The haunting “Lullaby for a Soldier” performed by actress Maggie Siff for the TV show Sons of Anarchy was used to memorable effect on the trailer for Twentieth Century Fox’s Alita: Battle Angel, a Dec. 21 theatrical release directed by Robert Rodriguez. “I didn’t know what to expect when Maggie came over to the studio,” […]
Emmy award-winning composer and music producer Benjamin Wynn, known professionally as Deru, has been signed to Doug Liman’s new series Impulse for Youtube Red. Deru’s signature dark electronic sound will no doubt lend scope and depth to the story of a teen girl who discovers her ability to teleport and the chain of events that follow as […]
Live Nation Entertainment has established the Women Nation Fund, an early-stage investment fund focused on female-led live music businesses. Live Nation is setting up the fund and will provide access to the company’s resources and capital for underrepresented female entrepreneurs in the concert promotions, events and festival spaces, it was announced today by Live Nation […]
“How can the scrappy founders afford to get started? Can they avoid getting ripped off by the big record companies?” Those are the questions asked by The Washington Post theater critic Nelson Pressley in reviewing Soul: The Stax Musical. The Baltimore Center Stage production, which runs through June 10, was directed by erstwhile artistic director Kwame […]
Evan Lamberg, president of Universal Music Publishing North America, has been named president of City of Hope’s Music, Film & Entertainment Industry Board. Based in Duarte, CA, City of Hope is the world-renowned independent research and treatment center for cancer, diabetes and other life-threatening diseases. In this two-year position, Lamberg will oversee efforts and fundraising […]
Musical titans Bill Anderson, Robert “Kool” Bell, Ronald Bell, George Brown & James “JT” Taylor p/k/a “Kool & The Gang,” Steve Dorff, Jermaine Dupri, Alan Jackson, John Mellencamp and Allee Willis are the latest to join the Songwriters Hall of Fame with honors taking place at the 49th Annual induction and awards dinner June 14 […]
The official Deadpool 2 Original Motion Picture Score is now available digitally to stream and download. Fans with an ear to the internet will also hear the composer Tyler Bates crowing over the soundtrack’s “parental guidance” warning. Although Bates and Sony Music are touting it as a “first-ever” of its kind warning, we find it […]
Award-winning composer James Edward Barker has signed on to score Endor Productions and BFI’s upcoming Gothic mystery-thriller Gwen, by first time feature director William McGregor. Gwen is produced by Tom Nash and Hilary Bevan Jones for Endor, Lizzie Francke (’71) for the BFI, and stars BAFTA-nominated actress Maxine Peake (Funny Cow, The Theory of Everything) alongside Eleanor Worthington-Cox (Britannia) […]
Writing lyrically that “Some of the greatest written works of our time have been inspired by music,” New York Times reporter Natalie Proulx goes on to cite Walt Whitman conceptualizing and writing “Leaves of Grass” while listening to opera, and Alice Walker, Langston Hughes, Ntozake Shange and Ralph Ellison “all moved by spirituals, jazz and blues”A […]
Katharine McPhee performs “Living in the Moment,” the theme song to Paramount Pictures’ Book Club, an ensemble comedy starring Diane Keaton, Candice Bergen, Jane Fonda, and Mary Steenburgen. McPhee was the runner-up on the fifth season of American Idol, and released her debut album on RCA Records in 2007.The tune was written by Carole Bayer Sager with Walter […]
