MySpace Music, the world’s premier music community, is proud to announce one of the most critically acclaimed bands, Cold War Kids, will take part in the eighth installment of MySpace Transmissions.

MySpace Transmissions is a music program that empowers top recording artists with a new platform to create and distribute exclusive video content available for viral distribution and audio tracks available for purchase in the U.S. MySpace Transmissions underscores the company’s commitment to building unique music programming and business models that benefit labels, bands, and fans. MySpaceTransmissions featuring Cold War Kids is available for free download and includes a brand new song “Coffee Spoon,” exclusively for the MySpace Music community.

Watch “Coffee Spoon” video:

Cold War Kids are a Long Beach, California 4-piece who sprang to international attention in 2006 with their critically acclaimed debut ‘robbers & cowards’ and returned recently with ‘Loyalty To Loyalty’ an impressive, lushly textured follow-up. Cold War Kids are famed for their poignant, intimate narratives and brooding atmospherics and the new album delivers in spades; on tracks like the bar room piano-laden suicide tale “Golden Gate Jumpers”, the twitchy life advice of “Every Valley Is Not A Lake” and the beautiful, soaring “Dreams Old Men Dream”.

While still staying true to their soul-punk roots, ‘Loyalty To Loyalty’ marks a huge musical progression for the band. The new album has garnered great reviews all over the press. Rolling Stone wrote, “Cold War Kids attack their songs with unusual intensity, infusing even the most noirish, unsettling songs with a feeling of enchantment.” The album’s first single, “Something Is Not Right With Me” has been a hit at radio and was recently featured on an episode of the HBO series Entourage.

Cold War Kids are: Nathan Willett (vocals/keyboardist/guitar), Matt Maust (bass guitar), Jonnie Russell (guitar) and Matt Aveiro (drums).

The songs from the Cold War Kids Transmissions are:

1. Against Privacy
2. Something Is Not Right With Me
3. Every Man I Fall For
4. Coffee Spoon (unreleased)
5. I’ve Seen Enough

All content from MySpace Transmissions will be archived and available on-demand on the MySpace Transmissions profile and via MySpaceTV. Users will be able to add the content to their profiles and virally share the artists’ videos throughout the network, and purchase the audio tracks via MySpace. MySpace Transmissions represents a progressive music model that truly encourages artists and labels to generate revenue while still maintaining an organic and intimate connection with their fans.

MySpace Music centers around the more than five million major, indie, and unsigned artists that use their MySpace Music profiles to communicate and intimately connect with fans and friends. Each music profile empowers artists to upload video content, blog, post tour dates, lyrics, and make their music available to fans for stream or download. As one of the most popular and most trafficked music platforms in the world, MySpace Music has evolved into an offline experience by connecting bands and fans around the world through various concert series and live events including Secret Shows, MySpaceLIVE!, Front to Back, The Release and The List.

MySpace Transmissions

MySpace Music

Cold War Kids MySpace

Cold War Kids Official Website

Release dates and information could change. Go to bands’ and artists’ official websites for the latest news, release dates and information.

(UK Singles Releases – August 2007)

July 2nd

Alibi vs Rockefeller – Sexual Healing
Avril Lavigne – When You’re Gone
Badly Drawn Boy – Promises (7″ + 12″)
Battle – The Longest Time (7″) [Limited]
Beirut – Elephant Gun (7″)
Ben Taylor – You Must’ve Fallen
Beverley Knight – After You
Big Strides – She Drinks Whisky
Bobby – Anonymous
Captain Black – Come On Up To Our House
Charlie Alex March – In The End
Concretes – Oh Boy
Dee Anderson – Black Skin Soldier
Don Diablo – Blow
DT8 Project – Hold Me Til The End
Edgar Jones & The Joneses – The Way It Is [Limited]
Fall Out Boy – The Take Over, The Breaks Over
Frankie Valli & The 4 Seasons – Beggin’ (Pilooski Re-edit)
Fujiya & Miyagi – Uh
Go! Team – Grip Like Vice
Grand High Priest – Mixdown (EP)
Hold Steady – Chips Ahoy (7″)
Indelicates – Julia We Dont Live In The 60s
Interpol – The Heinrich Maneuver
Jackknife Lee – Making Me Money
Jamie Pearce – 1994
Jay-C vs Rock Steady Crew – Hey You
Mesh 29 – Over The Barricade
Middleman – Blah Blah Blah
Natasha Bedingfield – Soulmate
New Young Pony Club – Ice Cream
Passenger – Do What You Like
Polytechnic – Won’t You Come Around (7″)
Ruarri Joseph – Tales of Grime & Grit (7″) [Limited]
Rushmore – River Of Gold
Scrim – My Revolution / Old School
Shapeshifters – Pusher
Smashing Pumpkins – Tarantula
Talib Kweli – Listen
Tall Pony – I’m Your Boyfriend Now
Tonight Is Goodbye – The Birds and The Bees (EP)
TV On The Radio – Province (7″)
The Twilight Sad – And She Would Darken The Memory Of Youth (7″)
Wiley – My Mistakes (7″ + 12″)

