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…
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…
During a seven-decade career that spanned from 19th century Vienna to the golden age of Hollywood, Max Steiner did more than any other composer to help introduce and establish the language of film music. In July 2020, the book MUSIC BY MAX STEINER: THE EPIC LIFE OF HOLLYWOOD'S MOST INFLUENTIAL…
During a seven-decade career that spanned from 19th century Vienna to the golden age of Hollywood, Max Steiner did more than any other composer to help introduce and establish the language of film music. In July 2020, the book MUSIC BY MAX STEINER: THE EPIC LIFE OF HOLLYWOOD'S MOST INFLUENTIAL…