Years ago, Dennis Schmidt created an index (actually, a table of contents) for the FSM print edition that we used to made a search engine at the website. The search on the site is not functioning at the moment, but I realized I could just put the index on my Google Drive for people to consult. This will help you find articles in the print archive. I so want to have all this properly reconfigured on the site itself! It’s just expensive to have the programming done.

If you are not a subscriber to FSM Online, the paywall portion of our site (and continuation of the magazine, which started all the way back in 1990) please visit this FREE TOUR. Pretty cool stuff—thanks!

Congrats to US, I guess, for getting a “Projects We Love” badge from Kickstarter for our James Horner Television Music Recording campaign. We are over halfway to our initial goal, but we’ll need more than that to add our stretch goal, of recording Horner’s score for Faerie Tale Theatre. Thanks!

I have seen a lot of very early Varèse Sarabande pressings while processing the Jeanne Jones collection for FSMCDs.com. I came across two slightly different discs of the Fred Steiner Star Trek, Vol. 1 CD from 1985. Fortunately I knew who to ask, John Stroud, a very knowledgeable collector, and generous with his time! “They’re both Japan-for-U.S. pressings, but the top one is the original first pressing by Victor Musical Industries (as printed at the bottom on the label side!)

Thanks for all your purchases from FSMCDs.com this week! Thousands of items still in stock, here is an updated spreadsheet. Here’s an update I just posted to Kickstarter: THANK YOU! We’re one week into our 30-day campaign and have reached the halfway point of our initial goal of $45,000 to record James Horner’s early 1980s TV movie scores, A Few Days in Weasel Creek, Angel Dusted and A Piano for Mrs. Cimino—thank you! Want to watch these obscure movies, and hear the scores in

It’s our first shipping day out of our new office! Usually I would just snap a picture of the orders on the “staging” table, soon to ship, but I’m still working from my home office so they’re not here! So let me plug our James Horner Kickstarter again which is nearly halfway to our $45K ask after one week—a great start! Thank you to everybody who has contributed, and spread the word. We had a big sales day yesterday, but there are still thousands of titles in stock. Here is t

UPDATE: There was a problem this morning where the cart exclusivity (six hours) was not working. So people found items disappearing from their carts. This has been fixed. However, the fix is not retroactive. If you have something in your cart and you want it, please buy it asap. We always, as a matter of S.O.P., combine multiple orders to save on shipping. I can’t tell you how embarrassed and sorry I am that we have had these tech problems. You guys are such great customers a

As we continue to sell the CD collection of our late friend Jeanne Jones—the next batch of titles go on sale tomorrow at 10AM Pacific / 1PM Eastern—I’ve received a few inquiries about her very significant LP collection. Those are being sold by Soundtrackers at their Discogs and Amazon stores. The listings go live today! Thank you for all your support on our James Horner TV project Kickstarter, which heads into week two looking good—please keep it up! Thanks!

We moved into our new office the past two days. It’s already out of room! So we’ll just have to sell more stuff!!! Back Tuesday with more from the Jeanne Jones collection.

Our James Horner Kickstarter is finishing week one—now the real work begins, the middle weeks where donations slow down, we’ll be stepping up outreach to meet our goal. I was happy to be a guest on the Pop Culture Classics podcast with Greg Ehrbar, which is now live wherever great podcasts are heard, like Spotify. Some of you have been curious what these ancient TV movies actually are. It’s pretty easy to find two of them on YouTube: Angel Dusted (complete with vintage ads):

Today is the day we get 10K CDs out of my house! Wish us luck. We have rented a small office space around 20 minutes south and we start the move...in an hour! But I don’t want to take focus away from our James Horner Kickstarter campaign. Please support if you have not done so! Thanks!

Thank you all for a great first day to our Kickstarter to record James Horner's early 1980s TV movie scores: A Few Days in Weasel Creek, Angel Dusted and A Piano for Mrs. Cimino. The way these campaigns work, you typically raise 1/3rd of your ask in the first few days, 1/3rd in the middle, and 1/3rd in the last few days. So with a $45K goal and almost $15K after a day, we’re in a good place. I am really hoping we can add stretch goals, like Faerie Tale Theatre, so I want to s

We are LIVE at Kickstarter with our campaign 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 —plus more, let’s hope, as stretch goals! Please contribute, we need you !

Join us tomorrow, Tuesday, April 21, 2026, on Kickstarter as we launch our campaign to record a new album of James Horner’s early 1980s TV scores: A Few Days in Weasel Creek, Angel Dusted and A Piano for Mrs. Cimino —plus whatever we can raise as a stretch goal. Thanks!

Mark your calendars! Our Kickstarter campaign to record a new album of James Horner’s early 1980s TV music goes live Tuesday morning, April 21, 2026. Here’s hoping! Thanks to everybody who has bought from FSMCDs.com as we continue to sell the Jeanne Jones collection. Here is an updated spreadsheet of available inventory . Thanks!

Thanks to everybody who bought from yesterday’s sale ! We are packing and shipping the rest of the week. Thousands of goodies still in stock! Here is an updated spreadsheet . And...we’re on the move! The CDs are bursting out of our house so we found the rare affordable L.A. office space. Here’s a little video we shot where I talk about it (don’t get your hopes up for any real entertainment): We’ll be moving next week so yeah, anything we can ship to YOU instead of lugging to

UPDATE 3PM Pacific: The site should be running at normal speed. There was a lot of bot traffic slowing things down, and some settings that needed to be reconfigured. I delayed sending out the email blast until these were resolved. There are already several hundred items from the spreadsheet that have sold. Remember, sales are every other Tuesday at 10AM Pacific (in this case, 11AM, because the items uploaded slowly). Thanks!!! UPDATE: Site is slow, I know. When plug-ins and a

I must have gotten on some mailing list because I recently received “offers” from some places to interview me and promote The Best of Film Score Monthly . I said, sure...but as I suspected, this was all a prelude to ask me for money. And some of these places seem to be, or claim to be, afilliated with the BBC and legit outlets. Weird! The emails are very pushy and look written by A.I. Even when I said, hey can you send me an email that seems written by a human please, I just

Everything’s on track for the Tuesday sale (4/14, 10AM Pacific, 1PM Eastern) and I’ve even managed to get the R titles listed. So we have copies of the original Varèse Sarabande RoboCop both with the barcode, and without—I didn’t even realize!

I’ve been so busy I didn’t take a moment to say how much I enjoyed the new La-La Land Diamonds Are Forever CD . More magnificent work from the team! Finally the long version of the title song can be heard—we had it way back in 2003 but the label and studio were unwilling to try to clear Bassey’s vocal on our tight schedule. A John Barry classic!