Strawberry Swing - Coldplay + No Money - The Scare

Album : Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends
Digital Release : September 14 2009
Length : 4:09

One of the brighest and most upbeat songs Coldplay have written in their short yet brilliant careers. Since the release of their mega selling 4th album, this track has been a firm fan favourite and regularly played on their world tour. With such a reputation already behind it, it is only fitting that the band hires a top notch direction team to make the video for it. Shynola is the team behind great videos from Radiohead, Blur and Beck. The video premiered on internet site Babelgum on July 20 and has been available for free viewing ever since. On top of that (and in what I'm pretty sure is a first for music) the video will be shown in cinemas around the UK before movies including Bruno and The Proposal.

Not exactly a Coldplay classic but a nice song nonetheless.



Album : Oozevoodoo
Released: 25 March 2009
Length : 2:46

Here's a great track from young Aussie pop punk act The Scare. The band recently signed with major label EMI and are set to bring out their debut album Oozevoodoo in the next few months and will be produced by Silverchair frontman Daniel Johns. This track is as short and snappy as you can get them, a real throw back to early days of punk rock. The music is raw, video is no frills and the result is brilliant. If the vocals don't quite do it for you, listen carefully to the refreshingly solid musicianship.