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DANCING WITH THE STARS Recap: Season 16 Winner – Pickler takes it all!

By PAMELA HARLAND 05/22/2013
Derek Hough and Kellie Pickler win DANCING WITH THE STARS - Season 16 as host Tom Bergeron congratulates them| ©2013 ABC/Adam Taylor

Stars: Jacoby Jones, Zendaya Coleman, Aly Raisman, Kellie Pickler Network: ABC, airs Mondays, Tuesdays Original Telecast: May 21st, 2013 In one of the closest competitions DANCING WITH THE STARS has ever had Kellie Pickler & Derek Hough have won DWTS season 16, marking Hough’s record 4th win on the show.  Front runners Zendaya Coleman & Val Chmerkovskiy came in second, while Jacoby Jones & Karina Smirnoff came in third and Aly Raisman & Mark Ballas came in fourth. Highlights of the night reminded us of what an emotional and exciting season it had been with the women continually out performing […]Read On »


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CD Review: THE CARPETBAGGERS soundtrack

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER
THE CARPETBAGGERS soundtrack | ©2013 Intrada Records

Elmer Bernstein was a composer who could wear many stylistic hats to fit his often over-sized characters, whether it was conjuring a biblical symphony for Moses or gun-blazing western music for John Wayne. But if I have a personal favorite approach, then it’s the Bernstein of the late 50s and early 60s, a time when jazz stood for bad behavior. Bernstein mainlined that hep, untamed sound with the more mainstream sound of an orchestra to create the defining sound of “movie jazz.” It was a deliciously swaggering approach that captured the morally bankrupt doings of heroin addicts (MAN WITH THE […]Read On »


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DANCING WITH THE STARS Recap: Season 16 Finals with Zendaya in the lead

By PAMELA HARLAND 05/21/2013
Val Chmerkovskiy and Zendaya in DANCING WITH THE STARS - Week 10 - The Finals | ©2013 ABC/Adam Taylor

Stars:  Jacoby Jones, Zendaya Coleman, Aly Raisman, Kellie Pickler, Network: ABC, airs Mondays, Tuesdays Original Telecast: May 20th, 2013 It’s almost over, season 16 of DANCING WITH THE STARS had its season finale, part one with some spectacular dance routines. Everyone brought their “A” game to the dance floor for three different dances! In the end, Zendaya Coleman & Val Chmerkovskiy edged out Kellie Pickler and Derek Hough for first place by one point.  Both couples earned two perfect scores for their routines tonight but in the Cha Cha relay Coleman & Chmerkovskiy gained five extra points while Pickler & […]Read On »


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CD Review: PATRICK DOYLE: IMPRESSIONS OF AMERICA

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER
PATRICK DOYLE: IMPRESSIONS OF AMERICA soundtrack | ©2013 Varese Sarabande Records

After sojourning in Hollywood for a blockbuster career renaissance that’s included BRAVE, THOR and RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES, the sprightly Scotsman musically visits the real America to satisfy his own inner muse in this expansively impressive concept album PATRICK DOYLE: IMPRESSIONS OF AMERICA. Paying tribute to his ancestors who immigrated to Alabama, Doyle captures their destination with equal parts rousing beauty and wide-eyed affection. Of course he opens with “Washington DC’s” noble horns and symphonic sweep that also effortlessly conveys an Aaron Copland’s sense of Americana. Yet the nation that Doyle surveys is mostly on a smaller […]Read On »


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CD Review: GOD OF WAR ASCENSION soundtrack

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER 05/20/2013
GOD OF WAR ASCENSION soundtrack | ©2013 La La Land Records

Tyler Bates knows a thing or two about playing Spartan vengeance after his seminal score for 300, which made sword-and-sandal music hip again by incorporating a heroic orchestra with anachronistic metal guitars and time specific ethnic instruments. Now after showing ancient sword and sorcery vigor with the videogame THE RISE OF THE ARGONAUTS and the underrated reboot of CONAN THE BARBARIAN Bates once again proves that crossing a muscular death-dealer will be hell to play, especially when it’s a titan-slayer named Kratos. Bates furiously delivers again for this popular berserker’s latest button-mashing adventures in GOD OF WAR ASCENSION. It’s a […]Read On »


