Coldplay and their record label are giving the little people a chance to open for the group in San Jose, Chicago, Philadelphia, Hartford, Washington DC and Boston by entering an online contest. To enter, bands need to submit an original performance via YouTube. But before you enter, read the fine print closely as your YouTube performance can be used in ways that you’re not happy with and you won’t be able to do anything about it. There’s even a rule that the record company can place your song on a compilation album and they wouldn’t be required to pay a cent. Also, by submitting you performance, the record label has the exclusive option to sign your band to a crappy deal. Coldplay may be a big band but they’re not worth selling your soul.

What a difference a day makes in the life of Amy Winehouse. She looked almost innocent before flying to her Saturday night Glastonbury gig.

But last night she was back at her London clinic after a shambolic gig that included punching a fan in the face as she left the stage to sing.

She had begun confident but got forgetful, slurry and angry – making me wonder if there was something in the drink she was sipping. As she rambled between songs, spat and called Kanye West rude names, the crowd turned on her.

The police received no complaints and last night said there would be no investigation.

Meanwhile backstage, White Stripes rocker Jack White raved: “Amy’s a treasure, the Janis Joplin of our generation. The crowd don’t appreciate her.”

Mates feared the stress of Glasto could get Amy back on drugs after two weeks of detox. Judging from her antics, it seems their fears may be realized.

Adam Levine chats up Maroon 5’s re-release of their album ‘It Won’t Be Soon Before Long’ on ABC’s Good Morning America on Friday at New York City’s Bryant Park. If you saw that show and had a good look at Adam, then I’m sure you had a great morning. He and the rest of his band mates also took the stage to perform ‘If I Never See Your Face Again’ and ‘She Will Be Loved’. I wonder if they’re going to tour in support of this album or if they’re just going to take a break or if they’re going into the studio to make new material.

The Norwegian media has reported that Pete Doherty has cancelled his concert at the Hove Festival in Norway last week. Who would want to see his band perform anyway? The reason for the cancellation was that Pete said that he was too tired to perform at the event. Sources are also saying that aside from canceling his performance at the festival, Pete will also be canceling his shows for the rest of the year. For the sake of all sane music lovers out there, I am praying to the high heavens that it’s true. It sucks for his band mates though.

The week has been filled with Jonas mania. The Jonas Brothers performed live at VIVA TV’s floating stage on river Spree in Berlin, Germany on Wednesday. On Thursday, the video for their latest single ‘Burnin’ Up’ was featured on TRL First Look. Add to that, the soundtrack to Disney Channel’s ‘Camp Rock’ which features the band of brothers, debuted at the number 3 spot on the Billboard album charts by selling 188,000 copies. Look for Jonas mania to continue as the Jonas Brothers make the next stop on their tour in Toronto, Ontario at the Molson Amphitheatre on July 4.

As more time passes, it gets tougher for bands to make a big splash with album releases which force musicians to think outside the box. British pop punk band McFly is doing just as Prince did by teaming up with UK’s Daily Mail to give away its new music in the paper’s July 20th edition. McFly front man Tom Fletcher says “We want to get our music out to the widest audience possible and working with a massive paper like The Mail On Sunday will definitely help us achieve that. We’re very excited about this great opportunity.” This move exposes the band to the Sunday Mail’s 5.8 million readers.

A publicist for Amy Winehouse’s record label has said that the singer’s father misspoke in a statement to the press about Wino’s health. The publicist said “She is not diagnosed with full-blown emphysema, but instead has early signs of what could lead to emphysema.” In a new interview with BBC Radio, Daddy Wino downplayed his doomsday statements saying “”Amy really hasn’t got emphysema, there’s traces of emphysema. Obviously, if she doesn’t quit smoking, it’s going to get worse, like everyone else … with patience her lungs will recover completely.” He also said that performing might do his daughter some good saying “When she’s been inactive work-wise then that’s when the problems really start. The doctors have said that medically there isn’t any reason why she can’t do Glastonbury.”

David Cook was recently spotted at the Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation’s ‘Taste for a Cure’ event which was held at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California on Saturday, most likely to show his support for his brother Adam who is battling brain cancer. Jimmy Kimmel hosted the event while the American Idol champ took the stage to perform at the annual fundraiser. At the event, David confirmed to E! that he is still with fellow Idol alum Kimberly Caldwell saying “Email, text, all of that is pretty much going to be my life for the next few months.”

The FBI took a break from investigating terrorist and criminals to go after a blogger who leaked some songs from the allegedly forthcoming Guns N’ Roses album.

Last week, the Internet was rocked when California blogger Kevin Skwerl posted nine newly leaked Chinese Democracy tracks, including three previously unheard songs allegedly from Guns n’ Roses long-awaited album.

Skwerl — who used to work in the distribution department of Universal Music and is now a Web designer — runs the blog Antiquiet, and says he received the tracks from “an anonymous online source.”

Yesterday Skwerl was surprised to find himself face to face with two FBI agents who paid a visit to his day job.

“It was kind of an ambush,” Skwerl reports. “When I came back from lunch they were waiting in the lobby for me. It’s a little creepy they know where I work.” Two young FBI officers, who Skwerl describes as “Mulder and Scully types,” questioned him for 15 minutes about where he got the tracks and made plans to visit his house at 7:00 a.m. this morning.

Kid Rock is fed up with people stealing his music, so he has the solution; steal everything.

Kid Rock has put out a tongue-in-cheek public service announcement urging people who steal music to steal clothes, cars, gas, iPods.

“You can illegally download my music,” he says. “Steal it if you will because I’m fucking rich. And why stop there. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are billionaires. Steal iPods, steal computers. Toyota has plenty of money. Steal a Toyota,”

“The gas companies are rich. Steal gas. And while you are at it, steal jeans. Tommy Hilfiger is rich,”

The point Kid Rock is trying to make is that stealing music is not different to committing other crimes. Well I guess he has a point…

Phil Collins has hit out at artists using their songs in musicals. Despite hoping to pen a Broadway show, the Genesis singer ‘doesn’t approve’ of musicians allowing their songs to be used on stage.

He said: “I would like to do a Broadway musical, well, not even Broadway, just a musical. I wouldn’t use my own songs, I don’t really approve of that. I don’t think it’s something I would want to get involved in.”

Phil wrote the soundtrack for the 1999 animated movie ‘Tarzan’, and had a heavy involvement in the 2006 Broadway theatre production, in New York, writing 11 new songs for the stage adaptation.

He also revealed possible further plans for the show, adding: “The ‘Tarzan’ show is going to open in Germany and there are plans to adapt that for a sexier version. A sexy Tarzan. No, not an X-rated version, but there’s life in that….”

Phil recently announced he plans to retire but insists he will ‘keep on writing’.

Nine tracks from Guns N Roses’ long awaited new album ‘Chinese Democracy’ has made its way onto the internet on Wednesday on a website which quickly received a cease and desist order from the band. With an album 14 years in the making, who would want it leaked? The album was originally supposed to be released in March 2007. Work on the album began back in 1994 but Axl Rose has since gotten rid of his original band members. Of the 9 songs leaked, 6 were previously leaked in unfinished format. But the recent leaks seem to be close to the finished versions. Does this mean we’ll get a new GNR album before the year ends?