Ringing in the New Year with music
The World welcomes 2025 with this music holiday special. We look at a middle-school teacher in France who uses rap to teach math. Also, Italian pasta company Barilla released a soundtrack it says was...
View Article10 Horror Soundtracks for Halloween
Film and television scores accentuate and, at times, personify the scariness and fear of the horror genre. Whether it be the stabbing stingers that accompany a jump scare or a haunting choice of...
View ArticleEye for Optical Theory
Listening to good music fills me with self-doubt, mainly because I often listen to music that friends and critics tell me is good, and feel … nothing. There are stretches of time where I’m afraid I...
View ArticleHear Me Out: Chernobyl (Hildur Guðnadóttir, 2019)
Every Friday, we’ll be sharing a piece of music that resonates particularly strongly with one of our staffers. This week: James Bennett on the soundtrack to Chernobyl by Hildur Guðnadóttir.Spicy food...
View ArticleComposing for Beale Street, NYC During WWII, 'Dumplin'
Academy Award-nominated composer, pianist, and producer, Nicholas Britell, joins us to talk about Barry Jenkins's new film, If Beale Street Could Talk, for which he composed the soundtrack. John...
View ArticleBeale Street's Soundtrack, 'Victory City,' Sandra Bland, Jelani Cobb & Kyle...
Nicholas Britell talks about composing the soundtrack for "If Beale Street Could Talk." John Strausbaugh discusses his book, Victory City: A History of New York and New Yorkers during World War II....
View ArticleInterview: Alva Noto on Co-Scoring 'The Revenant'
German electronic-music composer Alva Noto has become somewhat of a cult hero. Born in 1965 as Carsten Nicolai, he has released nine solo albums as well as numerous collaborations with Japanese...
View ArticleSearching For the Song of The Summer of 2017
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview. Summer is officially underway, and that means three months of heat, swimming pools and beaches, and most importantly, summer music - the...
View ArticleThe Soundtrack King: From The Aviator to Boardwalk Empire
Jonathan Capehart guest hosts today!Musician and bandleader Vince Giordano joins us, along with directors Dave Davidson and Amber Edwards, to discuss their new documentary, Vince Giordano: There’s a...
View ArticleInterview: Alva Noto on Co-Scoring 'The Revenant'
German electronic-music composer Alva Noto has become somewhat of a cult hero. Born in 1965 as Carsten Nicolai, he has released nine solo albums as well as numerous collaborations with Japanese...
View ArticleThe 'Garden State' Soundtrack: Still Changing Lives After Ten Years
Love it or hate it, Zach Braff's 2004 film Garden State had a killer cast and a soundtrack filled with indie royalty. So why hate it? Because the film tended to overstate its own capture of the...
View ArticleJohn Turturro on Sax, Sex and 'Fading Gigolo'
Actor, writer and director John Turturro returns to our studio to discuss the music in his newest film, Fading Gigolo, which he wrote and directed. Turturro plays a middle-aged bookstore clerk who...
View ArticleYour Cooking Soundtrack, And Why Bluegrass Makes The Best Eggs
This Sunday is the Super Bowl. At my last place of employment, we would have been talking about the big game for weeks by now. No, no, I didn't work for the NFL. I didn't even work for some sort of...
View ArticleThe Lustrous Sound of Ernest Gold
Ernest Gold was born on July 13, 1921, in Vienna, Austria. He moved to the U.S. with his family in 1938, and composed nearly 100 film and television scores between 1945 and his death in 1999. His music...
View ArticleMusic by the Oscar Contenders
Sunday evening's 2013 Academy Awards will present an Oscar for best musical score to either Alexandre Desplat for "Argo," Mychael Danna for "Life of Pi," Dario Marianelli for "Anna Karenina," Thomas...
View ArticleGeorge Duning: Master of Tenderness
George Duning (1908-2000) may not have the most familiar name in soundtrack composing, but his music is striking and unforgettable. Duning could write well for most any type of story, but he excelled...
View Article#3121: With Ryuichi Sakamoto
Ryuichi Sakamoto,, the Japanese-born, New York-based pianist, producer, film score composer, and electronic music pioneer is also a citizen of the world, and his travels to Greenland’s ice fields to...
View ArticleEckart Runge Captures Cinematic Sounds of the Cello
Awards season steps into high gear this week, with the Academy Award nominations due out on Thursday and the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday night. While we leave it to Movies on the Radio to handicap...
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Brain Fodder Vol. 3
This week: pillow lava, pale ale, and an intense soundtrack. Molly WebsterMolly rekindles a lost love:Two words: pillow lava.Let me take you there: remember when you were small, and the world was...
View ArticleMusic in the Kitchen
Today, we find out what some of New York’s hottest chefs listen to while they cook. And, New York Times food writer Jeff Gordinier and chef Jesse Schenker of the West Village restaurant Recette explain...
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