After last year’s 50th anniversary bonanza for the score to JAWS at Intrada, one good bite deserves another! The label will reissue the out-of-print score for JAWS 2, the unlikely 1978 sequel to Steven Spielberg’s masterpiece. (Spielberg, of course, did not return, and French director Jeannot Szwarc assumed directorial responsibilities.) Once again, Amity Island contends with a great white shark problem – only this time, police chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) is mostly on his own against the beast, racing against the clock to rescue a marooned group of teen sailors that includes his children. Intriguingly, JAWS 2 was the first time John Williams scored a sequel, and instead of simply reprising his own work, he brings the iconic shark theme back alongside a set of…
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La-La Land Records, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Universal Music Enterprises present the 55th anniversary remastered and expanded 2-CD re-issue of renowned composer John Barry’s original motion picture score to the seventh James Bond film, Diamonds Are Forever.
…For the sixth and last outing with Sean Connery as 007 (who sat out the previous film, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service), Bond sets out to Las Vegas on the trail of a diamond smuggling ring tied to his longtime enemy, the fiendish SPECTRE mastermind Ernst Stavro Blofeld (this time played by Charles Grey). Composer John Barry’s as-yet unbroken streak of scores in the series was punctuated by a title song with lyrics by Don Black, featuring vocals from…
There are collaborations that feel inevitable, as if they had been waiting to happen in some shadowed corner of culture. The union between Italian cinematic funk visionaries Calibro 35 and internationally acclaimed master of noir fiction and New York Times bestselling author James Ellroy (The Black Dahlia, L.A. Confidential, American Tabloid) is undoubtedly one of them.
The opportunity arose through filmmaker Francesco Zippel and his documentary Ellroy vs L.A. produced by Quoiat Films, which received the Nastro d’Argento, Italy’s Critics’ Choice Award. The film is an immersive portrait of both the writer and the city of Los Angeles: Ellroy reflects on his relationship with L.A. as his words intertwine with archival footage of the city and scenes…
…La-La Land’s latest CD expansion of scores from the long-running film series based on Ian Fleming’s British agent 007 comes not from the ’60s or ’70s, but the last decade. LLL has remastered their first Bond score from the Daniel Craig era in 2015’s Spectre, available as a 2CD edition featuring a generously expanded edition of Thomas Newman’s score for the picture along with some album edits and alternate material. For Craig’s fourth time in the tux, the series continued the surprisingly serial direction it had taken since 2006’s reboot Casino Royale. After the loss of M (Judi Dench) in 2012’s Skyfall, Bond once again confronts dark aspects of his past when he discovers that previous adversaries had all been agents of a larger organization of villainy, run by…
Grief is a universal experience that no one can truly be prepared for, and one that each of us inhabits differently, in ways we are unable to control or predict. Written for Paula Ďurinová’s film Lapilli, Petra Hermanova‘s soundtrack follows an exploration of death through stones, caves and volcanic landscapes, asking how the physical world absorbs and preserves traces of loss. The title refers to the fragments of rock ejected during a volcanic eruption — small stones suspended between destruction and renewal — and Hermanová’s music inhabits that same uncertain territory, poised between fragility and endurance.
The opening suite, “Five Stages”, moves at a measured pace, every gesture carrying its full weight without ever tipping into emotional…
On September 12, 1966, television audiences first met The Monkees. Under the auspices of creators Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider, the zany foursome of Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith, and Peter Tork pushed the boundaries of the American sitcom format with their musical misadventures.
The Emmy Award-winning comedy only lasted two seasons and 58 episodes on NBC but endured thanks to Saturday morning repeats, syndication, cable, DVD, Blu-ray, and – most notably – the albums recorded by the four young men cast as The Monkees who went on to assume the roles in a real-life group.
On August 14, Rhino celebrate Season 1 of The Monkees just in time for its 60th anniversary.
