Columbia Records will release a new soundtrack album for the Netflix original series Dear White People. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s second season composed by Kris Bowers (For the People, Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me, Monsters and Men). Also included are songs by DeJ Loaf, Tyler, The Creator, Zebra Katz, Ashley Blaine Featherson, Marc E. Bassy, BROCKHAMPTON, Namesake & more. The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, May 4 and will be available to download on Amazon. The label has previously released a soundtrack album featuring the music from the series’ first season.
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Weekly TV Music Roundup (March 11, 2018)
Premiering tonight is the new ABC drama Deception created by Chris Fedak and starring Jack Cutmore-Scott, Ilfenesh Hadera, Amaury Nolasco, Lenora Crichlow, Justin Chon, Vinnie Jones and Laila Robins. The show’s original music is composed by Blake Neely (Arrow, Supergirl, The Flash, Riverdale, Life As We Know It, The Pacific) and Nathan Blume (The Seventies, Vixen). Check out our scoring assignment announcement and the official show website to learn more about the series, which will air Sunday nights on ABC.
Premiering on Tuesday, March 13, is the new NBC musical drama Rise created by Jason Katims and starring Josh Radnor, Rosie Perez, Auli”i Cravalho, Damon J. Gillespie, Marley Shelton, Rarmian Newton, Ted Sutherland and Amy Forsyth. Will Bates (The Path, The Looming Tower, The Magicians) is composing the show’s original score. Tom Kitt serves as the project’s music director and Scott Riesett as the show’s music producer. Check out our previous article to learn more about the series and click here for details on the first songs released from the show.
Jeff Russo, Mac Quayle, Sean Callery, Siddhartha Khosla & More to Appear at Comic-Con Panels
The line-up for two film music-related panels at Comic-Con 2017 has been announced. On Friday, July 21, a number of film/Tv composers will participate in the 9th annual Behind the Music panel presented by CW3PR and Impact24 PR. Jeff Russo (Legion, Fargo), Sean Callery (Jessica Jones, 24), Kris Bowers (Dear White People), Mac Quayle (Mr. Robot, American Horror Story), Siddhartha Khosla (This Is Us, Runaways) and Blake Neely (The Flash, Arrow, Supergirl, Riverdale) will be participating in a discussion moderated by actors Rachel Keller (Legion, Fargo) & Jeremie Harris (Legion,The Get Down). The composers will give insight on how they contribute to many of the most popular fantasy/fiction titles in the TV and film worlds.
Soundtrack for Netflix’s ‘Dear White People’ to Be Released
Columbia Records will release a soundtrack album for the Netflix original series Dear White People. The album features selections from the show’s original score composed by Kris Bowers (Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me, Little Boxes), as well as songs from the series by artists including Tkay Maidza feat. Killer Mike, Future, Innanet James, The Softones, Shamir, Thelma Houston, Anna Wise & more. The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, April 28 and will be available to download on Amazon. Dear White People is created by Justin Simien based on his 2014 feature and stars Logan Browning, Brandon P. Bell, Antoinette Robertson, DeRon Horton, John Patrick Amedori and Marque Richardson. The show follows a group of students of color who navigate the daily slights and slippery politics of life at an Ivy League college.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (April 23, 2017)
Premiering tonight is the new Lifetime original series Mary Kills People created by Tara Armstrong and starring Caroline Dhavernas, Jay Ryan, Richard Short, Lyriq Bent, Greg Bryk and Charlotte Sullivan. The show’s original music is composed by John Rowley (Defendor, Weirdsville). Mary Kills People centers on a single mother who is an ER doctor by day, but by night, she and her partner, a former plastic surgeon, moonlight as underground angels of death and help terminally ill patients slip away on their own terms. To learn more about the comedy drama, which will air Sunday nights on Lifetime, visit the official show website.
Premiering on Tuesday, April 25, is National Geographic’s first scripted series Genius executive produced by Brian Grazer & Ron Howard and starring Geoffrey Rush, Johnny Flynn, Emily Watson, Nicholas Rowe, Samantha Colley, Jon Fletcher, Richard Topol and Alicia von Rittberg. Lorne Balfe (The LEGO Batman Movie, Home, Terminator Genisys) is composing the show’s music and Hans Zimmer (Pirates of the Caribbean, Inception, Gladiator) wrote the main titles theme. Milan Records will release a soundtrack EP for the show this Friday, April 28 and a full soundtrack album is in the works for a release later this year. Check out our soundtrack announcement for more information.