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October 9, 2009

New music video for "New Moon"

Posted: 10:44 AM ET

If there's an award for "Best Creepy, But Cool" song of 2009, it should go to Death Cab for Cutie's "Meet Me on the Equinox" - the first single off the soundtrack for "The Twilight Saga: New Moon."  The music video for the song was just completed, and it features shots of the band interspersed with sneak peeks from the movie.

Chris Walla, Death Cab's guitarist, swears the house used as a location for the video was haunted.  "Some rich wingnut built it to very particular cosmic specifications.  Legend has it he died under some mysterious circumstances.  Of course it's all probably exaggerated, but it was really weird," he tells CNN from his home in Portland, Oregon.

Walla admits to being a huge fan of the "Twilight" franchise.  "Nick (the bass guitarist) is probably second in line - although Ben (the lead singer) has probably read the books by now."  Death Cab hails from the Pacific Northwest, which is the setting for "Twilight."  "In fact, Ben grew up on the peninsula across from Port Angeles, and my family used to vacation near Forks."  He says he's an "Edward" guy - although the character is "hard to like in the second book because he just leaves, and that's not cool."

Speaking of Ben Gibbard... the Death Cab frontman is now officially off the market.  He married actress-singer Zooey Deschanel ("Almost Famous," "(500) Days of Summer") about three weeks ago outside Seattle.  Walla reports the ceremony was beautiful, and that it took place on a dairy farm he visited as a kid on school field trips.  "We used to go there to see where milk comes from," he laughs.

The "New Moon" soundtrack also features new songs from Radiohead's Thom Yorke, the Killers and Grizzly Bear.  There's also a remix from Muse - whose "Supermassive Black Hole" provided the backdrop to the unforgettable vampire softball montage in the original "Twilight" film.

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Britney...   October 11th, 2009 11:15 am ET

OMG.. I cannot wait for New Moon... :D A day after my bday... (:

Twilight Mom   December 1st, 2009 3:43 pm ET

Alright, so I'm a Twilight Mom and I have read the four book series a total of 5 times now. I absolutely loved the first movie and the second even more, but come on, I hope this isn't what all the music is like on the soundtrack. The first soundtrack was awesome and I liked all of the music from it, especially Robert Pattinson's song, but REALLY????? This is what we have to commemorate a really awesome movie???

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