The Ringer has made a selection of the 50 best soundtracks from the past 50 years, with only pure soundtracks permitted - no scores. An interesting selection, from '8 Mile' to 'Purple Rain'.
Billie Eilish shared a music video for 'No Time to Die', her theme song to the new James Bond movie. The black-and-white clip features scenes from the new film, and it was directed by Daniel Kleinman, who has designed every title sequence for the Bond series since 1995.
"I’m pretty sure it was the time I watched 'Schindler’s List' on Netflix that pushed me over the edge. If ever there was a movie where the credits were an integral part of the experience this was it. However, the second after Steven Spielberg’s name came up, the screen was shrunk to the size of a postage stamp and a massive advert appeared telling you to watch something else" - TV composer Daniel Pemberton writes in the Guardian, annoyed, by the cable-TV practice. "The end credit sequence is an unsexy but still important part of the film-going experience. It can be a key moment of contemplation, to assess, absorb and reflect on everything you have just experienced" - he argues.
All Music made a selection of single-artist soundtracks, some lesser-known scores, worthy of a listen. It's all great, different kinds of soundtracks, being it 'Virgin Suicides' by Air, 'Tron Legacy' by Daft Punk, 'Death Wish 2' by Dan the Automator, or 'Dead Man' by Neil Young.
'The Frozen 2' soundtrack climbs to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with 80,000 equivalent album units sold in its third week, Billboard reports. 'Frozen 2' is the first new full-length soundtrack to reach No. 1 for the first time in 2019. It’s also the first soundtrack of an animated film to hit […]
Part of 'I Feel Saved' can be heard in the trailer for the new movie 'Age Out' (watch/listen below), directed by A.J. Edwards. The movie is scored by Colin Stetson (his unmissable sax is heard towards the end of the trailer).
Quentin Tarantino handpicked a total of 70 songs pulled from his iconic filmography in a specially curated four-hour playlist. Among his favorites are Nancy Sinatra’s 'Bang Bang' from the opening scene of 'Kill Bill: Vol. 1', 'Jungle Boogie' by Kool & The Gang from 'Pulp Fiction', and The White Stripes’ 'Apple Blossom' from 'The Hateful Eight'. Louder Sound reports […]
Beyonce sang, 'The Lion King' is coming, so - a perfect reason for Guardian to make a list of Disney's 30 greatest songs. It goes from 'Little April Shower' ('Bambi', 1942) to 'When You Wish Upon a Star' ('Pinocchio', 1940), with newer music in between...
"Part of what makes the score work the way it does is the sharp contrast it has with the pop music" - composer Ben Frost tells the Quietus about the soundtrack he wrote for the German series 'Dark'. "Part of the reason the series is so effective in its handling of a narrative that could […]
British musician Haxan Cloak, aka Bobby Krlic, made the soundtrack for Ari Aster's 'Midsommar', a horror movie about five young Americans who are visiting Sweden to take part in a 90-year-old solstice festival, and it doesn't really end well for them. The plot might be well known, but Haxan Cloak's take on creepy folk music […]
The centre of the song is The Weeknd, he got a helping hand from SZA, and Travis Scott, and it's taken from 'Game of Thrones' album. Anthony Mandler directed the visuals for 'Power Is Power', and it has 1,3 million views on YouTube. It's taken from the 'For The Throne (Music Inspired by the HBO […]
Laurel Canyon was a centre of counterculture activity in the mid-late 1960s and early 1970s - it was home to Frank Zappa, Jim Morrison, The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, The Eagles, Love, Neil Young, The Monkees - and it is the subject of new documentary 'Echo in the Canyon'. It features in-depth interviews with many of […]
The Oscars are coming, so Pitchfork made a list of 50 greatest original compositions for film. It goes from 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' to 'Blade Runner', with quite a diverse choice in between.
Radiohead's frontman Thom Yorke has composed soundtrack, for Luca Guadagnino's remake of horror movie 'Suspiria'. For the first time in his career, Yorke has composed music for a feature film. The second track from the score that has been unveiled - 'Has Ended' - you can listen to here.
