Choir With No Name, a singing group for the homeless, has made its first album and video and will soon perform in front of its biggest audience, thanks to Standard readers
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The Pierces, sweet-voiced sisters from Alabama, have a new sound that will propel them to stardom — and over the page are five other names to watch out for next year... more
Coldplay are to allow hit TV show Glee access to their back catalogue after turning down the hit US comedy. Plus, Leona Lewis duets with Glee star.... more
David Smyth enjoys a book devoted to the soon-to-be-extinct hobby of record shopping, discusses Coldplay's copyright troubles and finds Agyness Deyn's singing is less impressive than her looks. ... more
Chris Martin may have developed a new habit of storming out of interviews, but according to David Smyth at their free Brixton gig, there's no doubt that Coldplay have still got it.... more
Also, Coldplay's music isn't not quite bad enough to put off millions and millions of otherwise nice, sane, God-fearing folk from hurrying to the shops to buy it.... more
Coldplay's long-awaited Viva la Vida may not sell as many as their last album — but it’s brimming with the new ideas they so badly need, says David Smyth.
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Ghosts sprinkle the crowd with smile-generating fairy dust harmonies, says Martha de Lacey. They'll be in stadiums, rather than pub back rooms, soon.... more
From Coldplay and Pulp to The Who and Pink Floyd, much of modern music flourished in the capital's seats of higher learning. A new poll has revealed where they studied.... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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