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Cancel that manicure and call off date night because you've got an appointment with Edward Cullen on March 20. At the stroke of 12:01 a.m., the "New Moon" two-disc special edition DVD and special edition Blu-Ray will hit store shelves. And you can bet your sweet Volvo they're full of juicy extras.

Along with the fantastic film, fans can expect a six-part, behind-the-scenes documentary chronicling the creation of the film, rehearsal footage from Muse, three music videos from Death Cab for Cutie, Anya Marina and Mute Math, as well as audio commentary by director Chris Weitz and editor Peter Lambert. But where, oh where, is the commentary track with Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner that Chris promised back in the day?

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Tags Anya Marina, Chris Weitz, Death Cab For Cutie, DVD, Kristen Stewart, Muse, New Moon, Peter Lambert, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Twilight

"Not only am I the host of the show, but I'm also a vampire and a werewolf," Jimmy Kimmel said during his introduction of last night's episode of "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" "I hope I don't have to kill anyone tonight."

This kicked off the "New Moon"-heavy episode, which featured the only interview of Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner and Robert Pattinson together. It also featured a performance by Death Cab for Cutie, whose "Meet Me At The Equinox" was the first single off the album.

Ever since he responded to then-girlfriend Sara Silverman's admission of indiscretion with Matt Damon by getting Harrison Ford, Lance Bass and Josh Groban to film an anthem to his relationship with Ben Affleck, Jimmy Kimmel has been my favorite late night talk show host. He cemented that even more when he asked Taylor Lautner the best question yet out of the "New Moon" press tour ...

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Tags Death Cab For Cutie, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Kristen Stewart, New Moon, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Twilight, Twilight Watch

You've probably waited for this moment ever since it was announced that Death Cab For Cutie's "Meet Me On The Equinox" would be the first single released off of the "New Moon" soundtrack. Well, folks, get ready because the music video is just one click away.

Is this piece of art going to do justice to the piece of art that is "New Moon"? According to guitarist Chris Walla, yes, because the video follows a very similar tone. "There's this whole day-night, sunlight-moonlight thing going on," Chris told MTV News. "It's being lit in two pieces. Basically it's like a compressed time sort of thing, where through a verse of the song, it'll move from day to night in the course of like 20 seconds." And, the way the lyrics unfold, Chris continues, "is a really nice parallel for 'New Moon.'" Now it's time to judge for yourself, press play below!

Tags Chris Walla, Death Cab For Cutie, New Moon, New Moon Soundtrack, Twilight, Video

If you're like us, you've been jamming to the first single off the "New Moon" soundtrack, Death Cab for Cutie's "Meet Me On The Equinox," since its debut last month. But starting Wednesday, we'll have a treat for our eyes and ears when the Seattle-based band debut their music video.

MTV News caught up with DCFC on the Toronto set of the video (see our behind-the-scenes interviews with the band on set after the jump), a spooky old mansion decorated with stained glass windows, sepia-toned family photos and even a stuffed deer's head. "This is certainly the creepiest place we've ever shot a video, that's for sure," joked bassist Nick Harmer. "This mansion is haunted."

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Tags Ben Gibbard, Chris Walla, Death Cab For Cutie, New Moon, New Moon Soundtrack, Nick Harmer, Twilight, Video

No doubt you were already super psyched about the October 20 release of the hotly anticipated "New Moon" soundtrack, but now you have four new reasons to be excited: four just-announced bonus tracks!

Pre-ordering for the soundtrack launched today on iTunes and when you purchase the album, you'll also receive four extra songs: Lupe Fiasco's "Solar Midnite," The Magic Numbers And Amadou & Mariam's "All I Believe In," APM Orchestra's-Die Fledermaus's "Duettino: Ach, ich darf nicht hin zu dir" and Ulf Bastlein's "Wandrers Nachtlied II, Op. 96, No. 3, D.768," in addition to the music video for Death Cab for Cutie's "Meet Me On The Equinox". Along with your iTunes order, you'll receive an immediate download of Anya Marina's track "Satellite Heart."

