Walt Disney Records have released Michael Giacchino’s original score for Up exclusively to digital download sites iTunes and Amazon.com MP3.
On iTunes (256kbps AAC / DRM-free for $9.99), the disc runs just over 60 minutes, and includes three bonus sound effects tracks, a 25 page digital booklet (in .pdf) and a seven-plus-minute featurette on the music [...]

Rather than scaring film composers with your persnickety online persona, here’s your change (L.A. area nerds only) to get up close and uncomfortable with some of your favorite film composers, thanks to La-La Land Records and Dark Delicacies. Read on for the full Circus of the Film Score Stars roster:
La-La Land Records presents a [...]

Review of the Star Trek soundtrack album by Michael Giacchino.

Is the economic downturn seriously hampering your filmmusic fun? Need some good music, fast and most of all, cheap? Composer Chris Tilton (Fringe, Mercenaries 2, Black) has heard your cries, and has released his latest videogame score, Night at the Museum: Battle at the Smithsonian, for free on his website. Performed by [...]

Preview of soundtrack album from Terminator Salvation. Music by Danny Elfman.

In anticipation of their 100th release, La-La Land Records announced they will continue their expansion/complete releases series (which started with Shirley Walker’s excellent Batman: Mask of the Phantasm) with Danny Elfman’s dizzying sci-fi satire score for Tim Burton’s Mars Attacks!
The film, which featured the last great all-star cast, didn’t connect with 1997 audiences, but has [...]

Fans of whimsical, European-style film music take note, Milan Records will release KAADA’s original score for the Norwegian film (the country’s Oscar entry for “Best Foreign Film”) and festival fave O’Horten on May 19.
The single-named, and all-caps (doesn’t he realize caps = screaming on the interwebs?) KAADA is fast becoming one of Norway’s prodigious scorers, [...]

Imperative Records, the outfit who’ve released two Immediate Music (everyone knows this one: “Code Red”) related albums (Trailerhead and Epicom, as the group Globus) are presenting what must be the first of it’s kind: a trailer music concert. You know the power and influence of film has reached insane levels when the music — [...]

Preview every track from Hans Zimmer’s score for the science-fiction-fantasy-thriller Angels & Demons at Amazon’s MP3 store. Or, check below for Sony’s official press release for the upcoming soundtrack album. Alternately, and because I’m all about options, check out footage from the recording sessions and a short interview with director Ron Howard and [...]

On Friday, May 8th, the London Symphony Orchestra will perform “The Korngold Violin Concerto (Op. 35)”, by you guessed it, Erich Wolfgang Korngold in the Barbican Hall, London. Here’s a bit of background on the piece:
Korngold’s Violin Concerto (op. 35) was the first piece he wrote after the Second World War having vowed to [...]