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Hear ‘Laggies’ Composer Ben Gibbard’s New Death Cab For Cutie Album Now On NPR

NPR Premieres Benjamin Gibbard’s New Album Just Weeks Shy Of Death Cab For Cutie’s North American Tour

 

Laggies composer Benjamin Gibbard and his band, Death Cab For Cutie, are about to embark on a North American tour next month, but not before giving all the fans get a first listen to DCFC’s new album, Kintsugi.

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10 Romantic And Fun Soundtracks For Valentine’s Day Weekend, Watch The Films On Demand!

For Valentine’s Day weekend, we take a look at some of our favorite soundtrack and score albums from great movies with love stories.  From incredibly romantic and sweet, to shout-it-from-the-rooftops kind of love, we’ve got something for every taste.  The movies are also available now On Demand, so add them to your play queue or watch them this weekend.  Preview the albums to these 10 soundtrack selections.  Share with us which ones you would love to have in your collection in the comments below!

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Beastly (Songs From The Motion Picture): iTunes | Buy CD
True love.  A modern retelling of Beauty & The Beast, a once charmed man is cursed and must find true love within a year, or he will forever remain cursed.  Alex Pettyfer, Vanessa Hudgens and Mary-Kate Olsen stars.  Watch the movie on iTunes.  Check out the score album featuring Composer Marcelo Zarvos.


Watch the music video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izLs96TyXYw
Preview the full Beastly soundtrack on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgDiX0zvRAk

 

Words and Pictures (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack): iTunes
Love comes after foreplay.  An art instructor and an English teacher form a rivalry that ends up with a competition at their school in which students decide whether words or pictures are more important.  Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche stars. Rent the movie on iTunes.  Soundtrack features the score by Composer Paul Grabowsky.


Watch the album preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6drIJYUseOs

 

The One I Love (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack): iTunes | Buy CD
Love is weird.  A married couple find their relationship and very existence put to the test in this wickedly inventive romantic comedy.  Mark Duplass, Elisabeth Moss and Ted Danson stars.  Watch the movie on Netflix.  Soundtrack features the score by Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans.


Watch the album preview on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0-GY_10k20

 

Wicker Park (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack): iTunes | Buy CD
Love makes you do crazy things.  Intricately moving back and forth in time revealing the story from each character’s perspective, Wicker Park is an intense psychological drama about a man in an obsessive search for a woman he fell deeply in love with – a woman who then vanishes without a trace.  Two years after her disappearance, he catches a fleeting glimpse of her in a local bar and begins a twisting search to find her and discover what really happened.  Josh Hartnett, Rose Byrne, Matthew Lillard, Diane Kruger and Christopher Cousins star.  Watch the music video below featuring Ben Gibbard’s (Laggies Soundtrack) The Postal Service band.  Watch the movie on iTunes.


Watch the music video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvjlivsCBcM

 

The Song (Original Motion Picture Score): iTunes | pre-order CD
Love never fails.  An aspiring singer-songwriter’s life and marriage suffer when the song he writes for his wife propels him to stardom.  Alan Powell (frontman of “Anthem Lights”), Ali Faulkner (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1) and Caitlin Nicol-Thomas (Nashville) stars.  Watch the movie on iTunes.  The album features the score by Composer Vincent Emmett.


Watch the album preview on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBGAzjr3lfA

 

Rob The Mob (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack): iTunes | Buy CD
Love can be trouble.  A modern day Bonnie and Clyde hatch an idea to rob the mob.  Michael Pitt, Nina Arianda, Ray Romano and Andy Garcia stars.  Watch the movie on iTunes.  The soundtrack features the score by Composer Stephen Endelman.


Watch the music video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwMYx3pBIcU
Watch the album preview on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9TTs6DkZKA

 

G.B.F. (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack): iTunes | Buy CD
Love comes unexpectedly.  When Tanner is outed as a school’s only openly gay student, three popular girls engage in an epic fight to acquire him as their “Gay Best Friend.”  Michael J. WillettPaul IaconoSasha Pieterse and Xosha Roquemore stars.  Watch the movie on Netflix.


Watch the album preview on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcHz1iL0Gx4

 

Cavemen (Original Motion Picture Soundrack): iTunes | Buy CD
Love isn’t easy to find.  L.A. playboy Dean is fed up with one-night stands and empty relationships – he wants more out of life than just a party.  With a little help from his nine-year-old nephew and his best friend Tess, Dean decides to try his hand at finding true love for the first time – which proves to be much more difficult than he thought in modern-day Los Angeles.  Camilla Belle, Skylar Austin, Chad Michael Murray, Alexis Knapp, Chasty Ballesteros, Kenny Wormald and Dayo Okeniyi stars.  Rent the movie on iTunes.


