Best Compilation Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media has been awarded to Slumdog Millionaire according to Grammy.com.

This is the Award to the Artist(s) and/or Producer(s) of a majority of the tracks on the album, or to the individual(s) actively responsible for the concept and musical direction and for the selection of artists, songs and producers, as applicable.

The True Blood soundtrack album was up against some really tough competition with the other nominees. We still think that True Blood has the best music of all TV shows and want to send our thanks to Alan Ball, Gary Calamar and Kevin Weaver for producing such a great album.

The nominations were:

Slumdog Millionaire
Cadillac Records
Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds
True Blood
Twilight

Source – To find this category at the Grammy site, scroll way down or just do a search for True Blood.

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True Blood fans have written to The Vault to share their experience about Friday night’s Out4Blood Event at the Echoplex in Los Angeles which highlighted the Grammy Nominated True Blood Soundtrack.

Gary Calamar, True Blood’s Music supervisor, DJ’d  the show which included Jace Everett, CC Adcock, John Doe, Chuck Prophet, Pilbilly Knights, and Todd Lowe and his band.  Below are the accounts of two fans, Kelby and Tessa.  Thanks for sharing your adventure with us!

Kelby says:

I had a fantastic evening.  My sister, Carissa, her friend, Bernadette, and I are all huge fans of the show and have been great followers on the music and soundtrack.  When I heard there was going to be a True Blood concert with all the music I knew I had to go. We had never gone to the Echoplex, but when we arrived we were more than excited and could not believe it was down a random alley on the street, but we love those types of places.  The Pilbilly Knights kicked off the night first and were outrageous and genius.  They have great sound, stage presence, and were very entertaining overall.  I loved their three girl dancers, ahah!  During the John Doe performance I heard my sister’s friend say, “We found vampire Bill.”  We didn’t want to cause a scene and so we very quietly went up to him and asked for a picture.  He was kinder than I could have ever imagined.  I usually don’t like to bother people for pictures, but he didn’t seem to mind too much at all.  In fact, he thought he blinked in one photo and insisted I take another one just to make sure he had his eyes open.  He could not have treated us as fans any better and when we apologized for getting him noticed by other fans he kept saying, “Don’t worry love.“  We were way too excited by now and couldn’t believe how great the night was going.  Before we know it we see Stephen Moyer walking away from the crowd with his arm around some girl with a bunch of tattoos.  We knew he was dating Anna Paquin and it turned out it was her.  We finally all asked for picture with Anna as well.  “Of course you can,” she said with a big smile.  I was starting to feel bad for thinking these people I love on the show could possibly be assholes in reality because now Anna Paquin was treating us as if we were all friends.  We thanked her and went on our way. We danced nonstop towards the back through Jace Everett and CC Adcock.  The night could not have gone any better and we got more out of it than we could have ever expected.  We were all big fans of True Blood, but after this night we became lifelong obsessed True Blood fans. Below are Kelby’s photos from the event.

Tessa says:

Gary Calamar DJ’d the event and he was fantastic; wish he could be my personal DJ. He had a lot of songs from the show, including the songs from which the episode titles were pulled. First Todd Lowe’s band played. Then Todd came back out and introduced John Doe, who was definitely a highlight of the night. I’m not a big X fan but I hadn’t heard his solo stuff yet. It was beautiful and well-crafted.  After John finished, Michelle Forbes and Chris Bauer came out to introduce Jace Everett. He was pretty good. Everyone was really excited for Bad Things, which he played last of course. After he finished there was a mass exodus of people, leaving what seemed to be about half of the audience to witness CC Adcock and the Lafayette Marquis. I managed to get right up to the rail and was watching them set up the stage, and then I looked to the side of the stage where you could see a dressing room door, and all of a sudden I see Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer walk through. I looked to the girl on my left who saw the same thing and our eyes bulged. No one else seemed to notice them. So we enjoyed our private little secret for a couple minutes before the two of them came on stage to introduce CC and his band which absolutely killed and were the best of the night for sure. Jace came out and sat on the side of the stage for some of his set. After they finished there was one more act not mentioned on the flyer, Chuck Prophet.  All the lights throughout the venue were red. It was a really cool night, with an interesting collection of people in the audience. Below are Tessa’s photo and videos from the event.

More fan photos in the Photo Gallery

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On March 20, in New Orleans, LA the Cast from Twilight will compete against the New Orleans celebrities, including True Blood’s Nelsan Ellis, in an exhibition baseball game. The event will include:

• Vampire Baseball™ Exhibition Game with Stars
• Autographs and Photos with Stars
• Meet and greet opportunity with Stars
• After-party and concert

The two teams are:

Twilight Saga actors: Peter Facinelli, Chaske Spencer, Alex Meraz, Tyson Houseman, Alexander Mendeluk

New Orleans Celebrities: Kyle Eckel (New Orleans Saints) , Lynell Hamilton (New Orleans Saints), and actors Nelsan Ellis, Wayne Douglas Morgan, Thomas Hyde III, and Johnny Rock.

