Deep cut anime and video game soundtrack selections from Motion Ward’s Ura. Los Angeles-based experimental electronic label Motion Ward continues to be on a roll, albeit at a […]
Soundtrack
Haunting performances from Julee Cruise, Peter Ivers, Roy Orbison, Jimmy Scott, and more. Listen in on any conversation about David Lynch’s music and the name Angelo Badalamenti will […]
All hail the Sims 2: Nightlife soundtrack. In the late 1990s a trio of 10-inch records by a little known London beat-based duo called Lemon Jelly hit the […]
A short retrospective on the Twin Peaks crooner, along with some of our favorite recordings from the late dream-pop icon. Eerie, otherworldly, the epitome of ethereal, Julee Cruise […]
Richard Thompson’s gorgeous score for Herzog’s Grizzly Man will be reissued this Friday on No Quarter. In the early aughts, film auteur Werner Herzog traveled to Alaska to […]
Experience the storied collaboration between Joe Hisaishi and Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli in one brilliant two-hour performance. The In Sheep’s Clothing’s residency at Neuehouse is coming to a […]
Charlotte Renaud’s incredible essay on the celebrated Swedish auteur’s devotion to classical music. ‘If I was forced to choose between losing my hearing or losing my sight, I […]
An intro to the surreal and funky world of “library records,” the assembly-line-produced albums designed to soundtrack film and television. It’s hard to sum up the “library record.” […]
This cinematic movement centered around the black experience gave legends like Roy Ayers and Barry White their first shot at scoring films. The American civil rights movement in […]
From Popol Vuh to Wagner to cellist Ernst Reijseger, an overview of a great director’s use of music in film. Viral videos of Werner Herzog’s skewed, oft archaic […]
