Interview with Karl Frid
Finding orgasmically ironic “Pleasure” in musically merging the sacred and the profane
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12May2022
05May2022
Interview with Hesham Nazih
An Egyptian composer powerfully announces his own identity within the Marvel universe of “Moon Knight”
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14Apr2022
Interview with Jeff Danna
Cooking up a delightfully delicious “Julia” in the television scoring kitchen
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25Mar2022
Interview with Son Lux
Crafting an insanely striking collision of musical multiverses for “Everything, Everywhere All at Once”
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04Mar2022
18Feb2022
Interview with Colin Stetson
(Photo by Ebru Yildiz) There are several menaces that you don’t want to be alone in a dark room with, let alone the wasteland of an abandoned Texas town that a clueless bunch of social media influencers want to woke up. Because if you’re hip to the utterly bizarre, genre-forged music wavering in the mad […]
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09Feb2022
Interview with Joseph Shirley
For 42 years, the sound of live-action “Star Wars” was the sweeping, symphonic language of John Williams, old school music for a long time ago in a melodic galaxy far, far away. It was a template impressively followed by Michael Giacchino and John Powell on the spin-offs of “Rogue One” and “Solo,” but it took Ludwig […]
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14Jan2022
Interview with Carter Burwell
(Photo by Tycho Burwell) Since a Texas wife and boyfriend conspired to do dastardly deeds to her vile husband in 1984’s “Blood Simple,” Carter Burwell has often been boiling musical toil and trouble for a filmmaking team best known as The Coen Brothers. Whether it was the Irish mob in “Miller’s Crossing,” a schlemiel unleashing […]
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17Dec2021
Interview with Nathan Johnson
Scoring the sinful sideshow of a revisited “Nightmare Alley”
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07Dec2021
THE BEST SCORES OF 2021
Hans Zimmer’s DUNE gives spice to an intoxicatingly powerful year of scoring’s return to the big screen
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19Nov2021
Interview with Kris Bowers
Making the musically winning serves for the sister tennis icons brought up by “King Richard”
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12Nov2021
Interview with Rachel Portman
Being inspired in the musical kitchen while cooking with “Julia”
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29Oct2021
Interview with Javier Navarrete
After notably playing childhood nightmares in Spain, a composer tracks down the Native American legend of The Wendigo with “Antlers”
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22Oct2021
Interview with Ben Lovett
Scoring down a retro-paranoia rabbit hole to find the source of a “Broadcast Signal Intrusion”
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17Sep2021
Interview with Roger Suen
A composer powerfully returns home to Justin Chon’s land of social relevancy for “Blue Bayou”
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03Sep2021
20Aug2021
Interview with Joseph Vitarelli
Waving a poignant score for a father’s life of crime and a desperate daughter in Sean Penn’s “Flag Day”
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04Aug2021
Interview with Daniel Hart
Composer Daniel Hart (photo by Emily Ulmer) It’s been ages since an eternal tale of an Arthurian quest has enchanted discerning viewers and critics to equal degree, let alone depicted often straightforwardly told tales of valiance in such bizarre shadings of color. But heads off to “The Green Knight” for accomplishing its mission in such […]
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16Jul2021
Interview with Anna Drubich
Invoking bitingly humorous werewolves and a deadly serious witch, a multi-faceted Russian composer makes a name for herself in Hollywood horror
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15Jul2021
Interview with Starr Parodi
Musically painting for live, living pictures at the enduring Pageant of the Masters
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14Jul2021
Interview with Frank Ilfman
Whipping up nutty assassin grrl power score for “Gunpowder Milkshake”
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25Jun2021
Interview with Max Aruj
A rising composer scores the triple threat of “The Ice Road’s” slippery action to “Lansky’s” warped morals and the ancient fury of “Wrath of the Druids”
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07Jun2021
Interview with Jeff Grace
Finding the emotional spot for a post-apocalyptic deer boy fairy tale in “Sweet Tooth”
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04Jun2021
Interview with Amie Doherty
Taking a sweeping, girl power orchestral ride with “Spirit Untamed”
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09Apr2021
Interview with Trevor Gureckis
Going from sonic sci-fi structure to Lord of the Flies frenzy in space alongside the “Voyagers”
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12Mar2021
Interview with Electric Youth and Pilotpriest
The 80’s ghost in the synth machine has never been more alive than in a soundtrack explosion exhumed from the likes of Charles Bernstein’s “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” John Carpenter and Alan Howarth’s “Prince of Darkness” and Michel Rubini’s “Manhunter.” It’s a tone that can be both rhythmically aggressive and ethereally haunting, particularly when […]
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05Mar2021
Interview with Jermaine Stegall
A new scoring prince gets his Hollywood coronation by taking Zamunda travel arrangements to a vibrantly funny new musical future
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01Mar2021
MARCH SOUNDTRACK REVIEWS
Check into the creative terror of “Psycho III” and “Willy’s Wonderland” among such notable soundtracks as “Banning,” “Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar,” “Below Zero,” “Judas and the Black Messiah,” “Mortal,” “Raya and the Last Dragon” and many more!
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26Feb2021
15Feb2021