July 9th

Alexis Blue – You Won’t Get Much Sleep (7″) [Limited]
Angus and Julia Stone – Private Lawns (7″)
Arctic Monkeys – Fluorescent Adolescent
Bat For Lashes – What’s A Girl To Do
Bishops – The Only Place I Can Look Is Down (7″) [Limited]
Bloc Party – Hunting For Witches
Brett Anderson – Back To You (EP)
Bright Eyes – Hot Knives / If The Brakeman Turns My Way (7″)
Brinkman – Change It
Broken Dolls – Stronger
Cold War Kids – Hang Me Up To Dry
Dead Disco – You’re Out (7″)
Diesel Park West – Personal Lives
Dykeenies – Clean Up Your Eyes
Hamfatter – Sziget (We Get Wrecked)
Hans Zimmer – Jack’s Suite (Remixes)
Hours – Ali In The Jungle
Josh Pyke – Private Education
Kings Of Leon – Fans
Luke Toms – Another Day
Make Model – The LSB [Limited]
Mr V – Put Your Drink Down
My Chemical Romance – Teenagers
Nerina Pallot – Peg
Ne-Yo – Do You
Nuala – El Sol
Ocean Colour Scene – I Just Got Over You
Peven Everett – Sexy Make Up (12″)
Prince – Guitar
Quentin Harris feat Cordell McClary – U Don’t Know
Razorlight – Hold On
Red Jumpsuit Apparatus – Jump Down
RJD2 – Have Mercy (12″)
Roisin Murphy – Overpowered
Sarah Nixey – The Black Hit Of Space
Stonebridge – SOS
Super Mal feat Luciana – Bigger Than Big
Timbaland feat Keri Hilson & D.O.E. – The Way I Are
Tokyo Police Club – Your English Is Good (7″)
Travis – Selfish Jean
You Say Party We Say Die! – Monster (7″) [Limited]

July 16th

Actress Hands – Come The Summer Days
Ali Love – Secret Sunday Lover
Amy McDonald – Mr Rock and Roll
Ava Leigh – La La La
Biffy Clyro – Folding Stars
Bobby Kray – Silly Games
Chicane – Come Tomorrow
Chromeo – Tenderoni
Elliot Minor – Jessica
Elvis Perkins – While You Were Sleeping (7″) [Limited]
Fergie – Big Girls Don’t Cry (Personal)
Fran Rodgers – I Fell To You Under Winter Sun (7″)
Funeral For A Friend – Walk Away
Garbage – Tell Me Where It Hurts
Good Books – Passchendale
Jarvis – Fat Children (7″ + 12″)
Joan As Police Woman – Real Life [Limited]
Korn – Evolution
Lethal Bizzle – Bizzle Bizzle / Babylon’s Burning The Ghetto (7″ + 12″)
Lightspeed Champion – Galaxy Of The Lost (7″)
Loney Dear – Saturday Waits
Madina Lake – Here I Stand (7″)
Mark Ronson – Oh My God
Martin Solveig – Rejection
Michelle Weeks – A Purpose
Mika – Big Girl (You Are Beautiful)
Mood II Swing feat Tara J – Passing Time
Mya feat Lil Wayne – Lock U Down
Nine Black Alps – Burn Faster
Rakes – The World Was A Mess But His Hair Was Perfect (7″)
Savannah Knight – Sexification
Shirley Bassey – Get The Party Started
Silversun Pickups – Well Thought Out Twinkles
Simian Mobile Disco – I Believe
Slaves To Gravity – Big Red
Soulsavers – Kingdoms Of Rain (7″) [Limited]
Sportsday Megaphone – Less And Less (7″)
Sunfreakz – Counting Down The Days
Thrills – Nothing Changes Around Here
Under The Influence Of Giants – In The Clouds
Victorian English Gentlemens Club – La Mer / Stupid As Wood (7″) [Limited]

July 23rd

Ade Fenton Vs Gary Numan – The Leather Sea
Alterkicks – The Cannibal Hiking Disaster (7″) [Limited]
Arcade Fire – No Cars Go (7″)
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Berlin
Brian Houston – The Days Of Pearly Spencer
Checks – Take Me There
Dragonette – Take It Like A Man
Electric Soft Parade – Misunderstanding (7″)
Feist – 1234
Groove Armada feat Mutya Buena – Song 4 Mutya
Gym Class Heroes – Clothes Off
Jack Savoretti – Dr Frankenstein
Jakobinarina – This Is An Advertisement
Kissy Sell Out – Her (DJ Touche Remix)
Lumidee & Pitbull – Crazy
Magic Numbers – Undecided (EP)
Manic Street Preachers – Autumnsong
Maria Lawson – Lovers’ Kiss
Marie Miller – No Ordinary Girl
Martijn Ten Velden – I Wish You Would
Newton Faulkner – Dream Catch Me
Paul McCartney – Dance Tonight (7″)
Plastic Toys – Let Me Feel The Love
Ripchord – My Precious Valentine
Ross Copperman – Found You
Shiny Toy Guns – Don’t Cry Out
The Silent League – Aeroplanes
Turbo Fruits – Volcano/Murder (7″) [Limited]
The Wayne Foundation – Friday Night Nation (EP)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Is Is (EP)

