MySpace has a video channel called MySpace Transmissions that hosts videos of live performances by current bands. It's updated every so often, and the most recent band to be featured is The Cold War Kids.

I wasn't a huge fan of the Kids' most recent album, Loyalty to Loyalty, but seeing the band perform some of the new material in a cool looking practice room gives an interestingly different perspective. Most of all, it made me want to go to wherever they recorded this and hang out and jam.

The sparse, live instrumentation of the songs also makes them a good listen. For those unfamiliar, the group has a bluesy indie kind of sound, a little like The Black Keys. For this little performance, guitarist Jonnie Russell plays a hollowbody acoustic-electric so immersed in echo and reverb that it sounds like he's strumming at the other end of a very long hallway. Of the five song set, one ("Coffee Spoon") was previously unreleased, which gives fans a good reason to check this out.

The dudes in the band also do a little interview and explain their recording process, their lyrics, where they're from, and so on.

Cold War Kids "Coffee Spoon" from MySpace Transmission