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Cloverfield: Rob’s Party Mix – The Music Of This Monster Thingy Shows Us Once Again Indie Is As Mainstream As Apple Pie

Rodrigo Perez — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:58:00 +0000

What’s this? Now we’re blogging about this thing? Yeah, well a) our Boycott “Cloverfield” campaign came way too late, b) there’s nothing we can do to stop this juggernaut and c) our causa causans is reporting music in films, no?

So yeah, “Cloverfield” the monster movie. There’s not really a soundtrack? Yes and no. The film starts out with Rob’s “goodbye party” (he’s leaving for Japan – the place where monsters come from – if you haven’t already heard a trillion times) and there’s many a quick snippet of a song being dj’d at his potty including songs by Jason Schwartzman’s Coconut Records project, Spoon (as we mentioned yesterday), Kings of Leon, Gorillaz, Ratatat, Of Montreal, Bright Eyes and more.

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Reuters Trades Brain For Salaciousness With “Hottest State” Preview

Rodrigo Perez — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:03:00 +0000

Yesterday’s Reuter’s article on Colombian actress Catalina Sandino Moreno check its brain at the door: or at least where the headline is concerned.

Writing a profile on the actress for the upcoming Ethan Hawke movie (“The Hottest State“; which opens this Friday), Reuters wrote as a headline: “Colombian Actress Swaps Heroin for Nudity,” simply because her last notable role was of a drug mule (“Maria Full of Grace“) and her recent ‘State’ role is of a singer trying to make it New York (who happens to take her clothes off to have sex with her boyfriend, as couples are wont to do).

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Ethan Hawke Scores ‘Hot State’ With Feist, Cat Power & Bright Eyes

Rodrigo Perez — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:19:00 +0000

This is the type of news we’d like to be breaking, sigh… According to Pitchfork, Ethan Hawke’s new film, “The Hottest State” features a soundtrack written by Nora Jones collaborator Jesse Harris (he wrote or co-wrote almost all of her first Grammy award-winning album). The semi-interesting news of note is that most of Harris’ songs are recorded and performed by various indie-rockers including Feist, Cat Power, Bright Eyes, M. Ward and Emmy-Lou Harrison. I think MTV first reported Feist and Willis Nelson’s inclusion on this soundtrack back in March of 2006 (but no, we’re not touting ourselves or anything).

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