The Academy has selected 63 songs that will contend for Best Song nominations for next year's ceremony, and among them are songs not written by Randy Newman. Paul McCartney and U2 -- "you may have…   Read Story »

Actor Tim Robbins curated the WTF?! Festival this weekend in Culver City to raise money for the ailing non-for-profit Actors' Gang arts organization, inviting fellow actor Ben Gibbard and his rock…   Read Story »

Hey you lovers of vampires and/or mall culture, this one's for you. The Twilight Saga: New Moon OST is the #1 album in America, shortly before the Twilight Saga: New Moon feature film will be the #1…   Read Story »

In our continuing Twilight coverage.... For those of you who thought maybe Owl City's Postal Service plagiarism would inspire Ben Gibbard to jam with Jimmy Tamborello on some post-Give Up material…   Read Story »

It's fitting on multiple levels that the "Bela Lugosi's Dead" singer reportedly has a flashback cameo as an old-timey vampire in the David Slade-directed Twilight: Eclipse. Equally telling: Only…   Read Story »

They're just doing the L.A. show (the rest of the dates feature the more D-list bands and actors involved), but still: Death Cab's brand expansion knows no bounds. Check the itinerary.   Read Story »

While Death Cab and Annie Clark talk up their New Moon contributions, Thom Yorke has remained suspiciously mum. We can only assume he is a fan of vampires and of letting his music speak for itself.…   Read Story »

It's just snippets, but you can finally hear bits of the OST contributions by Thom, Bon Vincent, Grizzly House, Lykke Li, et al at Amazon. (Thanks for the tip, danidan.)   Read Story »

While this song was written expressly for New Moon, Ben Gibbard's admitted he's never read any of Stephanie Meyer's vampire romance novels (he's more of a Kerouac fan). Chris Walla, however, has read…   Read Story »

Grizzly Bear, who are just about as all-over-the-place as Thom Yorke these days, join the Radiohead-head and some other indie luminaries on the OST to the Twilght sequel. But you read the internet,…   Read Story »