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Lady Gaga Stays Atop Album Chart Despite Huge Sales Slide
Wed Jun 8 2011 by Robbie Daw
After a massive debut last week for Lady Gaga's Born This Way, which found the album crashing into the #1 position on the Billboard Top 200 with just over 1.1. million copies sold, Mother Monster now proves the old adage of "what goes up must come down." Born This Way moved another 174,000 in its second week of availability, enough to maintain the #1 position on the chart. But, overall, it's an 84% plunge in sales. (Where's a good old-fashioned 99-cent sale at Amazon when you need one?)
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“New Moon” On Friday: The Twilight Of The Indie Boom?
Fri Oct 16 2009 by Maura
Our look at the closing lines of new music reviews continues with a roundup of reactions to the New Moon soundtrack, the indie-kid-pandering tie-in to the forthcoming Twilight sequel that arrives in stores and online today: More »
Death Cab For Cutie Sink Their Teeth Into The Vampire-Crazed Chick Demographic
Thu Oct 8 2009 by Maura
The video for Death Cab For Cutie’s “Meet Me On The Equinox,” the lead single from the information-worker-pandering soundtrack to the Twilight franchise installment New Moon, debuted on proper old MTV last night, which isn’t so much a testament to the rise of “indie” over the past 10 years as it is a sign that Viacom will go to the absurd extreme of giving prime-time programming over to playing music videos in order to pander to the sparkly-vampire set. The video’s your standard “movie tie-in” clip; gauzily lit shots of Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson are intercut with Ben Gibbard et al miming along with the muscular, melodramatic track. And from the first note to the last, slow-motion taking off of a shirt, one common thread remains: Everyone looks so serious! I know teenage love is totally life-or-death business, but would it have killed someone to crack at least one smile? Jeez. Clip after the jump. More »
Bloodsuckers Of Indie: “New Moon” Soundtrack To Feature Death Cab, Thom Yorke, Lykke Li, Grizzly Bear, And The Killers
Mon Sep 21 2009 by Maura
The soundtrack listing for New Moon, the latest installment in the fangirl-insanity-inducing Twilight series, has been released, and as previously insinuated, it is pretty indie-tastic, with the likes of Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke, Swedish enigma Lykke Li, the Jay-Z-beloved Grizzly Bear, and the one-two punch of Bon Iver and St. Vincent backing up Death Cab For Cutie’s lead single “Meet Me On The Equinox.” Muse is also contributing a remix of a song from their new album The Resistance, although Matt Bellamy sure sounds like he wanted to take the path of least, um, resistance when getting on the record: “He wants a rendition of that, but the only thing with the new film is they want the songs to be exclusive to the film. So he’s asking if I mind doing, or if we mind doing an alternative version of it.” Um, OK then! Full track listing after the jump. More »
The People Behind The “Twilight” Soundtrack Mix A Little Cockiness Into Their Sparkle
Tue Sep 8 2009 by Maura
Pre-orders for the soundtrack to New Moon, the sequel to Stephenie Meyer’s vampiric romance Twilight, opened today, and among the packages is a limited-edition $500 extravaganza that only 50 people will get their hands on. The big hook of the package, however, is ETA: not really something that represents a bit of a bet on the part of Chop Shop Records, the label arm of the music-licensing firm responsible for soundtracking such shows as Grey’s Anatomy, Gossip Girl, and—yes—The O.C. More »
“Twilight” Fans To Be Over The Moon For Death Cab For Cutie Really Soon
Thu Aug 27 2009 by Maura
The first single from the soundtrack to New Moon, the second installment in the sparkling-vampire Twilight series, isn’t by Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, or Bon Iver. But you’re demographically close! “Meet Me On The Equinox,” which will debut during the Video Music Awards on Sept. 13, is actually by Death Cab For Cutie, who are so excited at the possibility of being the next Paramore that they’ve released a statement: More »
Death Cab For Cutie Wishes Black People Could Be As Soulful As Indie Rock
Tue Feb 10 2009 by Christopher R. Weingarten
Death Cab For Cutie have taken a political stand against AutoTune, the devil scourge that puts the moral turpitude of our nation’s teenagers at risk, exposing them to savage robot noises, leaving them confused and helpless. All that bleeping and blooping and buying of dranks! Thank god there’s Ben Gibbard—savior of the flaccid—to speak out about this national dilemma! Death Cab wore suits and blue ribbons (pictured above) to the Grammy Awards to raise awareness of the fact that T-Pain would benefit from the fun, flat sound of a Chris Walla production.
Langerado Lineup Shows Just How Tough It Is To Get Decent Headliners These Days
Tue Dec 9 2008 by Dan Gibson
The Langerado Festival moves to Miami for its 2009 installment (taking place March 6-8), and the just-announced lineup was announced a day later than it should have been. Looking at the array of acts, you have to wonder if they spent that extra 24 hours trying to find a real headliner. Death Cab? Snoop Dogg? Thievery Corporation???
There Are Still People Out There Who Will Pay Two Bucks For A Soundgarden Album
Mon Sep 22 2008 by Maura
Every week, I pore over the digital-album charts–which lists the 50 albums that sold the most virtual copies on sites like iTunes, eMusic, and Amazon MP3–in an effort to figure out what new albums have high percentages of digital sales, and to see what older albums are having odd online sales spikes. Yesterday, I noticed that Amazon MP3’s Twitter is being updated with the store’s daily cheap-album deals, which is a big help for someone who wants to figure out why certain albums that are old in Internet time (like, sometimes even 10 years old!) are popping back on the chart. A few attempts at correlation after the jump.
