Sofia Coppola has surprised the film world by scoring a “period” movie with music that is decidedly not period (or at least not the right one). But what she misses in historical accuracy, she gets in artistic purpose. Granted, I haven’t seen the movie Marie Antoinette yet, but it sounds like a movie that even […]
ANABlog has perhaps the greatest James Bond mp3 post you’ll need. I would throw in some John Barry music as well since he was the musical voice for most of those films (including writing many of the theme songs), but I’ll save it for later when Casino Royale arrives.
It’s good to be an LA Phil subscriber. On the first Green Umbrella night (10/17), I had great Front Orchestra seats right behind Los Angeles Times music critic Mark Swed. In front of him was Ernest Fleischman, the godfather of the Los Angeles Philharmonic who turned the orchestra into the powerhouse that it is today. […]
Pitchfork writes about the new music from the Darren Aronofsky film The Fountain, scored by Clint Mansell with help from the Kronos Quartet and Mogwai. For ease of access, here is the link directly to the Nonesuch website where you can hear Mansell’s work. It’s a collaboration I’m almost guaranteed to love, and from those samples and […]
Sufjan Stevens is one of those great musicians who transcends labels. I believe if the man wanted to, he could start scoring films like Little Miss Sunshine or he could start writing twangy country music as naturally befits his project to make an album homage to each of 50 United States. His recent visit to the […]