Your ticket will include admittance insuring a great seat to see all the play-by-play where you’re welcome to take pictures of the actors as they play Celebrity Vampire Baseball™!

There are additional opportunities for exclusive photographs, autographs and meet and greets with actors that can be purchased for additional fees. These include:

• Personal Photo Op Tickets: Take your picture with your favorite celebrity in a Vampire Baseball™ photo-op background
• Personal Autograph Tickets: Bring your own personal item (such as the official event program or merchandise) and have it signed by a celebrity
• Exclusive Cozy Coffee Meet and Greets: A maximum of 30 fans have the exclusive opportunity to spend 30 minutes with a celebrity in a luxury suite

And, if you go you will also be supporting charity:

Through your generous support of the Celebrity Vampire Baseball™ events, 25% of proceeds will be sent to organizations such as the American Red Cross and Hope for Haiti Now to support their ongoing efforts to rebuild lives destroyed by this Haiti Earthquake disaster.

In addition to this effort, a portion of proceeds will also be used to support New Orleans non-profit organizations such as The Blood Center and the 9th Ward Field of Dreams

Vampire Baseball™ will also sponsor a blood drive during the game. The blood drive will run during Vampire Baseball™ on Saturday, March 20th from 11am to 5pm at Zephyr Stadium in a bloodmobile.

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Carrie Preston and husband Michael Emerson attended at the premiere of the final season of “Lost” on January 30. The last-ever series of TV drama – which has been running since 2004 – has fans buzzing with anticipation over which of the cliffhanger story lines they have followed over the last six years will finally be resolved. It is estimated over 10.000 fans crammed onto Waikiki Beach to watch the opening two-hour episode of the show’s finale.

More photos in the Photo Gallery.

Photo by PacificCoastNews.com

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True Blood fans may ask Alan Ball questions to be included in the Sookie Companion by sending them to the email address below between January 29, 2010 and Februaray 12, 2010.

Charlaine Harris writes:

As part of the huge project The Sookie Companion has become, we’re offering a two-week time period in which you can send your questions to producer/director/writer Alan Ball, who will answer them in the Companion. My assistant, Paula, will collect all your questions and send them to the editor at TeknoBooks who’s responsible for coordinating all the elements going into the Companion, which we hope will be out next year. Paula and the editor will weed out redundant questions. Of course, these questions should focus on the TV series “True Blood,” and they should be sent to: askalanb@yahoo.com. This address is ONLY for this special project.

The Sookie Companion will contain an original novella, a character list, a map, some recipes, synapses of all the books and possibly some pieces from HBO.  The point is to show how pervasive the genre is/has always been in society.

So send in your questions now if you wish them to be included in the Sookie Companion.

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The lovely Deborah Ann Woll strolled around the Beverly Hills area on January 27, 2010 enjoying the California sun.

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Being Sookie is not easy, you have to handle vampire, shapeshifters and werewolves and you have to do it looking good. To keep in shape for the physically demanding role of Miss Stackhouse Anna Paquin was spotted jogging along the Venice boardwalk on Friday afternoon (January 29, 2010).

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For the past few days rumors have been flying over Twitter and Facebook about ex-Heroes star Dawn Olivieri, will or will she not be Debbie Pelt? Dawn told The Vault yesterday that she auditioned for both Debbie Pelt (Acide’s ex-girfriend) and Janice Herveaux (Alcide’s sister) and couldn’t confirm either part yet. But today she can. Dawn just sent us a message that she has been cast as Janice Herveaux.

The casting call descrives Janice as 32 years old, a fit  tough-as-nails woman in biker gear, she is is Alcide’s protective older sister. Somewhat New Age, Janice is into horoscopes and psychics.

Congratulations Dawn, welcome to the True Blood family.

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Smart Pop Books wants you to help them shape the topics they choose for their books, as well as the books themselves that they are currently working on. Right now, they are working on an anthology on True Blood (to be released this June), and they wanted us to ask you, as devoted True Blood fans, to weigh in on the look of the cover. They have two potential covers  (designed by the lovely and talented people at Faceout Studio), shown below.

Which one would you pick?

To indicate your choice, go to there site, by clicking here. Hurry, the voting will only be online until Monday, February 1.

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258 West Authentic has contacted The Vault letting us know that they are working with actors from the cast of True Blood to release signed trading cards. The first three actor cards released are Nelsan Ellis (Lafayette), Allan Hyde (Godric) and Ashley Jones (Daphne), with many more to come.  These cards were hand signed and are not a reprint or a copy.

Here’s one sample card for Nelsan Ellis:

In the video below you can see Nelsan Ellis telling you that he signed the cards personally.

If you wish to see other card samples and videos, or would like more information click here.

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