Coldplay, courtesy. Coldplay on Tuesday announced new dates on its Music of the Spheres tour for next summer, which kick of with a Bay Area date at Stanford Stadium on May 31. The dates follow the release of the band’s 10th album, Moon Music. The tour will hit cities including…

Coldplay, “Moon Music.” Coldplay recently announced that its 12th album would be its last and that the quartet would be retiring afterward. Music Moon, the band’s just-released 10th album, sets the slow march in motion. The record opens with a clash of complex orchestral beauty and somber melancholy and…

Joe Satriani performs with Sammy Hagar at Toyota Pavilion in Concord, Calif. on Aug 17, 2024. Seam Liming/STAFF. The other day I was listening to Dua Lipa, like you do, when I realized something that really should have occurred to me years ago: I’ve heard that song before. Rappers…

Insert Foot ain’t feeling the Super Bowl this year. Rendering: Adam Pardee/STAFF. Chris Martin just called me an idiot. I’ve been called worse by much better singers. The Coldplay frontman recently gushed a steaming pile of smelly fanboy nonsense to Apple Music 1, eventually blithering “You have to be…

Turnstile performs at The UC Theatre in Berkeley on Nov. 23, 2018. Joaquin Cabello/STAFF. Bad news. It’s Grammy season again. The Grammys are, famously, awful. Nobody who votes for them seems to listen to let alone enjoy music. They’re mostly handed out to the oldest, lamest option, or failing…

Music of the Spheres, the ninth album from Coldplay, is the auditory culmination of years of electronic experimentation. Over the course of about two decades, Coldplay transitioned away from acoustic earthly music and into the world of big-budget production. Five of the 12-track song titles are emojis, reflecting the…

Three years after CRAZYTALK, singer-songwriter and producer Mat Kearney brings on a summertime road-trip vibe with January Flower, his sixth studio album. Even though the full version of January Flower features dance-house moments, the Oregon native, now in Nashville, revisits the more acoustic musical roots he established on his 2006 debut single…

Clockwise from top left: Clipping., Nile, Stephen Malkmus, Taylor Swift, The Futureheads, The Claypool Lennon Delirium, Coldplay, The Flaming Lips featuring the Colorado Symphony, Lights and The New Pornographers. We’ve reached the end of 2019, meaning the time has come to look back over all the great music the…

The synthetic meditations of 2014’s Ghost Stories and the vibrant alt-pop anthems of 2015’s Head Full of Dreams saw Coldplay ruminate on its embrace of pop music. Granted, Chris Martin and co. have always remained rock more in name than in execution. The palatable timbre and sticky hooks span from…

SANTA CLARA — Coldplay rocked the final weekday concert at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara for the foreseeable future on Wednesday. With a Santa Clara city ordinance that called for a strict 10 p.m. curfew, Coldplay–vocalist and multi-instrumentalist magnate Chris Martin, guitarist Johnny Buckland, bassist Guy Berryman and drummer Will…