The folks at Intrada have gone into overdrive, as the label has announced three new titles in about a weeks time. The new titles include Bruce Broughton’s The Monster Squad (3,000 copies), Pino Donaggio’s Hercules (1,000 copies) and Don Ellis’ The Seven-Ups coupled with Johnny Mandel’s unused score from the film and Mandel’s score [...]

Music Composed by Jerome Moross
Rating: *****

I can say very little about The Big Country score that hasn’t already been said by just about every film music scholar in the industry. It’s easily one of the five most legendary and influential film scores for the Western genre, a genre that used to be one of [...]

The 59th Primetime Emmy Awards and Creative Arts Emmy® Awards Music Nominees are…
Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music
30 Rock – Jeff Richmond
Dexter – Rolfe Kent
Hu$tle – Simon Rogers
On The Lot – Jeff Lippencott, Mark T
The Tudors – Trevor Morris
Outstanding Original Music And Lyrics
Family Guy – Walter Murphy, Danny Smith
MADtv – Bruce McCoy, Greg O’Connor, Jim [...]

It’s been awhile since score fans have heard from Marc Shaiman, but with the Tony-winning musical Hairspray in theatres this weekend, Shaiman is appearing in the press to promote the film (and far be it from me to not join in with everyone else shilling the picture).
Yahoo! Movies has a short featurette on the music [...]

Music Composed by John Ottman
Rating: ***

John Ottman took his fair share of knocks over his score for the first Fantastic Four movie. A movie so dreadful it managed to make even Jessica Alba, with her blue contact lenses and chintz strawberry blonde wig, look good from far but far from good. Ottman’s score [...]

Music Composed by Klaus Badelt
Rating: *** 1/2

Klaus Badelt’s Rescue Dawn is the first real surprise of 2007 for me. Seven months into the year and only a handful of scores have really registered as memorable for me, and Rescue Dawn is one of them. This should shock and awe readers who know that [...]

Godzilla: Limited Edition (2-CD Set) Presenting the first ever official, studio-endorsed release of composer David Arnold’s astounding orchestral score to the 1998 TriStar Pictures release of Godzilla, directed by Roland Emmerich and starring Matthew Broderick, Jean Reno and Hank Azaria. This Limited Edition, 2-Disc set (nearly 2 full hours of music), contains Mr. Arnold’s complete [...]

Intrada announces: Malone, Composed and Conducted by David Newman. Intrada Special Collection Volume 45.
The year 1987 was early in the career of David Newman. With only a handful of film scores to his name, including the previous year’s Critters and the same year’s The Kindred, Newman was emerging with a singular voice, heralding a [...]