It’s summer. The air is gettin’ hot (even here in Canada – believe that), the ladies are wearing less and above the A/C din you’ve got… Zimmer’s The Da Vinci Code booming!? My friend, what are you thinking? Deep, liturgical basses, cellos and mournful female vocals do not cut it when the [...]

Following the success of the X-Men: The Last Stand preview, Cinemusic brings you five clips from Randy Newman’s score for Disney/Pixar’s Cars, in stores June 6th on Walt Disney Records. Like his previous scores for Pixar’s Toy Story (1 and 2), A Bug’s Life and Monsters, Inc., Cars is thoroughly Randy Newman effort – [...]

A new batch of capsule reviews was added to the site on Monday. This was a great way to catch up with titles we missed in ‘05, among them the Oscar-winning Brokeback Mountain and the fan-favorite Hostage. I know what you’re thinking: “Capsule reviews. So what?!” Well, each one has a soundclip [...]

Ice Age The MeltdownMusic Composed, Arranged and Produced by John Powell
There are only so many ways of saying that John Powell’s career is going up-up-up, that he gets better with each score, and that 2006 is his biggest year yet, so let’s just pretend that I already found a fresh way of making that observation [...]

Music Composed by John Powell
Rating: *** 1/2

There are only so many ways of saying that John Powell’s career is going up-up-up, that he gets better with each score, and that 2006 is his biggest year yet, so let’s just pretend that I already found a fresh way of making that observation and move on. The [...]

Music Composed by Hans Zimmer
Rating: *** 1/2

The Da Vinci Code. Whether you’ve seen the movie, or read the book, or both, or neither, you’re sure to have heard something about it. Given that Ron Howard was chosen as director for the screen adaptation of the novel, the choice of Hans Zimmer to pen the film’s [...]

The Da Vinci CodeMusic Composed, Arranged and Produced by Hans Zimmer
The Da Vinci Code. Whether you’ve seen the movie, or read the book, or both, or neither, you’re sure to have heard something about it. Given that Ron Howard was chosen as director for the screen adaptation of the novel, the choice of Hans Zimmer [...]

Varese Sarabande announced a pair of upcoming releases, first up in stores on July 20th is Brian Tyler’s The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift. Varese sez:
“…The propulsive score for The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift was composed by Brian Tyler. It packs an explosive and exhilarating energy which allows the composer to [...]

X-Men: The Last StandMusic by John Powell
It has taken three attempts by three different composers to get the music for the popular X-Men franchise right. Michael Kamen’s score to X-Men, with all due respect, made no sense to me. There were no big themes to grab hold of. The X-Men series, which crams as many [...]

NCsoft Announces “Lineage II: The Concert” — Award-winning composer Inon Zur to be honored at first symphonic game music concert in Korea.
Renowned composer Inon Zur will be celebrated in a special live symphony concert presentation of his music for the computer game Lineage II: Chronicle V: Oath of Blood, to be performed by the Mostly [...]