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Film Score Monthly was a magazine first: never before had a soundtrack publication come out on a monthly basis. Now, Film Score Daily brings a similar revolution to the web: the first daily updated soundtrack site. I can hear Also Sprach Zarathustra already...
Beginning in May 1997, FSD has provided a new column every weekday (eventually on the weekends as well): news of upcoming scores and albums, reviews of new movies and CDs, retrospectives and commentary. Bookmark the home page and check in every day!
The rotating writers are hand-picked from Film Score Monthly's highly educated and connected staff (i.e. I begged them):
Doug Adams is a music student in Chicago's Roosevelt University, a composer and percussionist as well as a brilliant film music critic and interviewer. He has talked to Bruce Broughton, Elliot Goldenthal, Thomas Newman, Alf Clausen and Danny Elfman for Film Score Monthly, and penned the liner notes for David Shire's The Taking of Pelham One Two Three CD. Several film composers in Los Angeles considered his "Action Scores in the '90s" article in FSM one of the best things they've read in years, and one was going to make the "Superman vs. Waterworld" comparison chart into a wall poster.
Jeff Bond was a sales clerk at Kinko's before being plucked from obscurity, a shining beacon of talent who one day sheepishly submitted a Jerry Goldsmith concert review to FSM. He is now a regular reviewer for FSM as well as the great Sci-Fi Universe, where his "Bond Market Report" slices and dices the latest in made-for-video sequels. He has also contributed articles to the Star Trek Communicator. A rarity for a "soundtrack reviewer," he was born before 1970, and presently resides in Cincinnati with his beautiful wife Brooke, who wasn't. "The proper study of apes is apes!"
Andy Dursin has a voice which, one day, you will hear in movie trailers since it's so damned perfect. An imminent graduate of Boston College, he has written for FSM as well as Movie Collector and Home Movies magazines. He initiated the "Score" section of Film Score Monthly in 1991, and was one of the first dozen people to write Lukas Kendall early in the magazine's history. Both Andy and Lukas are waiting for the Red Sox to win the World Series as a sign that they should slug down barbituates and alcohol to rendezvous with the comet.
Lukas Kendall is the editor and publisher of Film Score Monthly which he started in high school on Martha's Vineyard, a one-page flier sent to 10 people in 1990. It is now read by over 3000 people a month and is America's leading (and only) soundtrack publication. He has also written liner notes for the Star Wars Trilogy box set, Raiders of the Lost Ark, andThe Dead Zone; contributed to Cinefantastique, Sci-Fi Universe, CD Review, and The Star Wars Insider; and was foolish enough to say "f---ed up" in Entertainment Weekly. His record label, Retrograde, has issued on CD the soundtracks to The Taking of Pelham One Two Three and the upcoming Deadfall (John Barry). He graduated from Amherst College in 1996 and now lives in Los Angeles.
Paul Andrew MacLean is an Ithaca College graduate whose distinguished film music reviews, interviews and articles go back more than ten years in CinemaScore, Soundtrack!, Legend, Music from the Movies and Film Score Monthly. He has written liner notes for several CDs, including Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (GNP/Crescendo) and the expanded edition of Jerry Goldsmith's Legend (Silva Screen). He is a budding filmmaker and served as production assistant on Puppetmaster III.
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