In this episode of SCORED TO DEATH RADIO, host J. Blake Fichera steps away from his usual all-horror-all-the-time format and delivers a second instalment of the podcast exploring the marvellous musical world of movie songs. Focusing largely on the late 1970s and 1980s, this episode presents an eclectic playlist of songs spanning several different styles from an equally varied collection of films. Enjoy! —— Special thanks to our Patreon supporters: MMatt DeWater, David Ballantyne, Joe...

Welp, it took me almost 8 months to get this done, but here it is. This is the final part of my four-part journey through the scores of 2022. On today’s new episode of THE FLAGSHIP SHOW on CINEMATIC SOUND RADIO PODCAST, Erik Woods presents his top five favourite scores in 2022. You'll hear music from Grant Kirkhope, Gareth Coker, Yoko Shimomura, Abel Korzeniowski, Bruce Broughton, Joel Mcneely, Kevin Kaska, Simon Franglen, and Bear McCreary. Enjoy! —— Special thanks to our Patreon...

Leigh Phillips is a composer, orchestrator, and producer with experience in creating unique compositions and orchestrations for media, concert performances, and CD recordings. In May 2023 for TALKING SOUNDTRACKS ON THE CINEMATIC SOUND PODCAST, Jason Drury had the pleasure of talking to Leigh Phillips from his home in Prague. Leigh was the first person Jason ever interviewed on his previous station, Kaspaar, way back in 2013. In this first part of a two-part interview, Leigh discusses his...

On December 6, 2022, the anime industry mourned the loss of one of its most influential talents, Ichirou Mizuki. He was 74 years old. However, his powerful voice wasn't limited to animation. He also had a great presence in video games and today on THE 1UPBEAT, your host, Eric Silver, is going to pay tribute to the man by playing music from some of the games where his voice is featured prominently including GOEMON'S GREAT ADVENTURE, SUPER HERO SAKUSEN, TATSUNOKO FIGHT, SUPER ROBOT WARS Α...

On today’s new episode of THE FLAGSHIP SHOW on CINEMATIC SOUND RADIO PODCAST, Erik Woods presents music from some of his favourite scores written in 2022. This is part three of a four-part series. Today, you’ll hear selections by such composers as Diego Navarro, Justin Hurwitz, Philippe Rombi, Michael Giacchino and Evan Call. Part four will be online in a few days! Enjoy! —— Special thanks to our Patreon supporters: Matt DeWater, David Ballantyne, Joe Wiles, Maxime, William Welch, Tim...

In this fourteenth FILMIC episode on THE CINEMATIC SOUND RADIO PODCAST, Ley will play music from a mix of new and way back scores, animated scores, and a 1961 vintage soundtrack with one of the most stellar casts ever. And you can't forget the "Weird and Wonderful" selection! You'll hear cues from TETRIS (Balfe), MUMMIES (Velazquez), THE GRIFTERS (Bernstein), THE MISFITS (North), WE HAVE A GHOST (McCreary), WONDER WOMAN (Zimmer) and more. Enjoy! —— Special thanks to our Patreon...

In this episode of SCORED TO DEATH RADIO, host J. Blake Fichera steps away from his usual all-horror-all-the-time format and explores the marvellous musical world of movie songs. Focusing largely on the late-1970s and 1980s, this episode presents an eclectic playlist of songs spanning several different styles from an equally varied collection of films. Enjoy! —— Special thanks to our Patreon supporters: Matt DeWater, David Ballantyne, Joe Wiles, Maxime, William Welch, Tim Burden, Alan...

In this third and final episode of Eric Silver’s annual best-of-the-year show, you’ll hear a more traditional countdown show as Eric plays for you music from his top three favourite video game scores of 2022. You’ll hear music from Takashi Yoshida, Masako Otsuka, Asami Mitake, Ippo Igarashi, Yuki Matsumura, Modanqing Zhu, ACE, Kenji Hiramatsu, Manami Kiyota, Mariam Abounnasr, Yoko Shimomura, Gareth Coker, Grant Kirkhope and Akira Senju. Enjoy! —— Special thanks to our Patreon...

