Not to be missed: Billboard magazine’s “Year in Music: Best Original Photography of 2016.” To call this an impressive portfolio is understating it by quite a bit. It is exceptional work, a lovely testament to many talented working photographers, the art directors and editors who paired them with just the right subjects, and of course the artists […]
The streets of Chicago, Philadelphia and Los Angeles have much to say, and 21-year-old Isaac Treece, professionally known as Swisha, is listening. The electronic musician, who received arts training at the charter school CHAMPS in Van Nuys, combines his Philadelphia roots with the synth beat of hometown Los Angeles, choreographing it all around juke and footwork for an […]
Will Ferrell and Kristin Wiig are teaming on a musical send-up of corporate motivational presentations. Inspired by the book Everything Is Coming Up Profits: The Golden Age of Industrial Musicals, the score will be written by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, the team behind the tunes of Broadway’s smash hit Hairspray, as well as the 2013 […]
Our favorite legacy service, Pandora, made the list, as well as newcomer TuneIn, both among the top five internet radio apps reviewed by CNET. In an age where streaming is the new normal, no one should be more than one-click out from one of the lifelines on this list. While that has been a disruptor for terrestrial radio, some […]
Composer Hans Zimmer will be performing on three continents in 2017, touring music from Gladiator, The Lion King and Pirates of the Caribbean, in addition to other crowd-pleasers. Kicking off in Los Angeles’ Microsoft Theater on April 14, Zimmer will traverse the U.S. before heading to Australia and Europe, where he’ll play London, Paris, Stockholm […]
Music Practice & Theory, found at Music.StackExchange.com, is the all-things-sonic Q&A board by the fabulous folks who manage to get geeks’ every question answered on at Stack Overflow. So if you’re puzzling over pentatonic scales fingering or exploring an eBow, this is the board you want to be on. Like a great bookstore, you can spend […]
Violinist Joshua Bell performs with the Chamber Orchestra of Havana for the PBS Live at Lincoln Center production “Joshua Bell’s Seasons of Cuba.” The show premieres Dec. 16 as part of the PBS Fall Arts Festival. Bell, arguably the finest American violinist of our day, leads a pack that includes such Cuban talent as singer-songwriter […]
Melinda Newman safaried to the heart of song licensing territory for Billboard, reporting “From the Desk of…” Universal Film Group President of Music and Publishing Mike Knobloch, who presided over the licensing feat of what is believed to be a record-setting 60 songs for the animation motion picture Sing. The Dec. 21 Universal Pictures release […]
The 74th Annual Golden Globe nominations are out, and no surprise, La La Land continues the run-up at the front of the pack for Best Song and Best Score, with the requisite three noms –One for composer Justin Hurwitz, amd two in the Song category, for Hurwitz and lyricists Benj Pasek and Justin Paul. The […]
They might be the best movie music squad you’ve never heard of, and the Confidential Music team is happy to keep it that way. The Santa Monica-based trio – composer John Samuel Hanson, artist Becky Hanson, and mixer-producer Kyle Biane – create custom music for movie trailers. Although their clients are technically the trailer houses, ultimately their clients […]
