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JOHN DEBNEY smells what The Rock is cooking for a Deluxe Edition release of THE SCORPION KING!
JOHH DEBNEY (Cutthroat Island, The Relic) smells what The Rock is cooking with a majestic two-cd release from Varese Sarabande Records of THE SCORPION KING, a wildly energetic smackdown of eyebrow-raising heavy metal and symphonically sumptuous old-school fantasy adventure that helped propel its star to the Hollywood throne. Read my liner notes featuring new interviews…
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JOHN CARPENTER’s vinyl returns to thrill with the Tenth Anniversary release of LOST THEMES!
It was a truly rocking electric charge when I got to do the liner notes a decade ago for composer-filmmaker John Carpenter’s Lost Themes, the first of his many journeys into the realm of pure music that thrilled the imagination of the mind’s eye. Now I’m equally excited and beyond grateful that Sarcred Bones Records…
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AMANDA JONES is the lethally ironic musical mind of MURDERBOT
Ironically snarky robots go back to the days of Robby in “Forbidden Planet” and C3P0 in “Star Wars.” But it’s doubtful that these wiseacre droids would have had any problem with the Krell monster or The Empire had they been suited up with the arsenal of the organically enhanced Murderbot. Yet for all of his…
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GAVIN BRIVIK and JAMES NEWBERRY score in the emotional shadows of BARRON’S COVE
An anger-filled melodrama with a punch, “Barron’s Cove” is awash in grief and toxic masculinity to powerhouse indie effect. Recalling the tortuous truth-telling likes of “Prisoners” and the townie tragedy of “Mystic River,” writer-director Evan Ari Kelman’s impressive feature debut has the recovering rageaholic dad Caleb (a knockout Garrett Hedlund) go on the rampage to…
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LILO and DAN ROMER
LILO and DAN ROMER LA-based composer Dan Romer can certainly get down to earth with the out of control kids in his scores for “Beasts of the Southern Wild” and the child soldiers of “Beasts of No Nation,” let alone the cosmic killer horsies of “Death of a Unicorn.” He’s a composer who’s impressed with…
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MAX ARUJ and ALFIE GODFREY accept MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: THE FINAL RECKONING on a new Film Music Live!
Choose to accept the mission of watching a new Film Music Live videocast as composers MAX ARUJ and ALFIE GODFREY team to take a deep dive from submarine to biplane on crafting their score for the epic hit of MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: THE FINAL RECKONING! Available soon on non self-destructing disc via La La Land Records!
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TIM WYNN gives death his musical due with FINAL DESTINATION: BLOODLINES
From long-haired ghouls emerging out of TV sets to ghosts with grudges, the one thing that’s certain for the decades-long lives of iconic horror franchises is that The Grim Reaper will always get his payback, no matter how hard foolhardy mortals try to escape him. Giving an invisible face to Death as he outsmarts his…
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BRANDON ROBERTS reveals the secret scoring rebel plans for ANDOR on a new Film Music Live!
Join the scoring rebellion on a new Film Music Live as BRANDON ROBERTS (Thanksgiving, Land of Bad) talks about being the main Season 2 musical recruit to Disney Plus’ acclaimed Star Wars prequel series, all while being terrorized alongside Marcus Trumpp by a CLOWN IN A CORNFIELD on the videocast that defies the Emperor! Soundtracks…