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CD Review: STARCRAFT II: HEART OF THE SWARM soundtrack

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER 05/19/2013
STARCRAFT II: HEART OF THE SWARM soundtrack | ©2013 Azeroth Music

WORLD OF WARCRAFT‘s band of scoring brothers Neal Acree, Glenn Stafford, Derek Duke and Russell Brower get their sci-fi grlll power on for the Queen of Blade’s great escape in this score to STARCRAFT II: HEART OF THE SWARM that accompanies the expansion pack of WINGS OF LIBERTY. Its exceptional cut scenes generate one of the more crazily stylized scores for the genre, starting off by mashing a galaxy-spanning orchestra by way of the grunge sensibility of its sword and spine-slinging heroine. Sarah Kerrigan’s treated like an ersatz Lisbeth Salander, bringing on the lizard beast hurt with industrial metal rock […]Read On »


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CD Review: WAR GODS OF THE DEEP / CROSSPLOT (1,000 edition) soundtrack

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER
WAR GODS OF THE DEEP / CROSSPLOT soundtrack | ©2013 Quartet Records

In addition to releasing current international scores like Alberto Iglesias’ I’M SO EXCITED and Pino Donaggio’s PASSION, Spain-based soundtrack label Quartet has also been digging into some of the 60s and 70s loopier scores like Dominic Frontiere’s HAMMERSMITH IS OUT and Riz Ortolani’s WOMAN TIMES SEVEN. But where said American and Italian were lucky enough to get some LP albums out long before a time when silver age soundtrack CD’s became hip, the equally prolific British musician Stanley Black (VALENTINO) had unaccountably never had one original title available. That makes this two-fer of WAR GODS OF THE DEEP and CROSS […]Read On »


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CD Review: THE WILD BUNCH End of the Line Edition Soundtrack

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER 05/18/2013
THE WILD BUNCH END OF THE LINE EDITION soundtrack | ©2013 Film Score Monthly Records

Collector labels had been around long before Film Score Monthly magazine launched their soundtrack offshoot with THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE back in 1996. Founder Lukas Kendall’s fastidious attention to detail and shrewd mix of popular and obscure titles from the golden and silver ages of film music ensured FSM’s longevity over the course of 249 titles and nearly two decades, Now as if he were the grizzled leader of a bunch of ragtag outlaws, Kendall has chosen to take out FSM on his own terms in a big, gloriously bloody bang for number 250. Given Kendall’s biting […]Read On »


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Movie Review: STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 05/17/2013
STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS poster | ©2013 Paramount Pictures

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Benedict Cumberbatch, John Cho, Simon Pegg, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, Anton Yelchin, Peter Weller, Alice Eve Writers: Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman & Damon Lindelof, based on characters created by Gene Roddenberry Director: J.J. Abrams Distributor: Paramount Release Date: May 16, 2013 Giving any kind of plot summary of STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS runs more than the usual risk of spoilers. What can be said? Well, Captain Kirk (Chris Pine), Mr. Spock (Zachary Quinto) and the rest of the very dedicated crew of the Enterprise extricate themselves by the skin of their teeth […]Read On »


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CD Review: THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER
THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES soundtrack | ©2013 Milan Records

Indy movies, and their scores can smack you upside the head with their high-minded pretentiousness, especially when attempting to grasp the epic with music that screams attention as to how outside the box it is. Yet what often provides pitfalls for those movies proves to be terrific assets in the cases of THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES, a decades-spanning American crime saga graced by an impressively big, WTF score by Mike Patton. Here the former Faith No More singer makes an auspicious jump in quality from the mindlessly fun electro-carnage of CRANK: HIGH VOLTAGE using a voice that’s just as […]Read On »


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