Get To Know The Hunger Games Companion Album Artists
2/14/2012Score/SoundtrackShylah
Now that the Hunger Games companion album, Songs from District 12 and Beyond, has been offered up for pre-order, we have finally gotten a look at all of the artists featured. Some like Taylor Swift, The Decemberists, The Civil Wars, and Arcade Fire, we’ve known about– others, like Neko Case and Punch Brothers, we’re hearing about for the first time.
Not familiar with some (or most) of these artists? No worries– we’ve got you covered! From official websites to what they sound like, you’ll find all the need to know information right here!
Taylor Swift
Genre: Country/Pop
Awards: Six Grammy Awards, Ten American Music Awards, Eleven Billboard Music Awards
Best Known For:
Hunger Games Contributions:
‘Safe and Sound’
‘Eyes Open’
No information yet for this song.
See the rest of the artists after the jump!
The Civil Wars
Genre: Americana/Folk/Country
Awards: Two Grammy Awards
Best Known For:
Hunger Games Contributions:
‘Safe and Sound’
‘Kingdom Come’
No information yet for this song.
Arcade Fire
Genre: Indie Rock
Awards: One Grammy Award
Best Known For:
Hunger Games Contribution:
‘Abraham’s Daughter’
No information yet for this song.
Kid Cudi
Genre: Hip Hop
Awards: Two Grammy Awards
Best Known For:
Hunger Games Contribution:
‘The Ruler & The Killer’
No information yet for this song.
Miranda Lambert
Genre: Country/Country Rock
Awards: One Grammy Award
Best Known For:
Hunger Games Contribution:
‘Run Daddy Run’ (feat. Pistol Annies)
No information yet for this song.
The Decemberists
Genre: Indie Rock/Folk Rock
Awards: One Grammy Nomination
Best Known For:
Hunger Games Contribution:
‘One Engine’
Glen Hansard
Genre: Indie Rock/Folk Rock
Awards: One Academy Award, One Critics’ Choice Award
Best Known For:
Hunger Games Contribution:
‘Take The Heartland’
No information yet for this song.
The Low Anthem
Genre: Folk Rock/Indie Rock
Awards: N/A
Best Known For:
Hunger Games Contribution:
‘Lover is Childlike’
No information yet for this song.
Punch Brothers
Genre: Progressive Bluegrass
Awards: N/A
Best Known For:
Hunger Games Contribution:
‘Dark Days’
No information yet for this song.
The Secret Sisters
Genre: Traditional Country
Awards: N/A
Best Known For:
Hunger Games Contribution:
‘Tomorrow Will Be Kinder’
Birdy
Genre: Folk
Awards: N/A
Best Known For:
Hunger Games Contribution:
‘Just A Game’
No information yet for this song
Jayme Dee
Genre: Electroacoustic / Jazz / Pop
Awards: N/A
Best Known For:
Hunger Games Contribution:
‘Rules’
No information yet for this song.
Carolina Chocolate Drops
Genre: Old-Time
Awards: N/A
Best Known For:
Hunger Games Contribution:
‘The Daughters Lament’
No information yet for this song.
Neko Case
Genre: Indie Rock/Alternative Country/Folk Rock
Awards: Female Artist of the Year at the Plug Independent Music Awards
Best Known For:
Hunger Games Contribution:
‘Nothing To Remember’
No information yet for this song.
Maroon Five
Genre: Pop Rock
Awards: One American Music Awards,Two Billboard Music Awards, Three Grammy Awards
Best Known For:
Hunger Games Contribution:
‘Come Away to the Water’
No confirmed information yet for this song. Though speculation is this piece may be based on this Hunger Games inspired song by Glen Hansard
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2 comments
Isabel
on said:
Thank you so much for making a master list! This is going to be an amazing album I think. Can’t wait to hear all of the other contributions.
Ash
on said:
I hate to be a Douchy McNitpick, but I know a fair amount about Punch Brothers and thought I could add some helpful info.
First of all, they have got a couple of Grammy nominations. Chris Thile, the band’s founder and mandolin player, also has won a couple of Grammy awards (one with his previous group, Nickel Creek) and been nominated for three others. Chris Thile is really something extraordinary, a mix of prodigy, virtuoso, innovator, and artist that doesn’t come along very often. He’s sort of the modern-day mandolin equivalent of Mozart.
The other members of the band are impressive as well. The banjo player Noam Pikelny is a winner of the prestigious Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass. The Bassist is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music (a classical music school with a reputation for being more prestigious and competitive than Juilliard), where he studied with famous bassist Edgar Meyer.
The Punch Brothers’ style is so varied that it’s difficult to pin down a single representative piece as an example. Rye Whiskey, while excellent and very fun, may be a bit more straightforward and bluegrassy than most of their stuff. The piece the band was formed to play is Chris Thile’s four-movement “The Blind Leaving the Blind” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moOqNjJZJAE), but that’s a bit ambitious to start with. “Me and Us” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmv5pdtCiu8) and “You Are” (www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CGhjUAfFRs) are a bit shorter, and probably about as close to typical for them as it’s possible to get.
They also do a whole lot of Radiohead covers–here’s “Packt Like Sardines in a Crushed Tin Box” (www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtujwGZYQa8) and the occasional classical piece–here they are playing a Bach Brandenburg Concerto (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1NNBf7uVQ4&feature=related).
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