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Wes Anderson’s latest endeavor Asteroid City is making its crash-landing into theaters this Friday, June 23rd, and it has a fitting soundtrack to match. As a preview, Jarvis Cocker has shared one of his contributions to the film called “Dear Alien (Who Art In Heaven),” a single he wrote with Anderson and his former Pulp bandmate Richard Hawley. The song also features Seu Jorge, who was prominently featured on the soundtrack for Anderson’s The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.

Considering Asteroid City takes place in a desert town in 1955, the soundtrack comes chock-full of period-setting tunes like classic bluegrass and country as well as mid-century pop. Along with a couple of originals from Cocker are songs by Bing Crosby, The Springfields (featuring a young Dusty Springfield), Burl Ives, Tex Ritter, and many more, as well as a score by Alexandre Desplat.

Cocker is just one of many voices...

Are you ready for deadpan line readings, symmetrical cinematography, yellow typography, and whimsy? Wes Anderson and a cast of a thousand stars are here for you.

To the tune of “Last Train to San Fernando” by Johnny Duncan and the Bluegrass Boys and “Freight Train” by Nancy Whiskey and Chas McDevitt’s Skiffle Group, Focus Features welcomes you to “Asteroid City,” a brightly-lit diorama of Sputnik-era Americana in a stargazer desert community.

Jason Schwartzman is back in the lead of an Anderson picture (he made his debut in 1998’s “Rushmore”) opposite Scarlett Johansson, making her first appearance in Wesworld. He’s playing a widower with three kids (who don’t know their mother is dead?) and she is a movie star. Other returning collaborators include Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, Willem Dafoe, Tony Revolori, Edward Norton, Fisher Stevens, Bryan Cranston, and Jeffrey Wright. Also in the mix with Johansson among the...