Interview with Tom Hodge
Creating a powerful fight for freedom of musical body and soul
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15Feb2021
12Feb2021
Interview with Emile Mosseri
Of the new crop of composers to spring from an indie sensibility and all of the fertile, innovative ideas that come with it, perhaps no musician has captured the idea of what it is to find an outsider’s American measure of success than Emile Mosseri. Hailing from Egyptian roots, Mosseri has poetically captured themes of […]
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08Jan2021
18Dec2020
Interview with Branford Marsalis
There’s often no pressure cooker like a recording studio where the clock is running, and the egos are flaring. Add to that the rage of racial injustice and the diva behavior of an ego that’s earned and it’s a session ready for an eruption. The tortuous, yet tuneful process of getting that song sung opens […]
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15Dec2020
THE BEST SCORES OF 2020
“The Queen’s Gambit” makes the winning move on a notable playing field
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24Nov2020
15Nov2020
Interview with Dara Taylor
Putting hypnotic structure to criminal chaos with “Echo Boomers”
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23Oct2020
Interview with Carlos Rafael Rivera
Making the winning melodic moves with “The Queen’s Gambit”
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06Oct2020
28Sep2020
Interview with Marc Streitenfeld
Continuing to explore alien worlds and the nature of android parenting in “Raised by Wolves”
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22Sep2020
Interview with Will Bates
Piloting an alternative musical route to Mars while staying on earth with “Away”
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18Sep2020
Interview with Nate Wonder and Roman Gianarthur Irvin
Two brothers score with old school to blow up the white supremacist “Antebellum”
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21Aug2020
Interview with David Buckley
Veering from the sonic insanity of “Unhinged” to the emotional apocalypse at “Greenland”
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07Aug2020
18Jun2020
Soundtrack Picks: BAD EDUCATION is the top soundtrack to own for JUNE, 2020
Also worth picking up: A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME, DA 5 BLOODS, DEATH RACE 2000, FAR AND AWAY, LEGENDS OF THE FALL, THE STORY OF O2, VILLAIN, WE SUMMON THE DARKNESS, WESTWORLD SEASON 3 and many more!
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15Jun2020
Interview: Director Jesse V. Johnson and composer Sean Murray
A kick-ass double team has the bill come due again for a martial arts star who’s taking names
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05Jun2020
Interview with Tamar-kali
Creating a hauntingly surreal score for “Shirley’s” tale of madness and eroticism
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25May2020
01May2020
Interview with Nathan Barr
Going inventively old and new school with “Hollywood” and “The Great” while finally catching “The Hunt’s” darkly satirical quarry
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15Apr2020
Interview with Kris Bowers
Musically marching on the side of the left, and right with “Mrs. America”
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08Apr2020
Interview with “Unorthodox’s” Alexa Karolinski and Antonio Gambale
Creating a show, and score that where music breaks free the soul
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26Mar2020
Interview with Steve Jablonsky
Rhythmically scoring men of action with “Bloodshot” and “Spenser: Confidential”
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06Mar2020
Interview with Mychael and Jeff Danna
Musically bonding “Onward” for a fantastical quest to a real, shared past with an especially personal Pixar film
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28Feb2020
21Feb2020
CD Review: FEBRUARY 2020
DOLORES CLAIBORNE: THE DELUXE EDITION is the top soundtrack to own for FEBRUARY 2020
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31Jan2020
Interview with Colin Stetson
Scoring into the mouth of cosmic madness to conjure a Lovecraftian miasma for “Color out of Space”
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24Jan2020
Interview with Jeff Russo
Scoring intimately on his Star Trek voyages by going back to The Next Generation’s “Picard”
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23Dec2019
Interview with Kathryn Bostic and Joel P. West
Creating scores that speak for crime and the ultimate punishment with “Clemency” and “Just Mercy”
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20Dec2019
Audio: Interview with Thomas Newman
Film music journalist Daniel Schweiger interviews composer THOMAS NEWMAN, whose music ventures through the horrors and heroism of WW1’s front lines in 1917
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16Dec2019
Interview with Alexandre Desplat and Greta Gerwig
A composer and director create the ultimate musical love letter to Luisa May Alcott, with a difference
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