As a title, “Mylo Xyloto’’ doesn’t mean anything. It’s not slang or some clever turn of phrase in a language you don’t know. Google those words, and every result leads you back to Coldplay. That’s ...

A question of scale has long loomed over the career of Coldplay. They’re the biggest-selling rock band to emerge in the last decade (bigger, yes, than the Foo Fighters). They’re also the sole rock ...

With a little help from their friend Brian Eno, Coldplay delivers an electronic-pop hit with “Mylo Xyloto.” Since Coldplay marveled the U.S. with “Yellow” in 2000, the quartet has not only grown up in ...

“Every Teardrop is a Waterfall,” the first single from Coldplay’s fifth album, is certainly an earworm. Unfortunately for Coldplay’s target audience—that is, human beings and some higher ...