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Music Tuesday Newsday: New Releases from Nero, Breaking Benjamin, The Cool Kids, and Jeff Bridges

August 16, 2011 - 6:47 pm

Big release week, and too many names to mention — but fresh off his recent appearance at The Troubadour, Jeff Bridges releases his self-titled debut…dubstep young god Nero has Welcome Reality and Dead Can Dance bring you Towards the End (the best I could come up with) — and Matthew Friedberger wants you to Cut it Out. Haha. I’ll try to be more clever next week…see ya…

Jeff Bridges - Jeff Bridges

Breaking Benjamin - Shallow Bay: The Best of Breaking Benjamins

Nero - Welcome Reality

Speed the Plough – Shine

New Villager – New Villager

Maria Taylor - Overlook

Ana Popovic – Unconditional

The Cool Kids - When Fish Ride Bicycles

Guy Clark – Songs and Stories

Matthew Friedberger – Cut it Out

Dead Can Dance - Towards the End (DVD)

Braid – Closer to Closed

Bottle Rockets - Not So Loud

Patrick Doyle - Rise of the Planet of the Apes (OST)

Case Studies - The World is Just a Ship to Fill the World

Fool’s Gold - Leave No Trace

Canon Blue - Rumspringa

Blue October - Any Man in America

Music Daft Punk Helms Tron: Legacy Soundtrack

by Jeff Nau

November 23, 2010 - 11:45 am

The pressure that accompanies directing a movie as big as Tron: Legacy doesn’t sound altogether different from that of living on the game grid: much like Kevin Flynn himself, helmsman Joe Kozinski was literally living in another world for quite a long time, complete with technical malfunctions, multiple personalities (and/or programs), and even last-minute swerves in a race to avoid disaster.

“I just finished the movie Wednesday,” laughs Kosinski, plunking himself down in one of the plush red chairs at Apogee, inside famed LA indie radio giant KCRW on Saturday. “3 years of my life, and I’m less than 72 hours back in reality.”

In his conversation with KCRW Music Director and Legacy Music Supervisor Jason Bentley, Kozinski admitted that one of those very last changes in fact was to switch out one part of the score with another, and put it at the film’s closing credits. Afterwards, they dove right into a lengthy behind-the-scenes look at the soundtrack, and previewed some of its best cuts.

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Comic Books Tron 2 at Comic-Con: Jeff Bridges and Co. Throw a Party — Then Guillermo Del Toro Crashes It

by Jeff Nau

July 23, 2010 - 11:49 am

I’m at Comic-Con for one movie and one movie only, and that’s Tron: Legacy, dammit. It’s been 30 years coming already, but the mere 2 since they screened that infectiously bad-ass trailer have been the most tortuous of all and, in fact, the director is still working on post-production (they had everyone in the audience get involved in a very Spartacus way, read on). There are several factors of awesome contributing to this masterpiece-to-be. Among them: 1.) Daft Punk is providing the soundtrack, which just seems too effing perfect.

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