Show Us Your Kicks: Win a Pair of Chuck Taylors

August 29, 2008 - 1:00 pm , By COED Staff

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

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New Gnarls Barkley Video: “Who’s Gonna Save My Soul”

July 25, 2008 - 9:30 am , By Editor

Everyone’s been through bad breakups that seem to just rip your heart from your chest. And in this video for the song “Who’s Gonna Save My Soul,” off of groove gurus Gnarls Barkley’s recently released album The Odd Couple, the dude takes matters into his own hands…. This is the uncensored version, so if you’re see this on MTV, don’t be surprised when it’s not as cool.

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Ohio’s Got Soul: The Black Keys

May 21, 2008 - 4:30 pm , By Andrew - Hunter College

Combining gritty guitar licks with back-breaking drum beats and a voice that seems to echo the pain of the world in its every note, The Black Keys‘ rich but simple grooves meld the wail of Southern blues with a rocked-out jam to deliver us a much-needed dose of 21st Century soul.

Take a listen after the jump! Read More »

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Gnarls Barkley: New Video Making You Feel Crazy?

March 8, 2008 - 12:00 pm , By Sues - Univ. of New Hampshire

You’re going to have to wait a bit before catching the video for Gnarls Barkley’s new single, “Run” on MTV - but it’s for your own good. We wouldn’t want you having an epileptic seizure, after all.

According to a report from Reuters, the video’s strobe effects caused it to fail the Harding Test, a test that was established to prevent television images from triggering epileptic seizures.

Gnarls Barkley member, Danger Mouse, told Billboard.com that he doesn’t really know what’s going on, “I think (the video) is cool. It works for me. But I’m not necessarily that easily seasick.”

Sorry Danger Mouse, but I’m pretty sure that getting seasick and having an epileptic seizure are two very different things. Read More »

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