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Cover Story: The Art of the Great Song Cover
Licensing, arrangement, and the quiet craft of making someone else's song sound like your own.
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Composer assignments, score release dates, replaced composers, awards shortlists and label announcements across film, television and game music.
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Nine Composers, One Cellist: What the Behemoth Collective Says About Scoring
Tony Gilroy cast his composers like actors — and the structure of 'Behemoth!' turns that choice into the film's argument.
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Cover story celia laskey — The Twelve-Inch Canvas: how album cover art became a storytelling medium
From bound books of 78s to a two-inch streaming thumbnail, sleeve art has always done narrative work — the format just keeps changing the size of the page.
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Newsies Soundtrack Movie — Building a Film-Music Library: How to Collect Soundtracks on CD and Streaming Without Overpaying
What a soundtrack collection is actually for, and how to let that answer decide what you buy, what you stream, and what you skip.
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Ludwig Göransson's Oppenheimer Score Wins the Academy Award
Göransson took the Original Score Oscar at the March 2024 ceremony for Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer — his second, after Black Panther in 2019, and the quiet capstone of a scoring partnership now five films deep.
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A Counter Story on Curtom: how Curtis Mayfield's Super Fly soundtrack argues with its own film
Cut in three days in Chicago, released a month ahead of the picture and later preserved by the Library of Congress, Mayfield's 1972 album answered a movie about a dealer with nine songs that refuse to admire him.