Happy National Film Score Day! National Film Score Day was created on April 3rd, 2018 by Jeffrey D. Kern of the defunct internet film music radio station MOVIE SCORES AND MORE RADIO, and is officially recognized by the National Day Calendar. National Film Score Day "was created to celebrate film…
My boycott of the Oscars continues (click here to read why) as does my presentation of my favourite scores of 2021. As I did in part one of the show, I'll talk about and play music from the 2021 soundtracks that I liked. On the program today, you'll hear music from…
That's right folks, the Oscars suck! But we've suspected that for many years now. But this year, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, officially, publicly, declared their show to be an utter joke! Now, they didn't say that directly, but, according to Variety... Several major Academy Awards will…
After finding success scoring, Dario Argento’s wildly popular Deep Red (aka Profondo Rosso) (1975) and Suspiria (1977), the previously unknown Italian progressive rock band Goblin were suddenly overnight rock stars, as well as in-demand film composers. On this episode of Scored to Death Radio, host [and author] J. Blake Fichera…
Today you get to enjoy the second programmed by one of our patrons from the CONDUCTOR TIER over at our Patreon page. . In this tier, which is $10 USD ($13.50 CAN), donors get all of the benefits of lower tiers PLUS they earn the opportunity to program their very…
Welcome to part one of a special edition of THE ARCHIVE on the CINEMATIC SOUND RADIO PODCAST featuring John Williams' music for television in honour of his 90th birthday on February 8th, 2022. Your host Jason Drury starts with selections from the first episode of AMAZING STORIES called GHOST TRAIN…
Today, on the 1UPBEAT, as the CINEMATIC SOUND RADIO NETWORK turns 25 years ago, it's a great opportunity to see what the world of video game music was like back in 1996. This massive four-part special series will cover the classic game franchises that began in 1996, the launch of…
In 1975, one of Italy’s biggest and most innovative filmmakers asked a group of unknown young musicians to record the score for his latest film and forever altered the course of film music. The filmmaker was Dario Argento, the film was DEEP RED [a.k.a. PROFONDO ROSSO], and the musicians were…