July 30th

Amerie – Gotta Work
Aqualung – Pressure Suit
Beyonce – Green Light
The Coral – Who’s Gonna Find Me
Cribs – Moving Pictures
Daughtry – It’s Not Over
Euros Childs – Horse Riding (7″)
Kate Walsh – Don’t Break My Heart
Maps – You Don’t Know Her Name
Mr Hudson and The Library – Picture Of You
Nelly Furtado – In God’s Hands
Operator Please – Just A Song About Ping Pong
Paul Weller and Graham Coxon – This Old Town (7″) [Limited]
Pepe Deluxe – Go For Blue
Taxi Doll – Waiting
Yves Larock – Rise Up

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-Band Weblogs

The ultimate UK summer compilation CDs have been released this month, capturing the sounds that have been buzzing around UK radio stations over the last few weeks: NME Presents The Essential Bands – Festival Edition.

The NME Essential Bands – Festival Edition compilation includes two discs with bands that will be all over the UK festival circuit this summer. NME has chosen some of the hottest bands today for the compilation discs, which feature songs by Muse, Kaiser Chiefs, Razorlight, Snow Patrol, The Killers, Klaxons, Kasabian, Gossip, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, CSS and more.

“2007 is going to be a bumper year for festivals. There are more events than ever before, meaning every music fan will have the chance to catch some of their favourite bands in the great outdoors. I’m predicting one of the greatest summers on record, and this CD is the ultimate soundtrack to it.” – NME editor, Conor McNicholas

Disc One:

Kaiser Chiefs – Everything Is Average Nowadays
The Killers – Bones
Gossip – Standing In The Way Of Control
Razorlight – Before I Fall To Pieces
Kasabian – Shoot The Runner
Muse – Starlight
The Twang – Wide Awake
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Weapon Of Choice
Fall Out Boy – Thnks Fr Th Mmrs
Jet – Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
The Rumble Strips – Alarm Clock
The Automatic - Raoul
The Rapture – Pieces Of The People We Love
CSS – Off The Hook
Noisettes - Scratch Your Name
1990s – See You At The Lights
The Maccabees – Precious Times
Pull Tiger Tail – Let’s Lightning
Cold War Kids – Hang Me Up To Dry
Jarvis Running The World

Disc Two:

The View – Same Jeans
Klaxons – Gravity’s Rainbow
Maximo Park – Our Velocity
Bloc Party – The Prayer
Low vs Diamond – Heart Attack
The Hours – Back When You Were Good
Keane – A Bad Dream
Thirteen Senses - All The Love In Your Hands
Patrick Wolf – The Magic Position
Little Man Tate – This Must Be Love
Gruff Rhys – Candylion
Bright Eyes – Four Winds
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. – War Of The Worlds
Alterkicks – Good Luck
Long Blondes – Giddy Stratospheres
The Wombats – Backfire At The Disco
The Rakes – We Danced Together
Enter Shikari – Anything Can Happen In The Next Half Hour…
!!! – Must Be The Moon
The Cribs – Men’s Needs

For a taste of the new NME Presents The Essential Bands – Festival Edition compilation CDs, listen to samplers:

Kaiser Chiefs – Everything Is Average Nowadays

Kasabian – Shoot The Runner

Razorlight – Before I Fall To Pieces

The Gossip – Standing In The Way Of Control

The Killers – Bones

Buy NME Presents The Essential Bands – Festival Edition on Amazon.com

Buy NME Presents The Essential Bands – Festival Edition on Amazon.co.uk

By: Jenny May

Watch a video of Cold War Kids playing “Hospital Beds”

8 May 2007 Garage Oslo
9 May 2007 Vega Copenhagen
10 May 2007 Knust Hamburg
11 May 2007 Kalkscheune Berlin
12 May 2007 Flex Vienna
14 May 2007 Rainbow – POSTPONED Milan
15 May 2007 Abart – POSTPONED Zurich
16 May 2007 Atomic Cafe – POSTPONED Munich
17 May 2007 Vapeur – POSTPONED Dijon
18 May 2007 Olympic – POSTPONED Nantes
19 May 2007 Tri Postale – POSTPONED Lille
21 May 2007 KOKO (SOLD OUT) London
25 May 2007 Tokyo – Astro Hall Tokyo
26 May 2007 Tokyo – Astro Hall Tokyo
27 May 2007 Osaka – Banana Hall Osaka
30 May 2007 HiFi Bar Melbourne
31 May 2007 Tivoli Brisbane
1 Jun 2007 Forum Sydney
8 Jun 2007 Ventura Fairgrounds Ventura, California
9 Jun 2007 Shoreline Amphitheatre Mountain View, Arkansas
15 Jun 2007 BONNAROO Manchester, Tennessee

Cold War Kids Official Website
Cold War Kids on Myspace

By: Jenny May