Coldplay’s “Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends” Could Mean Sink or Swim for EMI
Posted on 14. Apr, 2008 by spencer in Music
As mentioned last Friday, Coldplay has announced a June 17th release date for their fourth album, “Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends.” While writing that post, something clicked on in the back of my mind: this album has the potential to either keep Coldplay’s label EMI afloat for another year, or make necessary the eventual merger of EMI Music (including its subsidiaries like Capitol, Virgin, Astralwerks, Blue Note, Def Jux, Mute and Tooth & Nail) and Warner Music Group, who currently hold the 3rd and 4th [...]
Sum41 vs. Rolling Stone
Posted on 07. May, 2007 by Daniel Taylor in Blog, Music, Politics
Sum 41 frontman Deryck Whibley has posted a response to a recent Rolling Stone blog post that criticized the lyrics, and subsequent explanation thereof, to the song “March of the Dogs,” which includes lines like “And now the president’s dead/ Because they blew off his head/ No more neck to be red/ I guess to heaven he fled”.
