W.G. “Snuffy” Walden is back as composer of record on “Nashville,” which is stacking the playlist for a triumphant season five return in January. (Yes! We argue that it’s more impressive to have loved, lost and regained than to have simply coasted along on cushy broadcast renewals — scrappiness being the very essence of Nashville). Snuffy Walden was series […]
The Utah tech-boom is expanding to include audio post in a big — some might say HUGE — way. Music conglomerate R Legacy Entertainment has assembled the pieces for a world-class sound enterprise that will be known as HUGEsound Post Production, expected to open its doors in January 2017. Earlier this month, Legacy’s Gaylen Rust […]
The Oasis doc Supersonic will get a one-night release in U.S. theaters on Wednesday, Oct. 26, according to the film’s stateside distributor, A24. The idea is apparently to “event” the bigscreen availability, leveraging that marketing and awareness with a DVD release immediately thereafter. The film will get its world premiere in the U.K. on Oct. 2, with simultaneous screenings […]
For James Franglen, the challenge of creating a score for Antoine Fuqua’s remake of The Magnificent Seven must was a double challenge. The 53-year-old British composer was not only tasked with expanding the snippets of themes left by James Horner, whose untimely death last year was an industry tragedy, but he knew the work would […]
David Bowie, the artist, defied categorization, though he is most often identified with music. In the catalog of my memory, however, he’s indexed as “showman” (with the qualifier “ultimate”). I’ve seen dozens of arena rock concerts, mostly forgotten, but David Bowie’s Serious Moonlight tour is permanently etched into my grid. Casting its beam on Philadelphia in July ’83, the show was everything the […]
In the wake of Apple shutting down Beats and Rdio filing bankruptcy, the industry is taking stock of the online music business models, trying to suss out who will be left without a seat in the next round of musical chairs. With the record labels clamoring for larger tributaries of the streaming cash flow, and the big players like […]
Could there possibly be a more entertaining band than haircut-obsessed Brit rockers Oasis? Putting aside, for a moment, the music, which is pretty darn great, there are the oversized personalities of the brothers Gallagher, Noel and Liam – cartoon characters who obsess over coiffing and interrupt each other constantly — barely intelligible sentences heavily laced with cuss […]
In a restructuring that comes at a pivotal time in the trajectory of the Universal Music Group, Michael Nash has joined the company as Executive Vice President Digital Strategy, hitting the eject button on his consultancy at Warner Music Group. The move comes in the wake of Jay Frank’s appointment, in August, to the newly-created […]
Music, effects and dialogue in the newly immersive world of filmed entertainment was the focus of “Mix Presents: The Art of Sound Design,” a daylong exploration of new audio frontiers at Sony Pictures Studios, put together by Mix, the magazine of professional audio & music production. In addition to presentations on Music: Beyond 5.1, Dialogue […]
“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 […]
