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The iTunes Live EP is out today! The EP was recorded during their Live at the Apple Store performance in Chicago. Purchase the EP on  iTunes for $5.99 or $1.29 per song.

1. Ready To Go (Get Me Out of My Mind) [Live]
2. But It’s Better If You Do (Live)
3. New Perspective (Live)
4. Nine In the Afternoon (Live)
5. The Calendar (Live)
6. I Write Sins Not Tragedies (Live)

Listen to a 1:30min. preview of “Mercenary” on iTunes, if you can’t access iTunes in your country Amazon.com has a shorter and slightly different preview available.

“Mercenary” will be on Batman: Arkham City – The Album out on October 4th.

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Panic! At The Disco’s Live at the Apple Store performance in Chicago back in June is getting released as an iTunes Live EP. The EP will be released on September 27th and is currently available for pre-order on iTunes for $5.99. View the tracklisting below:

1. Ready To Go (Get Me Out of My Mind) [Live]
2. But It’s Better If You Do (Live)
3. New Perspective (Live)
4. Nine In the Afternoon (Live)
5. The Calendar (Live)
6. I Write Sins Not Tragedies (Live)

[...] “Deranged” is one of many standouts on Batman Arkham City — The Album, the soundtrack to one of the most anticipated video games of 2011. In groundbreaking fashion, the album features songs all inspired by the Batman universe. This collection drops on October 4th, while the game hits shelves October 18th. Panic! at the Disco’s “Mercenary” is an eerie exercise in alt rock theatrics complete a guitar swing and massive refrain about “collateral damage”. It would’ve fit Tim Burton’s original Batman or Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight. [...]

Source: artistdirect.com

Panic! At The Disco, Daughtry, Coheed and Cambria and Serj Tankian have all contributed new songs for the soundtrack to forthcoming video game “Batman: Arkham City.”

Each of the 12 artists wrote a tune specifically for the project. The album streets Oct. 4, two weeks prior to the video game. The collector’s edition of the video game comes with a download code for the album.

Of course, writing for the Caped Crusader carries its own challenges. Coheed and Cambria frontman Claudio Sanchez said in a statement, “I write in a very conceptual format with the stories that surround Coheed and Cambria, but Batman has a much larger, defined history and rules that go along with it. My goal was to find universal themes from Batman’s existing history to help give the lyrics legs and dimension so that the song could live within that world.”

None of the songs appears in the actual video game, so this is one of those albums that should carry the “inspired by” tags in the title, like the “Alice In Wonderland” album that came out a few years ago. Read the full article »

Panic! At The Disco will [reportedly] appear with a new song called “Mercenary” in the soundtrack for the video game Batman: Arkham City. The album will be released on October 4, 2011.

Batman: Arkham City – The Album

01. Panic! At The Disco – Mercenary
02. Coheed and Cambria – Deranged
03. The Duke Spirit – Creature
04. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Shadow On The Run
05. Blaqk Audio – Afterdark
06. Raveonettes – Oh, Stranger
07. † † † (Crosses) – The Years
08. The Damned Things – Trophy Widow
09. Daughtry – Drown In You
10. The Boxer Rebellion – Losing You
11. Serj Tankian – Total Paranoia
12. A Place to Bury Strangers – In The Shadow

Panic! At The Disco won MTV’s Ultimate VMA Showdown poll for Best VMA-Winning Video of the Year of All Time with “I Write Sins Not Tragedies”, the video was directed by Shane Drake and took the biggest award of the night back in 2006. View pictures of the band accepting the award at our gallery.

1 – Panic! At the Disco, “I Write Sins Not Tragedies” 65.25%
2 – TLC, “Waterfalls” 31.53%
3 – INXS, “Need You Tonight” 3.22%

Details have been revealed for the results of the previous poll, Best Video of the Year Winner of the 2000s. Panic! won that one with over 600 thousand votes!

>>> Best Video of the Year Winner of the 2000s

Total Votes: 1,203,826

Winner: Panic! At the Disco, “I Write Sins Not Tragedies” – 616,626 – 51.22%

Eminem, “The Real Slim Shady” – 3,790 – 0.31%
Christina Aguilera, Lil’ Kim, Mya, & Pink f/ Missy, “Lady Marmalade” – 8,945 – 0.74%
Eminem, “Without Me” – 2,358 – 0.2%
Missy Elliott, “Work It” – 829 – 0.07%
Outkast, “Hey Ya!” – 1,108 – 0.09%
Green Day, “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” – 88,227 – 7.33%
Rihanna f/ Jay-Z, “Umbrella” – 23,304 – 1.94%
Britney Spears, “Piece of Me” – 170,910 – 14.2%
Beyonce, “Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)” – 23,399 – 1.94%
Lady Gaga, “Bad Romance” – 264,330 – 21.96%

Panic! At The Disco won MTV’s Ultimate VMA Showdown poll for best Winner of the 2000′s. Below is the top three most voted videos.

Best Video of the Year Winner of the 2000s (Poll Closed)

1 – Panic! At the Disco, “I Write Sins Not Tragedies” 51.22%
2 – Lady Gaga, “Bad Romance” 21.96%
3 – Britney Spears, “Piece of Me” 14.2%

Vote For All Of Your Favorites Now In Our Ultimate VMA Showdown!

Your support of our Ultimate VMA Showdown turned the MTV Newsroom upside down. Let’s just say the response was pretty overwhelming and we couldn’t be more thankful for all the support. We’ll have the results for you in the lead-up to Sunday’s MTV Video Music Awards.

But in the meantime, we have one final poll for you. You already told us who you thought had the best video of the 1980s (INXS, “Need You Tonight), 1990s (TLC, “Waterfalls”) and 2000s (Panic! At the Disco, “I Write Sins Not Tragedies”), but now we want to find out which one you think is the best VMA-winning Video of the Year of all.

– VOTE HERE –

Team Panic! have filmed an awesome new viral video for album track ‘Let’s Kill Tonight’. The video will have its UK premiere on the Rocksound.tv tomorrow morning, so make sure you head over there to be the first to check it out!

Best VMA Video of the 2000s

For us in the Newsroom, this category is shaping up to be the most surprising of all – not only because Lady Gaga is not winning it, but because the leader, by a wide margin, is Panic! At The Disco. Their video for “I Write Sins Not Tragedies” is great, of course, but how is “Bad Romance,” a clip viewed over 400 million times (!) on YouTube, not dominating this category?

Where are you, Little Monsters?

Panic! are currently leading with 45.99% of the vote. Keep it up!

Source: MTV.com