Rolling Stone is giving away three iPod Nanos stocked with music from Greenberg, Ben Stiller’s new dark comedy featuring a score by LCD Soundsystem mastermind James Murphy. Each 8gb Green iPod Nano comes with a six-song soundtrack sampler. In addition to 11 Murphy songs, the full Greenberg soundtrack includes tunes by Nite Jewel, Albert Hammond Jr., Galaxie 500, the Sonics and Duran Duran.

James Murphy on the making of the Greenberg soundtrack.

The Greenberg Giveaway sweepstakes is open to residents of the 50 United States and Washington, DC who are 18 years of age or older as of March 19, 2010. To enter, fill out the form after the jump with your name, e-mail and age. No purchase necessary. Void where prohibited. Sweepstakes begins at 2:00 pm EST on March 19, 2010 and ends at 11:59 pm EST on March 31, 2010. Number of Winners: 3. ARV: $154.99. Certain restrictions may apply. Complete Official Rules are available after the jump.

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Official Rules for the “Greenberg Giveaway” Sweepstakes

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Open to legal residents of the 50 United States and Washington DC (EXCLUDING RESIDENTS OF OVERSEAS MILITARY INSTALLATIONS, PUERTO RICO, AND OTHER U.S. TERRITORIES) who as of March 19, 2010 are 18 years of age or older.

Sponsor: Rolling Stone LLC (“Rolling Stone”)

1. How to Enter:
a. To enter the “Greenberg Giveaway” Sweepstakes (the “Sweepstakes”), visit the RollingStone.com website at RollingStone.com/Greenbergsweepsakes and follow the registration and entering directions provided therein, or e-mail your name, address, telephone number, age and email address to contests [at] rollingstone [dot] com with the subject line “Greenberg Giveaway”. Limit one entry per person. Sweepstakes begins at 2:00 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time) on March 19, 2010. All entries must be received by 11:59 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time) on March 31, 2010. For privacy policy, visit http://www.rollingstone.com/privacypolicy-update.

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a. Three (3) winners will receive the following prize (the “Prize”):
• One (1) 8gb Green iPod Nano
• One (1) sampler from the official soundtrack

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a. Employees, directors and officers of Sponsor, its parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising or promotional agencies, and their immediate family members and/or those living in same household are not eligible.

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6. Winner’s List:
For names of prize winners, after March 31, 2010, send a separate, stamped, self-addressed, No.10 envelope to: “Greenberg Giveaway” c/o Rolling Stone Online, 1290 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10104.

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Photo: Wilson/Webb (Greenberg), Horowitz/WireImage(Murphy)

In Noah Baumbach’s new film Greenberg, Ben Stiller plays a curmudgeon who’s more likely to push people away than attract them. And that’s precisely why LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy, who wrote the soundtrack, likes the character so much. “I’m Greenberg-esque,” Murphy says proudly.

In fact, Murphy’s music was a chief inspiration for the movie: Baumbach was obsessed with LCD Soundsystem’s sarcastic ballad “New York, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down” while writing the script of a sad-sack Manhattanite living in L.A. So when it came time to approach someone to craft the soundtrack, Baumbach immediately thought of Murphy. “It’s not like it was a stretch, like what would I do if I were a serial killer?” says Murphy about relating to the movie’s plot. “It was more like, what would I do if I were a 40-year-old grumpy dude out of place in Los Angeles? It was real method for me, but I can get into that.”

Murphy has never scored a film before but he agreed to the project so he could take a break from working on LCD’s next album, due out this May. “When given the opportunity to fail myself or fail someone else, I choose to fail myself,” he jokes. When it came time to write, Murphy deliberately chose to move away from typical soundtrack cliches — “[Soundtracks] are just these tones… and sounds all over the place,” he says — and would check in with Baumbach regularly while the director was still editing the movie. “We’d sit and talk, we’d have tea, I’d pet his dog, and we’d look at [scenes],” Murphy says. “It literally could have been two roommates who were making a movie for $15,000.”

The resulting Greenberg soundtrack sounds nothing like LCD Soundsystem: Seventies-style California pop that calls to mind Harry Nilsson and Brian Wilson. “Please Don’t Follow Me,” with its pounding piano riff and bright brass tones, is one of the catchier numbers. Still, LCD fans will find that tracks like the psychedelic freakout “Oh No (Christmas Blues)” hew closer to Murphy’s trademark dance-punk style. “This is how I think scores should sound,” Murphy says. “I’d rather just make stereo music to put into a song, not give somebody all the parts to be spread around the sound spectrum.”

For all his troubles, Murphy got to make a cameo in the movie in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-him moment. “I’m one of the people in the party scene,” he says. “I didn’t have a bunch of lines. I just walk from here to there. And I look like a Sasquatch.”

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Photo: Wargo/WireImage
A new LCD Soundsystem track hit the Internet last night, but “Oh You (Christmas Blues)” isn’t off James Murphy’s upcoming LCD album. Instead, the bluesy number is one of dozen or so songs Murphy penned for the Ben Stiller film Greenberg, and the one song on the soundtrack to appear under the LCD Soundsystem name. Listen to a radio rip of the song over at We All Want Someone to Shout For. Despite being credited to LCD, “Oh You (Christmas Blues)” sounds nothing like Sound of Silver, with Murphy instead unveiling a stark song that combines Pink Floyd’s Animals with John Lennon’s Plastic Ono Band.

Given the tone and the title, we can already picture Stiller’s character sitting alone and despondent on a Christmas morning on the big screen. The Greenberg soundtrack is due out March 23rd and should definitely help kill the time before LCD Soundsystem’s “crazy” Sound of Silver follow-up is released on May 15th. You can preorder the Greenberg soundtrack now over at Amazon and other digital retailers.

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