Your host Jason Drury continues featuring music from archival releases of film music which appeared just before and after Christmas 2022 by first showcasing music from the expanded edition of Danny Elfman’s classic score to SPIDER-MAN (La La Land Records) and then playing selections of a true archival classic MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS, composed by John Barry (Quartet Records). Jason then presents two suites, from two scores written for the same film, Alfred Hitchcock’s FRENZY (Quartet Records)....

Today we present another ALL REQUEST SHOW on THE FLAGSHIP SHOW on the CINEMATIC SOUND RADIO PODCAST. Since launching the CINEMATIC SOUND RADIO PODCAST Patreon in April 2021, we’ve offered our patrons exclusive perks based on the tier they signed up for. One of those perks is participating in all request programs. If you want to participate in future all-request shows, please head over to our Patreon page, and join the community in any tier that is $5 USD/month or above. Once you do so you...

Welcome to part one of another edition o fTHE ARCHIVE on the CINEMATIC SOUND RADIO PODCAST. On the program today, Jason Drury will feature music from archival releases of film music which appeared just before and after Christmas 2022. The show begins with music from David Arnold’s first James Bond score, TOMORROW NEVER DIES, which has received an expanded edition by La La Land Records. Afterwards, you'll hear selections from the first release of the original complete score of CONAN THE...

In this second episode of Eric Silver's annual best-of-the-year show, you'll hear music from Elvira Björkman, Nicklas Hjertberg, Motoi Sakuraba, Greg Nicolett, Olivier Deriviere, Glenn Miller, Glenn Miller, Kenichi Tokoi and Bear McCreary. Part three coming soon… Enjoy! —— Special thanks to our Patreon supporters: Matt DeWater, David Ballantyne, Joe Wiles, Maxime, William Welch, Tim Burden, Alan Rogers, Dave Williams, Max Hamulyák, Jeffrey Graebner, Douglas Lacey, Don Mase, Victor...

On today’s new episode of THE FLAGSHIP SHOW on CINEMATIC SOUND RADIO PODCAST, Erik Woods presents music from some of his favourite scores written in 2022. This is part two of a four-part series. Today, you’ll hear selections by such composers as Zacarías M. de la Riva, Federico Jusid, Simon Franglen, John Williams, Nathan Johnson, Dominic Lewis, Bear McCreary, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. Part three will be online as soon as humanly possible! Enjoy! —— Special thanks to our Patreon...

MURDOCH MYSTERIES is a Canadian television drama series that premiered on CityTV on January 20, 2008, and airs on CBC in Canada as well as 120 countries around the world including Alibi in the UK. The series is based on characters from the Detective Murdoch novels by Maureen Jennings and stars Yannick Bisson as the fictional William Murdoch, a police detective working in Toronto, Ontario in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The series also stars Hélène Joy, Thomas Craig and Johnny...

Today on THE ESSENTIAL SOUNDTRACKS, Erik Woods, Robert Daniels, and Randy Andrews continue their journey through the STAR TREK films and their soundtracks as they discuss the seventh movie in the series, STAR TREK: GENERATIONS. You'll hear them discuss the film in great detail including such topics as the new uniforms, deleted scenes, Kirk's death, the destruction of The Enterprise D and more. Also covered in great length is Dennis McCarthy's underappreciated score. WARNING: We do talk...

Today, on a very special episode of THE 1UPBEAT, it's our annual best-of-the-year show. We are going to do something a little bit differently this year and cover a wide variety of video game scores released in 2022 over the course of three episodes. In this first episode, you'll hear music from Jason Graves, Olivier Deriviere, Yuzo Koshiro, Inon Zur, Tadashi Ikegami, Hirokazu Ando, Jan Vašina, Dominik Svoboda, Tee Lopes, Kristofer Maddigan & Yoko Shimomura. Part two coming...

