Rockers To Swallow has released the cover version of Vera Lynn’s We’ll Meet Again from the comedy Jackass: Best and Last. The track (originally written by Ross Parker & Hughie Charles) is performed by Karen O & Roger Alan Wade and is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital services. Also listen to the song after the jump. Jackass: Best and Last is directed by Jeff Tremaine and stars Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Wee Man (Jason Acuña), Danger Ehren (Ehren McGhehey), Dave England,P reston Lacy, Jasper, Dark Shark (Compston Wilson), Rachel Wolfson, Poopies (Sean McInerney) and Zach Holmes.
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Ari Folman’s ‘Where Is Anne Frank’ to Feature Music by Karen O & Ben Goldwasser
Karen O (of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs) and Ben Goldwasser (of the rock band MGMT) have composed the original music for the upcoming animated feature Where Is Anne Frank. The film is written and directed by Ari Folman (Waltz with Bashir, The Congress) and features the voices of Emily Carey, Ruby Stokes, Sebastian Croft, Ralph Prosser and Michaël Maloney and Tracy Ann Oberman. The movie tells the story of Kitty, Anne Frank’s imaginary friend, the one that Anne devoted her entire diary to, as she magically comes to life at the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam and sets out on a relentless quest to find Anne.
Karen O’s Original Song ‘Anti-Lullaby’ from Amazon’s ‘Hanna’ Released
Karen O has recorded an original song for the upcoming Amazon original series Hanna. The track, entitled Anti-Lullaby, is written and performed by the singer/songwriter and is also featured in the show’s new teaser trailer, which is embedded after the jump. The song is now available to download on Amazon. Karen O has previously written original songs for Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are and Her, for which she received an Academy Award nomination. Hanna is developed by David Farr based Joe Wright’s 2011 feature of the same title (which Farr co-wrote) and stars Mireille Enos, Joel Kinnaman and Esme Creed-Miles.
Video Highlights from the 86th Academy Awards
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences and ABC have published some of the music-related highlights of the 86th Academy Awards ceremony online. Check out the acceptance speeches of Steven Price who won the Oscar for his music for Gravity and Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Bobby Lopez who won the award for the song Let It Go from Frozen after the jump. Also embedded are the live performances of the songs Let It Go by Idina Menzel, Ordinary Love by U2, Happy by Pharrell Williams and The Moon Song by Karen O. The ceremony also featured a performance of Somewhere Over the Rainbow by Pink as a tribute to The Wizard of Oz, as well as the song The Wind Beneath My Wings by Bette Midler for the In Memoriam tribute.
Karen O to Perform ‘The Moon Song’ from ‘Her’ on the Oscars
Oscars show producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron announced today that singer-songwriter Karen O will, for the first time, perform the Academy Award-nominated original song The Moon Song for a global television audience on the Oscars on March 2, 2014. The song from Spike Jonze’s romantic drama Her starring Joaquin Phoenix, Scarlett Johansson, Amy Adams and Rooney Mara is one of the four nominated titles in the Best Original Song category. It was previously announced that all the three other songs (Happy from Despicable Me 2, Let It Go from Frozen and Ordinary Love from Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom) will also be performed at the event. Karen O who is the lead singer of the band Yeah Yeah Yeahs and has previously written songs for Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are is Oscar-nominated for the first time.
‘The Moon Song’ (Music from and Inspired by ‘Her’) Single Released
WaterTower Music has released the single The Moon Song featuring music from and inspired by Spike Jonze’s Academy Award-nominated drama Her. The release includes three recordings of The Moon Song, which is up for an Academy Award in the Best Original Song category. One version is performed by Scarlett Johansson and Joaquin Phoenix and is featured in the film and another version is performed by Karen O and plays over the movie’s end credits. The third version is a new recording of the song, which features Karen O in a duet with Ezra Koenig, singer and guitarist of Vampire Weekend. To download the single, visit iTunes. Her is written and directed by Spike Jonze and stars Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Rooney Mara, Olivia Wilde and Scarlett Johansson. The movie about a complex, soulful man who becomes intrigued with a new, advanced operating system, which promises to be an intuitive and unique entity in its own right is currently playing in theaters.