The New Moon Soundtrack doesn’t hit stores until Friday, October 16th, but you can listen to the entire album right now, exclusively on MySpace.com. Visit www.MySpace.com/Twilight to listen to tracks by Thom Yorke, The Killers, Editors and many more!
Lykke Li Talks About New Moon Soundtrack
October 13th, 2009Lykke Li recently spoke to MTV News about her song, ‘Possibility’ on the New Moon Soundtrack. In the interview she reveals the context of the song is about love, death and Robert Pattinson, and she also tells MTV that she didn’t have a hook for ‘Possibility’ until she saw New Moon.
“I stayed [in Los Angeles] and watched the movie, when it only had green screen on it. I had this hook in my mind, even before I saw the movie, and then I was watching it, and I was like, ‘That’s the hook!’ ” she said. “So it was very much like a discovery, inside myself and musically. I had this song growing inside of me that I had to get out, and [the film] was the trigger. Because I really connected with Bella and Edward’s tortured love story.”
To read the full interview visit MTV.com.
Hot Topic Listening Party
October 13th, 2009Stop by any Hot Topic location on Friday, October 16th at 7:00PM to hear The Twilight Saga: New Moon Soundtrack in its entirety, plus listen to special messages from the featured bands.
For more information about these events and to find a Hot Topic Store near you, visit www.HotTopic.com.
NEW MOON SOUNDTRACK NEW RELEASE DATE: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16TH
October 13th, 2009Due to overwhelming and unprecedented demand, Chop Shop/Atlantic have announced a new release date for THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK. By far the most anticipated soundtrack of the year, the compilation will now be released this FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16TH, four days earlier than originally scheduled. Last year’s TWILIGHT SOUNDTRACK debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 and has sold more than 3.5 million copies worldwide. It has remained on the Billboard 200 chart for 48 consecutive weeks.
The Twilight Saga: New Moon hits theatres nationwide Friday, November 20th.
Entertainment Weekly Give Soundtrack A Grade ‘A’
October 8th, 2009There are less than two weeks until you get to finally listen to the New Moon Soundtrack yourself! In the meantime, here’s a great review and some insight into some of the songs on the album, from Entertainment Weekly.
“On a good day, film soundtracks enhance the moviegoing experience. At their best, they transcend it. The latest sonic accompaniment to Twilight’s inescapable teen-vampire juggernaut — a swooning conveyance of girl-meets-undead-boy romance, delivered by some of the best established and emerging names in the indie stratosphere — may sway even the most committed Twi-loathers.
After the success of the first installment, music supervisor Alexandra Patsavas (Gossip Girl, Grey’s Anatomy) gets her pick of the alt litter here, with each contributing original, previously unreleased material: From the opening chords of Death Cab for Cutie’s dusky guitar rapture ”Meet Me on the Equinox” to the spooky robot-ennui of Thom Yorke’s ”Hearing Damage” and Grizzly Bear’s gorgeous folk-pop pastoral ”Slow Life,” New Moon rarely falters. A peacocking remix of Muse’s shamelessly operatic ”I Belong to You” becomes a Bowie-esque glam-rock stomper. In its wake, Bon Iver and St. Vincent quietly unfurl ”Rosyln,” a duet of hushed, almost church-like beauty.
Moon (due in stores Oct. 20) yields several happy revelations from its lower-marquee names: Nordic songstress Lykke Li’s nearly a cappella ”Possibility” is a lovely little Swedish snowflake, and jokey rockers OK Go achieve an impressive sort of Flaming Lips-y quirk-gravitas on the sprawling, cinematic ”Shooting the Moon.” Black Rebel Motorcycle Club’s acoustic campfire lament ”Done All Wrong” segues seamlessly into the jaunty, Strokes-ian guitar fuzz of Hurricane Bells’ ”Monsters.” Think of New Moon as a sort of survey course in new-now-next rock: a mixtape with teeth. A”
Death Cab for Cutie – Meet Me On the Equinox Video Premiere
October 7th, 2009The music video has arrived! MTV.com is hosting the exclusive online world premiere of Death Cab for Cutie’s ‘Meet Me On the Equinox’. The video debuted this evening, and you can watch it right now here!
“We wrote ‘Meet Me On the Equinox’ to reflect the celestial themes and motifs that run throughout the Twilight series, and we wanted to capture that desperate feeling of endings and beginnings that so strongly affect the main characters,” said Death Cab for Cutie bassist Nick Harmer. “This song marks the first attempt that Death Cab for Cutie has ever made at contributing new, unreleased material for a film. It just seems a perfect synergy that a band from the Northwest would create a song for a series of novels set in the Northwest. We are not only proud to be a part of the Twilight legacy but also honored to join so many other fantastic artists that have learnt their amazing creativity to this soundtrack.”
The Twilight Saga: New Moon Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is set to release on Tuesday, October 20th. The Twilight Saga: New Moon arrives in theatres on Friday, November 20th in the US and UK.
Muse Talk About New Moon Soundtrack
October 6th, 2009Muse front man Matt Bellamy, has been talking about the New Moon Soundtrack and how their song, ‘I Belong To You (New Moon Remix)’, ended up on the album.
“It was actually Stephenie Meyer who approached the band quite a few years before the film was name, just as she was becoming known. She came to a concert in Phoenix, in Arizona – I think that’s where she lived, or she lived nearby. She was very friendly, and she told us that she liked the music and that she’d like to use the music in the films. It was a few years later that the filmmakers came to us, and we said sure.” – Matt Bellamy.
To read the full interview, visit www.nationalpost.com.
Death Cab For Cutie ‘Meet Me On The Equinox’ Video Preview
October 5th, 2009Death Cab For Cutie have given MTV News a sneak peek at their vampire themed video for ‘Meet Me On The Equinox’. The full video will be premiered on MTV and MTV.com on Wednesday, but in the mean time you can wet your appetites with this exclusive clip!
To read more details about the video shoot visit MTV.com.
OK Go On ‘Shooting The Moon’
October 5th, 2009In an interview with Buzznet, OK Go’s frontman Damian Kulash discusses the band’s song ‘Shooting the Moon’ which appears on the New Moon Soundtrack.
“The song is about an astronaut involved in a conspiracy. I am not personally a doubter re: the US moon landing, but the story fascinates me. The story, that is, that would be, were the conspiracy theory true. One of the most iconic heros of all time would have to live with the guilt. He’d have to keep such a heavy, terrible secret: that this huge historical watershed was a cynical lie. As the basis of a song, it let me get at a feeling that I otherwise have a hard time describing, the feeling of dread and conviction at the same time. Of wanting to say it’s going to be OK, when in fact it probably isn’t. It’s a feeling I have a lot. The hero knows the only way to make things better in the long run is to unleash this awful truth which is going to break everyone’s heart.” – Damian
To read the full interview, visit Buzznet.com.
