I'm glad to see Coldplay's doing something adventurous - I always thought they were a really talented band but were kind of slipping into the same sound on every album. Looking forward to checking this out!

Quoted: Close listeners will notice something strange about "Violet Hill," the new Coldplay single: It isn't a Coldplay single. That term implies certain things about the shape a song will take, what it will sound like, what it will achieve.

Sad! He had been battling melanoma for a while. You probably have heard his fantastic glockenspiel and organ playing on Born to Run.

Quoted: Danny Federici, one of the original members of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, died Thursday. He was 58.

Bruce for president!

Quoted: Rock star Bruce Springsteen, troubadour of the working class, endorses Obama for president.

I see where the writer is going, but it's not an easy call. This doesn't really work for CDs/books that never have the promise of selling big in the first place...

Quoted: What should record labels, software giants, & other media companies do about digital piracy? There are two options: Get tough and defend intellectual-property rights with every legal & technological trick in the book, or tolerate some illegal copying in the hope of generating buzz & making money in some other way.

Sounds like a really interesting staging of Philip Glass' conceptual opera on Mahatma Gandhi's road to truth.

Quoted: This is a fitting time to revisit Philip Glass’s opera “Satyagraha,” a landmark work of Minimalism.

Ha! New Kids on the Block reunite! Time to bust out my oversized Donnie Wahlberg button...

Quoted: Following two months of rumors that New Kids on the Block might be back on the block, the '80s boy band is slated to appear on the April 4 edition of NBC's "Today" show.

It sounds like Ringo was trying to reach a compromise. I think offering to cut back on chit-chat to accomodate the song's length is a fair suggestion. I mean, he is the amiable Beatle, after all...

Quoted: Ringo Starr walks off 'Regis and Kelly' show over song flap, says no hard feelings.

Great article on Radiohead's latest album and the band's decision to let the fans pay what they want to download the songs...

Quoted: How Radiohead took the online gamble that could change the record business.

I had no idea that 'Stairway to Heaven' was such a sore topic for Led Zeppelin. I could definitely see why it would be frustrating for such a prolific band to be defined by just one song, though.

Quoted: Led Zeppelin is reuniting for a one-off charity gig in London on Dec. 10. While there are still many obstacles to a Zeppelin tour, the most vexing may be that Robert Plant will have to overcome his reluctance to sing the song that has done the most damage to the band. Yes, "Stairway to Heaven."