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Talkhouse Weekend Playlist: Apifera’s Swirling Soundtracks

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February 5, 2021

Talkhouse Weekend Playlist: Apifera’s Swirling Soundtracks

The Stones Throw band, whose latest album is titled Overstand, share their cinematic picks.

Trevor Dunn (Mr. Bungle, Fantômas) Talks Trevor Yuile’s Orphan Black: Original Television Score

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By Trevor Dunn | June 23, 2015

Trevor Dunn (Mr. Bungle, Fantômas) Talks Trevor Yuile’s Orphan Black: Original Television Score

Disheartened with his current listening options, Trevor Dunn finds musical solace in the action-packed score for Orphan Black.

Corey Taylor (Slipknot, Stone Sour) Talks John Carpenter’s Lost Themes

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By Corey Taylor | February 5, 2015

Corey Taylor (Slipknot, Stone Sour) Talks John Carpenter’s Lost Themes

When a master horror film director is also a master film-score composer, you can bet his music will take you down some dark alleys.

Riley Stearns (Faults) Talks Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive

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By Riley Stearns | January 9, 2015

Riley Stearns (Faults) Talks Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive

Watching this richly musical vampire movie is like lying on your bedroom floor with headphones on, listening to a great record for the first time.

Stephin Merritt (the Magnetic Fields) Talks Antonio Sanchez’s score for Birdman

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By Stephin Merritt | December 1, 2014

Stephin Merritt (the Magnetic Fields) Talks Antonio Sanchez’s score for Birdman

Is this highly tuneful songwriter qualified to write a Talkhouse piece about a movie score that's basically a drum solo? The answer may surprise you.

Music Supervisor Tiffany Anders Talks Over the Edge and Rock & Roll in Movies

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By Tiffany Anders | November 8, 2014

Music Supervisor Tiffany Anders Talks Over the Edge and Rock & Roll in Movies

One of the best music supervisors around sings the praises of a cult teen movie from 1979 (and remembers what she herself was doing at that time).

Zach Clark (White Reindeer) Talks Gregg Araki’s White Bird in a Blizzard

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By Zach Clark | October 22, 2014

Zach Clark (White Reindeer) Talks Gregg Araki’s White Bird in a Blizzard

The indie favorite's latest features plenty of suburban ennui, candy-colored sets and costumes, and attractive young people taking their clothes off.

Jonathan Lisecki (Gayby) Talks James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy

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By Jonathan Lisecki | August 6, 2014

Jonathan Lisecki (Gayby) Talks James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy

The new Marvel movie does so much right that you can forgive it anytime it goes slightly astray. It's the first great comedy of the franchise.

Elizabeth Sankey and Jeremy Warmsley (Summer Camp) Talk Writing the Soundtrack for Beyond Clueless And the Comfort of Creative Instructions

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By Summer Camp | February 22, 2014

Elizabeth Sankey and Jeremy Warmsley (Summer Camp) Talk Writing the Soundtrack for Beyond Clueless And the Comfort of Creative Instructions

We've just finished mixing our first soundtrack, for a documentary called Beyond Clueless, directed by Charlie Lyne. It's a rather unusual..

Gavin Dunbar (Camera Obscura) Talks Murray Gold & the BBC National Concert Orchestra of Wales’ Doctor Who: Original Television Soundtrack – Series 7

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By Gavin Dunbar | September 8, 2013

Gavin Dunbar (Camera Obscura) Talks Murray Gold & the BBC National Concert Orchestra of Wales’ Doctor Who: Original Television Soundtrack – Series 7

I always buy the new Doctor Who soundtrack releases, very much including the newly released Doctor Who: Series 7. It's my favourite...