At Moviedrone, Charlie Brigden shares some great scores by female composers: “If there’s one element of filmmaking that is still seen as a sum-total male-dominated world it’s film scoring. There are certainly many female composers working, but when you look at the high-profile assignments flying around it’s a […]
Vince Guaraldi plays “Linus & Lucy,” aka, The Peanuts theme, live on television. “Vince Guaraldi early (rare) playing of ‘Linus and Lucy’ from 1964, as part of ‘The Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant Music Fillers Programs’ courtesy of WNET Group under license to LMFP. This is the […]
Rabbit Trap is a film as folk tale.
Local news in Washington, D. C. has a story about newly uncovered music from seminal punk band, Bad Brains. The story includes brief interviews and footage of Bad Brains performing. Watch here.
Filmmaker Peter Strickland and industrial music pioneer Cosey Fanni Tutti interview each other at The Quietus. “Cosey Fanni Tutti, artist, musician and writer, has cut a unique path through the musical landscape since the initial termination of the Throbbing Gristle/TG mission in the early 1980s. Often working with […]
The Independent Lens has a look at Funk and Black Liberation. “‘WE WANT THE FUNK!,’ a syncopated voyage through the history of funk music, spans from gospel, soul, highlife, and early jazz roots, to its rise and impact on new wave and hip-hop, as funk music has been […]