Watch the album preview on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD9ZUE5ByhA

 

Blue Valentine (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack): iTunes | Buy CD
Love evolves.  The relationship of a contemporary married couple, charting their evolution over a span of years by cross-cutting between time periods.  Ryan Gosling (Drive) and Academy Award nominee Michelle Williams star.  Rent the movie on iTunes.  Soundtrack feature the score by Grizzly Bear.


Watch the music video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZUm2Gp3_AA
Watch the album preview on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBmuwCkeeMo

 

Girl On A Bicycle (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack): iTunes | Buy CD
Love can get complicated.  Paolo, an Italian who drives a Paris tour bus, has just proposed to his true love, when the young French beauty, Cécile pulls up beside his bus on her bicycle – and, in short order, Paolo, following some very bad advice from his friend, Derek, finds himself with a German fiancée, a French “wife”, two Australian children who call him “Papa”, and his life upside-down.  Vincenzo Amato, Paddy Considine, Stephane Debac, Louise Monot and Nora Tschirner stars.  Watch the movie on Netflix.  The soundtrack features the score by Composer Craig Richey.


Watch the album preview on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbwzELXCBaw

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Watch On iTunes: White Bird In A Blizzard, Dear White People, Laggies, Napoleon Dynamite +More On VOD

Lakeshore Records Releases Are Hot On iTunes with Three Films Charting in the Top 20! White Bird In A Blizzard (Featured), Dear White People (Editor’s Pick), Laggies (Charting) And Napoleon Dynamite (Special Offer)

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Dear White People – *Editor’s Pick* (rent/buy it on iTunes)

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Dear White People (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) *Featured On iTunes*
Dear White People (Original Motion Picture Score)

 

White Bird In A Blizzard (rent/buy it on iTunes) *Featured On iTunes*

Buy The Album:
White Bird In A Blizzard (Songs From The Film) *Featured on iTunes*

White Bird In A Blizzard, Music by Robin Guthrie & Harold Budd

 

 

Napoleon Dynamite (buy movie on iTunes) *Limited-time price $4.99 in HD ends Monday*

Buy The Album:
Napoleon Dynamite (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)


Watch Napoleon Dynamite Album Preview On YouTube

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Nightcrawler (rent it on iTunes) – Available January 27
Why: Director Dan Gilroy has received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay; co-stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Rene Russo have received critical acclaim since the film’s premiere last fall!

Buy The Album:
Nightcrawler (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), music by eight-time Academy Award nominee James Newton Howard
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby (rent/buy it on iTunes on February 3)

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The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) – The Song, “No Fait Awaits Me” by Son Lux & Faux Fix, received critical acclaim.  Son Lux was composer on the film.

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Laggies Composer Ben Gibbard Talks Film Scoring (LA Times), Watch Now On VOD, Blu-ray/DVD Available On February 10

Gibbard has also released a solo album “Former Lives,” saw his electro-pop project the Postal Service return for a one-off tour, and contributed score work for the feature film “Laggies” and the documentary “Kurt Cobain: About A Son.   Read the full story at LA Times.

 

The very busy Laggies Composer Ben Gibbard talks to the LA Times about what he’s been up to, including the exciting release of his new Death Cab for Cutie album.  And now, Laggies the film is available on digital download and rental on iTunes (watch Laggies here).  Fans have described this film as the “best girl-buddy rom-com” since Bridesmaids. After watching the film, check out the soundtrack featuring the score by Benjamin Gibbard.  If you prefer your own Blu-ray/DVD copy, you can pre-order the disc now (order here).

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Laggies (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack): iTunes | Buy CD


http://youtu.be/lEZhz0TAL8A

 

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Ben Gibbard Talks About Film Scoring And Working With Foo Fighters

Benjamin Gibbard - Laggies (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Own your HD copy of the Laggies movie today (download it on iTunes) or pre-order your Blu-ray/DVDs now (order here).

 

Ben Gibbard: ‘Laggies’ Composer Talks About Singing In ‘Subterranean’, Foo Fighters ‘Sonic Highways’ Documentary +More | Rolling Stone

If the Foo Fighters want you to show up somewhere, you just do it,” Ben Gibbard tells Rolling Stone. So when Dave Grohl reached out to the Death Cab For Cutie frontman to ask if he’d participate in the Foos’ HBO documentary series Sonic Highways, Gibbard didn’t hesitate.

Read the full interview at Rolling Stone.

 

Laggies composer Benjamin Gibbard is no stranger to contributing to films.  Before scoring on Laggies — the new coming of age comedy starring Keira Knightley, Chloë Grace Moretz and Sam Rockwell — Benjamin Gibbard scored the Kurt Cobain documentary (with Steve Fisk), Kurt Cobain About A Son (2006).  Directed by Lynn Shelton, Laggies the film is out now nationwide (check show times).

Preview the Laggies Soundtrack here:


http://youtu.be/lEZhz0TAL8A

Read more about Laggies and Benjamin Gibbard.

Download The Album!

Laggies (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack): iTunes | Buy CD

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Watch Laggies, now playing nationwide in theaters (check show times).