On March 21, 2026, fellow film music podcaster Frank R. Wilson stated in a five-minute episode on his six-year-old podcast WHAT'S THE SCORE that the show was coming to an end. Unable to continue due to rising costs of running the podcast, he decided it was time to step away…
PLAY MORRICONE FOR ME salutes Hollywood's King of the B's on the one hundredth anniversary of his birth. Roger Corman mentored a generation of New Hollywood talent and produced, directed and/or distributed some 500 feature films in his 70-year career, including gothic horror, atomic sci-fi, b-westerns, teen delinquent melodramas, biker…
Today's episode is a countdown of the best game scores of 2025. This is part two of the two-part series going deep into the ten best musical scores of the past year. You'll hear selections for such composers as Noriyuki Iwadare, Shogo Sakai, Akira Miyagawa, Lorien Testard, Miwako Chinone, Yuna…
Welcome to the inaugural episode of PLAY MORRICONE FOR ME on CINEMATIC SOUND RADIO. You have no idea how thrilled I am to welcome Jack Criddle and his terrific program into the CINEMATIC SOUND RADIO family. I've been an admirer of Jack's show for quite some time; it reminds me…
Today's episode is a countdown of the best game scores of 2025. This is part one of the two-part series going deep into the ten best musical scores of the past year. You'll hear selections for such composers as Yuzo Koshiro, Olivier Deriviere, Christopher Larkin, Yasunori Nishiki, Gareth Coker, Mick…
Over the past decade, CINEMATIC SOUND RADIO has produced numerous programs celebrating the life and music of James Horner, including a standout three-part documentary by Jason Drury that remains essential listening. I’ve also contributed several Horner-focused episodes myself, from explorations of his re-recorded works and end credit suites to in-depth…
Jason Drury kicks off the 2-hour-plus show with music from the 40th anniversary release of Jerry Goldsmith's classic score KING SOLOMON'S MINES (La La Land Records). Jason then moves on to music from Jack Nitzsche's 1984 reissue of THE RAZOR'S EDGE (Dragon's Domain Records), Georges Delerue's short score for the…
In part five of our seven-part series counting down the TOP 25 SCORES OF THE 21st CENTURY, we will continue the countdown with the presentation of scores 15-11. In this episode, you'll hear selections from Philippe Rombi, Alan Silvestri, John Williams, Marco Beltrami and Elliot Goldenthal. If you haven't listened…