I thought I knew a lot about Shaft, having produced our 3CD set anthology years ago, but I had never heard this fascinating interview with the original wah-wah guitarist. Fun!

I had such a great time at Disclosure Day. Spielberg’s still got it! No spoilers here, so this will have to be brief. What a gift to have a new John Williams score! Screenwriters should study this for one of the all-time great “in medias res” openings. There is a massive amount of exposition built into an opening chase. The degree of difficulty with this is almost off the charts. Spielberg is the GOAT, what can we say? Just for the moving masters alone. Wow. Can’t say much mo

Here is an updated spreadsheet of FSMCDs.com inventory. Thanks! A shout-out today to Tim Burden who produced a concert in Dublin with Peter Bernstein to celebrate Elmer Bernstein’s centennial. They are now selling a 100-unit only 3CD set of the complete concert. Please see all the details at their Bandcamp page. A very special item—check it out. Thanks!

Thanks to everybody who bought from the new FSMCDs.com sale yesterday. We are shipping the new orders asap! Here is a spreadsheet of the current inventory. I am so excited to see Disclosure Day tomorrow for many reasons—but here’s one you might not have thought of. As far as I am aware, this film is set in the present day (or very near future). Since Jurassic Park and its sequel, Spielberg has directed 19 films. Know how many have been set in contemporary reality? Just three:

We are live with new listings at FSMCDs.com! We have slimlines and FYC CDs from Jeanne Jones’s collection, sealed FSM editions and box sets from my mom’s basement, and some neat CDs and cheapo damaged CDs from another collector. Here is a spreadsheet of inventory. And the site, to order, as always: FSMCDs.com. Happy shopping and thank you!

Be here tomorrow for our next CD sale: we have around 850 items from the Jeanne Jones collection, consistingly mostly of promos in cardboard sleeves and “slimline” cases. We also have a few hundred CDs from another collector, including a bunch that were water damaged (but the disc is fine) for only a buck of three. Finally, over the years I used to send a copy of each completed FSM album to my dad and another copy to my mom. I sold the “dad collection” a few years ago through

I saw Backrooms and thought it was cool. For all the talk of Backrooms and Obsession being game changers, as far as the young, YouTube-era filmmakers, I think it comes down to people wanting to see a new movie that’s different and has a cool, easy-to-understand concept. Word gets out that it’s good, and it takes off. I remember when the found footage craze happened, and it was similar: dirt cheap horror movies becoming massive phenomenons. But it was not sustainable indefinit

The June issue of FSM Online is live! Cutting and pasting the announcement email: The June issue of FSM Online is ready for your reading and listening pleasure! To check it out, click here. This month, we have THE BOROUGHS (John Paesano), KRAKOW FMF 2026 (James Newton Howard, Antonio Sanchez, Robert Townson), MORTAL KOMBAT II/WELCOME TO DERRY (Benjamin Wallfisch), MOVIESCORE MEDIA TURNS 20 (Mikael Carlsson), Scott Dunn on his GOLDEN AGE FILM MUSIC CONCERT "From Hell to Hollyw

This is the first chance I am having to lavish well-deserved praise on Quartet’s new recording of The Ipcress File, the John Barry spy classic. The soundtrack album is a classic but much of the original score as heard in the film has never been released—and with both recordings and written scores long lost, the only way we’d ever hear it is through a painstaking reconstruction and new performance. This is exactly what Quartet’s team has done—Leigh Phillips for the reconstruct

Wow—so grateful there is a new John Williams score to discover and enjoy! I thought this might never happen again, but it’s here, and of course it’s great. (Shades of Born on the Fourth of July.) Sample on YouTube: How lucky we are!

I am back from the East Coast and just a short note today to plug the return of BuySoundtrax’s Mystery Box for Father’s Day: 30 CDs from BSX, Dragon’s Domain, Citadel and others for $44.99. Details here! Offer good through end of day on June 17th.

