Fandango reports:

Before we begin, you’re gonna need to get out a calendar and the biggest red marker you can find. Go…I’ll wait here.

Waiting…

Okay, got it? Good. Now turn to the month of March and draw a big fat circle around March 20th because that’s the day The Twilight Saga: New Moon will hit DVD and Blu-ray. But Erik, you say – isn’t March 20th a Saturday? And don’t DVDs usually get released on a Tuesday? Yes, they usually do – but with a DVD this big, retailers want to host some snazzy midnight release parties, which means they need a time when the kids won’t have to get up for school the next day.

So there it is – March 20th. I imagine you want to know what your purchasing options are, right? Well, they haven’t released all the details yet, but here’s what we do know: you’ll be able to pick up either a Two-Disc Special Edition DVD or a Special Edition Blu-ray – both of which will include the following:

Audio Commentary by director Chris Weitz and editor Peter Lambert

Six-Part Documentary takes you behind the scenes of the film

Rehearsal Footage with Muse, who is featured on the hit soundtrack

Three Music Videos from Death Cab for Cutie, Anya Marina and Mute Math

The press release does promise more, so there’s still a chance for some tasty deleted scenes, though chances are they’re saving those for another edition. The pre-sale begins on January 26th, just so you early birds are aware.

Justin Chon interviews the members of Muse! Check out more here on MTV.

Here it is! Death Cab For Cutie’s ‘Meet Me On The Equinox’ music video! Courtesy of MTV. What do you think of the new footage?

Preview all of the songs off of the Official Movie Soundtrack for New Moon over at Amazon!

The Twilight Examiner reports:

According to Amazon, the New Moon score will be released on November 24th, and it is priced at $14.99.

As you know, award-winning Alexandre Desplat is the composer of the New Moon score, and some of Carter Burwell’s work on the Twilight score will be incorporated into the film as well.

With the intensity that is to be expected with The Twilight Saga: New Moon’s amped up storyline, the score is sure to be a riveting experiential album.

Are you excited for the score? The soundtrack is also available for pre-order. Check out the pre-order page for the score on Amazon here!

Tinsel Corey, who plays Emily in New Moon, sings Robert’s “Never Think” for a group in La Push.

ETonline reports:

The first single for ‘The Twilight Saga: New Moon’ soundtrack has officially been confirmed, according to ‘Twilight’ author Stephenie Meyer’s blog.

Indie band Death Cab for Cutie — fronted by Ben Gibbard, fiancee to actress Zooey Deschanel — has written a song exclusively for the vampire sequel titled “Meet Me On the Equinox” and will debut the single live at the MTV VMA Awards on September 13, music Web site Pitchfork.com reports.

Meyer’s posted a statement from the Seattle based band on her blog describing the single: “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.

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.”

Be sure to check out the single on September 13 during the MTV VMA’s!

View the whole article here!

The New Moon Soundtrack is available for pre-order on Hot Topic!

From HotTopic’s website:

According to TwilightTheSoundtrack.com:

We are happy to announce that the New Moon soundtrack will be in stores on October 13th! That will give you all plenty of time to get to know the music before the movie is in theaters on November 20th. As Chris Weitz has mentioned, artists such as Thom Yorke, Bon Iver, Muse, and Band of Skulls are being discussed for the soundtrack but nothing is confirmed so far. Stay tuned to www.newmoonthesoundtrack.com for exciting information about the official soundtrack pre-order, which will get you tons of extras and exclusives before the album arrives!

HitFlix posted an article with Chris Weitz giving information on the soundtrack!

Director Chris Weitz has confirmed to HitFix.com that Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Bon Iver will be contributing all-new tracks to the film “Twilight Saga: New Moon.”

“I selfishly want to put songs in by artists I love. And some the cast and crew also happen to love,” says Weitz. “I think [Bon Iver] is fantastic. He says he wrote it for the film, but who ever knows if it might just be something laying around in his cupboard.”

Weitz mentioned that he will be listening to Yorke’s new track tomorrow (July 24) and “unless it’s sounds of him belching, I think I’ll put it in.”

The comments came during the “Twilight” sequel cast and crew interviews at Comic-Con in San Diego, the multi-day fest at the Convention Center.

British rock group Band Of Skulls — who have lately been opening for Spinnerette — will also be included and Weitz still is “hoping to get Kings Of Leon.”

As previously reported, Alexandre Desplat will be scoring the film, the sounds of which Weitz describes as “lush. That’s how I wanted the cinematography to be.”

Check it out here!

FMQB reports, “Death Cab For Cutie will contribute a brand new song to the soundtrack to the upcoming film Twilight: New Moon. The track will arrive in August, while the soundtrack itself will be out later this year. Twilight: New Moon will land in theaters on November 20.”

View everything here.

Entertainment Weekly has a new article on speculation over the New Moon soundtrack.

Speculation about who will appear on the New Moon soundtrack heated up this week after director Chris Weitz dropped a few big names to a RottenTomatoes.com interviewer: “The criterion will still always be what’s right for the movie at that given moment, but Thom Yorke is interested; we might, if we’re very lucky, get Kings of Leon to do something.” Well, well!

But don’t get too excited just yet. Yorke’s camp would neither confirm nor deny the Radiohead frontman’s reported involvement to EW at this time. The Kings of Leon connection, meanwhile, seems even more tenuous. “Not as of right now, no,” KoL lead singer Caleb Followill tells EW’s Whitney Pastorek when asked if his band will contribute to the Twilight sequel. “I haven’t had any time to write any music, we’ve been so busy… I would have to write a song in my hotel room, which I think we might could do, but I don’t know. As of right now I’m more focused on getting some rest and writing another album.”

Read the whole thing here!

The Twilight Soundtrack site and MTV have announced that Muse will be performing at the MTV Video Music Awards on September 13th. (Bella’s Birthday!)

Twilight fans will be pleased to learn that MTV have announced Muse will be performing at the 2009 Video Music Awards! As you may already be aware, the British rock outfit are Stephenie Meyer’s favorite band and she thanked them for their inspiration and called them “rock gods” in New Moon and Eclipse, and then decided to dedicate Eclipse to the band for providing “a saga’s worth of inspiration.” Muse’s single, ‘Supermassive Black Hole’ also appeared on the soundtrack for Twilight and was featured during the film in the baseball scene.

View the articles here at MTV, and at the Twilight Soundtrack Official Site.

The Lexicon reports:

The band is having a contest, full details will be posted tomorrow, but here’s a little preview:

It’s open to anyone who is a MySpace friend of the band on or before June 11th, or if they visit 100MonkeysMusic.com and submit their email address on or before June 11th.

Question: Now what do they win?

Answer: How’s tickets to the Allentown show and a up close and person meet and greet with the band sound?

So, for heavens sake, stop reading our blog and go friend the 100 Monkeys on MySpace and go sign up for their mailing list!