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The Weekend Stream: April 9, 2022

April 9, 2022 by Mike Duquette | 3 Comments

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there’s plenty of great new/old music to discover! And after a week away, you better believe we’re coming in hot! Billy Joel, 50 Years of the Piano Man (Columbia/Legacy) (Apple Music / Amazon) On the surface, this 50-track digital compilation-cum-playlist looks like a typical algorithmic survey of Joel’s five-decade career, with all the great radio hits rising to the top. But dig deeper and you’ll discover six tracks making their…

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Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

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America, Billy Joel, Burt Bacharach, Damon Albarn, David Ruffin, Depeche Mode, Gerry Beckley, Howard Jones, Jerry Goldsmith, Jim Weatherly, Pink Floyd, The Clash, The Format, Trace Adkins

Violin Concerto No. 2 and Selected Film Themes

April 6, 2022 by Joe Marchese

Legendary maestro John Williams has teamed once again with renowned violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter for this premiere of his latest concert work. The four-movement piece was recorded by the Boston Symphony Orchestra; it’s supplemented on the CD release by new recordings of violin-led arrangements of three classic Williams themes: a piece from Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye, and the romantic themes for “Han Solo and The Princess” (as debuted in The Empire Strikes Back) and “Marion’s Theme” (from Raiders of the Lost Ark). Also planned is a stand-alone Blu-ray featuring the album in Pure Audio, surround…

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Soundtrack Watch: La-La Land Goes ‘Top Secret,’ Varese Unveils New Titles, John Williams Teams with Anne-Sophie Mutter Again

March 18, 2022 by Mike Duquette | 1 Comment

The last few weeks have seen some fine deluxe soundtrack reissues from two of our favorite film score labels – as well as another album project from the genre’s greatest living luminary. La-La Land Records has aimed for the funny bone with a brilliant new expansion of Maurice Jarre’s score to Top Secret! The 1984 comedy from the Zucker Brothers and Jim Abrahams – only their second big screen effort as writer-directors after the blockbuster Airplane! four years earlier (plus the brilliant ill-received Police Squad!, later adapted into The Naked Gun trilogy)…

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Eric Clapton, John Powell, John Williams, Maurice Jarre, Michael Kamen

Release Round-Up: Week of March 11

March 11, 2022 by The Second Disc | 3 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the titles arriving in stores today! Grateful Dead, Road Trips Vol. 1 No. 4: From Egypt with Love (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) A little over a month after playing a concert on the desert grounds surrounding the Great Pyramids of Giza in Egypt, the Grateful Dead returned home to San Francisco for a five-show stint at Winterland. The band brought along a slide show of their Egyptian stand and introduced the audience to the masterful…

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Classic Rock, Country, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks

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Alison Krauss, Amy Grant, Bryan Adams, Carole King, Celine Dion, Dolly Parton, Grateful Dead, Hank Williams, Harry Connick Jr., Irma Thomas, KISS, Liza Minnelli, Michael Feinstein, Ronnie Milsap, Rosanne Cash, Vince Gill

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: Music from Season Four

March 10, 2022 by Joe Marchese

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Legacy issues the soundtrack to the fourth season of Amazon Prime’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and it’s another collection of favorites and rarities from the show’s period setting as well as a handful of original songs sung on the show. This time out, the set features Doris Day, Ella Fitzgerald, Blossom Dearie, Judy Garland and Fred Astaire, and Broadway showstoppers from Wonderful Town, Oh, Captain!, and The Pajama Game. It’s streaming now, hits CD on April 29, and vinyl on November 4.

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Tell Me Again: Tomorrow’s Real Gone Vinyl Slate Includes Irma Thomas and Soundtracks to Two Nora Ephron Romantic Comedies

March 10, 2022 by Randy Fairman | No Comments

Tomorrow, March 11, sees a new batch of Real Gone Music vinyl titles hitting store shelves. Among the trio is a lost album by Irma Thomas and a pair of soundtracks to Nora Ephron rom-coms. Two of the releases are making their vinyl debuts. First up is Full Time Woman: The Lost Cotillion Album from Irma Thomas. Thomas, known as “The Soul Queen of New Orleans,” was born approximately 50 miles from that city in Ponchatoula, Louisiana in 1941. As a child, she sang in church choir and began singing with band…

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Bobby Darin, Carole King, Celine Dion, Harry Connick Jr., Harry Nilsson, Irma Thomas, Randy Newman

They Came, They Danced: Legacy Releases Fourth Season Soundtrack to “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”

March 8, 2022 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

The fourth season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is now underway, with two episodes arriving each Friday on Amazon Prime Video for four weeks. The series created by Amy Sherman-Palladino (Gilmore Girls, Bunheads) chronicles the colorful life of Midge “Mrs.” Maisel (portrayed by Emmy Award winner Rachel Brosnahan) as she carves out a career in New York in the rough-and-tumble world of stand-up comedy; the current season finds her in 1960, working at a seedy burlesque house and navigating the equally choppy waters of her personal life. A trademark of the series…

