Film Score in Mainstream Media Alert: The New Yorker’s classical music critic Alex Ross has lovingly written about Johnny Greenwood’s hynoptic music for There Will Be Blood and it’s classical piece doppleganger, “Popcorn Superhet Receiver”.
Much lauded by big city print critics, but maligned by the Academy Awards because of pre-existing material (classics and Greenwood’s own), [...]

Film music fans love to hate the Academy Awards. Often at odds with the pulse of the film music community, the nominations this year are a different story. Work by fan favourites Michael Giacchino and Marco Beltrami (first nomination) was acknowledged by the Academy. Alexandre Desplat failed to land any love for [...]

Intrada has announced their latest in their limited “Special Collection” releases: Jerry Fielding’s 1972 western Chato’s Land, starring Charles Bronson as the titular Pardon Chato.
World premiere release of complete Jerry Fielding original soundtrack from Michael Winner pursuit & revenge western with Charles Bronson, Jack Palance. Fielding responds to savage tale with intense strings, blazing brass, [...]

The Hollywood Reporter recently published their second (of three) issues on film & television music for 2007. They offer enlightening interviews with composers and songwriters, as well as music executives. Of particular interest is their article on the “troubled soundtrack market”, namely lagging sales and digital downloads. This is reality-check-like stuff every [...]