Marina Elderton (Zero, Plunge) has released a soundtrack album for the British documentary Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché. The album features the composer’s original score from the film and is now available to stream/download on Amazon and most other major digital music services. Also listen to Elderton’s first two tracks below. Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché is directed by Celeste Bell & Paul Sng and centers on the first woman of color in the UK to front a successful rock band and her daughter, Celeste, who became the steward of her mother’s legacy and demons. The movie follows Celeste’s journey to better understand Poly as an icon and mother. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: August 4, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Celeste Bell, Marina Elderton, Paul Sng, Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché, score, Soundtrack
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‘SODA’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: August 4, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Erez Tadmor, Frank Ilfman, score, Soda, Soundtrack
Intrada Records has announced a soundtrack album for the Israeli drama SODA. The album features the film’s original music composed by Frank Ilfman (Gunpowder Milkshake, Big Bad Wolves, The Operative, Ghost Stories, The Etruscan Smile, A Mistake). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, August 5 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s “opening titles” track and main theme below. Visit the label’s official website to check out audio samples and find out more about the release. SODA is co-written and directed by Erez Tadmor and stars Rotem Sela, Lior Raz and Netta Shpigelman. The movie tells the story of a beautiful seamstress with a mysterious past who moves to a neighborhood of Holocaust survivors in 1956, where she meets a former brave resistance fighter who is torn between his passion to the woman and his commitment to the community. Read the rest of this entry »
Main Title Theme Song from Disney Channel’s ‘StuGo’ Released
Posted: August 4, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Brad Breeck, Disney Channel, StuGo
Walt Disney Records has released the main title theme from the Disney Channel original animated series StuGo. The extended version of the track written by Brad Breeck (We Bare Bears, Gravity Falls, Voltron: Legendary Defender, The Owl House, Kiff) and performed by Gil Tower is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the full song after the jump. StuGo is created by Ryan Gillis and follows six middle schoolers who get tricked into attending a fake academic summer camp by a mad scientist. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Spinal Tap II: The End Continues’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: August 4, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Rob Reiner, Soundtrack, Spinal Tap, Spinal Tap II: The End Continues
Interscope Records will release a soundtrack album for the mockumentary sequel Spinal Tap II: The End Continues. The 13-track album feature nine new original songs, as well as four reinvented tracks from the original This Is Spinal Tap movie. The soundtrack will be released digitally and physically on September 12. Visit Amazon to pre-order the CD and vinyl edition. A first song (a new version of Stonehenge feat. Elton John) is already available to stream/download now. Check out the official music video after the jump. Spinal Tap II: The End Continues is directed by Rob Reiner and stars Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, Fran Drescher, Elton John, Paul Shaffer, Paul McCartney, Questlove and Chris Addison. The movie takes place 41 years after the events of the original movie and follows the now estranged bandmates David St. Hubbins, Nigel Tufnel &Derek Smalls as they are forced to reunite for one final concert. Read the rest of this entry »
Hulu’s ‘King of the Hill’ Revival to Feature Original Score by John Frizzell and End Titles Music by Billy Strings
Posted: August 4, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Billy Strings, Hulu, John Frizzell, King of the Hill
John Frizzell (Alien: Resurrection, Office Space, Dante’s Peak, The Waterfront, Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, Legion, Thirteen Ghosts, Gods and Generals) is returning to score Hulu’s revival of the animated hit series King of the Hill. The composer has scored all ten episodes of the new season of the show created by Mike Judge & Greg Daniels and starring Judge himself, Kathy Najimy, Pamela Adlon, Stephen Root, Johnny Hardwick, Lauren Tom and Toby Huss. Bluegrass singer/songwriter and guitarist Billy Strings has contributed a new arrangement of The Refreshment’s theme “song” for the end titles sequence of the animated comedy. Season 14 follows Hank and Peggy Hill who – after years working a propane job in Saudi Arabia to earn their retirement nest egg – return to a changed Arlen, Texas to reconnect with old friends Dale, Boomhauer and Bill. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: August 4, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Downton Abbey, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, John Lunn, score, Simon Curtis, Soundtrack
