Yahoo! Music UK — Dotmusic - Chris Martin and co delay Spanish gig to watch World Cup game more info

Monsters and Critics — Coldplay postponed their Spanish concert so they could watch the England soccer team play. more info

MTV.co.uk News — Duo beat off Coldplay for Best UK Video at this years awards more info

Gigwise — And Put In A Better Performance... more info

NME — Welcome to the Daily Gossip: your daily stop-off to find out who in the world of music has been up to what. more info

The Lemur Blog — The video for Violet Hill is insanely handsome in terms of realization of a post-colonial Napoleonism. However bombastic and dramatic the lead single is, I think Coldplay are afraid of play it all out on the table. The video has not exactly been film... more info

Idolator — ARTIST: Snow Patrol TITLE: "Take Back The City" WEB DEBUT: Sept. 1, 2008 ONE-LISTEN VERDICT: When this song debuted on BBC Radio 1's Zane Lowe show Monday, Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody made a bit of a production of stating that the band's ne... more info

Pitchfork — Photo by Kathryn YuJust before hitting the road again for their current European tour, Coldplay stopped by BBC Radio's "6 Music" for a sit-down in which they revealed their next studio projects. The chat was with "6 Music" host Steve Lamacq and, for ... more info

The Lemur Blog — Sometime the track has got to end and the train will helplessly dash into the ocean and drift through the waves in eternety. It's painful to safely stand on the beach and watch the train disappear. But it's the way it was meant to be, that was the go... more info

My Old Kentucky — After one listen to The Windupdeads self-titled debut, I found myself saying "Why haven't any of this band's songs been picked up by The Hills or any other hip (albeit mindless), teeny bopper drama?" With surging, moody choruses, their songs are per... more info