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Mike Patton to Release Film Score Album

Singer-producer Mike Patton, of Faith No More and Mr. Bungle fame (among many other groups), has announced yet another album to add to his prolific musical catalog. No, he's not doing a Faith No More reunion album, nor is he recording with his avant-metal band Fantômas or most recent project Peeping Tom. For this one, he's venturing out on his own — and what's more, it's going to be a film score.  read more

Tortoise to Score Upcoming Film

Chicago instrumental/experimental band Tortoise have been very inactive recently — in the past 10 years they've released just two albums — but the musically diverse collective has reared its head once again.  read more

Hans Zimmer Getting Inspired by Goldfrapp and Verdi

Talking to MTV earlier in February, film composer Hans Zimmer revealed that the score for The Dark Knight Rises will be “extraordinarily epic.”...  read more

The Classical Film Score is Here to Stay

Last year Danny Elfman accepted an invitation from the American Composer Orchestra to write an evening of music for them to perform at Carnegie Hall, “and there wasn’t a terrible lot of thought that went into [the decision],” he says. “[So] I decided I better go to New York and see Carnegie Hall, because I’d never been there. And that was my biggest mistake.”   For the first time in his career, Elfman was asked to write orchestral music that wasn’t attached to a film, and he was given nearly free rein. Film composers typically arrive on a project at...  read more