Better late than never. Actually, I think this is the latest I've ever presented my year-end round-up program. I hope you enjoy it anyway. On today’s new episode of THE FLAGSHIP SHOW on CINEMATIC SOUND RADIO NETWORK, Erik Woods presents music from some of his favourite scores written in 2022.  This is part one of a four-part series.  Today, you’ll hear selections by such composers as Nigel Westlake, Tom Holkenborg, Michael Abels, Steve Jablonsky, Abel Korzeniowski, Olivier Deriviere, John...

Jason Drury welcomes renowned composer Christopher Young to this special episode of TALKING  SOUNDTRACKS. Young is a composer and orchestrator who has over 133 credits to his name and has been nominated for a Golden Globe and two Emmys. In part one, they talked about Chris’s recent work on the Apple + TV Series ECHO 3 and he talked about his illustrious career from its beginnings right up to Young scoring his seminal works on the HELLRAISER series of films. In part two Young talks more...

Jason Drury welcomes renowned composer Christopher Young to this special episode of TALKING SOUNDTRACKS. Young is a composer and orchestrator who has over 133 credits to his name and has been nominated for a Golden Globe and two Emmys. In the first of a two-part chat, Young discusses ECHO 3, his first significant episodic TV show, which recently made its Apple TV+ debut. He then discusses his extraordinary career, from its early stages to composing his ground-breaking scores for the...

In this thirtieth FILMIC episode on THE CINEMATIC SOUND RADIO PODCAST, Ley will play music from some late 2022 releases with a splash of oldies along with some weird and wonderful tracks! You’ll hear selections from WOMEN TALKING (Guðnadóttir), GLASS ONION (Johnson), EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE (Son Lux), BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (Bacharach), THE WOMEN KING (Blanchard), CUTTHROAT ISLAND (Debney) and more. Enjoy! —— Special thanks to our Patreon supporters: Matt DeWater,...

Today you get to enjoy the fourth show programmed by one of our patrons from the CONDUCTOR TIER over at our Patreon page.  In this tier, which is $10 USD ($14.50 CAN), donors get all of the benefits of lower tiers PLUS they earn the opportunity to program their very own personal one-hour(ish) show once a year. Victor Field, a long-time fan of the show, took advantage of this opportunity and this is the show that he put together for us to enjoy! So, how did Victor get into soundtrack...

That's right folks, the Oscars still suck! While they managed to bring back all of the categories they disrespected last year and will present them live again on this year's broadcast, the Academy's Music Branch, on the other hand, I think has clearly lost its mind. Not only are the nominees for best original score this year incredibly lacklustre, but they also took it one step further by nominating one of the most excruciating, annoying, utterly distracting film scores I've ever heard, ALL...

In June 2021, for TALKING SOUNDTRACKS, Jason Drury talked to the four-time Emmy nominated journalist, writer, and producer of over 200 documentaries about music and cinema, Steven C Smith, about his book MUSIC BY MAX STEINER: THE EPIC LIFE OF HOLLYWOOD’S MOST INFLUENTIAL COMPOSER. In May 2022, Jason had the opportunity to talk to Steven again about his first book, published in 1991, about another pioneering and influential composer in the history of film music, A Heart at Fire's Center:...

It's alive! The Cinematic Sound Radio Podcast Top 10 has been brought back from the dead! The last time I did a show like this was back in 2018 when I presented my Favourite Western Tracks Of All Time. I wanted to make the Top 10 and ongoing series but only a short month later, I went on an 8-month hiatus. I never thought about resurrecting the Top 10 show when I returned, however, I did have one last show planned out, which I found in a playlist in my digital music collection. That was...

Today, on a very special episode of THE 1UPBEAT, we remember the legendary game composer Koichi Sugiyama, the grandfather of game music. Following his death at age 90 in 2021, Eric Silver will take you through a comprehensive look at his career starting in the late 50s, through the 80s as a composer for a game music career, and finally to the end of the 2010s. To finish off our four-part tribute to legendary composer Koichi Sugiyama, we'll explore Sugiyama's musical output starting at the...