Netflix Music will release a soundtrack album for the streamer’s original series Mo. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Common, Karriem Riggins and Patrick Warren (The Chi, Alice, The Old Man). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, September 9 and will be available to stream/download here. Mo is […]
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Soundtrack Album for Netflix’s ‘Mo’ to Be Released
Posted: September 8, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Common, Karriem Riggins, Mo, Netflix, Patrick Warren, score, Soundtrack
Weekly Film Music Roundup (March 18, 2022)
Posted: March 18, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Alexandre Desplat, Alice, Burniss Travis, Chelsea Wolfe, Common, Danny Bensi, Isaiah Sharkey, Karriem Riggins, Master, Measure of Revenge, Nick Urata, Patrick Warren, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Roque Banos, Saunder Jurriaans, The Outfit, Tyler Bates, Umma, Windfall, X
Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the horror movie X written and directed by Ti West and starsring Mia Goth, Jenna Ortega, Brittany Snow, Martin Henderson, Stephen Ure, Owen Campbell and Scott Mescudi. The film’s original music is composed by Tyler Bates (Guardians of the Galaxy, Deadpool 2, Watchmen, Hobbs & Shaw, John Wick, 300, Dawn […]
BMI: Score to Screen Panels at Sundance Film Festival Announced
Posted: January 18, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music EventsTags: Alice, Amy Poehler, BMI, Common, David Schwartz, Lucy and Desi, Patrick Warren
BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.) has announced its programming for the 2022 Sundance Film Festival today with two virtual Score to Screen panels featuring two conversations that will give an inside look at the creative process of incorporating music in film while delving into the relationship between a composer and the film’s director or producer. Grammy and Academy […]
Performers of Academy Award-Nominated Songs Announced
Posted: February 23, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards, Andra Day, Common, Gael Garcia Bernal, Keala Settle, Mary J. Blige, Miguel, Natalie LaFourcade, Sufjan Stevens
The performers of this year’s nominated songs at the 90th Oscars ceremony have been announced today by show producers Michael De Luca and Jennifer Todd. Gael Garcia Bernal, Natalie LaFourcade and Miguel will perform Remember Me from Pixar’s Coco written by Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez. Bernal provided the voice of the main character in […]
Andra Day’s & Common’s ‘Stand Up for Something’ from ‘Marshall’ to Be Released
Posted: August 24, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Andra Day, Common, Diane Warren, Marshall
Warner Bros. Records will release the original song Stand Up for Something from the upcoming drama Marshall. The track is written by Diane Warren and Common and is performed by Andra Day feat. Common. The song will be released as a digital single tomorrow and will be available download on Amazon. Warren has previously written numerous songs for movies and received Academy […]
Netflix’s ‘Burning Sands’ to Feature Original Song by Common
Posted: January 21, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Burning Sands, Common, Gerard McMurray, Netflix
Common (aka Lonnie Lynn) is performing the original end credits song The Cross for the Netflix original movie Burning Sands. The track is performed by Common & singer-songwriter Lianne La Havas, written by Common, Karriem Riggins, Robert Glasper and Samora Pinderhuges. Riggins and Glasper are also producing the song. Burning Sands is directed by Gerard McMurray and stars Trevor Jackson, Alfre Woodard, […]
Video Highlights from 87th Academy Awards
Posted: February 23, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards, Alexandre Desplat, Common, John Legend
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences and ABC have published some of the music-related highlights of the 87th Academy Awards ceremony online. Check out the acceptance speeches of Alexandre Desplat who won the Oscar for his music for The Grand Budapest Hotel and John Legend & Common who won the award for the song Glory from Selma after the jump. Also embedded is the backstage […]
SCL Hosts Reception for Academy Award-Nominated Composers and Songwriters
Posted: February 22, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music EventsTags: Academy Awards, Alexandre Desplat, Common, Danielle Brisebois, Diane Warren, Gary Yershon, Gregg Alexander, Johann Johannsson, Julian Raymond, SCL, Shawn Patterson
Yesterday afternoon, the Society of Composers & Lyricists (SCL) hosted its annual reception honoring the Academy Award-nominated composers and songwriters in the Best Original Score and Best Original Song category at the Cafe La Boheme in West Hollywood. Following a speech by Academy Music Branch Governor Charles Bernstein, SCL president Ashley Irwin introduced the nominees […]
Common & John Legend to Perform ‘Glory’ from ‘Selma’ at Oscars
Posted: January 27, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards, Common, John Legend, Selma
Academy Awards show producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron announced today that musical artists Common and John Legend will perform their Oscar-nominated song Glory at the 87th Oscars, hosted by Neil Patrick Harris, on Sunday, February 22. The song written by John Stephens (a.k.a. John Legend) and Lonnie Lynn (a.k.a. Common) for Ava DuVernay’s Oscar-nominated […]