new moon soundtrack

One of the most eagerly awaited movie soundtracks for a long time, The Twilight Saga : New Moon, is now available through Atlantic Records featuring an all original track listing totally exclusive to the New Moon soundtrack.

The first single to be taken from the album is Death Cab for Cutie’s excellent Meet Me On The Equinox which is released on October 26th but is already receiving plenty of radio air time having featured as Zane Lowe’s ‘Hottest Record In The World’ a week or two ago.

The movie The Twilight Saga: New Moon is released in the UK on November 20th. The Twilight soundtrack has so far sold in excess of 170,000 copies in the UK and over 3.5 million world wide.

Full track listing as follows:

1. Death Cab for Cutie – Meet Me On the Equinox
2. Band of Skulls – Friends
3. Thom Yorke – Hearing Damage
4. Lykke Li – Possibility
5. The Killers – A White Demon Love Song
6. Anya Marina – Satellite Heart
7. Muse- I Belong To You (New Moon Remix)
8. Bon Iver & St. Vincent- Rosyln
9. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Done All Wrong
10. Hurricane Bells – Monsters
11. Sea Wolf- The Violet Hour
12. OK GO – Shooting the Moon
13. Grizzly Bear – Slow Life
14. Editors – No Sound But the Wind
15. Alexandre Desplat – New Moon (The Meadow)

death cab for cutie single

This new track from Death Cab For Cutie was Zane Lowe’s ‘Hottest Record In The World’ on his Radio 1 show last week, Meet Me On The Equinox is released on Monday October 12th on Atlantic Records.

Meet Me On The Equinox is the first single to be taken from the much anticipated soundtrack album to the film The Twilight Saga: New Moon. Death Cab For Cutie bassist Nick Harmer said;

“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, 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 lent their amazing creativity to this soundtrack.”

The Twilight Saga: New Moon Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is released on October 19th, while the film opens in cinemas across the UK on November 20th.

This promo video for Meet Me On The Equinox features previously unseen footage from the film;

The full tracklisting for the soundtrack album is:

1. Death Cab for Cutie – Meet Me On the Equinox
2. Band of Skulls – Friends
3. Thom Yorke – Hearing Damage
4. Lykke Li – Possibility
5. The Killers – A White Demon Love Song
6. Anya Marina – Satellite Heart
7. Muse- I Belong To You (New Moon Remix)
8. Bon Iver & St. Vincent- Rosyln
9. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Done All Wrong
10. Hurricane Bells – Monsters
11. Sea Wolf- The Violet Hour
12. OK GO – Shooting the Moon
13. Grizzly Bear – Slow Life
14. Editors – No Sound But the Wind
15. Alexandre Desplat – New Moon (The Meadow)

Massive Attack have announced the release of their first new material in three years, a four track EP will be available on October 5.

The lead track Splitting The Atom features Robert Del Naja, Grant Marshall and Horace Andy, while TV On The Radio frontman Tunde Adebimpe guests on Pray For Rain. The EP also has remixes of two new tracks. Psyche featuring Martina Topley-Bird is given the re-rub by Van Rivers & The Subliminal Kid who have recently remixed Bat For Lashes and The Big Pink, while the Guy Garvey fronted Bulletproof Love is stripped back to a minimalist reworking by Christoff Berg, who alongside Van Rivers & The Subliminal Kid produced the Fever Ray eponymous album.

Massive Attack will be releasing their eagerly anticipated fifth studio album in February 2010. Can’t wait to hear the new work which includes collaborations with Damon Albarn, Hope Sandoval, Martina Topley-Bird, Guy Garvey and Tunde Adebimpe.

Horace Andy returns for the album alongside founder members of Massive Attack, Robert Del Naja and Grant Marshall. Del Naja has been particularly busy during the three years since the band’s last album Collected, he has been writing and producing soundtracks for films and documentaries and has won a David Di Donatello Award for best song for his work on the film Gamorra.

This year Massive Attack won the Outstanding Contribution to British Music Award at the Ivor Novello Awards. The band will be headlining at Bestival on Friday September 11, before taking on their first full UK tour for three years, starting in London on September 17.

