At the begin of “Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall,” the last song Coldplay carried out at the Hollywood Bowl on Tuesday evening, the band flicked on halos of lasers, cued a 4-on-the-floor drum beat and sang about how it wanted to “turn the songs up, I got my records on / I shut the world outdoors till the lights come on.”

For an act that crankier critics accuse of playing middlebrow post-indie-rock for Apple adverts, this was awfully ravey. The London quartet, one of the largest bands to emerge in the 2000s, is surely grounded in earnest guitar-and-piano emoting (with the great taste and massive budgets that afford Brian Eno as a producer).

But that move implies that it sees the rise of dance-music culture as a stakes-raising challenge (or maybe a risk to its livelihood). Tuesday’s demonstrate, the initial of a 3-evening Bowl stand this week, proved why Coldplay is the last stadium-sized rock band left standing in modern pop — a feat maybe unrepeatable for future rockers in a laptop era.

Perhaps the 1 factor that sticks in craws about Coldplay is that its four sweet-tempered goofballs, who simultaneously want to play the most flagrantly moving rock music conceivable. Gawky dudes like singer Chris Martin, a “Colbert Report” fan who rolls all around on stage floors mocking his own falsetto, can’t possibly be significant when he calls a song “Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall,” proper?

Properly, the songs had much better make us believe it. And that, much more than celebrity marriages (Martin’s other half is Gwyneth Paltrow) or bucktoothed enjoy ballads, is why the band is so enormous.

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The coming months will be active ones for Scott Weiland, who has a number of tasks confirmed or in the planning stages. Initial up: “Breathe,” a new solo song on Avengers Assemble, the soundtrack to The Avengers out nowadays on Marvel Songs/Hollywood Records (the film hits theaters on Friday).

“Dana [Dufine], my manager, she sent them the song and they liked it,” Weiland tells Rolling Stone. “I believed that it fit the concept – I have not noticed the film yet, but just thematically, it match. And I’m content to be a portion of it.” Weiland confirms that there will be an additional new solo album at some point: “I usually create things and record things, simply because I’ve got my very own studio,” he says. But the very melodic “Breathe” is not necessarily a stylistic preview of his next disc. “It really is possibly the most commercial type of song, the poppiest song, that I’ve put out on any of my prior solo records,” says Weiland.

On September one^st, Weiland and his Stone Temple Pilots bandmates will launch a tour in Hershey, Pennsylvania to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their debut LP, Core. “I’m searching forward to it,” he says. “We’re going to play the album in its entirety. I feel it’ll be really exciting, due to the fact the one particular point that I got tired of was sort of enjoying the exact same basic set list every single evening. It was like, ‘the hits.’ This way, it’s one thing various, and I feel it will be awesome.”

Weiland is also searching forward to revisiting material on the tour that hasn’t been carried out in years. “What comes to thoughts is the first song that we ever wrote with all of us in the band, when we had our initial rehearsal with Dean [DeLeo]. He had this guitar riff that turned into ‘Where the River Goes.’ We haven’t played that song in a lengthy time, so I’m hunting forward to that.”

The singer adds that the probabilities are great for a new STP studio album at some point. “Yeah, I’m confident that will take place,” says Weiland. “Even though it really is odd since we used to tour to market our records, and now we place out records to advertise tours. Which is the way of the planet, however.”

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After many years spent dressing the portion, Drake has ultimately produced the move to Hollywood. “A great deal of Take Care, it is down. A lot of it really is down, and I feel a lot of that had to do with becoming back house in Toronto and obtaining reacquainted with the daily life I had just before, and the issues of that, but at the identical time attempting to express excitement and trying to express joy.” Must have been tough, obtaining reacquainted with the life of a little one actor. [RapFix]

Brian McKnight released a new song providing to display you “how your p—y performs,” and now the Adult Video News Awards and YouPorn have reached out to McKnight to perform and license the song. Fairly weird. [SingersRoom]

Regardless of her popularity with the youngsters, Nicki Minaj refuses to clean up her lyrics. “Why do folks ask me to drop swear words? Do men and women inquire Eminem to eliminate swear words? Do they request Lil Wayne to shed swear words? Nobody stops them and says ‘Would you stop swearing swearing… for the children, please?’” Yeah, but they never refer to their supporters as “Barbies,” either. [TheGuardian]

Nas’ baby’s mom Carmen is not pleased about his new song “Daughters,” in which he discusses his daughter Destiny putting condom pictures on Twitter. “Just heard ‘Daughters’ by Nas. What a disappointment! He had nothing positive to say about our daughter and his depiction of her is false!” Uh, the place do we start off here. [HipHopDX]

Verify out Azealia Banks’ take on Lana Del Rey’s “Blue Jeans,” if that’s your factor. [DailySwarm]

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