The Nimrods soundtrack features 22 of your favorite career-spanning Green Day songs plus soundtrack exclusives “I’m Never Gonna R.I.P” and four unreleased live songs the band recorded at the Palladium in Los Angeles featured in the movie. Additionally, the soundtrack has songs from The Paradox, Ultra Q and Mckenna Grace plus four tracks from Analog Dogs, the fictitious band “Nimrods” centers around.
The Nimrods film will hit theaters on August 14. Developed by writer/director Lee Kirk with Green Day and produced by Tim Perell, Nimrods is a coming-of-age story about three friends (Mason Thames, Kylr Coffman and Ryan Foust) who journey to Los Angeles, mistakenly believing that their band is opening for Green Day on New Year’s Eve.
Understanding the universe begins with listening rather than seeing. Listening to the stars as much as to our unconscious mind. This is the idea around which both Jeffrey Zablotny’s film and Jana Irmert‘s soundtrack revolve.
The documentary follows the journey of neutrinos through three subterranean observatories – SNOLAB in Canada, Super-Kamiokande in Japan and IceCube beneath the Antarctic ice. Throughout the film, the narrator repeatedly returns to acts of listening: “We are listening for a whisper.” “Listening through stone, ice and water.” The scientists descend deep beneath the Earth’s surface because, as the film explains, “the surface of the Earth is full of interference.” Only underground, protected from the overwhelming…
Mark Jenkin is an auteur to an extent rarely attempted by filmmakers. He writes his films, with Mary Woodvine, directs them, shoots them with a clockwork Bolex camera.
His previous feature films, Bait (2019) and Enys Men (2022), created a new sub-genre of hazy Cornish psychedelia – a meeting of Don’t Look Now, Penda’s Fen and Wycliffe. Jenkin’s achievements behind the camera obscure his work as a composer. He created the soundtrack for Enys Men, and now for his most recent film, Rose of Nevada (2025). That involved composing, engineering, producing and performing, uses guitar, synethsizers, percussion, loops and effects.
Rose of Nevada is a strange, sad, beautiful film about a faded Cornish fishing village.
Lately, the Backrooms have felt inescapable. The breakout horror movie now reigns as A24’s highest-grossing film to date, but the lore bears repeating: In 2019, a a drab office space with sickly yellow wallpaper, photographed from an askew angle, was shared anonymously on 4chan. A comment suggested this place lies on the fringe of reality and you could slip into it and get lost forever. The post quickly became a vaunted piece of creepypasta, influencing everything from Severance to Playboi Carti, and it has been adopted as everyday parlance to describe any eerie, liminal space. A 16-year-old Kane Parsons ran with the concept, producing found-footage-style short films on YouTube set in this nebulous purgatory, inspired by a lineage of plucky upstarts…
How do you make a documentary film about a man who was also a myth? About a musician who was more than a musician? About someone who asked us to trust our intuition more than our rational minds? This double LP contains the entire soundtrack to the accompanying PBS documentary! Includes liner notes from executive producer Bradford Smith about the making of Sun Ra: Do The Impossible, interviews from members of the Arkestra and a BluRay DVD of the doc!
Firelight assembled an incredibly talented team headed by Director/Producer Christine Turner, and six years later in June of 2025, our documentary, Sun Ra: Do The Impossible had its world premiere at the Tribeca International Film Festival. Our goal was to make a film…
Michael: Songs from the Motion Picture is the official companion album to the brand-new biopic, Michael. This album highlights 13 songs showcased in the film, spanning from The Jackson 5 to The Jacksons to Michael’s chart-topping solo success with “Off the Wall” and “Thriller.”
…Filling the superstar’s shoes is his nephew (and son of brother Jermaine) Jaafar Jackson, who reportedly will do some of his own singing in the film. Despite that, the soundtrack features only Michael’s original vocals. The movie’s screenplay has been penned by Academy Award nominee and Tony winner John Logan (Gladiator, The Aviator on film; Red, Moulin Rouge! on stage) and also stars Colman Domingo as Joe Jackson, Nia Long as Katherine Jackson, Kendrick Sampson…
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis create the original score for Jo Nesbø’s Detective Hole, Netflix‘s Norwegian detective drama. The pair has previously teamed on soundtracks for the likes of The Proposition, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and Wind River, and will bring those noir sensibilities to the series.
