THE GOOD GERMAN now on iTunes!

An early Christmas present for Thomas Newman fans! iTunes has THE GOOD GERMAN's score available for sampling and purchasing. Amazon lists the CD release date as January 9th.

Amazon also lists the LITTLE CHILDREN CD for January 23rd.

Update: The mystery continues... The GOOD GERMAN score has been taken off iTunes. Ironically, the CD is out and on sale at Amazon.com, but they've confused the cover with The Good Shepherd. If I can't find it in stores soon, I'll be ordering one myself; I just saw the film and the score is just fantastic.

GOOD GERMAN score preview in the new FSM podcast!

Here's something to start your day off just right: The new Film Score Monthly podcast features, believe it or not, a preview of Newman's THE GOOD GERMAN score (as well as a few other upcoming scores). As the hosts say, people have been waiting a long time for Newman to be forced to do this kind of a score, and it sounds like they won't be disappointed!

Just search for "Film Score Monthly" in your iTunes Music Store and download the latest episode, or download it directly at this link.

I've just become a new fanboy of this podcast, that's for sure.

VARIETY Interview

A new Variety interview features a roundtable discussion with composers Hans Zimmer and John Powell, Fox Music prexy Robert Kraft and Sony Pictures Worldwide Music president Lia Vollack. Thomas Newman phoned in to contribute to an all-too-brief discussion about the state of film scoring. An excerpt:

"It can be a great time for film music. Does it turn out that way? Not all the time, because there are so many people -- middle-management people -- with agendas that can make things more difficult. I'm so grateful to just be in a room with great players and hang with them, and have lunch with them. Any time is potentially a great time. Yes, you may be shot down, and things may be awful, but things can also be potentially fantastic."

Read the rest, in which Newman reveals some frustration about LITTLE CHILDREN being released only digitally, here.