Altsounds - Coldplay Reveal New Album Details, Timbaland Producing Ashlee Simpson, Courtney Love

Coldplay posted a handwritten note on their Web site detailing the groundwork for the next, Brian Eno-produced album. The set will have a running time of about forty-two minutes, with a tracklist somewhere in the vicinity of nine tunes. Among the possible songs making the cut are “Cemeteries of London,” “Violet Hill,” “Poppy Fields,” “42,” “Leftrightleftrightleft,” “Rainy Day” and the exclamation-happy duo of “Lost!” and “Yes!” The band is still “a few months from finishing” the follow-up to 2005s X & Y.

Potential Timberlake/Timbaland drama?: After JT used the MTV VMA podium to tell viewers to ask for more videos and less Simpson sisters, Ashlee Simpson revealed that her new album will feature tracks produced by Timberlakes buddy Timbaland.

Just weeks after Courtney Love pointed the finger at comedian Steve Coogan for being a catalyst in Owen Wilsons suicide attempt, Sharon Osbourne is now charging Love with corrupting her son, Jack. Ozzys manager/wife blames Love for introducing Jack to oxycontin, which helped land him in rehab at age fifteen.

Jonny Greenwood, with the spare time that follows completing the new Radiohead album, will compose the score for the new Paul Thomas Anderson film There Will Be Blood, out December 26th, a.k.a. Oscar season.

Check out the winning video in the Smashing Pumpkins green-screen contest for “Tarantula,” or as Billy Corgan calls it, “Tara n Tula.” We promise, this is the last time well bother you with green-screen contests.