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Right to left: Chris Martin, Guy Berryman and Will Champion of Coldplay speak on stage as they receive the award for Best Song at the 12th annual MTV Europe Music Awards 2005 at the Atlantic Pavilion on November 3, 2005 in Lisbon, Portugal.
Right to left: Chris Martin, Guy Berryman and Will Champion of Coldplay speak on stage as they receive the award for Best Song at the 12th annual MTV Europe Music Awards 2005 at the Atlantic Pavilion on November 3, 2005 in Lisbon, Portugal.Jo Hale/Getty Images
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by Bill DeVille

August 03, 2022

Time Machine heads back to the year 2000 this time. Y2K went off pretty much without a hitch, Coldplay dropped their debut album, Madonna recorded another savvy electronic dance album, Radiohead ditched their guitars in favor of a more electronic sound, the film and soundtrack to Oh Brother Where Art Thou? breathed new life into older American sounds.