Score: The Podcast

Composers DRUM & LACE and IAN HULTQUIST join us to discuss putting their energetic synth-driven score to a vibrant cinematic ride through Los Angeles that you may want to, dare we say, sink your teeth into! How they found the sound, scored 70 minutes of music without the help of assistants or a team (!) and why the next few months will be the busiest of their budding careers!

The duo behind THE WONDER YEARS on ABC talk about their use of 50s and 60s Motown vibes to make the show one of a kind. Plus, Jacob & Roahn discuss their backgrounds, how they positioned themselves to get the job, and why experimentation is key to unlocking the perfect sound.

You might know JOHN DEBNEY from the poster of SCORE: A FILM MUSIC DOCUMENTARY.  Or the first episode of SCORE: THE PODCAST. (Or any of the dozens of hit films and beautiful scores he's written.) But he's also the king of the holiday movies!

You might know JOHN DEBNEY from the poster of SCORE: A FILM MUSIC DOCUMENTARY.  Or the first episode of SCORE: THE PODCAST. (Or any of the dozens of hit films and beautiful scores he's written.) But he's also the king of the holiday movies! It's been a few years since we caught up with John! He has a lot coming up — plus we'll talk his favorite holiday — Halloween — and HOCUS POCUS! Plus his upcoming Christmas concert tour with ELF, and talking with John Williams for Disney+'s new HOME SWEET HOME ALONE.

MORE SCORE welcomes composer Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe — a sound artist, performing artist and experimental film composer. He's collaborated with composers Jóhann Jóhannsson and Hildur Guðnadóttir on scores for SICARIO and ARRIVAL, and his recent score for the horror film CANDYMAN refreshes the genre with an inventive score that manages to still pay homage to one of Robert's favorite composers Philip Glass, who composed the music in the original 1992 cult classic film.

Kenny and Robert begin this Season Finale joined by Composer Carol and Matt Schrader reminiscing on the best moments of Season 4 and recapping the Emmy winners in the music categories. Subscribe to MORE SCORE on Patreon for year-round interviews, film music talk and even cool merch: http://Patreon.com/MoreScore  Then, legendary songwriter and composer Randy Newman (Toy Story franchise, Monsters Inc., Meet The Parents, Meet The Fockers, Marriage Story, James and the Giant Peach, A Bug's Life) joins to share stories about his early days growing up around his uncles Alfred and Lionel, closely watching maestros Jerry Goldsmith and John Williams evolve into film music titans, revealing why Frank Sinatra passed on what became one of Randy's greatest songs and explaining why he decided to score Toy Story, which catapulted his film scoring legacy. This episode is presented by Spitfire Audio Follow us on Twitter @ScoreThePodcast or send Kenny and Robert your questions for the mailbox at ScoreTheMailbox@epicleff.com Hosts: Robert Kraft & Kenny Holmes Executive Producer: Matt Schrader Coordinator: Carol Kuswanto © 2021 Epicleff Media

Kenny Holmes and Matt Schrader interview Carlos Rafael Rivera about leaving an accounting degree to pursue music, learning about scores AND songs under Randy Newman, and shares a video he recorded in 2017 while going to see SCORE: A FILM MUSIC DOCUMENTARY in theaters in New York. Oh, and we discuss creating the music of Netflix's #1 all-time miniseries THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT.

What it’s like to play in Hollywood scoring sessions? Fernando Arroyo Lascurain is a violinist for film scoring sessions (and a brilliant composer as well, who composed the music for Blockbuster: The Story of James Cameron). He breaks down the current state of the scoring session world amid Covid-19 changes, as well as the magic that happens when 100 musicians get perfectly in sync. Is there anything you’ve ever wanted to know about orchestras? Let us know and we’ll break down in a future episode!

Andy Grush and Taylor Newton Stewart (better known as the composing duo THE NEWTON BROTHERS) preview their upcoming miniseries MIDNIGHT MASS on Netflix. How Andy came to be a series regular, and why they recorded the cover of a classic song inside a car. While Internet service in Los Angeles allows (there was a Spectrum Cable outage) we also talk about their rise with director Mike Flanagan on the Haunting of Hill House and Haunting on Bly Manor, and what kind of series they're hoping to do next. The Newton Brothers!

Cristobal Tapia de Veer is a Chilean-born composer working in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. His family fled Chile during the military coup of the 1970s, and ended up in France and then eventually in Montreal. Cristobal's pop band ONE TON signed to Warner Music in 2001, before he turned his attention back to film and TV scoring. He has scored the British TV series UTOPIA, Amazon Prime's ELECTRIC DREAMS, the finale of Netflix's BLACK MIRROR season 4, and most recently HBO's smash hit miniseries THE WHITE LOTUS. In this interview for MORE SCORE with Robert Kraft, Cristobal talks about his artistic and idiosyncratic approach to scoring, and how he draws from other artistic mediums to inform sounds that are often strange and create a unique emotional effect.