Rodriguez, Searching for Sugarman: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Keeping Sixto Rodriguez's low-burning flame aliveIf Sixto Rodriguez had come up in today’s all-knowing digital landscape, where WordPress junkies salivate at the chance to break the next “it” act, it’s...
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Classic Film Scores From Naxos
Old Hollywood film scores by composers like Korngold, Steiner, Waxman and Herrmann still have the ability to transport. With their unabashed romantic grandeur, they have found their way, over the...
View ArticleVarious Artists, Shutter Island [Music from the Motion Picture]
Pure music with an inevitable sense of narrativeFans of Martin Scorsese know that the director is almost as creative with the sound of his films as the look and the story. Shutter Island is a moody,...
View ArticleDavid Lynch and Alan R. Splet, Eraserhead (Original Soundtrack Recording)
An oasis in oddness and clamorThirty-five years after it first flummoxed undergrads, weirdoes, film scholars and midnight-movie buffs alike, David Lynch’s debut film Eraserhead continues to defy...
View ArticleLee Hazlewood, A House Safe for Tigers
A weirdly ambitious and contrarian-as-anything soundtrackThe grizzled Lee Hazlewood loved to play up his beast status by pairing himself with beauties: from his late ’60s hits with bouffanted babe...
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Discovering Dan Deacon’s America
Despite boasting a classical education from the Conservatory of Music at State University of New York at Purchase, Dan Deacon doesn’t buy into the elitist implications of being called a composer. “I...
View ArticleMichael Nyman, Nyman / Greenaway Revisited
Concert versions of Nyman's Peter Greenaway film scoresEnglish composer Michael Nyman can’t complain when people call him a Minimalist; after all, in his early days as a music critic, he helped coin...
View ArticleMegson, When I Was A Lad…(A Collection of Children’s Folk Songs)
Children's music for grown-ups, tooStu and Debbie Hanna, the married duo from Teeside known as Megson, have been charming the British folk scene for nearly 10 years now. Their music always sounds as...
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Songs for Telegraph Avenue
Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe, the central characters in Michael Chabon’s sprawling Telegraph Avenue, love nothing more than records; listening to them, talking about them, savoring the whisper of an...
View ArticleTig Notaro, Live
2012 has been Tig Notaro’s year; 2012 has not been Tig Notaro’s year. Stricken by a bout of pneumonia that spiraled into a life-threatening bacterial infection, Notaro suffered the accidental death of...
View ArticleUnwrapping Sufjan’s Christmas Gift
Brooklyn indie darling Sufjan Stevens will probably never finish his one-album-for-every-state project (48 to go!), but his holiday-music series seems unstoppable. By now, you should know the drill:...
View ArticleSufjan Stevens, Silver & Gold
Brooklyn indie darling Sufjan Stevens will probably never finish his one-album-for-every-state project (48 to go!), but his holiday-music series seems unstoppable. By now, you should know the drill:...
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eMusic’s Holiday Essentials
We know how it is: You love the holidays as much as anybody else, it’s just all that schmaltz has a way of unsettling the eggnog in your belly. Sugar is fine in cookies and candy canes, but does it...
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eMusic’s Holiday Crowd-Pleasers
Looking for holiday music to appeal to everyone from grandma to your youngest cousin? Look no further than this batch of holiday crowd-pleasers, featuring roasted chestnuts by everyone from Rod Stewart...
View ArticleThe Hidden Genius of It’s A SpongeBob Christmas
What do jingle bells sound like underwater? It’s A Spongebob Christmas Album answers that Zen-like question and many others. It’s also of the most sophisticated and creative elaborations on Yuletiding...
View ArticleVarious Artists, Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained Original Motion Picture...
An oddly congruent cross-section of styles that effectively build a narrative arcWe can call the Quentin Tarantino soundtrack a legitimate subgenre of its own now, can’t we? After all, the director has...
View ArticleGabriel Kahane: Hipster Wistfulness
It’s a wonderful thing to be talented, versatile, 30-ish, well connected and living in Brooklyn, where your neighbors are likewise talented, versatile, 30-ish, and well connected — where you are, in...
View ArticleBroadcast, Berberian Sound Studio
A sublime, sad reminder of a remarkable talent lostWhen it came to soundtracking Peter Strickland’s horror film Berberian Sound Studio, about a British sound engineer working for an Italian film...
View ArticleVarious Artists, West of Memphis: Voices for Justice
A celebratory compilation honoring the West Memphis 3West of Memphis: Voices for Justice, which is not quite a soundtrack to the new documentary about the West Memphis 3, opens with Henry Rollins...
View ArticleAlexandre Tharaud, Soundtrack “Amour”
A heavy and serious program that complements the filmMere months after Le Boeuf sur le toit, the young French pianist Alexandre Tharaud’s strut through the jazz-classical repertoire of the “Swinging...
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