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Cast Recordings, Popular Standards/Vocal, Soundtracks

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Blossom Dearie, Doris Day, Eileen Rodgers, Ella Fitzgerald, Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, Patience and Prudence, The Barry Sisters, Various Artists

The Weekend Stream: March 5, 2022

March 5, 2022 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there’s plenty of great new/old music to discover! This week’s got some choice soundtracks plus rock, hip-hop, country, and classic vocalists. Depeche Mode, Construction Time Again | The 12″ Singles (Warner/Rhino) (iTunes / Amazon) Rhino continues its series of 12″ single releases from the Depeche Mode catalogue. This offering gathers up the extended mixes from the band’s third album, originally released in 1983. David Crosby, Oh Yes I Can (A&M/UMe) (iTunes…

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The Weekend Stream

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Classic Rock, Country, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks

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Akon, David Crosby, Depeche Mode, Hoyt Axton, James Horner, John Williams, Johnny Rodriguez, The Mills Brothers

The Weekend Stream: February 26, 2022

February 26, 2022 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there’s plenty of great new/old music to discover! This week’s got plenty of remixes, from New Wave to soul – plus some novelty hip-hop that’ll offer a much-needed laugh or two. Depeche Mode, A Broken Frame | The 12″ Singles (Warner/Rhino) (iTunes / Amazon) Last week, Rhino made the 12″ singles set devoted to Depeche Mode’s debut digitally available, and they’re doing the same with sophomore album A Broken Frame….

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Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Everything Else, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks

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Buddy Holly, Burt Bacharach, Depeche Mode, Ed Ames, Eric Burdon, Hoyt Axton, Jodeci, Joni James, L.A. Guns, Madonna, Mint Condition, Ronnie Spector, The Ronettes, War

Rock On: Demon Music Group’s RSD Line-Up Includes Donna Summer, Del Shannon, Pixies, T. Rex, Belinda Carlisle, More

February 24, 2022 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

We’re counting down to Record Store Day 2022, scheduled for Saturday, April 23. Today, we’re sharing the news from Demon Music Group. Demon’s 2022 lineup for the fifteenth annual RSD event has an impressive array of classic rock, soul, and pop from such artists as Donna Summer, Belinda Carlisle, T. Rex, Suede, Del Shannon (with a little help from Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne!), Pixies, Ace of Base, and Simple Minds, plus rarities from the archives of the BBC and Chi-Sound Records. Below, you’ll find the complete list of titles due from…

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Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

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Ace of Base, Belinda Carlisle, Bernard Butler, Del Shannon, Donna Summer, Echo and the Bunnymen, Jesus Jones, Pixies, Record Store Day, Simon Fowler and Oscar Harrison, Simple Minds, Suede, T Rex, The Sound

Live Long and Prosper: La-La Land Revisits “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” In New Director’s Cut Edition

February 22, 2022 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

Later this year, the Paramount+ streaming service will premiere a new 4K Director’s Edition of 1979’s Star Trek: The Motion Picture. The first big-screen voyage of the Starship Enterprise, director Robert Wise’s film was first recut as a Director’s Edition for the 2001 DVD, but the new version promises to be an upgrade in every way as it utilizes the HDR process for improved color and image. With the film itself getting such a makeover, it’s only appropriate that the soundtrack is, too. Today, La-La Land Records released a new, limited edition…

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Jerry Goldsmith

Craft Recordings Announces RSD Slate with Vince Guaraldi, Jonathan Richman, Collective Soul, More

February 18, 2022 by The Second Disc | 3 Comments

Craft Recordings has announced its slate for Record Store Day 2022 taking place on Saturday, April 23 at independent record stores everywhere. The Concord catalogue arm will deliver a generous ten titles encompassing jazz (Vince Guaraldi, Art Pepper, a new volume of Jazz Dispensary), rock (Collective Soul, Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers), Latin psychedelia (Flash and The Dynamics), soul (Esther Marrow), hip-hop (Heavy Rhyme Experience Vol. 1), punk (Go Ahead Punk…Make My Day), and beyond. You’ll find the full list of Craft’s RSD releases below, with all descriptions provided by the…

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Jazz, Latin, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

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Art Pepper, Collective Soul, Commander Venus, Esther Marrow, Flash and the Dynamics, Jonathan Richman, Record Store Day, The Brand New Heavies, Vince Guaraldi