Massive Attack Full UK Tour Dates:

17.09.09                   LONDON BRIXTON 02 ACADEMY (SOLD OUT)

18.09.09                   LONDON BRIXTON 02 ACADEMY (SOLD OUT)

19.09.09                   LONDON BRIXTON 02 ACADEMY (SOLD OUT)

21.09.09                   SHEFFIELD 02 ACADEMY

22.09.09                  BIRMINGHAM 02 ACADEMY

23.09.09                  READING RIVERMEAD

24.09.09                  LEEDS 02 ACADEMY

26.09.09                  MANCHESTER APOLLO (SOLD OUT)

27.09.09                 MANCHESTER APOLLO

28.09.09                 GLASGOW 02 ACADEMY

30.09.09                NEWCASTLE 02 ACADEMY

02.10.09               LEICESTER DE MONTFORT HALL

03.10.09               SWINDON OASIS (SOLD OUT)

Tickets are £28.50 regional / £30 London

www.gigsandtours.com 24hr credit card hotline: 0871 2200 260

Music Loves Video is part of the fifth London film festival

Birds Eye View celebrates international women filmmakers with its fifth London film festival at BFI Southbank, ICA, and Picturehouse cinemas.

Nine days jam-packed with over 70 events including top US indie features, hot Sundance docs, world-class shorts, exclusive director masterclasses and training, plus one-off live music-film events, moving image innovation, fashion films, parties and much more.

Music Loves Video is part of the fifth London film festival and takes place at the ICA on Saturday 7th March between 4-6PM.

Celebrating the best women filmmakers from around the globe, Birds Eye View will again be screening world-class films from world-class talent, with events taking place at the BFI Southbank, ICA, The Gate cinema (Notting Hill), and Picturehouse Cinemas across the UK on International Women’s Day (March 8th).

A specially selected crop of the best recent music promo videos celebrating the dazzling creativity of women in music video, including Trudy Bellinger (Girls Aloud, Sophie Ellis-Bextor), Kinga Burza (Katy Perry, Kate Nash) and Ali Taylor (Emiliana Torrini, Shitdisco) will be shown.

This music in video event offers an eclectic mix from this ever-innovative medium, from the latest low-budget debuts, through inventive animation to full-scale choreographed productions, including exclusive premieres and a directors Q&A session hosted by journalist and broadcaster Miranda Sawyer.

The directors in conversation will be Trudy Bellinger, Kinga Burza, Ali Taylor and Shelly Love.

Trudy Bellinger
Few people have influenced the music video industry in the UK like Trudy Bellinger. Trudy’s directing strengths lie in beautifully developed colour palettes, stylised fashion details, and tight choreography. Her spectacular video for Girls Aloud Sexy No No No won the Virgin Media Award for Best Video of 2007.

Kinga Burza
Kinga has since shot videos for Katy Perry, Ladyhawke, Kate Nash, Calvin Harris and The Teenagers. Kinga’s first foray into the American market, for Katy Perry’s ‘I Kissed A Girl’, scored her a huge number one video in the US, as well as FIVE nominations at the 2008 MTV VMA Awards. Her work has been feature in i-D, Dazed and Confused, NME and Promo.

Ali Taylor
Ali has been commissioned as a filmmaker and artist by a variety of clients from Channel 4 to Vivienne Westwood. Alongside filmmaking she’s established herself as an illustrator and designer, having been published in various magazines from Dazed to NINSDOL.

Shelly Love
Shelly is an award winning prolific artist and director who was formerly Artist in Residence at The Place in London. Her films screen regularly on the international film circuit and have been described as ‘otherworldly’, ’suicarprising’, ‘magical’ and ‘beautifully dark.’

Music Loves Video – tickets £8 / £7 concessions / £6 ICA & BEV members

The Birds Eye View London Film Festival is on between 5-13th March 2009.

Watch The Birds Eye View Film Festival Trailer.

Visit the ICA website for more information.

The Boat That Rocked is a new film written and directed by Richard Curtis

The Boat That Rocked is a new film written and directed by Richard Curtis of Four Weddings & A Funeral & Black Adder fame.

The film includes a great ensemble cast including Nick Frost, Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, the wonderful Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Gemma Arterton.

The Boat That Rocked is an ensemble comedy in which the romance takes place between the young people of the ’60s and pop music.

It’s about a band of rogue DJs that captivated Britain, playing the music that defined a generation and standing up to a government that, incomprehensibly, preferred jazz.

