Interview with Jeff Russo
Scoring intimately on his Star Trek voyages by going back to The Next Generation’s “Picard”
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24Jan2020
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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09Dec2019
The Best Scores of 2019
The unhinged melodies of Hildur Guðnadóttir’s “Joker” and Daniel Pemberton’s “Motherless Brooklyn” lead an impressive dance for The Best Scores of 2019 and The Composers to Watch
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15Nov2019
Interview with Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders
A composing team to beat puts pedal to the retro for “Ford v Ferrari”
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08Nov2019
Interview with The Newton Brothers
With music most often forged in fear, Taylor Newton Stewart and Andy Grush dare to venture into the Overlook Hotel with old musical ghosts, and a terrifying sensibility all their own for “Doctor Sleep”
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01Nov2019
Audio: Interview with Terence Blanchard
Film music journalist Daniel Schweiger interviews TERENCE BLANCHARD, a composer renowned for playing the black experience who now rousingly trumpets the determination of its slave-freeing Moses with HARRIET
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18Oct2019
Interview with Michael Giacchino
Finding the humor, horror and humanity with “Jojo Rabbit’s” surreal sunset for Hitler
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04Oct2019
26Sep2019
Interview with Gabriel Yared
A composer renowned for tragic romance now sings the blues with “Judy”
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11Sep2019
30Aug2019
Interview with Daniel Pemberton
Bringing a new musical spell to Thra with “The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance”
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22Aug2019
August Soundtrack Picks
PLANET OF THE APES: ORIGINAL FILM SERIES SOUNDTRACK COLLECTION is the top soundtrack to own for August, 2019
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14Aug2019
Interview with Graham Reynolds and Richard Linklater
A quirky composer-director collaboration finds a new direction at the bottom of the world by asking, “Where’d You Go Bernadette?”
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01Aug2019
Audio: Interview with Tyler Bates
Film music journalist Daniel Schweiger interviews TYLER BATES who brings a rocking, fast and furious musical attitude to the kick-ass action of HOBBS & SHAW
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22Jul2019
Interview with composer Stephen Endelman and filmmaker Raymond De Felitta
A neighborhood character-tuned collaboration hits another major emotional home run at the “Bottom of the 9th”
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14Jun2019
Interview with Sean Callery
A composer who’s been on the Emmy-winning case of Netflix’s “Jessica Jones” now plays the P.I.’s final season
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06Jun2019
Interview with Lesley Barber
Bringing a new talk show swing to her scoring by striking up the band of “Late Night”
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31May2019
Interview with David Arnold
Having his merry way with heaven and hell for “Good Omens’” end of days
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23May2019
Interview with Timothy Williams
Sounding Superbad with a sinister twist on The Boy of Steel for “Brightburn”
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21May2019
May Soundtrack Picks
Soundtrack Picks: THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM is the top soundtrack to own for MAY, 2019
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24Apr2019
Audio: Interview with Leo Birenberg and Zach Robinson
Film music journalist Daniel Schweiger interviews COBRA KAI composers LEO BIRENBERG and ZACH ROBINSON, who bow before Bill Conti’s KARATE KID while putting a hip new musical kick into the continuing rivalry of COBRA KAI
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17Apr2019
Interview with Disasterpeace
After playing the retro horror of IT FOLLOWS and the morally conflicted action of TRIPLE FRONTIER a tone-shifting composer now channels the film noir to be found UNDER THE SILVER LAKE
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04Apr2019
Interview with Christopher Young
HELLRAISER’s master of old school horror scoring gets transformed by being re-buried in a PET SEMATARY
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25Mar2019
Interview with Michael Abels
“Get Out’s” composer takes a new musical trip downwards for the visceral terror and metaphoric fear of Jordan Peele’s US
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13Mar2019
Interview with Rob Simonsen
One of drama’s most creative composers ventures into the worlds of science fiction and superheroes with CAPTIVE STATE and FAST COLOR
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05Mar2019
Audio: Interview with Pinar Toprak
Film music journalist Daniel Schweiger interviews composer PINAR TOPRAK, the rising super heroic composer of TV’s KRYPTON who now hits the cinematic stratosphere and beyond with CAPTAIN MARVEL
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26Feb2019
February Soundtrack Picks
“HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: THE HIDDEN WORLD” is the top soundtrack to own for FEBRUARY 2019
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21Feb2019
Interview with Joe Kraemer
Giving musical truth to a not-so tall tale with “The Man Who Killed Hitler and then the Bigfoot”
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