John Barry’s Soundtrack to “Zulu” Gets Expanded Presentation from Quartet

February 15, 2022 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

John Barry’s score to director Cy Endfield’s 1964 film Zulu has been released on CD numerous times in the past, but Quartet Records can stake claim to the definitive version. The label’s new mono/stereo expanded edition, released late in 2021, makes a vivid case for the album’s significance in Barry’s oeuvre. With only four years of film scoring behind him – including 1963’s From Russia with Love, his first full score for the James Bond series of movies – Barry had already evinced a remarkable talent for the art. With Zulu, he…

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Save the Rebellion, Save the Dream: ‘Rogue One’ Complete Score Gets Vinyl Box from Mondo

February 15, 2022 by Mike Duquette | 3 Comments

A heavily armored box set with enough firepower to destroy an entire wallet is coming from Mondo this week. Michael Giacchino’s score to Rogue One: A Star Wars Story – recently surprise-released as a generous digital expanded edition – will get an 4LP release from the venerated collector’s label/imprint, featuring all of the soundtrack material issued in 2016 along with an hour of unreleased and alternative material. (Fans will surely keep hoping for a CD edition; after all, rebellions are built on hope.) One of the first significant expansions of Star Wars…

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John Williams, Michael Giacchino

The Weekend Stream: February 12, 2022

February 12, 2022 by Mike Duquette | 4 Comments

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there’s plenty of great new/old music to discover! Michael Giacchino, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack/Expanded Edition) (Walt Disney Records) (iTunes / Amazon) A genuine, out-of-nowhere surprise: a generous expansion of Oscar-winner Giacchino’s score to the first Disney-era Star Wars spin-off in 2016, about the ragtag group of Rebels who stole the plans for the Death Star right before the original movie. The composer subtly mixes…

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The Weekend Stream

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Country, Disco/Dance, Folk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

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Barry White, , David Lasley, Doc Severinsen, Dr. John, Hank Williams, John Williams, Lobo, Meat Loaf, Meco, Michael Giacchino, Otis Redding, Richard Thompson, Roberta Flack, Shaun Murphy, Sting, Stoney and Meatloaf, Suzanne Vega

UPDATE: “Summer of Soul” Soundtrack, Out Now on CD and Digital, Coming to Expanded Vinyl in June

February 11, 2022 by The Second Disc | 5 Comments

Last summer, as some music lovers took tentative steps in getting back to concertgoing amid the early vaccinations against COVID-19, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson gifted audiences with an incredible display of live performance some 50 years in the past. Summer of Soul is The Roots drummer’s debut documentary, concerning a little-seen arts festival in Harlem that took place before, during and after that year’s Woodstock Music & Art Fair – with some of the greatest soul, blues and jazz performers of the late ’60s gracing the stages. On January 28, Legacy Recordings made…

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B.B. King, David Ruffin, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Herbie Mann, Mahalia Jackson, Mavis Staples, Nina Simone, Sly & The Family Stone, The 5th Dimension, The Edwin Hawkins Singers, The Staple Singers

Release Round-Up: Week of February 11

February 11, 2022 by The Second Disc | 3 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Cat Stevens, Harold and Maude: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (A&M/Cat-o-Log/UMe) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada A&M/Cat-o-Log/UMe delivers a long-awaited official wide-release soundtrack of Hal Ashby’s 1971 dark comedy Harold and Maude featuring the songs of Cat Stevens. The new release, available on CD, LP, and digital formats, includes the seven songs reprised from Stevens’ first two Island/A&M albums Mona Bone Jakon and Tea for the Tillerman (“On the Road to Find Out,” “I Wish, I Wish,” “Miles from Nowhere,” “Tea for the Tillerman,” “I Think I See the Light,”…

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Disco/Dance, Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

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Alan Parsons, Cat Stevens, Eddie Vedder, Nina Simone, Urge Overkill

The Weekend Stream: February 5, 2022

February 5, 2022 by Mike Duquette | 1 Comment

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there’s plenty of great new/old music to discover! Some fascinating finds ahead from the ’70s, ’80s, ’90s and far beyond – but first, another streaming housekeeping note… You may have read our thoughts last week about streaming services, what they’re doing, what they should be doing, and how artists are reacting. We had no intention of telling people where they should or shouldn’t get their digital catalogue fix. However, this…

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Billie Holiday, Bing Crosby, David Bowie, Ethel Merman, Frank Sinatra, Kim Carnes, Roxette, The Art of Noise

OUT TOMORROW: Real Gone Celebrates B.J. Thomas on “In Remembrance: Love Songs and Lost Treasures”

February 3, 2022 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

B.J. Thomas Love Songs and Lost Treasures

B.J. Thomas first reached the U.S. top 10 in 1966 with a heartfelt cover of his father’s favorite Hank Williams song, the plaintive ballad “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry.” The Oklahoma-born, Texas-raised artist had his sights beyond just the country genre, however. His always authentic and altogether compelling voice was equally at home in the genres of pop, R&B, rock and roll, contemporary Christian, bossa nova, and gospel. He became a songwriter’s singer, bringing to vivid life the music and words of Burt Bacharach and Hal David, Barry Mann and Cynthia…

