I enjoyed the new documentary on James Bond songs and scores, The Sound of 007. See it now on Amazon. It’s a fun overview of the history...

I love this new concert work by the Maestro, which I discovered on the FSM message board. (See, the board isn’t all bad.) Details here....

Check out this half-hour piano medley of Ennio Morricone themes from the YouTube channel of Roger Strauss (he has several dozen other...

I recently rewatched Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. Why? I don’t know. Mostly nostalgia. And curiosity for what I would think of it...

Yesterday I dug up and posted a 1997 essay I wrote about the future of film music. It was inspired by my reaction to the Fifth Element...

Recently, a podcast about Hollywood film-scoring ghostwriters reminded me how new scores don’t sell to collectors. It made me think about...

Yesterday I mentioned a podcast about Hollywood insiders that did half an episode about composers and their armies of...

Hollywood Confessional is a podcast with anonymous film industry workers telling their stories about terrible treatment and bad...

I have a “scratch file” of ideas for blog columns that I’ve been relying upon to put up these daily thoughts. I had one on there, “My Top...

I say “Hi Joe!” to my friend Joe Sikoryak, who designed all of our CDs and pretty much everything I worked on from 1997 until,...

Just a quick plug today for composer David Carbonara’s new jazz album, Back to One. Check it out!

I have a confession to make. All those blaxploitation movies—and all those kung fu movies—and, especially, all those blaxploitation +...

Well, this was cool! I haven’t been to the Hollywood Bowl in years—I hate the parking! But John Williams conducted his annual...

Here’s a stupid picture of me with Quincy Jones circa 2012. It was some film music gathering, I remember where it was (on the Sunset...

There’s a Roy Budd crime score I’ve always loved, The Stone Killer, a 1973 Charles Bronson film. It was directed by Michael Winner, who...

My friend Roger Feigelson at Intrada has been posting a fun game on the Intrada message board. I only recently discovered it when he...

Earlier this week I drove through Culver City, for the first time in years. The Film Score Monthly office was located at 8503 Washington...

Did it ever feel like Jerry Goldsmith’s scores were so good, and sometimes the movies were so bad, that it was as if he was scoring a...

I only recently discovered a 2012 Guy Farley score to a 1960s-era caper comedy, The Hot Potato. I was listening to it cold (long story)...

Above: Mike Lang, photographed by Dan Goldwasser. I was so sorry to hear of the passing of Mike Lang (1941–2022), one of the all-time...