Jay Wadley (Franklin)
When last we spoke to composer Jay Wadley, he'd just finished scoring the mercurial Charlie Kaufman film I'm Thinking of Ending Things. Four...
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Film and TV critic Clint Worthington (The Spool) talks to a new composer every week about the origins, challenges, and joys of their latest musical scores.
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Mike Post (Law & Order, Message from the Mountains & Echoes of the Delta)
This week, I talk to legendary TV composer Mike Post about everything from the Law and Order dun-dun to his original album of musical suites...
Vince Pope (True Detective: Night Country)
This week's guest is RTS winning and BAFTA-nominated composer Vince Pope, a London-based composer who cut his teeth on scores ranging from M...
Carlos Rafael Rivera (Griselda, Monsieur Spade)
Grammy- and two-time Emmy-winning composer Carlos Rafael Rivera has spent the last decade building moody, complex musical worlds around comp...
Anthony Willis (Saltburn)
This week, we're catching up with one of the Oscar-shortlisted Best Score nominees -- Anthony Willis' score to Emerald Fennell's lavish, mys...
Dave Porter (Echo)
For nearly fifteen years, composer Dave Porter has been the musical voice of the Breaking Bad universe -- having scored every season of Brea...
Paul Leonard-Morgan (The Pigeon Tunnel)
This podcast has had a long and fruitful relationship with composer Paul Leonard-Morgan, the man behind the scores of films like Dredd and L...
Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch (All of Us Strangers)
This week, we're joined by Ivor Novello and BIFA-nominated composer Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch, a Paris-born artist who has made quite the n...
Mark Sonnenblick, James McAlister (Theater Camp)
As we've seen this year, and my interview with the songwriters behind Dicks: The Musical some weeks back, 2023 has been a surprisingly solid...
Mac Quayle (Leave the World Behind)
This week, we talk to composer Mac Quayle, who burst onto the scene in 2015 with his Emmy-winning score to Sam Esmail's mysterious, genre-be...
Jerskin Fendrix (Poor Things)
This week, I'm thrilled to talk to English musician and nascent film score composer Jerskin Fendrix about his score to the wacky, surreal, o...
James Newton Howard (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Night After Night, All the Light We Cannot See)
This week's guest is an Emmy winner, a Grammy winner, and a nine-time Oscar nominee, whose scores have graced the big and small screens sinc...
Marius de Vries, Karl Saint Lucy (Dicks: The Musical)
Sometimes, the dumbest things are the most delightful -- and that's certainly the case with A24's riotous new musical, Dicks: The Musical ....
Yair Elazar Glotman (Reptile)
This week, we speak to composer Yair Elazar Glotman about his score for the latest prestige thriller from Netflix, Reptile , a stylish neo-n...
Dascha Dauenhauer (Golda)
Historical biopics of famous leaders are a very familiar genre at this point: Great Men (or in this case, Women) of history navigating war o...
John Powell (Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie)
Composer John Powell has been composing film scores since 1997; whether it's How to Train Your Dragon, The Bourne Identity, or Solo: A Star...
Tune-Yards (I'm a Virgo)
Ever since his 2018 feature debut Sorry to Bother You , Oakland-based musician Boots Riley (of The Coup) has built a reputation as one of ou...
Ian Hultquist (The Walking Dead: Dead City)
Much like the zombies that infest its world, the Walking Dead franchise simply refuses to die. With Dead City , the shambling hordes make th...
Jongnic Bontemps (Transformers: Rise of the Beasts)
Veteran composer Jongnic "JB" Bontemps took a long and winding road to film scoring. Despite showing an early passion for scoring (and study...
Daniel Pemberton (Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse)
In a relatively grim year for superhero movies, both critically and at the box office, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is blissfully buc...