Singer/songwriter Twin Shadow (aka George Lewis Jr.) has made his television scoring debut on the new FX original series Kindred. The show is developed by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and stars Mallori Johnson, Micah Stock, Ryan Kwanten, Gayle Rankin, Austin Smith, Sophina Brown, David Alexander Kaplan and Sheria Irving. The drama is based on Octavia E. Butler’s bestselling novel and follows a young Black woman who begins to settle in her new home and finds herself being pulled back and forth in time, emerging at a nineteenth-century plantation and confronting secrets she never knew ran through her blood.
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‘Reservation Dogs’ Season 2 Soundtrack Album Released
Hollywood Records has released a new soundtrack album for the FX original series Reservation Dogs. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s second season composed by Mato Wayuhi. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. The label has previously released a soundtrack featuring the composer’s music from Season 1 last year. Reservation Dogs is created by Sterlin Harjo & Taika Waititi and stars D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Paulina Alexis, Devery Jacobs and Lane Factor.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (August 28, 2022)
Premiering on Tuesday, August 30, is the FX limited series The Patient created by Joel Fields & Joe Weisberg and starring Steve Carell, Domhnall Gleeson, Laura Niemi, David Alan Grier, Linda Emond and Andrew Leeds. The show’s original music is composed by Nathan Barr (True Blood, The Americans, The Great, The House with a Clock in Its Walls, Cabin Fever, Hollywood, Hostel). Click here for more information about the 10-part thriller, which will be available to stream on Hulu.
Premiering on Wednesday, August 31, is the British Netflix original film I Came By co-written and directed by Babak Anvari and starring George MacKay, Percelle Ascott, Kelly Macdonald, Hugh Bonneville, Franc Ashman , Varada Sethu and Anthony Calf. Isobel Waller-Bridge (Fleabag, Emma, The Phantom of the Open, Roar, Munich: The Edge of War, Vita & Virginia) has composed the movie’s original music. Check out our previous article to learn more about the drama, which will be available to stream exclusively on Netflix.
Dan Romer & John Zarcone Scoring FX’s ‘Little Demon’
Dan Romer (Luca, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Maniac, Beasts of No Nation, Station Eleven) & John Zarcone (Big Man on Campus) have teamed up to score the new FX animated series Little Demon. The show is created by Darcy Fowler, Seth Kirschner & Kieran Valla and features the voices of Danny DeVito, Aubrey Plaza and Lucy DeVito. The animated comedy follows a reluctant mother and her Antichrist daughter as they attempt to live an ordinary life in Delaware, but are constantly thwarted by monstrous forces.
Soundtrack Album for FX’s ‘Children of the Underground’ to Be Released
Hollywood Records will release a soundtrack album for the FX docuseries Children of the Underground. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Ariel Marx (Candy, Shiva Baby, Rebel Hearts, The Tale, Ted Bundy: Falling for a Killer). The soundtrack will released digitally tomorrow, August 12 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Children of the Underground is directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite & Ted Gesing and tells the story of vigilante Faye Yager who built an underground network that hid hundreds of mothers and children, saving them from the alleged abuse of husbands and fathers.
Nathan Barr Scoring FX’s ‘The Patient’
Nathan Barr (True Blood, The House with a Clock in Its Walls, Cabin Fever, Hostel, Hollywood, Hemlock Grove) has been tapped to score the upcoming FX limited series The Patient. The show is created by Joel Fields & Joe Weisberg and stars Steve Carell, Domhnall Gleeson, David Alan Grier, Laura Niemi, Linda Emond and Andrew Leeds. The 10-part psychological thriller revolves around a therapist who’s held prisoner by a patient who reveals himself to be a serial killer.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (August 7, 2022)
Premiering on Wednesday, August 10, is the Disney+ animated shorts series I Am Groot written and directed by Kirsten Lepore and starring Vin Diesel. The show’s original music is composed by Daniele Luppi (Assassination of a High School President, Magic City, Hell Ride). Hollywood Records & Marvel Music have released a digital single featuring the composer’s score this past Friday. Check out our soundtrack announcement to listen to both tracks on the single and to learn more about the Marvel Studios production, which will be available to stream on Disney+.
Premiering on Friday, August 12, is the Apple TV+ limited series Five Days at Memorial created by John Ridley & Carlton Cuse and starring Vera Farmiga, Cherry Jones, Julie Ann Emery, Adepero Oduye, Joe Carroll, Michael Gaston, Cornelius Smith Jr. and Molly Hager. Torin Borrowdale (Searching, Locke & Key, Run, The Toll) has composed the show’s original music. Check out our previous news article for more information about the drama, which will be available to stream exclusively on Apple TV+.
T Bone Burnett & Patrick Warren Scoring FX’s ‘The Old Man’
T Bone Burnett (True Detective, Crazy Heart, Inside Llewyn Davis, Walk the Line) and Patrick Warren (The Chi, Alice) are scoring the new FX original series The Old Man. The show is developed by Jonathan E. Steinberg (See, Human Target) & Robert Levine (Black Sails) based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Thomas Perry and stars Jeff Bridges, John Lithgow, Amy Brenneman, Alia Shawkat, E.J. Bonilla and Gbenga Akinnagbe. The drama follows the title character who absconded from the CIA decades ago and has been living off the grid, when an assassin arrives and tries to take him out.
‘Under the Banner of Heaven’ Soundtrack Album Details
The full details of the soundtrack album for the FX limited series Under the Banner of Heaven have been revealed. The album features selections of the original music from the show written by Pearl Jam co-founder Jeff Ament, former Red Hot Chilli Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer (as Pluralone), together with Fitz and the Tantrums drummer & songwriter John Wicks and Josh Evans. The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, June 10 by Hollywood Records and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Three first tracks have already been released as a digital single last month. Under the Banner of Heaven is created by Dustin Lance Black and stars Andrew Garfield, Sam Worthington, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Denise Gough, Wyatt Russell, Gil Birmingham, Billy Howle, Rory Culkin, Adelaide Clemens, Chloe Pirrie, Seth Numrich and Sandra Seacat.
Underworld’s Rick Smith & Karl Hyde Scoring FX’s ‘Pistol’
Rick Smith & Karl Hyde (of the electronic music group Underworld) have composed the original score for the new FX limited series Pistol. The show is created by Craig Pearce (Moulin Rouge!, The Great Gatsby), directed by Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, 28 Days Later…) and stars Toby Wallace, Anson Boon, Christian Lees, Louis Partridge, Jacob Slater, Sydney Chandler, Maisie Williams, Talulah Riley, Emma Appleton and Thomas Brodie-Sangster. The 6-part drama is based on Sex Pistols’ founding member and guitarist Steve Jones’ memoir Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol and tells the story of a band of working-class kids with “no future,” who shook the boring, corrupt Establishment to its core, threatened to bring down the government and changed music and culture forever.