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Tags Amadou & Mariam, Anya Marina, Death Cab For Cutie, Jacob Black, Lupe Fiasco, New Moon, New Moon Soundtrack, Taylor Lautner, Twilight

It came a few days later than we anticipated, but the full "New Moon" soundtrack list has finally been revealed! Let's get to the bloody goodness straight away, with the complete rundown courtesy of StephenieMeyer.com:

Death Cab for Cutie—"Meet Me On The Equinox"
Band of Skulls—"Friends"
Thom Yorke—"Hearing Damage"
Lykke Li—"Possibility"
The Killers—"A White Demon Love Song"
Anya Marina—"Satellite Heart"
Muse—"I Belong To You ('New Moon' Remix)"
Bon Iver & St. Vincent—"Roslyn"
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club—"Done All Wrong"
Hurricane Bells—"Monsters"
Sea Wolf—"The Violet Hour"
OK Go—"Shooting the Moon"
Grizzly Bear—"Slow Life"
Editors—"No Sound But the Wind"
Alexandre Desplat—"New Moon (The Meadow)"

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We originally thought the full track list for the “New Moon” soundtrack was going to be released on Friday, but we're still waiting in anticipation to see what songs are going to be filling up our iPods come October 20 when the album is released.

Death Cab for Cutie is the only band to have released a song from the soundtrack (listen to “Meet Me At The Equinox” here!) and today MTV UK announced Muse would be remixing one of their tracks for the album as well.

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Tags Bon Iver, Death Cab For Cutie, Matt Bellamy, Muse, New Moon, New Moon Soundtrack, The Killers, Thom Yorke, Twilight

The key to some of the best featured songs from huge movie soundtracks is that they stand apart from the film they are meant to represent. Think "My Heart Will Go On" from "Titanic" or "Decode" from "Twilight." Such is the case with Death Cab for Cutie's "Meet Me on the Equinox," the first single off the "New Moon" soundtrack, which debuted yesterday (press play above to hear it in its entirety) while the Video Music Awards aired.

For those of you who don't know, the official Dictionary.com definition of equinox is: "the time when the sun crosses the plane of the earth's equator, making night and day of approximately equal length all over the earth." Vampires can only come out during the night and humans spend most of their life during the day sounds surprisingly fitting for a vampire/human love story. Read more...

Tags Ben Gibbard, Death Cab For Cutie, New Moon, New Moon Soundtrack, Twilight

Big news for the “Twilight” community today, kicking off what’s sure to be a huge VMA-filled weekend: MTV News is exclusively reporting that Summit has purchased the rights to “Twilight in Forks,” and will release the eagerly-anticipated documentary alongside “New Moon” when both hit DVD together in early 2010.

Hollywood Crush readers have been following the development of the first-ever movie about Stephenie Meyer’s “Twilight” phenomenon for several weeks now, as the filmmakers debuted its initial details, as well as the one-sheet and teaser trailer with us over the last several weeks. Read more...

Tags Death Cab For Cutie, Kristen Stewart, New Moon, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Twilight, Twilight In Forks, VMAs

Though Death Cab for Cutie's "Meet Me On the Equinox" won't premiere until Sunday (the day of the 2009 Video Music Awards and premiere of another "New Moon" trailer), the members of the Seattle-based band spoke with MTV News last week while shooting the video for the song, the first single from the "New Moon" soundtrack. The video doesn't have a set premiere date yet, but guitarist Chris Walla gave us the scoop on what the clip will entail.

Shots of the band playing in a rustic-looking "crazy ski lodge of a building," what Chris imagines is a place somewhere in Forks that "might be next door to Bella's house or something," will be intercut with footage from the movie. The Seattle-based band is no stranger to Forks — the musicians all hail from Washington and a couple even visited Forks in its pre-"Twilight" days. Read more...

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