If the name “Sia” seems familiar to you it might just be from listening to the soundtrack from The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. Then again, it could also be because lately Sia seems to be everywhere. Last night saw Sia as a guest mentor on ‘The Voice’ and just this week Sia’s song from the Eclipse soundtrack, ‘My Love’, was featured on ‘Dancing With the Stars’. Dancers Chelsea Kane and Mark Ballas danced their waltz to Sia’s beautiful ballad. Enjoy the video below:

(Thanks Boo!)

This is such a beautiful song, it was perfect for Chelsea and Mark to do a waltz to. I was excited to see that a song from the Eclipse soundtrack was featured on the show!

Did you see this episode of ‘Dancing with the Stars’? What do you think of ‘My Love’ being used for Chelsea and Mark’s waltz?

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New Moon Soundtrack artists, Death Cab for Cutie, recently taped a special ‘Storytellers’ episode for VH1. The band taped the special in front of a very intimate 150 person audience, where they went in-depth talking about the inspirations and origins of many of their songs. You can watch the Death Cab ‘Storytellers’ episode on VH1 on May 27th at 11pm EST, just days before their new album, Codes and Keys, debuts. Read more below:

Death Cab for Cutie took to the stage as part of VH1′s Storytellers series and opened up about their songs in a way that is unprecedented for the band. During their performance, frontman Ben Gibbard said it was unusual yet cathartic for the band to talk about their songs’ origins.

“This is the first time I’ve played a show or felt a time appropriate to tell our stories,” Gibbard says on the show. “This feels a little bit like being on Oprah. I just haven’t talked about a lot this stuff and it’s bringing up some old sh*t.”

Read the full story here.

Are you going to watch Death Cab for Cutie on VH1′s ‘Storytellers’?

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New Moon soundtrack artists, Death Cab for Cutie not only have a new album coming out, but now they’ve just announced a whole new set of tour dates for 2011. You can pick up Codes and Keys on May31st, and see them live! Read more below:

Death Cab for Cutie is now set to work the road through the summer behind their forthcoming album, “Codes and Keys.”

The latest confirmed leg of dates for the band focuses on the North American summer amphitheater circuit, opening June 17 in Los Angeles and wrapping up Aug. 23 in the Denver area. Frightened Rabbit will open the newly announced shows.

Some fans will get a much more intimate dose of Ben Gibbard, Chris Walla and the rest of Death Cab for Cutie during a previously announced North American club tour that opens May 18 in Toronto and runs through June 9.

See more at Sound Spike, including tour dates here.

Have you ever seen Death Cab for Cutie live? Are you going to try and go to one of their shows?

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Exciting news for all the Muse fans out there! Muse are set to headline both Lollapalooza and the brand new music festival Kanrocksas this August. The only catch might be that they’re on the same weekend. Muse will be headlining Saturday night at Kanrocksas and their Lollapalooza time has yet to be announced. Also at Lollapalooza will be Cee Lo Green and Lykke Li, while The Black Keys are also headlining Kanrocksas. Check out more from Hitfix below:

Eminem and Muse will be pulling double-duty during the first weekend of August.

The rapper and British rock act are on slate to headline the very first Kanrocksas Music Festival, to be held at the Kansas Speedway over the weekend of Aug. 5 and 6. For those keeping at track at home, that’s the same weekend as Chicago’s yearly Lollapalooza bash, which also laid claim to the two acts just last night.

In one of only a handful of dates announced this year, Eminem will headline Lollapalooza 2011. Also taking the main stage at Chicago’s Grant Park for the Aug. 5-7 festival are Foo Fighters, Coldplay and Muse.

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the first Lollapalooza, which existed as a multi-artist traveling festival started founded by Farrell and William Morris Agency in 1991. They pulled the plug on the traveling version, which was on hiatus from 1997-2003, for good after the 2004 edition was canceled because of poor ticket sales. The next year, in 2005, they resurrected the festival as an one-city, three-day event in Chicago. The brand is so strong that the team, which now also includes C3 Presents, bowed Lollapalooza Chile in Santiago in April.

Read more at Hitfix here and here.

Check out more on Kanrocksas here and Lollapalooza here.

Again, if you haven’t seen Muse live yet, run, don’t walk to get some tickets!

Have you been to Lollapalooza before? What do you think of the brand new Kanrocksas Music Festival?

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New Moon soundtrack artists Death Cab for Cutie just keep giving us more surprises! Fresh off of their live, streaming recording of their video for ‘Your are a Tourist’, and then the release of their 2nd single, ‘Home is a Fire’ from their upcoming album Codes and Keys, we have one more new single, ‘Some Boys’. ‘Some Boys’ is the third single off of Codes and Keys which you can pick up on May 31st. Check out the song below:

So far you’ve heard “Home Is A Fire,” “Codes And Keys,” and “You Are A Tourist.” Now get a taste of the third track from Death Cab For Cutie’s upcoming LP Codes And Keys:

Read more at Stereogum here.

What do you think of the song ‘Some Boys’? Which of the three singles from the Codes and Keys do you like best so far? Are you planning to buy the album?

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Lykke Li tends to most always speak from the heart in her interviews and this latest interview with Vulture is no different. Here Lykke talks about her new album Wounded Rhymes before talking about her contribution to the soundtrack for New Moon with ‘Possibility’ and what exactly she was thinking. Read more below:

What was the appeal of contributing to the New Moon soundtrack?

What’s really funny is that it is mainstream. It’s like having space cookies at a lecture. A guy did that in a Swedish university. He gave the whole staff … nobody knew what it was. That’s what I was trying to do.

Um, what are space cookies?

Like brownies with marijuana in them.

Pot brownies!

It’s like you sneak in something strange, and it’s very rewarding.

Have you actually seen the Twilight movies?

No. I mean, they made me watch the second one, but that was before it was all done.

Did you enjoy it?

It’s not about enjoyment. For me, it’s about the actual: this girl that is hopelessly in love. I can relate to that.

Read the full interview at Vulture here.

Yeah, no words for this one…..

What do you think of what Lykke had to say?

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New Moon Soundtrack artists, Death Cab for Cutie just made history by filming the video for ‘You Are a Tourist’ while at the same time streaming the whole process live. Now the band has released a second single for us to enjoy, titled ‘Home Is a Fire’, which is also off their upcoming album, Codes and Keys, due out on May 31st. Take a listen to ‘Home Is a Fire’ and tell us what you think!

Death Cab For Cutie has moved on to release another new single titled “Home Is a Fire” — the album opener for their forthcoming record Codes and Keys. On this track, Ben Gibbard and company switch gears from their previous anthemic single, sprinkling in a touch of Postal Service’s sound into the mix.

Read more at Paste Magazine here.

What do you think of the new song ‘Home is a Fire’?

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