I’m leaving in a few hours (30th college reunion, wow!) and back middle of next week, so this column will stay atop the blog. FSMCDs.com is open for business and here’s a spreadsheet of the current inventory, so please, if you want to order, order! Orders placed last week will ship this Friday the 29th. Orders placed this week will ship June 3rd at the earliest. Thanks! Please see yesterday’s column about the importance of new subscribers to FSM Online, and hope you can check

It’s about to be June, which is the month I use to celebrate FSM’s anniversary—I forget the exact date, but the first newsletter that became FSM is labeled “6–90 Update.” Since that time—36 years ago—there has been an uninterrupted publication of FSM, either in print or online. This sort of blows my mind. We started out by reporting that Alan Silvestri had returned to score Back to the Future, Part III. It feels like ancient history but we’ve been publishing ever since. And w

Just a heads up that our next CD sale will be Tuesday, June 9, at 10AM Pacific (1PM Eastern). I am going out of town this coming week—it’s my 30-year college reunion, what the heck happened?!? Rather than try to rush things, we’ll just pick June 9th and keep our usual Tuesday sale date. See you then, thanks!

I’ve been so busy with our Kickstarter that I haven’t had a chance to talk about how much I enjoyed the end of The Boys—and this entire demented, perverted show. No notes! Just loved it. Bravo to everybody involved.

We have finished our Kickstarter to record a new album of James Horner’s 1980s television music past the original goal and past the stretch goal as well—thank you! Truly, thank you to all the donors, and I also want to shout out everybody who helped spread the word—including friends at Neumation Music, La-La Land Records, Intrada, Screen Archives and BuySoundtrax who generously helped with the publicity. The campaign is set to enable late backers for anybody wanting to add yo

Thank you to everybody who contributed to get us past our $45,000 Kickstarter goal for the new recording of 1980s James Horner Television Music! The campaign ends tonight at 11:59PM, Pacific time, 5/21/26—and we are trying to get to our STRETCH GOAL of $50,000 to add Horner’s little-known 1985 score for Nicholas Meyer’s episode of Faerie Tale Theatre, “The Pied Piper of Hamelin.” Watch the episode here: To everybody who has supported—thank you! And for those still watching, w

It’s the final two days of our Kickstarter to record James Horner’s 1980s TV movie scores A Few Days in Weasel Creek, Angel Dusted and A Piano for Mrs. Cimino! We are at $37,406 and need $45,000 by 11:59PM Pacific time, Thursday night. Thank you to all the donors, and people who have increased their pledges, and helped spread the word—including my friends who have deployed their valuable mailing lists to our cause. Let’s close this! Pledge here.

It is the final two days of our Kickstarter to record a new album of James Horner’s early 1980s TV movie scores: A Few Days in Weasel Creek, Angel Dusted and A Piano for Mrs. Cimino. The campaign ends Thursday night at 11:59PM, May 21, 2026, and we have a little over $10K still to raise—so this may be a photo finish! We have 471 backers as I’m writing this Tuesday morning. We had 817 to our campaign last year at this time to revamp FSM’s website, do a Best of FSM book and oth

It’s our final week of the Kickstarter to record a new album of James Horner’s early 1980s TV movie scores, and I’m proud to announce a new partner: The album will be distributed and coproduced by my friends at La-La Land Records! This is a perfect match: I no longer have the infrastructure to handle the distribution and administration of soundtrack releases, while La-La Land (recently featured in The New York Times) has released hundreds of incredible original soundtrack rec

Four days left in our Kickstarter to record a new CD of James Horner’s early 1980s TV movie scores—please help! We are making a distribution announcement tomorrow—what will it be? Come back tomorrow! So much excitement!

We are in the home stretch of our Kickstarter to record early 1980s James Horner TV movie scores. We are touching $30K of our $45K goal—with the stretch goal (to add Faerie Tale Theatre) being $50K. Two things I want to share... One is what a lifelong fascination I’ve had with Horner’s music, which I am sure is shared by many. I’m especially drawn to his early works—maybe because of the more traditional aesthetics of the era, or nostalgia for my own youth, but I remember so v

We are six days away from the end of our Kickstarter to record early 1980s James Horner TV movie scores. Thank you to so many who have contributed—we are approaching the two-thirds point, $30K out of the $45K. However, to record the stretch goal, “The Pied Piper of Hamlin” from Faerie Tale Theatre, we’ll need to reach $50K. This will be tight! You can pre-order the digital and/or CD copy for not a lot of money, and every little bit helps. Thank you!

If you have never seen it, there is remarkable footage of young James Horner conducting Something Wicked This Way Comes, filmed by Disney for a documentary: This comes from the era we’ll record with our Kickstarter—one week to go!