The Boat That Rocked – Synopsis

In 1966, arguably British pop music’s finest era, the BBC played only two hours of rock and roll every week. But pirate radio blasted rock and pop from the high seas 24 hours a day. And 25 million people, more than half the population of Britain, listened to these pirates every single day.

The Boat That Rocked is an ensemble comedy in which the romance takes place between the young people of the ’60s and pop music. It’s about a band of rogue DJs that captivated Britain, playing the music that defined a generation and standing up to a government that, incomprehensibly, preferred jazz.

The Boat That Rocked looks set to be one a big British comedy next year. The film also stars Kenneth Branagh, Tom Sturridge, Jack Davenport, Ralph Brown, Chris O’Dowd and January Jones.

The Boat That Rocked will be released in UK cinemas on 29th April, 2009.

Cold Water Kids - Loyalty to Loyalty

The Cold War Kids’ Film, ‘02.08 to 06.08‘ is airing on YouTube this week until Friday, so watch it for free while you can.

Directed by Vern Moen, 02.08 to 06.08 is a 34 minute film about Cold War Kids and the making of the album, Loyalty to Loyalty.

The film will be featured exclusively on Youtube for one week only and is available for purchase with the Deluxe Edition of the Loyalty to Loyalty CD release.

It’s a beautiful film which includes insight on the history of Cold War Kids, loads of behind the scenes studio footage, and interviews with the band and their families.

Loyalty To Loyalty is out now.

Watch 02.08 to 06.08 now

For more information visit the Cold War Kids website.

The special cinema screening will be welcomed by the many Foo Fighters fans who missed the original gigs at Wembley Stadium, the high point of the band’s career according to frontman Dave Grohl this week.

Foo Fighters were famously joined on stage by members of Led Zeppelin for the final night, June 7th. Rumours were rife all the previous week that Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones would join Grohl and his band on stage for their last night at the stadium.

In a rousing finale the ’supergroup’ performed classics Rock And Roll and Ramblin’ On, with Grohl switching to drums and Foos drummer Taylor Hawkins on lead vocals.

Grohl had primed the audience early in the show, saying “We’re gonna do something that we have never done at a Foo Fighters show and its gonna blow your shit out the door! Tonight this is gonna be the show that we’re gonna be talking about for the next 20 years!”

As Page and Jones left the stage an emotional Dave Grohl announced:

“Welcome to the greatest fucking day of my life!”

For further details of this unique cinematic experience and to check the location of the cinemas involved visit the MyVue site.

The Foo Fighters set list:

‘The Pretender’
‘Times Like These’
‘No Way Back’
‘Cheer Up Boys, Your Make Up Is Running’
‘Learn To Fly’
‘This Is A Call’
‘Long Road To Ruin’
‘Breakout’
‘Stacked Actors’
‘Skin And Bones’
‘Big Me’
‘Marigold’
‘My Hero’
‘Cold Day In The Sun’
‘Let It Die’
‘Everlong’
‘Monkey Wrench’
‘All My Life’
‘Rock And Roll’
‘Ramble On’
‘Best Of You’

UK Music Festival Tickets

There are plenty of UK festivals this summer and you can buy & sell music tickets, including Leeds Festival Tickets at Viagogo.co.uk.

At Viagogo, every ticket and transaction is 100% guaranteed to be safe and secure. You can also buy and sell T in the Park Tickets and other music shows like Queen Tickets.

The film has received the full sound and vision restoration treatment and will be accompanied by a 40 page booklet documenting the infamous tour which ended up at the chaotic Altamont Free Festival.

Extras on the DVD release will include an audio commentary from the directors of the film along with backstage outtakes of the band performing at New York’s Madison Square Garden.

A full supporting cast including the likes of Jefferson Airplane, The Flying Burrito Brothers and Ike and Tina Turner feature in the film which is directed by Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin.

Just what songs are covered by Johansson we don’t know as there is no track listing available, but the title is Anywhere I lay my head and the release date May 20.

The actress collaborates with Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner on the album which was recorded at Louisiana’s Dockside studios and produced by David Sitek.

Johansson raised her credibility with music fans last year when she sang on stage with  The Jesus and Mary Chain at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in California. She has also appeared in Justin Timberlake’s video for What goes around.

Despite the fact that the Stones are all in their sixties, they remain one of EMI’s top money spinners, generating over £3 million a year for the company.

A spokesman for EMI has said that they have had no indication that the Rolling Stones have any intention of signing to any other record label.

Head in the sand or what!