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Release Round-Up: Week of January 28

January 28, 2022 by The Second Disc | 3 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Various Artists, Summer of Soul (…or When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised): Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Legacy Recordings delivers a soundtrack to Questlove’s acclaimed 2021 documentary Summer of Soul, chronicling the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival. Live recordings are featured from headliners including The 5th Dimension, Nina Simone, David Ruffin, Sly & The Family Stone, Gladys Knight & The Pips, B.B. King, The Chambers Brothers, and more. Available on CD and digital formats, with the digital edition adding one bonus cut…

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Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

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Barbra Streisand, Bob James, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Harold Rome, John Lodge, Leo Sayer, Lucinda Williams, Nina Simone, Sly and the Family Stone, The 5th Dimension, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Temptations, The Weeknd

Review: Frank Zappa, “200 Motels: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack – 50th Anniversary Edition”

January 26, 2022 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

Frank Zappa called 200 Motels “a surrealistic documentary.” Leonard Maltin described it as a “visual, aural assault disguised as a movie; completely berserk, freeform film…some of it ingenious, some funny, but not enough to maintain [an] entire film.” Roger Ebert compared the surreal musical to the work of experimental composer Harry Partch before observing that it “assaults the mind with everything on hand…a full wall of sight-and-sound input.” Zappa never wrote and directed another full-length film, and today, 200 Motels remains largely an enigma. The movie itself has only been reissued on…

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Release Round-Up: Week of January 21

January 21, 2022 by The Second Disc | No Comments

John Williams and The Boston Pops Complete Philips Recordings

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! John Williams and The Boston Pops, The Complete Philips Recordings (Decca) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Decca will celebrate John Williams’ 90th by turning the clock back to 1980 when the famed composer-conductor took the baton from the legendary Arthur Fiedler to lead The Boston Pops Orchestra into a new era. John Williams and The Boston Pops: The Complete Philips Recordings boasts 21 CDs and 22 albums originally released on Philips between 1980 and 1990, at which point the Pops switched affiliations to Sony Classical. (The Sony Classical era…

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Release Round-Up

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock, Soundtracks

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Billy Stritch, Charles Strouse, Harry Connick Jr., Janis Ian, Jim Caruso, John Mellencamp, John Williams, Julie Christensen, Keb' Mo', Night Crickets, Peter Cetera

The Clouseau Museum: Quartet Collects Henry Mancini’s Final Three “Pink Panther” Scores in New Box

January 18, 2022 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

The Pink Panther The Final Chapters Collection

Quartet Records closed out 2021 with an impressive slate of soundtracks from some of the most legendary names in film score history, including Henry Mancini, John Barry, Ennio Morricone, and Nino Rota. Today, we’re spotlighting the 3-CD box dedicated to Mancini’s final Pink Panther scores. The Pink Panther: The Final Chapters Collection gave full due to the final three scores composed by Henry Mancini in writer-director Blake Edwards’ long-running series of comedies. The deluxe 3-CD collection presents expanded editions of Trail of the Pink Panther (1982), Curse of the Pink Panther (1983),…

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Blake Edwards, Henry Mancini

The Weekend Stream: January 15, 2022

January 15, 2022 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there’s plenty of great new/old music to discover! This week features early works by John Denver, TV works by Jan Hammer and Giorgio Moroder, live stuff from Tegan and Sara and a real throwback of a compilation album. Denver, Boise & Johnson / The Mitchell Trio, Leaving on a Jet Plane: John Denver (Warner Records) (Amazon / Spotify) John Denver’s career took off when his “Leaving on a Jet Plane”…

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Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Everything Else, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Reggae, Rock, Soundtracks

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Bill Withers, Bing Crosby, Buddy Holly, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, Eric Clapton, Fats Waller, Giorgio Moroder, Grover Washington Jr., Jan Hammer, John Denver, John Prine, Sublime, Tegan and Sara, Waylon Jennings

Soundtrack Watch: Varese, La-La Land, Intrada Kick Off 2022 with Killer Scores

January 11, 2022 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

The year has barely started, yet three beloved soundtrack reissue labels are bringing the heat to 2022’s score reissue slate. Between a horror-packed box set from Varese Sarabande and a trio of expanded releases by James Horner, there’s much cause for celebration. That is, if Varese doesn’t kill you first! The label continues 25 years of superb scares with a new box set of soundtracks devoted to the horror franchise Scream. This zingy, gory picture, written by Kevin Williamson and directed by A Nightmare on Elm Street legend Wes Craven, found the sleepy suburb…

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Danny Elfman, James Horner, Marco Beltrami

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