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It has been announced today that Coldplay will premiere the first single from their fourth album, 'Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends', nextTuesday (29th April) on BBC6 Music, which will then open the floodgates for thousands of other radio stations to be allowed to air the track.
'Violet Hill', which is released in May, will be given its first play on George Lamb's show on BBC 6 Music, which airs between 10am and 1pm(BST). Coldplay's much anticipated new album features ten tracks and has been produced alongside Brian Eno. Speaking about the album, the bandsaid that they "weren't afraid to try anything" and that, as a group, they were still "obsessed with making songs that can be sung to therafters".
Meanwhile, XFM announced that big Coldplay news will be announced on Monday 28th April. In their blog, they said, "Keep your eyes and ears locked onto Xfm Online and on air for the most exciting Coldplay news you'll hear all year on Monday… We can say no more. Yet."
Reign of Love - "This is a very lovely, sweet song, which is very gospel like"
42 - "This is an excellend song, a potetial single, but then again, every song on this album sounds like it could be a single, there isso much strong material on here, I think this album could be a classic in years to come"
Yes! - "This is a very dark song, very menacing and brooding, which is different."
Viva la Vida - "This song is just brilliant!!"
EDIT:
Coldplay's new single, Violet Hill, will be available as a free download exclusively from Coldplay.com for one week starting tomorrow, Tuesday April 29th,at 12.15pm UK time. This is a full week ahead of the single's conventional paid-for digital release, on Tuesday May 6th.
Then, on Wednesday May 7th, there will be a free limited edition 7-inch vinyl of 'Violet Hill' on the cover of NME magazine, backed by the exclusiveB-side, 'A Spell A Rebel Yell'. You can pre-order the issue by clicking here.
Free gigs in London and New York
Also tomorrow, Coldplay.com will announce preliminary details of two free shows which the band will play in June, one at London's Brixton Academy and theother at New York's Madison Square Garden. Full details of how to win tickets to both will be revealed on Coldplay.com in the next few weeks.
Album release details
Coldplay's fourth album, 'Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends' is out in June. The release dates are as follows:
UK - June 12
USA & Canada - June 17
Japan - June 11
Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Holland, Belgium, Ireland - June 13 Australia/NZ - June 14 ROW - June 16
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/st...ork_on_something_different_for_upcoming_album
