Extra! Extra! Get Your New Coldplay Here!

BuzzSugar — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:30:06 PDT

We're still nearly two months away from when Coldplay's fourth album, Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends, drops (June 17 in the United States), but today, the band is throwing fans a bone by releasing a song from the album to download for one week only. The song is called "Violet Hill" and is the eighth track on the album that is supposedly taking the band in a new creative direction.

In addition to the early download today, the band will also play two free shows in support of the new album, one in London and one at Madison Square Garden in New York City. A few details about the London show are on the band's site now.

To grab your own copy of the song, go here and fill out a short form that asks for your Zip code and e-mail address. The site will then e-mail you directions for downloading the song. A lot of people must be doing this, so beware that it could take a while for you to get the e-mail - mine took more than three hours!

The song definitely hints at a new, somewhat harder sound for Coldplay, but it also doesn't feel that out of step with the material they've released before. Now I'm curious to see if the full album will live up to the hype - not to mention the commercial success they've experienced thus far.

If you're busy waiting for your own copy of "Violet Hill," or if you want to know if the song is worth checking out, you can hear it if you

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Jay-Z Breaks Records and Says Beyoncé Is "Like the Second Coming" of Michael Jackson

Allie Merriam — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 08:23:07 PDT

Beyoncé Knowles took the stage at NYC's Roseland Ballroom to perform a second date in her string of four at the venue. She organized the last-minute concerts from Sunday on and off through Friday to feature music from her new album, 4. During the shows, she's also been singing some of her old hits for fans. Beyoncé's tracks aren't the only new recordings she's done, as her husband Jay-Z's Watch the Throne, which came out last Tuesday, features a single with her vocals called "Lift Off." Jay was in Miami over the weekend partying at the LIV nightclub and dropping $300,000 on champagne and service at his and Kanye West's release party. The guys had a reason to celebrate, because Watch the Throne broke the iTunes record for the most single-week sales in history! With 290,000 downloads, they unseated Jay's pal Chris Martin's 2008 Coldplay release Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends. Jay lavished praise on Beyoncé instead of bragging about his own accomplishment in a recent interview. Jay-Z compared Beyoncé to Michael Jackson, saying, "What I've learned from her is similar to what I learned from Mike [Jackson] - and I know that's blasphemy to compare the two because Mike was such an innovator - but I think she's like the second coming."