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in Larks & Recs, MusicLarks & Recs: The 50th Anniversary of Tommy in IMAX
I don’t go out to the movies very often. The older I get, the less patience I have with the average movie audience. They talk, they sing along (if applicable), it’s just not worth it. Some things are worth the risk, though. Tonight I went to a 50th anniversary showing of The Who’s Tommy in […] More
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Composer Ceiri Torjussen on Crafting the Haunting Musical Soul of Netflix’s Delhi Crime Season 3
Delhi Crime Season 3 plunges into some of the series’ darkest emotional terrain yet, and composer Ceiri Torjussen faced the challenge of building a musical landscape that supported that intensity, while keeping the tone grounded. In case you aren’t familiar with the show, Delhi Crime follows a police force as they investigate high-profile crimes in […] More
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Scoring the Sound of Rebellion: Andrew Gordon Macpherson on Composing Into the Void for Hulu
Heavy metal has always existed at the intersection of power and chaos—a genre defined by its extremes, by the tension between control and abandon. For composer Andrew Gordon Macpherson, translating that intensity into music for Hulu’s Into the Void meant finding the emotional core beneath the distortion. The docuseries dives deep into the mythology of […] More
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FM Le Sieur Composes Folky Score for The Sticky
Is there anything more Canadian than stealing barrels of maple syrup? It’s an idea that sounds too farfetched to be real, but it is. The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist is the (loose) inspiration behind Prime Video’s The Sticky. Ruth (Margo Martindale) is a maple syrup farmer who turns to crime when bureaucratic red tape […] More
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Composer Dr. Marcus Norris Talks Epic Score of Lady in the Lake
It’s nearly impossible to contain Dr. Marcus Norris’ music into a single genre. His work has spanned from rap beats to opera to Beyoncé’s 2023 surprise live performance in Dubai to themed anime concerts to film scores. Now, Norris is teaming up with visionary director Alma Har’el for her upcoming Apple TV+ series, Lady in […] More
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2023 in Music: The 23 Best Songs of the Year
We’ve already been through the entirely objective list of the best albums of 2023 but there’s something all the most special about those individual songs which exist as perfectly formed three or four (or sometimes longer) musical experiences, telling whole stories, encapsulating the most nuanced and intense of emotions, and exploding across our senses in what […] More
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2023 in Music: The 23 Best Albums of the Year
So, was this a good or a bad year for music? Every year as I start writing these lists, I hate answering that question. My attitude has always been that if you thought any year was a bad year for music then you just weren’t looking in the right places. The best year for music […] More
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in On the Scene, Music
On Barry’s Use of “The Wizard” — Never Talking, Fuches Spreads His Magic
Prior to its release, I wondered if Barry S4E6 was entitled “The Wizard” in reference or allusion to The Wizard of Oz, and you could argue that it is. Certainly one could build a chain of resonances with what happens to Sally in the episode and how it culminates in her thematically “not being in […] More
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Gilmore Girls’ “I Will Always Love You” Scene Somehow Works
The final season of the original run of Gilmore Girls is often called the worst of the series. It’s the only season without Amy Sherman-Palladino or Daniel Palladino acting as showrunner or writer. There are plenty of other people online who have talked about what went wrong during this season, but, as they say, even […] More
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Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd? — Lana Del Rey Is Back
My first experience of Lana Del Rey was seeing the music video for “Blue Jeans.” It must have been about 2013 and it appeared on one of those channels dedicated to chart songs. I remember being captivated by the shadows in the water and by the luxury dripping from Del Rey’s vocals. I have sought […] More
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Top 10 Albums of 2022
Insofar as my musical experiences of the last 12 months will be remembered, 2022 was the year that artists I’d been trying to get into finally clicked. Artists like The Weeknd, Earl Sweatshirt and FKA Twigs took the first months of the year to take the reins and each released their best works. They were […] More
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Top 10 Songs of 2022
Following up my top 10 albums of the year list, it’s perhaps easier to single out the best individual songs of the year, as one doesn’t have to weigh entire tracklists against each other. Each of the songs on this list had just a few minutes to, in a single stroke, explore the emotions and […] More
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