The L.A. Times reports that “Eye of the Tiger” songwriters with the band Survivor are outraged over the tune’s use at a political event in Grayson, KY, involving fresh-from-jail public servant Kim Davis and former Arkansas governor and erstwhile Fox News personality Mike Huckabee. The song was popularized as the theme to the 1976 film […]
“This is one of the highlights of my career,” British singer songwriter Sam Smith tweeted today of performing the theme for the new James Bond film, Spectre. Called “Writing’s On the Wall,” Smith let slip in a January BBC Radio 1 interview that he’d recorded the song, then tried his best to bury the news after apparently […]
Composer Chance Thomas will conjure the score for “Faeria,” Abrakam Entertainment’s elaborate digital strategy card game. Thomas, an award-winning multi-media composer, envisions the musical accompaniment for the online game as “epic, all-original fantasy.” The game has been in beta for the past two years and is targeting a January release in the U.S. and Europe, and has already attracted an […]
The video game score for “Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture” was listed, then yanked, from the U.K.’s “Official Classical Albums Chart,” after it was said to be “ineligible” and included in error. This due not to lack of sales, but to the fact that “soundtracks performed by single and various artists are ineligible.” The move prompted a Twitter tirade, […]
Videogame music innovator Chance Thomas will keynote GameSoundCon 2015, taking place November 3-4 at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. The event brings together some of the most acclaimed composers and producers in the video game industry for two days of intensive presentations and hands-on training sessions. Thomas has created original music for some of the most successful […]
The story of London’s notorious Kray Brothers gangster duo is brought to vivid life in Brian Helgeland’s Legend, with a score by Carter Burwell and a soundtrack that in addition to original Burwell compositions will feature two discs worth of 1960s classics. Brit singer Duffy portrays Chicagao-born chanteuse Timi Yuro in the film, and recorded […]
