With the release of the official track list last week for The Twilight Saga: New Moon, several interviews and discussions have made their way to my desktop. So I thought I would do a quick round-up. Sound good? Great. Here we go… (Be sure to click through for all the goods!)

Radar Online caught up with St. Vincent’s Annie Clark, who is contributing a song called “Roslyn” with Bon Iver.

RadarOnline.com: Do you expect or hope on your tour that the concerts will be attracting a lot more concerts or fans now because of Twilight?

Annie: I’m not really expecting that, if that happens it will be a surprise to me. I’m not totally expecting that that would happen, in fact, I don’t know that that will happen at all. Certainly, the thing that inspired me to do the Twilight soundtrack is I was a suburban teen, kind of still am a suburban teen at heart, I remember being 15 and hearing the Romeo and Juliet soundtrack or seeing the movie The Craft and the Pulp Fiction soundtrack, I love the Pulp Fiction soundtrack, so all of these things as a kid growing up I wouldn’t have come across cool music if it wasn’t in films. Not every town or city has an awesome local record shop, they have a Target.

See the whole article here.

Hurricane Bells’ Steve Schiltz chatted with Live.Love.Twilight about being put on the soundtrack.

Can you describe the process of being chosen for the soundtrack?

It came as a bolt out of the blue to me. My manager had asked for something “exclusive” about 3 months ago. I already had the Hurricane Bells record done. He said the people he was talking to wanted something not on the record. I had “monsters” left over, and I sent it. I told him I didn’t want to know what it was for.

Then I found out that it was really going to happen last week, maybe a week before it was announced. They wanted edits of the song for the movie, and I had to do them. I couldn’t tell anyone, and it was pretty nerve wracking. When it was announced I was so relieved….and excited.

See the whole interview here. Thanks to the Lexicon.

New Moon the Soundtrack has some info about Lykke Li and her appearance on the soundtrack.

“It’s true, I’m on the new New Moon Soundtrack with a completely new and exclusive song called ‘Possibility’. I got to see it when I was in LA for a show and an idea immediately rose to my mind… 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. It’s kind of hard talking about it, cause it’s so open and obvious so my best tip is to actually listen to it when you get a chance…. Lay down on a bed and just listen my love.”

Via Twilight Gossip Girl News.

Here are some thoughts from Paste Magazine on some of the lesser discussed songs.

Anya Marina – “Satellite Heart”
Modest Mouse’s “Satellite Skin” was a great song, so this could be at least 47.5% great if you do some fuzzy math. Come to think of it, “Satellite Skin” would (probably) have been a way better spacecraft-themed tune for this album…
Muse – “I Belong to You”
Like everything else Muse does, it’ll either be red-hot or a total turd. In a perfect world they would realize that Queen did certain things first and best, and move on. But you know what they say about perfect worlds…
OK Go – “Shooting the Moon”
Here’s a way to make this one an instant viral classic: Vampires (stay with us now) ON TREADMILLS!
Grizzly Bear – “Slow Life”
What’s it gonna be, Grizzly Bear? You can be the soundtrack to 3 a.m. cashed-bowl bull-sessions or the travails of listless abstinence vampires, but not both! Actually, both of those subcultures are nocturnal, so, maybe they’re on to something here.

Here is a blurb from Stereogum.

Is the New Moon soundtrack the best album of 2009?

Whoops, looks like two cultures just got shocked. Obviously that headline is a joke! Except that maybe it isn’t? Rumors had been swirling about Thom Yorke and Bon Iver penning songs for the The Twilight Saga: Teen Vampires In Love Some More soundtrack, and those rumors are confirmed with today’s OST tracklist, exclusively revealed by MySpace. But you already knew that because MySpace is your homepage. And hey, this thing looks good, like mini-Dark Was The Night good.

In addition to Thom’s new tune “Hearing Damage,” and Bon Iver’s duet with St. Vincent’s face on a song called “Rosyln,” Twilight scored previously unreleased tracks from Grizzly Bear and the Killers. Atlantic, in conjunction with soundtrack curator Alexandra Patsavas’s Chop Shop, will release the album, and so there’s a correlatively strong showing of Atlantic-affiliated artists (Death Cab, Lykke Li, and Muse, the lone holdover from the first film’s OST) and a Patsavas pet (her Chop Shop puts out Anya Marina who made the cut).

Thanks to TheEvilAngel!