch the band playing in an absurdly glittery and…   Read Story »

A couple of months ago, we posted a list of the 10 best Coldplay covers. That list is safe. New Jersey punk rock champions Titus Andronicus recently posted an intentionally ramshackle, lo-fi cover of…   Read Story »

Though Chris Martin didn't make our Five Indie Who Would Do Well On X Factor list a while back, he didn't take it personally and performed "Charlie Brown" for the X Factor UK finale. Scope the…   Read Story »