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‘The Twilight Saga: Eclipse’ Soundtrack Features Muse, Beck, Vampire Weekend & More

Kevin Jagernauth — Wed, 12 May 2010 18:30:00 +0000

As much as the day-long, roll-out announcement for the “Twilight Saga: Eclipse” soundtrack is hyper annoying, lame and sure to fatigue the very people who want to write about the release (not to mention a cheap way of milking promotion), the music is frankly the only thing that keeps us sort of mildly interested in the vampire franchise.

Even though the soundtracks are basically “That’s What I Call Indie Rock” greatest hits compilations for Wal-Mart, Alexandra Patsavas and her team at Chop Shop have managed to wrangle some great exclusive tracks for the series, with Thom Yorke’s “Hearing Damage” and Lykke Li’s “Possibility” from “Twilight: New Moon” being particular standouts.

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Karen O: ‘Wild Things’ Musical Mastermind? Flaming Lips In New Trailer?

Rodrigo Perez — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:33:00 +0000

Ok, so Karen O of the Yeah Yeah, Yeahs, wrote the musical songs for “Where The Wild Things Are,” and Carter Burwell (“Adaptation,” “Being John Malkovich”) wrote the score. Did they work together? It doesn’t seem to be the case (via Burwell’s site), “Karen O has already written songs and other pieces of music for the film. I recorded the score in early April (and continue to tweak it) and the film is scheduled for release in October 2009.”

As we’ve already noted, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman had an all-star cast of musicians helping her out including, members of the Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs, Jonze’s brother, producer Squeak-E Clean, Bradford Cox of Deerhunter, YYYs/Folk Implosion collaborator Imaad Wasif and Jack Lawrence of The Raconteurs and Dead Weather.

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Karen O Creates Supergroup For ‘Wild Things’ Score; The Raconteur’s Jack Lawrence Joins The List

Rodrigo Perez — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:32:00 +0000

Alright, so on Friday, we gave you a first listen of Karen O’s score to “Where The Wild Things Are” by putting a close ear to a ‘WTWTA’ featurette that starred director Spike Jonze and author Maurice Sendak talking about the creativity behind the clip, and it obviously featured some of the original music written for the film. The music is “childlike” as she said it would be and quite wonderful actually; everything that we had hoped for.

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Jonathan Glazer’s Dead Weather Video: ‘Treat Me Like Your Mother’

Rodrigo Perez — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:33:00 +0000

We’ve gone on about this one a few times — the new Jonathan Glazer (“Sexy Beast”) directed short film/video for Dead Weather’s new single — and it debuted on Cinemax this weekend, but we gotta say, the anticipation build-up was better than the real thing. This is a bit of a let down. As Vulture writes, the clip features, “Alison Mosshart (day job: singing for the Kills) walk toward [Jack White of the White Stripes], unloading automatic weapons into each other’s faces and chests in what’s almost certainly meant to be some sort of metaphor about relationships or something.” Meh, the track isn’t all that either.

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A White Stripes Movie?

astrudsands — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:10:00 +0000

In a recent interview with Self-Titled magazine Jack White dropped the little bon mot that his Third Man Records, which recently released the Dead Weather album, will also be starting a film division. Oh and they’re working on a White Stripes movie. He tells Self-Titled, “The White Stripes are releasing a film this year, and when I go back home in a few days, I’m going to mix all the music for that, which is like 40 songs, so that’s going to take a lot of time.”

Of course the magazine failed to ask any follow up questions about it so we’re assuming, since it’s in conjunction with his record label, that it’s a tour film of some sort.

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