NME — Bat For Lashes to join Chris Martin and the boys on the road more info

8/1 — 150 - Band of Horses Everything All the Time149 - Ray Lamontagne Trouble148 - Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand147 - The Acorn Glory Hope Mountain146 - Richard Thompson Front Parlour Blues145 - Iron & Wine Our Endless Numbered Days144 - Robert Wyatt Co... more info

Scotsman.com — COLDPLAY led the field as the UK Music Video Awards shortlist was unveiled yesterday. more info

Altsounds — Sydney-reared, UK based dream popsters **Howling Bells** will conclude another massive year with a national headline tour this December. Fresh from a slew of European festival dates, major North American and European tours with Coldplay and an immine... more info

Perez Hilton — Nice to see they can have a laugh at themselves (and Simon Cowell)! more info

TMZ — If three guys from Coldplay who aren't Chris Martin take a photo with the Queen of England ... did Coldplay really take a photo with the Queen? See Also Coldplay Fights for Her Right to Party ... Permalink more info

Rolling Stone — Jay-Z has performed live on the VMAs and The Jay Leno Show, sold out Madison Square Garden and traveled to the U.K. to hang out with Coldplay on his current promotional tour for The Blueprint 3. But there was one stage left to conquer, and Jigga tack... more info

Rock Sellout —     What’s In a Name? The overwhelmingly common course of action taken when naming your band is to make an attempt to capture the essence of your band’s music, your heroes or your politics, whether or not this attempt is made tongue in cheek or... more info

Altsounds — With two albums released, headlining dates and a tour supporting Coldplay - 2009 has been the busiest year of Pete Yorn’s career. He hits the road this fall for a second leg of headlining dates kicking off Oct. 19 in Lawrence, KS. Of a recen... more info

Live Daily — Iconic '80s alt-rockers Echo & the Bunnymen [ tickets ] this fall return from another long layoff to launch a North American tour behind "The Fountain," the band's first album in four years. The British act kicks off the trek with an Oct. 20 appea... more info