joe satriani

Coldplay Favoured To Collect Multiple Grammys, Subpoenas This Weekend

2:10AM STV | The moody pop/performance-art troupe Coldplay is getting ready for one of the biggest weekends of its career, rehearsing Grammy acceptance speeches even as its members prepare to dodge Joe Satriani’s legal wrath.

Coldplay Officially Denies Stealing the Fine Songcraft of ‘Moe Batriani’

7:34AM STV | You’ve heard the charges, you’ve reviewed the evidence, now hear the testimony: Coldplay issued a statement today insisting that “Viva La Vida” is in fact their own cloying anthem — not lifted from a 12-year-old melody by shreddy guitar legend Joe Satriani. Or, as the quartet so cleverly like to refer to him to their crowds (at least until he sued), “Moe Batriani.”

Joe Satriani Sues Coldplay For Ownership of Year’s Most Annoying Melody

8:34AM STV | Grammy Hell mascots Coldplay have pissed off yet another music listener with their anthem “Viva La Vida,” but Joe Satriani won’t settle for just turning off the noise. In a copyright infringement suit filed Thursday in L.A., the wanky virtuoso alleges that he actually wrote the noise. The evidence (such as it were) follows the jump. More »