MTVu’s Woodie Awards Round-Up

Kings of Leon won Woodie of the Year and Green Day took home the Best Performing Woodie at the 2009 MTVu Woodie Awards, which brought together a cross-section of established and breaking artists Wednesday night (Nov. 19) at New York’s Roseland Ballroom.

Although neither band was in attendance, Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool accepted their award by video.

Indie darlings Matt & Kim kicked off the show — which celebrates the year’s best music as determined by MTVu’s college-centric audience — with an energetic performance of their breakout single “Lessons Learned.” Later, the duo returned to accept their Best Video Woodie award.

“We’ve had one heck of a year,” said Matt Johnson, before counterpart Kim Schifino leapt into the crowd.

Additional performers included veteran alt-rockers Death Cab for Cutie, who rocked the audience with its “New Moon” soundtrack single “Meet Me on the Equinox,” as well as Passion Pit, the Dead Weather and Clipse, who were joined onstage by fellow rappers Cam’ron and Rick Ross.

Presenter highlights came from Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz and pop prankserts 3OH!3. Wentz rolled onto the stage holding a red Solo cup, while 3OH!3 gave a nod to Lady Gaga by dressing in her various VMA outfits. Asher Roth, will.i.am, and surprise guest Cyndi Lauper also presented awards.

While Kings of Leon and Green Day won the top prizes, smaller acts took home statues as well. Never Shout Never’s Christofer Drew Ingle and Missouri rapper Tech N9ne earned the Breaking Woodie and the Left Field Woodie, respectively.

The Woodie Awards air Dec. 4 on MTV Networks.

ATTN New Moon Fans: Cast Mall Tour To Include Concert

Summit Entertainment has announced a New Moon 15-city mall tour across the U.S.!

The tour will feature Q&A’s with cast-members of New Moon along with performances by bands from the soundtrack at select stops.

The tour will kick off in Hollywood on November 6 at the Hollywood & Highland complex with performances by Death Cab for Cutie, Anya Marina, Sea Wolf and Band of Skulls.

Click HERE for tour dates.

‘New Moon’ Exclusive Song Premiere: Lykke Li, ‘Possibility’

The “Twilight: New Moon” soundtrack’s release date was just moved up to Oct. 16 and we’ve got one of the tracks for you to check out.

Swedish alt-pop singer/songwriter Lykke Li’s contribution to “New Moon” is “Possbility,” a haunting piece of chamber pop that finds her humming over a hymnal drone and stark, metronomic piano line. “There’s a possibility all that I had was all I gon’ get,” Li sings through thick echoes. “So tell me when you hear my heart stop/You’re the only one that knows/Tell me when you hear my silence/There’s a possibility/ I wouldn’t know.”

Li, who recently ended a world tour in support of her debut album, “Youth Novels,” recently blogged about her contribution to the “New Moon” soundtrack. “I got to see ['New Moon'] when I was in LA for a show and an idea immediately rose to my mind,” said the singer. “It would take a few weeks before I even had a chance to sit down by a piano but then suddenly I wrote it while having a few days off in Sweden just coming out of a fever…I’m really proud of it and hope you will love it and need it.”

The “Twilight: New Moon” soundtrack also features indie darlings Bon Iver and St. Vincent in a duet entitled “Roslyn,” as well as songs by Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke, Brooklyn band Grizzly Bear, U.K. outfit Muse and rockers Death Cab for Cutie, who claimed the lead single with “Meet Me on the Equinox.”

Check out Lykke Li’s ‘Possibility’ –

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Video Premiere: Death Cab For Cutie ‘Meet Me At The Equinox’

Attention Twilight fans!

Death Cab For Cutie debuted their new video for ‘Meet Me At The Equinox’ from the Twilight Saga: New Moon soundtrack last night on MTV.

And there’s a surprise for all of you Twilight fanatics…the video contains unseen footage from the movie with Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson!

Check it out –

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Death Cab For Cutie ‘Meet Me On The Equinox’ from New Moon Premier Tonight

Death Cab For Cutie will premier the music video for “Meet Me On The Equinox“, later today exclusively on MTV at 8pm. The track is off the forthcoming Twilight soundtrack, ‘The Twilight Saga: New Moon Soundtrack‘.

In case you miss it, the video will be available on MTV.com following it’s TV debut.

‘The Twilight Saga: New Moon soundtrack‘ is due out October 20.

Zooey Deschanel Gets Married!

Actress/singer Zooey Deschanel married rocker Ben Gibbard from “Death Cab for Cutie” this past weekend in a private ceremony. They were engaged back in December of 2008. They wed in front of their close friends and family members outside of Seattle, Washington. The guest list included Natalie Portman and James Franco.

Death Cab For Cutie Lands Single On New Moon Soundtrack

Death Cab For Cutie has just landed their single ‘Meet Me On The Equinox’ on the highly anticipated New Moon soundtrack.

The band released the following statement –

“We are very excited to be a part of this amazing series of novels set in our own backyard. It just seemed a perfect synergy that a band from the Northwest would create a song for a series of novels set in the Northwest.”

They went on to say, “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 and we are proud to be a part of the Twilight legacy.”

Fans will get a first listen of ‘Meet Me On The Equinox’ during the MTV Video Music Awards on September 13th.