Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross already won Academy Award for scoring Fincher’s last movie, The Social Network, and as previously reported, they’re together again for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Earlier this year we learned that Reznor and Yeah Yeah Yeahs leader Karen O were getting together to cover the Led Zeppelin classic “Immigrant Song”. After hearing that, it left many wondering what theme the rest of the soundtrack would have.

Today, you can listen to six additional songs off of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. We’ve also included the Led Zeppelin cover as well:

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“Immigrant Song” – Karen O, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo soundtrack is available for pre-order, with the full release will be on December 9th. According to NIN.com, you’ve got two options if you want purchase the soundtrack:

VIsit iTunes here where you can immediately download Karen O’s and our version of Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song” when you pre-order the soundtrack for $11.99.
You will also be able to exclusively watch the legendary 8-minute trailer you may have heard about (no purchase necessary obviously). We scored this trailer separately from the film, BTW.

Visit our store here. We’re offering a variety of purchasing options including multiple format high-quality digital files, CDs and a really nice limited edition deluxe package containing vinyl and a flash drive.
In addition, RIGHT NOW you can download a six-track, 35 minute

What did you think of the soundtrack so far? Do you plan on seeing this movie? Let us know in the comment area below.

Led Zeppelin IV is not a cult hit, or an underground masterpiece. It’s an album that’s been heard by nearly everyone that appreciates rock & roll music. It’s popular, and its accolades are numerous. There are some albums that are great because they feel like they were made specifically for you, and are special because you feel unique in your appreciation for it – this is not one of those albums.

This is a seminal album that was made for everyone – and if you don’t like it then there is probably something wrong with you. That’s just how it is.

But in the same vein, Led Zeppelin IV remains an important and personal album to any adolescent music fan – growing up in 1971 or 2011. It has the ability to be special for each and every person that listens to it.

And as many times as “Stairway to Heaven” or “Black Dog” is overplayed and murdered on your local rock radio station, it fails to make Led Zeppelin IV any less influential – or amazing.

Oh, and let us not forget that the closing combination of “Going to California” and “When the Levee Breaks” could be one of the best finishes in rock history.

Let’s take a musical journey through ZoSo, with the help of YouTube:

Black Dog (studio version)

Rock n’ Roll (live MSG 1973)

The Battle of Evermore (live Jimmy Page, Robert Plant 1994)

Stairway to Heaven (live, from “The Song Remains The Same”)

Misty Mountain Hop (studio version)

Four Sticks (studio version)

Going to California (live)

When the Levee Breaks (studio)

What are some of your favorite Led Zeppelin-related memories? Let us know in the comments.

In 2007, plenty of interest among music fans manifested itself in numerous blogs. Billboard Magazine, once one of those outlets that owned music news, blogged about problems getting in the show.

However, music publication NME came through with the set list from the two hour concert. In a way this showed how far media coverage has come with the Internet, and how far it has to go.

Though NME followed up with a solid review, there was no stream to follow of the show. No audio, no video, no chance for some horrid, clever person to (horrors!) record this performance.

A once in a lifetime reunion should have had a greater reach than its audience. If the much-expected DVD of the concert does emerge, that would make up for this for a lot of fans. We shouldn’t have to wait for a DVD, not when modern multimedia streaming and content distribution networks could have made the show a lot more immediate to what would have been a grateful online audience.

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Why “one company” out of all the people who could be connected to either event?  Simply put: because O2 can be connected to both.  “[M]obile telco O2 . . . sponsors the venue for the Led Zep gig (the former Millenium Dome, now rechristened The O2), and will also be the exclusive network provider for the iPhone in the UK,” reports Hitwise’s Robin Goad.

So, following the announcement of the Led Zeppelin reunion concert, UK Internet traffic to the O2 arena’s homepage shot up from practically zero to almost 1.5 percent.  O2’s main site was unaffected – it actually suffered from a decline in traffic for most of the week.

On the other hand, the main O2 site “did receive a boost yesterday following the iPhone announcement,” writes Goad.  “Its increase in traffic was 21%, compared to 6% for Apple and 12% for Carphone Warehouse (the sole independent retailer carrying the iPhone).”

I’m now going to wag a finger (and I’m not saying which) at everyone who made the iPhone look more influential than Led Zeppelin in this one small way.