A pressing question weighing heavily on all our minds these days: What’s up with vampires and indie rock? The Twilight saga has yet another crop of top-shelf indie artists contributing to its soundtrack, and now HBO’s True Blood series has unveiled the rather, um, killer soundtrack to its third season.
Beck, M. Ward, Lucinda Williams, Elvis Costello, Eels, and many more—including Bob Dylan—appear on True Blood Volume 2, and you can read the full roster below.
The soundtrack is streaming exclusively right now and will be released officially on May 25 via Elektra.
True Blood Volume 2
01 M. Ward – “Howlin’ for My Baby”
02 Jace Everett & CC Adcock – “Evil (Is Going On)”
03 Beck – “Bad Blood”
04 Robbie Robertson – “How To Become Clairvoyant”
05 Jr. Walker and The All Stars – “Shake And Fingerpop”
06 Screamin’ Jay Hawkins – “Frenzy”
07 Lucinda Williams with Elvis Costello – “Kiss Like Your Kiss”
08 Buddy & Julie Miller – “Gasoline And Matches”
09 Chuck Prophet – “You Did (Bomp Shooby Dooby Bomp)”
10 The 13th Floor Elevators – “You’re Gonna Miss Me”
11 Eels – “Fresh Blood”
12 Thievery Corporation – “The Forgotten People (Bon Temps Remix)”
13 King Britt & Sister Gertrude Morgan – New World In My View”
14 Bob Dylan – “Beyond Here Lies Nothin’”
