WaterTower Music today announced the details of the original motion picture soundtrack for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, the second of five all new adventures in the Wizarding World created by J.K. Rowling. The film opens in theaters Nov.16. Grammy and Emmy award-winner and multiple Oscar nominee James Newton Howard (Fantastic Beasts and Where […]
With Kid Rock and Sam &Dave’s Sam Moore looking on as witnesses, President Donald Trump today signed the Music Modernization Act into law. Various iterations of the bill, which updates antiquated copyright payment policies and is heralded as bringing music into the digital era, have kicked around the hill over the past sessions of congress. […]
Apple announced today that it closed its $400 million acquisition of music recognition app Shazam, a transaction initiated late last year. Shazam lets users identify songs simply by listening to the music playing around them. In a press release, Apple said it intends to offer its experience ad-free for all users “so everyone can enjoy the […]
A decades-long US music battle is winding to a conclusion with full Senate passage of the Music Modernization Act today. Continuing opposition by SiriusXM and some last minute maneuvering by the Blackstone Group, owner of SESAC and the Harry Fox Agency, kept things contentious up until the last minute, but were not perceived as serious […]
British rock band Queen’s legendary performance at Live Aid For will be available on record the first time as part of the soundtrack for the film Bohemian Rhapsody. The album also contains a Queen-ized version of the famous 20th Century Fox fanfare, which will play in theaters before the movie, opening in the US Nov. 2. […]
Fresh Air’s Terry Gross interviews Todd Purdum about his new book, Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Broadway Revolution. Before there was Rodgers& Hammerstein there was Rodgers & Hart. When a dissipated lyricist Lorenz Hart could no longer work, composer Richard Rodgers teamed with Oscar Hammerstein. Their first play, Oklahoma!, which opened on Broadway in 1943 and […]
Deadpool 2 music maker Tyler Bates is set as anchor for the keynote session at the 5th Annual Production Music Conference, taking place Sept. 26-28 at the Loews Hollywood Hotel. Bates will be interviewed by Variety reporter Jon Burlingame at the Sept. 27 session focusing on the composer’s experience creating music for film, TV, and videogames. Bates’ […]
Timed to their latest collaboration on BlacKkKlansman, Spike Lee’s go-to composer Terence Blanchard talks to VICE about everything from his childhood studying piano in New Orleans and his first partnership with Lee on 1991’s Jungle Fever to the director’s love of orchestral music to complete a score. In addition to music, the VICE’s Noel Ransome […]
Musicians have better “working memory” than even bilingual speakers, according to a study published in the journal Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences and reported in Pacific Standard magazine. “Given that decreased activity in this region has been linked with cognitive deterioration, this suggests ‘musical training and bilingualism might be protective factors against […]
Jeff Russo’s Legion Season Two – Original Television Series Soundtrack will be released digitally from Lakeshore Records on May 25. Russo’s synth-accented score highlights the story of David Haller (Dan Stevens), a man who believed himself to be schizophrenic only to discover that he may actually be a powerful mutant savant. Lakeshore also released the […]
