First off today we have Robot Chicken’s new Star Wars Episode II. Christina Aguilera’s Keeps Gettin’ Better Target commercial reconfirms our suspicion that Christina Aguilera is smokin’ hot! Dumbass vs Wine Bottle is almost as painful to watch as it is to..well, get smashed in the head with a freakin’ wine bottle. And hey, if hot busty chicks say the Internet works by using “magic,” it must be true. This is the creepiest mask you’ll see all day. ‘Bike Hero’ shows you what happens when someone has way too much time on their hands. And the Cold War Kids rock out in their new ‘Something Is Not Right With Me’ music video.

Cold War Kids probably could have gotten famous on their catchy and clever name alone. Luckily for us all, there has always been a bit more substance to this band than just their name. The indie/blues/soul/rock band from California started in 2004 .

Touring with bands like Muse and The White Stripes has, of course, helped them along the way, but they’ve been pretty driven, so it seems, on their own. With a new album out today, “Loyalty to Loyalty“, (listen to it streaming for free at Spiner.com, here) it goes without saying that a lot of people are excited. Luckily, they should be excited. Their single, “Something is Not Right With Me” has got a driving beat, passionate vocals, and a very unique instrumentation-including a blues-pounding piano. (more…)

Attention aspiring musicians, bands, and people with nothing better to do: Right now, our friends at Converse, Journey’s and Downtown Records are having a huge “Get Out of the Garage” music contest which gives entrants the chance to win a free trip to New York City and four days, three nights of recording time in a professional studio. To enter, just check out GetOutofTheGarageMusicContest.com, upload one of your songs to their Website, and wait to see if you’re track made the cut! The contest ends September 15.

To promote the contest, and give you a second chance to win free stuff, we at COED are holding our own “Show Us Your Kicks” contest, which has nothing to do with “recording time” at all! All you have to do is send us a picture of your dirtiest, filithiest, most F’ed-up shoes and the person to send in the worst pair of the bunch gets a gift certificate for a brand new pair of Converse sneakers to replace the ones you screwed up to win a contest, plus swag from Downtown Records (home of Cold War Kids, Justice, Gnarls Barkley, Santogold, and more!)

Send all your grossest shoe pics to kicks@coedmagazine.com

Last night’s Muse & Cold War Kids concert at MSG brought ‘rock’ back to the rock show.

In recent years I’ve been bored by “rock” concerts that were half-assed and lacked energy. Not last night! Muse left everyone in the arena saying, “wow WTF just happened! I’m deaf, I have sea legs because the arena was literally shaking, my eyes are blinded from the Kiss-esque visual effects and I’m completely happy that I spent $40 bucks on that ticket.”

Cold War Kids, the opening act, have a sound that’s soulful and chill, plus any band that busts out a Sax solo is cool in my book. CWK will benefit greatly from this stint with Muse and I’m looking forward to seeing them again in NYC.

After the jump check out the pictures and a sweet bootleg vid of “Plug in Baby.” (more…)