The show is produced by Working Title and based on author Nesbø’s global bestselling crime novels. The whodunnit serial killer drama stars Tobias Santelmann in the titular role of Harry Hole, the anti-hero detective. He goes head-to-head with his long-time adversary and corrupt detective, Tom Waaler (Joel Kinnaman), simultaneously working to catch a serial killer and bring Waaler to justice before it is too late.
As David Lowery, the director, was writing the fictional pop star Mother Mary for his new film of the same name, he spent a lot of time studying the last 25 years in music. He listened to Taylor Swift (whose Reputation concert film inspired the performances in the film), Lorde and FKA twigs, who appears on screen as a medium named Imogene. But as the film’s haunted love story between Mary (played by Anne Hathaway) and her former best friend and designer Sam Anselm (Michaela Coel) emerged, his listening habits shifted.
“The pop music fell away and other music started to enter that sphere,” he says in A24’s New York offices. He’s sitting beside twigs and Hathaway the day after the trio attended…
Let’s look at the numbers: John Williams has been on this mortal plane for 93 years, and has been composing for visual media for 73 of those years. Compact discs have been a part of music lovers’ collections for at least four decades, and the “art” of John Williams on CD – a real, curatorial approach to his iconic film scores – began in earnest more than 30 years ago, when the 4CD box set Star Wars Trilogy: The Original Soundtrack Anthology hit record stores in 1993. From basic compilations like Greatest Hits 1969-1999 to hefty box sets covering his material recorded with The Boston Pops and other orchestras on two labels between the ’80s and the ’10s – not to mention the Herculean restoration work of remastering and expanding Williams’ scores beyond…
Laurel Halo composed the score for Midnight Zone, a film created as part of an installation by Julian Charrière. The film is a lighthouse lens’ voyage deep into the Pacific Ocean, revealing all manners of underwater life, from the fascinating to the frightening. Even without the visuals, the score perfectly encapsulates the feeling of drifting deeper and deeper into the darkest recesses of the ocean, a sensation filled with both wonder and fear. The 11-minute opener “Sunlight Zone” is absolutely mesmerizing, with distant, almost thundering bass shuddering beneath waves of slowly shifting strings. As the lens gets farther away from the surface, the music gets heavier and cloudier, until it manages to clear out a bit by the end. The other pieces generally illustrate similar…
It took some time before Motorpsycho and Theo Buhara found each other again.
The Italian director first collaborated with the Hans Magnus “Snah” Ryan/Bent Sæther nucleus to score neo-Western “The Tussler” back in ’94. Why he chased young bucks notorious for feral stalkers with bass quakes dense enough to kill elephants from the inside (that “How Was I to Know,” son, yow) is anyone’s guess.
But it worked. The assignment seemed to center them. Off went the fuzzbox for a C&W kick some yonks before the Supersuckers or Ween’s attempts.
Thirty years later, the band’s still around, older, seasoned, refined. Buhara’s with us, too: at 74, a fistful of hourglass dust examining his legacy in countdown. Of course, he’s achieved more…
In 1971 several dozen African American soul, jazz, and gospel artists embarked on a journey that would change the lives of everyone involved. They traveled from New York City to Ghana, West Africa to take part in a 13-hour concert entitled Soul to Soul. The concert was a celebration of 14 years of Ghana’s independence from British rule. For most of these artists it was their first trip to Africa. For the African American musicians, this was a journey about personal roots, the ancestral homeland, history, discovery, loss, pain and joy.
Directed by Academy AwardⓇ winner Denis Sanders and produced by Tom Mosk & Richard Bock, the concert film/documentary had a limited theatrical run in 1971. It now returns restored with the original edit reconstructing each scene…