Decca Records will release the official soundtrack album for the period drama Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale. The album features the film’s original music composed by Emmy Award winner John Lunn (The Last Kingdom, The White Queen, Jamestown, Belgravia, The White Princess) who has previously scored all episodes of the Downton Abbey TV series, as as well as 2019’s first feature and the 2022 sequel Downton Abbey: A New Era. The soundtrack will be released digitally and on CD on September 12. A vinyl edition will be coming out on October 24. Visit Amazon to pre-order the CD and digital version and vinyl edition. Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale is directed by Simon Curtis, written by Julian Fellowes and stars Hugh Bonneville, Jim Carter, Michelle Dockery, Elizabeth McGovern, Paul Giamatti, Penelope Wilton, Laura Carmichael, Alessandro Nivola, Dominic West, Simon Russell Beale, Joanne Froggatt, Allen Leech, Phyllis Logan, Raquel Cassidy, Brendan Coyle, Harry Hadden-Paton, Kevin Doyle, Michael Fox, Robert James-Collier and Joely Richardson. The movie follows the Crawley family and their staff as they enter the 1930s. Read the rest of this entry »
Kris Bowers Scoring Ben Proudfoot’s ‘The Eyes of Ghana’
Posted: August 4, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Ben Proudfoot, Kris Bowers, The Eyes of Ghana
Kris Bowers (The Wild Robot, Bridgerton, Green Book, Secret Invasion, King Richard, Haunted Mansion, Dear White People, The Color Purple, Space Jam: A New Legacy) has composed the original score for the upcoming documentary The Eyes of Ghana. The film is directed by Ben Proudfoot (The Queen of Basketball) and details the rise and fall of revolutionary African leader Kwame Nkrumah, a towering figure of African history who inspired the liberation of the continent in the 1950s and 1960s after rising to serve as Ghana’s first President. The movie also spotlights Chris Hesse, Nkrumah’s 93-year-old forgotten personal cinematographer and his protégé, filmmaker and producer Anita Afonu. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for Brendan Canty’s ‘Christy’ Released
Posted: August 4, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Brendan Canty, Christy, Daithi, score, Soundtrack
Faction Records has released a soundtrack album for the Irish drama Christy. The album features the film’s original score composed by Daithi (Lakelands). Also included are songs by Murli, Bony, Citrus Fresh, Hazey Haze, Strange Boy, Rira, Issac Nelson and Kabin Crew. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and most other major digital music services. A limited vinyl edition is available to order here Also listen to Daithi’s main theme below. Christy is directed by Brendan Canty and stars Danny Power, Diarmuid Noyes, Emma Willis, Lewis Brophy, Chris Walley, Alison Oliver and Helen Behan. The movie revolves around a 17-year-old who gets thrown out of his comfortable suburban foster home and moves in with his estranged older brother in a rough part of the Irish town of Cork. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (August 3, 2025)
Posted: August 3, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, Bear McCreary, Christopher Lennertz, Claudia Sarne, Demascus, HBO, Outlander: Blood of My Blood, Raphael Saadiq, Starz, The Pickup, The Yogurt Shop Murders, Tubi
Premiering tonight is the HBO original documentary series The Yogurt Shop Murders directed by Margaret Brown about the tragic murder of four teenage girls at an I Can’t Believe It’s Yogurt Shop on December 6, 1991 in Austin, TX. The show’s original music is composed by Claudia Sarne (The Book of Eli, Shining Girls, Triple 9, Broken City, Earthquake Bird, Dispatches from Elsewhere). Check out our previous news article to learn more about the 4-parter, which premiered at this year’s SXSW Film Festival and will air every Sunday on HBO and also will be available to stream on HBO Max.
Premiering on Wednesday, August 6, is the action comedy The Pickup directed by Tim Story and starring Eddie Murphy, Keke Palmer, Pete Davidson, Eva Longoria, Andrew Dice Clay, Jack Kesy, Marshawn Lynch and Ismael Cruz Cordova. Christopher Lennertz (The Boys, Lost in Space, Ride Along, Sausage Party, Tom & Jerry, Agent Carter, Back in Action, Supernatural) has composed the film’s original music. Check out our scoring assignment announcement for more information about the movie, which will be available to stream exclusively on Prime Video. Read the rest of this entry »
Kat Graham’s Title Song from Lifetime’s ‘If I Run’ Released
Posted: August 2, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: If I Run, Kat Graham, Lifetime, Michael M. Scott
Sound Zoo has released the original title song from the Lifetime original movie If I Run. The track is co-written (with Jean-Yves “Jeeve” Ducornet) and performed by Kat Graham (who also stars in the film’s lead role) and is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the song after the jump. If I Run is directed by Michael M. Scott and also stars Evan Roderick and Jason Tupper. The drama is based on Terri Blackstock’s book of the same title and follows a woman on the run after discovering her best friend has been murdered and is being tracked down by a war-weary veteran and private investigator with PTSD. Read the rest of this entry »
