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Weekly survey: What’s the best alt-rock-based movie soundtrack of all time?

March 11, 2019March 11, 2019 Alan Cross 32 Comments Soundtracks

The sale of movie soundtracks used to be a sizeable source of income for studios, labels, and bands. Not only

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Movies 

Weekly survey: What’s you’re all time favourite movie soundtrack

July 30, 2018July 30, 2018 Alan Cross 26 Comments Soundtracks, Survey

Since we’re right in the middle of summer blockbuster season, it’s probably a good time for this question: What’s your

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Music News 

Random Music News for Saturday, December 9, 2017

December 9, 2017December 8, 2017 Alan Cross 0 Comments Amazon, Chester Bennington, Dr. Dre, Gord Downie, Linkin Park, Ontario, Podcasts, Poet Laureate, Soundcloud, Soundtracks, Straight Edge, Streaming, Tool, YouTube

On this day in 1979, it was announced that that smallpox virus, a disease that killed and disfigured untold millions,

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Trent Reznor’s New Version of the Classic “Halloween” Theme

October 13, 2017March 19, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments Atticus Ross, Halloween, John Carpenter, Soundtracks, Trent Reznor

Done right, music can make a scary movie even scarier. The Exorcist was made more diabolical thanks to its adaptation

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Music News 

Random Music News for Thursday, August 3, 2017

August 3, 2017August 3, 2017 Alan Cross 0 Comments Baby Driver, Carpool Karaoke, Donald Trump, Drake, Eminem, Foreign Rap, Game of Thrones, Gibson, K-Pop, Kidd Creole, Lord of the Rings, Morrissey, Soundtracks, Suge Knight

As of today, my parents have been married for 60 years. Give them a Diamond Award! And now, the music

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Movies 

Wait: There’s Something Wrong with the Music in This Movie…

May 15, 2017May 15, 2017 Alan Cross 6 Comments Copyright, Romancing the Stone, Soundtracks

This email from Bradley popped in yesterday: I bought a copy of Romancing the Stone from a bargain bin for

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Movies Television 

Follow Up: The Wrong Music is in My Movie

May 12, 2017May 11, 2017 Brent Chittenden 0 Comments China Beach, Copyright, ECW, Romancing the Stone, Soundtracks, WWE

Brent here. When I checked the website this morning, I was semi-surprised to see the article we posted in regards

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Medical Mysteries of Music 

Where Does Your Musical Taste Come From?

April 16, 2017April 17, 2017 Alan Cross 0 Comments CNN, Musical Taste, Soundtracks

Is musical taste nature or nurture? For me, it’s gotta be nature because my parents have terrible taste in music.

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WTF? 

Porn for Radio? Yep. Welcome to fluffertraX.

December 3, 2016December 2, 2016 Alan Cross 1 Comment fluffertraX, Porn Music, Soundtracks

Let me clarify that: it’s porn music–as in soundtracks FROM the porn films you’d be likely to see on somewhere

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Movies 

Just in Time for Halloween: Some Great Horror Movie Soundtracks

October 31, 2016October 31, 2016 Alan Cross 0 Comments Halloween, Soundtracks

Danny out in Edmonton has compiled this list of horror movie soundtracks. Anything you want to add? A horror movie’s

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Music News 

“Music Supervisors Are Killing Songwriting”

September 26, 2016September 25, 2016 Alan Cross 0 Comments Movies, Music Supervision, Soundtracks, TV

Every single music conference I’ve attended over the last three years has had at least two sessions on music supervision

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