finding new music - "but it sounds like coldplay"

Pains me to say this but some of the silly teeny bopper shows are excellent for finding new music. Usually, bands that oddly sound a lot like Coldplay. Shows like gossip girl, one tree hill and the o.c. The producers must have slews of young, hipster cool-ies going to little dives in NYC and Portland and finding these guys, offering to put them on this "hot new hip cool show! yea!" before they get big time. Then after they reach moderate fame, they're back on these same shows - see cutie, death cab for; mouse, modest; airwaves, angels and; etc; etc. Really though, the "new music", it all sounds like Coldplay. All of them. They all sound like Coldplay.